Reusable Cone Coffee Filters by EvelynFields

One of my favorite magazines is Sunset, perhaps only people in their fifties should actually make that claim!  It is regional, it features AMAZING recipes with seasonal ingredients, and it places a strong emphasis on discovering your local area, ranging from hiking in the beautiful Yosemite Valley to some crazy whole in the wall restaurant you might find along the California coast.  Recently they wrote this article, The zero-waste home and it blew my mind.  Literally this family allows a handful of waste to go to the landfills each year....what?!?!?!?  How is that even possible?  However, this article has infiltrated my brain and is now holding it hostage. 

There are many things I've been wanting to do to change our waste output for quite awhile now.  There are stacks in each closet of my house where clothes await their transformation into new wonderful items, scraps of fabric piled into like colors longing to be made into reusable napkins, socks with holes waiting to be mended (instead of throwing away and replacing with a new pair), making produce bags and my list goes on.... 

Yesterday I ran out of my last coffee filter.  Usually I would pick up a bulk box of filters at Costco but this time these filters I've had my eye on for quite some time crept into my mind.  Melissa, the shop owner of Evelyn Fields and an Etsy featured seller, is inspiring and has incorporated so many elements of what I only dream of doing into the life of her family, read about her "unplastic kitchen."  Let me just also say that she has been refashioning her clothes and has only bought a couple new items in the last couple years...oh, how I wish I could do that! 

Reuseable Cone Coffee Filters by EvelynFields

All that said, it was months later after first seeing this shop and coveting these coffee filters that I realized Melissa and I went to college together...that is the second time that I've randomly stumbled upon the Etsy shop of someone I know and I like that!