Environmentally friendly favourites

Alana Smith • November 26, 2018

The Celestial Heart family is specially chosen for its biodegradeable and recyclable materials!

As a family we are doing all we can to reduce our use of plastic. The Celestial Heart family is no exception, and are primarily made from fabric, wood, metal and glass. Even the string that ties our little charms to the recyclable business cards and provides the hanging loop for our decorations is biodegradeable.

Our standing Santa, snowman and nordic angels are a great example of this. Santa's face is made from fabric and his beard is cut from a wool sheet. His buttons and his legs are all wooden. We have decided not to buy bags for the stalls, instead we wrap everything in tissue paper and we use paper and cardboard based packaging for our website purchases.

We are in the process of writing to all of our suppliers to ask them not to wrap any of these lovely environmentally friendly items in plastic. In the meantime we reuse everything - so if your parcel comes with bubblewrap or plastic to keep your Celestial Heart purchase safe, you can rest assured it is being used more than once!

Join us in the battle against plastic! Purchasing from Celestial Heart and other like minded retailers is a good start, and there are loads of other things that we are doing here! We buy fruit and veg that is wrapping free, we use biodegradeable bags for our bins, look for white plastic trays that can be recycled when we cannot buy packaging free (like with meat) and buy our milk from the local farmer direct in glass bottles via the #milkiosk. We know there is more we can do too - if you have any great tips let us know, we will post the best on our facebook page!

By Alana Smith April 16, 2021
Hope is the beacon that shines in the darkness to draw us forward out of the darkness. I truly have hope and allow myself the belief that we really are coming out of the covid darkness and the light and joy of things we do together is really going to happen this year. How incredible that this is something to treasure - I know I took it for granted up to the first lockdown, just over a year ago. May our angels wrap their wings around us - and send extra angels to all those who have lost loved ones during this unprecedented time. At least we were able to all be with my Dad when he battled cancer,. So, we have our first confirmed booking for our stall, at the RHS Rosemoor fayre in November here in Torridge, Devon. I have taken the chance of spending some money on new stock, and on materials to make some new lines ourselves too. I hope and pray we get to share them with you in person, as well as online, this year. I hope we all get to share our positive energy with each other too, bringing light and love where it is needed, reducing the density of negative energy which can bring us down so much. I look at this photo and it brings a smile to my face and warms my heart. We had such fun that day. We felt and we shared joy and laughter. Braunton may have wished we did not sing quite so loud though! Lots of love, Alana at Celestial Heart
By Alana Smith October 25, 2020
I love Christmas. It does not matter what is or has been going on in my life, putting up my tree, sitting with all the twinkling lights on and finding little gifts that make people smile or even cry always cheers me up and puts something warm back in my heart. This year is going to be extra challenging, and not just financially for so many of us. Up to now, I am not sure that we will be taking our stall to any Christmas markets this year. We are waiting to hear from the last organiser about Braunton and Bideford. I would rather be safe, but having also those lovely local traders and crafters on hand has always been a great source of those little gifts for me and I like supporting the smaller businesses. So I am thinking about less money and more time and effort for this year. Personalised angels and food is my recipe for a bit of extra magic! I have been painting little wooden angels white this weekend, and I am thinking that I can paint a name or a meaningful word on the back, make them special to the person I am giving them to . They fit nicely over the neck of a bottle too. I have really struggled to find angel statues that I like that are not hugely overpriced, so I am going to order some clay and have a go at making my own. I also have found some lovely recipes for candied nuts and for cakes and sweets, which I can wrap and finish with a little angel or tree of life. All this seems so small when the real challenge is going to be if we cannot see our family or even worse if any of us are ill. I cannot imagine how it must feel to not be able to visit loved ones in hospital, or to be totally alone in such scary circumstances. I ask Archangel Michael to protect us all and to give us the strength and courage to face the challenges sent our way this Christmas. I also ask Archangel Raphael to heal those unwell, and to let them feel his comforting and healing presence. with lots of love and pure white light, Alana.xxx
By Alana Smith August 5, 2020
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By Alana Smith June 3, 2019
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By Alana Smith March 27, 2019
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By Alana Smith March 22, 2019
Details of Celestila Heart's new Guardian Angel and vintage look lines.
By Alana Smith March 19, 2019
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