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Reusable Veggie Bags

by beth on March 3, 2010

in home & garden

I’m already think­ing Spring & the Farmer’s Mar­ket.  Who cares that there is still snow on the ground?  It’s start­ing to melt & I can tell Spring in the air.   We get many of the items we don’t grow in our own lit­tle veg­gie gar­den at our local Farmer’s Mar­ket once the weather warms.  And with Spring on my mind I saw these Reusable Veg­gie Bags while check­ing out Fey Hand­made.  Appar­ently they were even fea­tured in Bet­ter Homes & Gar­dens.  I just think they are a great idea for shop­ping, look more styl­ish than most of the bags out there that are eco-friendly & they are wash­able.  Momma loves her­self some­thing that is washable.

I love this time of year.

Any­one else get­ting Spring Fever?

Or is it just me?

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Mak­ing an All Nat­ural Kitchen Cleaner

Ingre­di­ents You need:

Bak­ing Soda
Lemon Essen­tial Oil
One Shaker

You will want to take ¾ full of a cup of bak­ing soda. Put it into a bowl. Once it is there then mix the bak­ing soda with 20–30 drops of Lemon Essen­tial Oil. After you get it all mixed up you can fill up your shaker with the cleaner. To clean with it just shake cleaner onto the sur­face & wipe it clean with a sponge. If you get any bak­ing soda residue then you can use a scented vine­gar can be used to dis­solve the residue.

Home­made Scented Vine­gar Spray

White Vine­gar
Laven­der or Lemon Essen­tial Oil
16 oz Spray Bottle

Fill the spray bot­tle with the white vine­gar
Mix in 20–30 drops of Essen­tial Oil of your choosing

Then you can just spray it on any sur­face that you have bak­ing soda residue.

Enjoy! Espe­cially since you can get the kids involved now & not worry about what they are clean­ing with. Let them help, you can super­vise ;)

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How to Make  Air Deodorizer

Ingre­di­ents you need:

Bak­ing Soda
White Vine­gar
Water
Lemon-Essential Oil
One 16 oz.Spray Bottle

Add 1 tsp Bak­ing Soda into the bot­tle
Add 1tsp White Vine­gar
Mix in 2 cups water
Then Mix in 10 drops Lemon- Essen­tial Oil 

Sim­i­lar to the home­made fur­ni­ture pol­ish you go to use it don’t for­get to shake it well, then you are free to go on your deodor­iz­ing merry way.

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New Cloth Diaper Covers

by beth July 1, 2009

I got some new cloth dia­per cov­ers for D-man in the mail the other day. They are Bum­mis SuperBrites, he needed to bump up to the medi­ums. They are now all clean & ready to go. They go over an Indian pre­fold that is dia­per ser­vice qual­ity, with a lit­tle snappi to hold it all […]

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Homemade All Natural Furniture Dusting Spray

by beth June 29, 2009

How to Make Your Own Fur­ni­ture Dust­ing Spray. You might be won­der­ing why you’d ever want to make your own? Well, it’s cheaper, non-toxic, and it’s “green” so you can feel good about your­self even if you don’t recy­cle.  At least that’s how I see it. Ingre­di­ents you need: Light Olive Oil White Vine­gar (I like Heinz) Lemon-Essential […]

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