Faceplant Blog
Why Bamboo? 🤔
Happy 50th Earth Day from Faceplant Dreams! Earth Day was founded on April 22, 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. In a rare political alliance, he brought together Republicans...
Faceplant and embarrassing moments with the FedEx guy 😂
I’ll start by disclosing that this story isn’t going to be NEARLY as interesting as you’re suspecting. But the title isn’t misleading either. This is the story of why I...
Inspiring Granny 💡📝
We started working from home last week and I missed my Faceplant Family by Tuesday. Although there isn’t much shipping happening, we are all keeping ourselves busy with items...
Change the world with Puppy Love
Life is precious and I’m all for celebrating every last minute of it, but did you know today is “National Puppy Day”? Who dreams up all these random ‘days’ we...
Blessings in the storm
September 29, 2008. The stock market crashed. I lost most of my life’s savings and all of the equity in my home. Within a couple of weeks, I also lost my job. (Well technically, I wasn’t laid off until the day I returned from maternity leave, but that was little solace at the time.)
Why we Om at Faceplant
Every Thursday our friend Elaine comes to Faceplant to host our staff yoga class. It’s a gentle stretching class with a lot of laughter, a few of our four-legged staff...
Celebrating Love
On Valentine’s Day we celebrate romantic love, and if we’re lucky enough to have someone in that space in our lives, we honor their love with flowers and presents. But...
Repose by any other name….
As I lay in Savasana after beach yoga, I became aware of the intention of resting the body and quieting the mind to allow spirit to shine. I contemplated the...
Raise your hand to support education!
Our choice to dedicate 5% of footsies profits to Academy Prep is rooted deep in our history. Faceplants’ humble beginnings were officially in our garage in 2008, but the root of our success began many years before that.
Homebody-ing as a sport
I’m a homebody. Not an “I spend the occasional Friday-night-at-home” kind of homebody. I’m committed to homebody-ing as my favorite pastime. It’s right up there with dawdling and lollygagging.
Celebrating Decem-purr
In the 70’s, the marketing power of the Humane Society was in its’ infancy at best. Spaying or neutering ones’ cat was almost unheard of. We grew up at the...
Breathe Out Gratitude.
Thanksgiving is a time to feel gratitude for both life’s blessing and for the lessons we learn from its’ challenges. The past few years have been particularly challenging in my...
