Over the holidays I received a fantastic gift from my friend Dave!  I opened up the box to see that I was given a Shiitake Mushroom Log kit (visions of fairies dancing in my head.)  You guys guess what?  We are so excited to be doing a giveaway for an ORIGINAL LOG KIT! You too [...]

ACO has another giveaway! Yahoo!  We are lucky to be giving away one Pineapple Cardamom Hand Soap & Hand Lotion from Caldrea. Caldrea uses the finest plant-derived ingredients and essential oils and never uses harsh chemicals or harsh fragrances. To learn more about the line and how it got started, check-out this great article on Re-Nest. Some [...]

Hey readers! Do we have a giveaway for you! JSGD (a Boston-based graphic design company) is offering one of our readers a customizable print featuring their zodiac sign. I love the way these prints look and think they’d make great gifts for the holidays! To enter this giveaway, visit JSGD’s etsy page (HERE), pick a zodiac sign in your favorite [...]

So excited to do a giveaway with Bar Keepers Friend!  I had acquired some very old, very used but very good pots and some simple cleaning with Bar Keepers friend had them looking beautiful again. I have since been devoted to Bar Keepers friend for all sorts of cleaning, from the kitchen to the bathroom. [...]

Olfactory memory consists of two parts – the first is the brains ability to recognize and  classify scents, and the second is its ability to influence memory and evoke emotion without additional context.  Our olfactory cortex has a direct neural link to the hippocampus (which processes memory and to the limbic system, particularly the amygdala [...]

Thank you to all of our readers!  We truly appreciate you and are so happy that you enjoy our bloggie blog.  In light of this we have two giveaways to all of you from us over here at ACO. For all of our readers who are local to Pasadena and surrounding vicinities:  There is something [...]

We are so very excited to unveil a project we have been collaborating on with our friend Natalie James over at Fashion Intel. We’ve launched a pop-up store called Edition Of through which we are selling one-of-a-kind necklaces that we each made. We are offering the two necklaces pictured above as a giveaway to our [...]