Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Product Review --  It never fails. There you are on the road, traveling hours away from your home – likely going to an important event – and… you realize your button is falling off your jacket, or you have a small tear in the cuff of your pants, or worse.  Or you are out camping and you realize that your padded jacket or sleeping bag has a rip in it and that rip will only get worse if you don’t do something to stop it from tearing. Sadly while one can find little portable sewing kits they are usually poorly made and have cases that disintegrate over time. So even if you’ve thought of putting a sewing kit in the vehicle, tote bag or RV it is likely long forgotten; it may be lodged in-between the cushions of your previous car or if you find it, it may not be very useful.  Well, Evergreen Supply™ (Brickhouse Products) has come up with the perfect solution. The first thing I noticed was the case itself. This fairly stiff, square black leather...

 -- Product Review -- The only really good pair of scissors I’ve seen in my lifetime belonged to my late mother, who had a professional pair of tailor scissors that lasted her lifetime; they were inherited by a sewer in the family, along with her prized sewing machine. I was never allowed to touch those scissors but saw her use them to earn extra money as a single mother of 3, and to make all kinds of clothing and quilts for the family as the years passed by. I’ve been looking for a pair like those my entire life and now at 45 years young I finally found them. Frank Garcia, owner of the Brickhouse Products Company (a.k.a Evergreen Supply ), offered a pair of their amazing, all-purpose scissors as a review project around the third week of July. Amazon’s order confirmation gave an estimated delivery date of July 14th, however we picked up on July 18 th , which was the next time my husband had time to cross the border (a couple miles south of us) to the m...