Authentic Living

November 22, 2012

Natural Jewelry Sale: Black Friday Weekend 2012!

Natural Jewelry Sale: Black Friday Weekend 2012! Starts tonight at midnight, CST, and runs through Cyber Monday at midnight, CST. 10% off my Handmade Natural Jewelry FREE shipping to the U.S. & Canada FREE gift wrapping! Sale includes natural stone jewelry & men’s surfer jewelry here on jennyhoople.com, Over 100 one-of-a-kind natural stone jewelry pieces [...]

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Posted in: Authentic Living, Mineral, My Natural Jewelry, Sales and Promos

November 15, 2012

Dream Poetry: What Natural Stone Jewelry Is REALLY Made Of

Sometimes dreams bring more than just the unraveling of all the events of the previous day. Sometimes they bring an achingly beautiful poetic vision that when you wake up leaves you feeling haunted and lost because real life can never quite match up with that level of perfection. I woke up from a dream like [...]

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Posted in: Authentic Living, Mineral, My Natural Jewelry, Philosophical Ponderings

November 1, 2012

The Most Handmade, Democratic Beverage

What if, instead of paying soft drink companies to manufacture flavored and colored water that’s fortified with empty, petroleum-grown calories that we don’t need and that are bottled in petroleum-made containers that we’ll discard… what if we just picked some leaves and twigs and seeds off some plants and poured hot water over them? I [...]

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Posted in: Authentic Living, My Life, Philosophical Ponderings, Recipes, Urban Homesteading, Vegetable

October 30, 2012

Wisconsin Fall Color Patterns

Just about every last leaf has fallen from the trees here is Wisconsin, but before they fell and got all crispy mulched, I managed to capture some last fall foliage photos! The height of fall color in Wisconsin was all about tone and subtle contrast. This year was more colorful than most, but I don’t [...]

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Posted in: Authentic Living, Colorful Things, Forest, Natural Favorites, Nature Photography, Vegetable

October 27, 2012

An Apple Tree That Hooples Invented

I heard about the Hooples Antique Gold apple from a friend of mine who is working at the Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa. She told me that they had an apple tree with my name on it in their heritage apple orchard, and I got super excited! You see, everything that has to do [...]

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Posted in: Authentic Living, My Life, Urban Homesteading, Vegetable

October 25, 2012

Everything That Has To Do With Hooples Has To Do With Me

Yes. Every Hoople is related to every other Hoople!! We Hooples are very lucky to have a little geneology book called “The Hooples of Hoople Creek” written by Elizabeth L. Hoople. That’s how I know that all Hooples are related to each other (as far as we know) and that anything that has to do [...]

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Posted in: Authentic Living, Book Reviews, My Life

October 23, 2012

Men With Bunnies: Natural Favorites

Yes, friend, there IS something more adorable in this world than bunnies. It’s rough and tumble guys with their snuggly little bunny pets! *Testify!* I found these cuties while hanging around on Pinterest. They remind me of how cute my own husband was with our little Pisky. She used to get SO excited when he [...]

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Posted in: Animal, Authentic Living, My Life, Natural Favorites, Pinterest

October 18, 2012

Most Natural Metal For Natural Stone Jewelry?

I’ve decided that I really believe in brass. Not only is it the perfect metal to combine with natural stone colors. It’s also symbolically, historically connected to beach stone throught the tradition of using brass on maritime vessels. And the same properties that make brass the perfect metal to use on sailboats are what make [...]

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Posted in: Authentic Living, Mineral, My Natural Jewelry, Small Business Tips

October 14, 2012

Moss Circles for the Natural Home: Natural Favorites

Moss is definitely one of my favorite organisms! Here are some cool mossy finds I dug up on Pinterest. I’m really enjoying the contrast between modern, circle, geometry whiteness and natural, green, scraggly mossiness!! A look that says: “Bring the woodland right into your home and throw a cocktail party for your new mossy friends.” [...]

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Posted in: Authentic Living, Natural Favorites, Pinterest, Vegetable

October 13, 2012

Authentic Arts Look Book: Fall 2012

So you love my river rock jewelry, but you aren’t sure if you can pull it off? Oh, I know that you can! Why so confident? Because this fall’s model shoot turned out beautifully :D I called two outdoorsy friends with cameras and they called two more friends who they thought would agree to model [...]

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Posted in: Authentic Living, Elrond's Geologist (a look book), Forest, My Natural Jewelry