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14Sep 2013 by holly

Making My Home-Made Dishwasher Detergent

April 2013 - As I was working on cleaning up the kitchen last week, I was thinking about the fact I was getting low on dishwasher detergent and needed to find some good deals. I just haven't seen or heard of any recently. In addition, I've become very interested in using healthy products in the home such as Shaklee Basic H2. I did some simple searches and found several websites offering their recipes for Homemade Dishwasher Detergent including DIYnatural.com . This got me very excited because I have most of the ingredients at home! Not only would this be healthy but also cheap! Now the question was would this really work??? From Homemade Dishwasher Detergent including DIYnatural.com: Soap recipe 1 cup borax 1 cup washing soda 1/2 cup…

28Apr 2013 by holly

Day #18-28 -30 Day Cleaning Challenge

Cleaning, DIY, Uncategorized

Day #18-28 I’m going to challenge myself by following the 31 Day Cleaning Challenge with Money Saving Mom. She is using the chart from Fresh and Organized. So, I’m a little off the same schedule but we are getting most of the things done. Day 18: clean out your refrigerator and/or organize your pantry I'm amazed how fast time has past! It has been over 10 days since I updated my blog. Trying to keep up with it all is hard work. Even though I haven't been good about posting here I have been great at keeping up with my daily activities for this challenge or doing something on the list. I did go grocery shopping and re-filled the pantry and refrigerator. I do need to clean out the refrigerator! Day…

17Apr 2013 by holly

Day #15-17 -30 Day Cleaning Challenge

Cleaning, DIY, Uncategorized

Day #15-17 I’m going to challenge myself by following the 31 Day Cleaning Challenge with Money Saving Mom. She is using the chart from Fresh and Organized. So, I'm a little off the same schedule but we are getting some of the things done. Day 15: surface clean the living room and kitchen. We had a huge playdate at our house that was a bit larger then I was planning for so I quickly had my daughter and I clean as much as we could. I ended up filling up a basket of items from our dining room and put them in the upstairs guest room and papers were put back into the office. My half organized office is back to piles again. :( I had my daughter help me…

14Apr 2013 by holly

Day #6-14 – 30 Day Cleaning Challenge

Cleaning, DIY, Uncategorized

Day #6-14 I’m going to challenge myself by following the 31 Day Cleaning Challenge with Money Saving Mom. She is using the chart from Fresh and Organized. Has it been over 8 days since I posted on this Challenge? Well, I have to admit I have been doing the challenge! When I get on my computer I have been doing a lot of other things like finishing up my small business paperwork, creating some embroidery items for customers and working on a new up and coming sewing forum. Feel free to check it out! It is called 4 the love of fabric.com. It is a paid subscription forum. It is a great place to talk and learn about sewing, quilting, and embroidery. Day 6: Clean Bathrooms - Since the bathrooms…

05Apr 2013 by holly

Day #3-5 – 30 Day Cleaning Challenge

Cleaning, DIY, Uncategorized

Day #3-5 I’m going to challenge myself by following the 31 Day Cleaning Challenge with Money Saving Mom. She is using the chart from Fresh and Organized. Day 3: Surface clean the bedrooms Day 4: Surface clean other rooms Day 5: Surface clean kitchen or living room/family room This is hard! My kids and I worked hard on the bedrooms and only got to 2 of them. It was a lot of hard work for 2 hours with 3 small kids. I got pretty exhausted and it did cause me to fall behind on my other chores like dishes. Here is the before of my Doodle's room. Here is the before of the boys' room. Yesterday we had outside activities so I fell behind again on working on the "other"…

02Apr 2013 by holly

Day #2 – 30 Day Cleaning Challenge

Cleaning, DIY, Uncategorized

Day #2 I'm going to challenge myself by following the 31 Day Cleaning Challenge with Money Saving Mom. She is using the chart from Fresh and Organized. Per Money Saving Mom: Your project for today is to clean your bathrooms. Clean the toilets. I usually just use free shampoo or if I toilet bowl cleaner I use that and let it sit. Take everything out that doesn't need to be in there. Including taking the rugs and washing them, if I haven't already done this recently. Clean the sinks with a microfiber cloth and Shaklee Basic H2. Mop the floor to get the dust and grime up. It's been awhile. Rinse out the tubs and spray them down. Clean the mirrors. Clean the front of the cabinets. Woohoo! I finished…

01Apr 2013 by holly

Day #1 – 30 Day Cleaning Challenge

Cleaning, DIY, Uncategorized

Day #1 I'm going for it! I'm going to challenge myself by following the 31 Day Cleaning Challenge with Money Saving Mom. She is using the chart from Fresh and Organized. Per Money Saving Mom: Your project for today is to surface clean your living room and kitchen. I plan on cleaning the kitchen counters and even turn the self-cleaning on the oven. Empty the dishwasher Put the food purchases from Sam's Club away Clean the top bar of the kitchen counter Mop the floor in the Living room. The kitchen looks a bit better. There are still some items on the left hand side that need to put in their proper places and I've decided the hubby will take on those items. I have the list of the 30…

05Feb 2013 by holly

Update to Redberrydeals!

general, Uncategorized

Hi to all of my readers. Welcome to 2013! I have mentioned this in previous posts this last year and I thought I would get into more detail. 2012 was a great year for us. Watching our kids grow has been so rewarding. My husband and I have decided to create a company. I'm very excited. It will include several components to it including Redberrydeals and my passion for sewing and embroidery. I'm in the process of following the proper business creation procedures. I've been so busy with it that I've neglected adding the Shoppers Matchups each week. The time that took to prepare and post is more time then I have right now. I will no longer add those matchups. I've decided to limit my posts to Redberrydeals this…

11Dec 2012 by holly

Easy Chocolate No Bake or Boil Cookies

Recipes, Uncategorized

When I was growing up a tradition that my Dad and I would do is make these yummy No Bake Boil Cookies. They take minutes to make and are so yummy and even a bit healthy since they have oatmeal in them. Makes 3 Dozen cookies 2 Cups Sugar 1/2 cup Cocoa 1 Stick Butter 1/2 cup Milk 1/2 tsp Vanilla 1/2 cup Peanut Butter (optional) 3 cups dry uncooked oatmeal Boil sugar, Cocoa, Butter, Milk and Vanilla for 2 to 4 minutes. Take off burner. Add Oatmeal and stir. Then drop 1 Tablespoon on wax paper. Let dry.

30Oct 2012 by holly

Check this out the next time the power goes out!

DIY, Dollar Tree, Harbor Freight, Uncategorized

Thanks to my wonderful husband, we are fortunate enough to have a generator. Woohoo! So when the power goes out we can push a button that will turn on the diesel beast and it will give us power to run the well pump, some lights, TV/DVR, refrigerator, freezer and pellet stove. The generator has been worth every penny because it has given us piece of mind and comfort. Last night right before going to bed the power went out. My hubby and I talked and agreed that it didn't make sense to run the generator and use the fuel, if we didn't need to right away. Our refrigerator and freezer were very cold and we hoped the power would be back on soon. So as we collected our LED flashlights…

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