„ More shopping local on seattleschild.com
Q&A
How do you get the most bang for your buck in the city? Stash Slabinski Seattle firefighter and father of two
I was a stay-at-home dad for 10 years. We’ve loved the city’s summer camps. Memberships at the zoo and the aquarium are a wonderful value. In two visits, you pay off an annual pass. I love taking the boys on light rail to the stadium for an afternoon baseball game. It’s all moms and dads there.
»Shop
Things we love
Recycled baby style Broadview mom Annette Sindel upcycles thrift store sweaters into the softest baby gear. Originally a painter, Sindel started making children’s clothes when her
Lively + locally made
teens were babies. Her handmade line includes merino wool baby pants and hats, and cashmere leg warmers and fingerless gloves. 3 etsy.com/shop/ BlumenKinderSeattle
Cutline here cutline here cutline here cutline here.
The Lentz family hopes to share their passion for zero-waste living with Scoop Marketplace.
Smaller footprints How a new zero-waste store on First Hill is helping families to be better, not perfect by J I A Y I N G G R Y G I E L / photo by J O S H U A H U S T O N
New York blogger Lauren Singer is famous for fitting four years’ worth of trash in a single Mason jar. Very impressive, but a little extreme?
Stephanie Lentz, a Renton mom with a 2-year-old and 4-year-old, started her own zero-waste journey four years ago. She posts daily on Instagram (@scoopmarketplace), where she’s grinding her own wheat into flour for bread, and
dipping sliced apples into homemade peanut butter. She acknowledges that’s not realistic for every family, but her goal is to model what zero waste looks like in action: “Especially for a mom. Because there is no way my trash fits in a Mason jar.” Case in point: when her kids were in diapers, she used cloth, but allowed for disposable CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE >
S e p t e mbe r 2 0 19
Instant gallery When she had a preschooler, Ballard mom Leslie Pierson needed a fast and easy way to display the avalanche of kid art. So she created GoodHangups, using stickers and magnets to hang up work without damaging the art (or the walls). The stickers are removable and reusable, and will stick to any surface. 3 goodhangups.com
S E AT T L E ’ S C H I L D
13
