Traditionally, Labor Day marks the end of summer and as if on cue, the weekend was warm and beautiful, followed by a rainy, windy and much cooler beginning of the week. Our air conditioners are in the off position, the tourists have gone home and we are ready to reclaim our beaches. It’s time for..
read moreToday, most bed-frames and mattresses are standard sizes, but every now and then we get a request for an odd sized mattress. Usually, someone with a special size request has a cherished antique bed that requires a nonstandard size mattress. Because we have our own factory, most requests can be accommodated and ready for delivery..
read moreWhen Food, Inc premiered at our local theatre, I told the family we were going to see it together. Hubby was on-board and the kids not so much. The film focuses on mass production, that is, our food being produced using very industrialized methods. Fatter chickens in half the time and herbivore cows forced to..
read moreThink about this for a moment: the average American will spend about 26 years of their life asleep – that’s 227,760 hours! The quality of those sleeping hours can have a profound effect on one’s life. Sleep, nutrition, fresh air and proper exercise are the foundation of a good life; without these key ingredients, we..
read moreThey might seem like adults sometimes and they might seem like small children at other times – it’s the time in life when physical, biological, psychological and behavioral changes are occurring at lightning speed. Your son or daughter is no longer a child and not yet an adult – they have grown beyond adolescence but..
read moreJust a quick note to let everyone know that our PurElegance organic mattress collection now features a new quilting design. It’s aesthetically-pleasing and captures the true “elegance” of this line while maintaining wonderful surface comfort. Channel-quilting has started to become a little too mainstream… so of course we had to take it up a level...
read moreGreen Tidings column by Cheryl Hahn – Virginian Pilot, June 13, 2009 Want a Cleaner Bedroom? Make it Naked. Industrial chemicals are everywhere… in our business workplace, shopping centers, park benches, and especially in our homes. In fact, indoor air pollution is now rated worse than outdoors. Since the 1950′s our dependency on producing almost..
read moreFor many Americans, “bigger is better”. When mattress shopping, there is such a variety, but I am always astounded by those mammoth, gigantic pillow-top mattresses. They tend to look like something from the story of the “Princess and the Pea”. I am sure that you have seen them; they almost resemble two mattresses stacked on..
read moreI just got off the phone with a woman in Alabama. She was calling because she had been on a mission to find a local retailer that carried natural latex mattresses. Her search process had been futile; locally, there were no dealers other than chemical foam retailers. She explained to me that her husband refused..
read moreTry to imagine the World in fifty years from now – or even a hundred years in the future. The vision could be bleak or wonderful depending on the choices we make today. Our legacy may be a lush green, welcoming Earth or a place where life can barely survive. The choices we make today..
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