Your Questions About Green Living

I need some help with a play on words for an invitation to a green baby shower, sex unknown?

People usually buy green-instead of blue or pink- stuff when you don’t know the sex of the baby.

But it is also being raised in an eco–friendly, green environment. The baby gifts in the registry are environmentally friendly. What is a good play on words (green on green) for the invitation?
How about….

The pink or the blue
remains to be seen,
The one thing we know is,
that kids going green!

Does this shower invitation make sense to you? ?

Is this wording rude for a shower invitation?
I want the invite to serve the dual purposes of both inviting the guests and educating them about what type of thing to buy for this “green” baby shower. But I don’t want it to sound like a greedy gift grab. Please help me fine tune this!

***
Baby XXX is almost due
No one knows if it’s pink or blue,
Jeff and Julie
Have decided on green,
Let’s help this baby’s footprint
Remain unseen!

It’s a couples shower!

Saturday, date of party,
6:00 p.m.
123 Rainbow Rd

Given by:
me and my spouse

Registered at baby store

Like to think outside the registry? Eco–friendly gifts such as glass bottles, cloth diapers, or organic anything, are great ideas too!
***
PS. I know a lot of people debate whether you should list registry information, but everyone I am inviting has listed registry info on their own baby shower invitations, so I’m going with that format. And FYI,
I’m throwing this shower for my sister-we have the same group of friends.
There are things not available to her to register for, such as the cloth diapers or organic (paraben free) soaps and lotions.  Those have to come from a health food store.  So I think the blurb is necessary to help people avoid stocking her up on the johnson’s and johnson’s products which are loaded with preservatives and petroleum and she would not use.

Is this wording rude for a shower invitation?

I want the invite to serve the dual purposes of both inviting the guests and educating them about what type of thing to buy for this “green” baby shower. But I don’t want it to sound like a greedy gift grab. Please help me fine tune this!

***
Baby XXX is almost due
No one knows if it’s pink or blue,
Jeff and Julie
Have decided on green,
Let’s help this baby’s footprint
Remain unseen!

It’s a couples shower!

Saturday, date of party,
6:00 p.m.
123 Rainbow Rd

Given by:
me and my spouse

Registered at baby store

Like to think outside the registry? Eco–friendly gifts such as glass bottles, cloth diapers, or organic anything, are great ideas too!
***
PS. I know a lot of people debate whether you should list registry information, but everyone I am inviting has listed registry info on their own baby shower invitations, so I’m going with that type of format.
I’m throwing this shower for my sister-we have the same group of friends. Sorry I wasn’t clear on that.

Worthy gifts for father this holiday season?

My dad is so hard to shop for, and with exams and essays galore, extreme homemade projects aren’t realistic.
My father’s birthday is 10 days before Christmas, making it even harder to stretch gift ideas.
He is extremely Eco–friendly, and OCD when it comes to products: they have to be organic, inexpensive, and not made in China.
Every time I ask him when he wants, he always says, “Oh nothing, because I’ve got you”.
Yeah adorable, but he deserves an actual gift.
I’m running out of time and ideas.
I’m in advanced art classes so I though I would give him a drawing, but I don’t have finished pieces right now, and it’s too time consuming to try.
I can’t knit, but I am sewing him a scarf.
In the past I’ve given him: funny boxers, sweatshirts (which he insists he wants no more of), ties, water powered clocks, collages (which he lost. twice.), baked goods and shoes. I’ve repeated these gifts sometimes.

What is something store bought or homemade to satisfy my picky father and show my care?
-a frustrated daughter

Environmentalist – do you actually wrap presents in used potato chip bags as this article suggests?

http://shine.yahoo.com/event/green/eco–friendly-gift-wrap-ideas-2429147/