Steve Dix and Marnie Vail relocated from Flagstaff, Arizona, where they met and married, to Vermont with the intention of starting their BED-A-BRUSH™ business in the Burlington area (Milton, VT.)  The business did start and expanded and is now ECO1NEST Wise Wood Widgets™.  Besides making wise wood widgets, Steve is editing his first book.  Among his colorful past pursuits were jobs as a radio announcer and a pilot.  Marnie is a family doctor and homeopathic physician; besides wanting to help people become healthy and happy, she has a particular interest in cleaner food and water and in getting toxic chemicals out of our food, water, environment and medicines.

Stardaze Productions™ is the incubator for whatever we, Steve and Marnie, decide to create together.  It began out of Steve's desire to tell the important story of one man's suspenseful, courageous journey to integrity during the Vietnam War era.  That story is in the final stages of editing and will be published within the next year.  The big impulse behind the story - that being: to make the world a better place - is the thread that we hope to pull through everything that comes out of Stardaze Productions™.

With the production of all of the ECO1NEST™ products, we endeavor to produce beautiful, useful, innovative, environmentally conscious products using sustainable manufacturing principles which help support the local economy.  We offer honest "made in the USA" consumer items at a fair price.  At Stardaze Productions/ ECO1NEST we are committed to doing whatever we can to protect and promote the health of the planet and its inhabitants.  In 2009 we have been pleased to add R&K Woodworking to our team; R&K is in Vergennes, VT and employs Vermonters skilled in making things out of wood. R&K is also committed to sustainable manufacturing practices; the wood they are using for ECO1NEST products is either FSC certified or is harvested in Vermont according to AMP (Acceptable Management Practices) or is wood that would otherwise be sold as scrap (burned.)

Ten percent of our profits go to organizations which are working locally and globally to solve problems of hunger, poverty, poor nutrition, pollution and environmental degradation, animal rights, over population, over consumption, corporate personhood, nuclear proliferation, and the war mentality