In my quest to eliminate the chemicals from my home & trim my budget, I have tried some great homemade bathroom cleaners (click here to read about that) and now I’m moving on to the kitchen! I have been searching the internet and asking my blogging friends for their best natural cleaning advice and now …
Homesteading
Don’t you love a new year? January has always been such a cleansing time for me. Time to put away all the troubles of last year and start clean. It’s too cold outside to work on the gardens and outdoor projects so I find myself turning to projects in my house. Two of my missions …
The holiday season is right around the corner. I like to give a lot of homemade gifts so crafting time is kicking into high gear. Let me share with you a super easy and super inexpensive gift that everyone will love – homemade lip balm! Lip Balm makes great stocking stuffers or you can tie …
Do you LOVE coffee? Need that jolt of caffeine to get you moving in the morning? Did you know that your skin loves coffee too? Coffee is a great source of antioxidants. Washing with a coffee soap helps get those age-defying antioxidants into your skin to wash away toxins and cleanse your pores. Caffeine might …
I like having plants around the house but I only really have two south-facing windows and they are shaded much of the afternoon by a large tree. Luckily, we have a sunroom off the south side of the house with three full walls of ceiling to knee-level windows. It would be a great place to …
Most commercial dog shampoos are almost exclusively made from synthetic ingredients. They might throw in a natural extract or two so their marketing team can tout it as a “natural” product, but don’t be fooled, those extracts are usually pretty low down on the ingredients list. Just to name a few of the nasty ingredients commonly …
Super easy and super affordable! Birdseed ornaments make a great gift for bird watchers or gardeners – or just to treat your own backyard birds. Easy enough to make with your children, they will love giving them to grandparents, teachers, or bus drivers. The sky is the limit with shapes you can make using cookie cutters, tin …
Vanilla Extract is something nearly every baker has in their pantry but not many bother to make it themselves. It is ridiculously easy to make with only two ingredients! The homemade extract will have a richer, pure, “clean” flavor, and the store-bought extract is easily twice as expensive as making it yourself! Ready to get …
Soap making has come a long way since your grandmother’s day. Ingredients that would have been exotic and unheard of in her day, you can pick up at your local grocery store. I am always looking for an outlet for creativity and with soap making you get something useful that your family will use every …
Every spring when the snow finally melts away and spring is almost upon us I know it is just about time for a big chicken coop clean out. The clean freak in me secretly loves emptying out the coop and giving it a deep clean. What I don’t love is having my head stuck in …