Mother’s Day 2014 – Subscription Box Style

I do not get many subscription boxes anymore. Occasionally I buy an Ecocentric Mom, Eco-Emi or Yuzen box. For a while I was addicted, but really there are only so many sample products you can receive without getting overwhelmed.  I still have a rather large back log of products to evaluate.   What I love most about my select subscription boxes is the way they are carefully packed. I just feel so special opening each and finding so many surprises I almost always adore.


So for the last couple of months I have been picking up odds and ends for my Mom. I have been planning on sending her my own "subscription style" Mother's Day Box. I am super happy how it turned out and I wanted to share the packaging and content with you.

 I chose teal, purple and read jewel tones for the packaging.

So just like in most "sub" boxes, I tried to have packages within packages. I have been saving everything lately (blog post on that later), so I had several small fabric bags and one cellophane bag. 

• Spring Cleaning: contained a cutie tootie dish brush, bar of homemade lye soap, and several large sized eco-friendly detergent SportSuds samples. I haven't tried out my samples of SportsSuds yet. I received them and the lye soap from EcocentricMom. 

• Treat Bag: Honibe Honey Lozenges and Honey Delights, Numi tea, Fair Trade Chocolate and a Luna bar. I enclosed all of the snacks in a little read fabric bag. 

• The last little white bag  contained a Marienatie Lip Gloss and a Bach Flower Essence Remedy. Oh My, Marienatie lip gloss is Fabulous!!! It is all natural and smells of vanilla. I almost wrote "smells like vanilla". This is made with the real stuff! No fake lab made chemicals here!

 
So for the rest of the box I tucked in several other items: A long handled shower brush/loafah, Ecotools shower scrubber, and EOS organic lip balm*, CocoaVia sample (chocolate heart health supplement), and Celestial seasoning black tea pods. The box actually contained about 20 of these pods.  I used them as filler.   The two little wrapped boxes contained a heart necklace and a bead for my Mom's Pandora bracelet.

I created a box for my sister and niece a couple of months ago, but did not document it. It was super cute. I really enjoyed putting together this box and I really hope my Mom enjoys opening it.

 
Have you had any inspired gift giving lately?

 
Blessings and Love,
Milissa

* Be careful buying EOS products.  I thought most of their products were natural and/or organic, but recently I read their lotion ingredients.  They did not strike me as natural, but I need to research it further. 

My First Video Review of the Conscious Box ~ Jan. 2014. ASMR soft talking.

Hello Stranger

Well it has been a long while since I have posted.  Since then I have gotten married, had a another baby boy and outgrown my townhouse.

It has been a whirl wind and at times I have felt like I lost myself.  It really has been a blur.  And and you know what, that blur kind of makes me sad.

Before I started writing this post I went back and read all by my old posts.  There were so many cute things about Aidan that I had forgotten.  It makes me sad that the blur of the last years have wiped my memory of some of his cuteness.  With this blog I hope to document more of my life, so I can look back and remember.





The reason I looked up this blog in the first place was because of my recent obsession with subscription boxes.  Being me, I have been extensively researching natural earth friendly boxes and have not found many recent reviews. So I am going to give it a try and review the next several boxes I receive.


My birthday is coming up in February and I already know what I want, a subscription to Yuzen.

Blessing, Milissa

P.S. It is good to be back.