My darling boy who keeps me busy all day, in fact, I have to keep a close watch on him even in his bed, until he goes to sleep that is, then I can relax.
I find that some nights he will sneak the cat in, yes, Sparks, our calico cat finds her way into his bed. She loves it there. And he would actually sleep all night with her if I let him. Most the time I would probably not know about the cat (he hides her under his blankets and lays so quietly) if his brother that shares the same room didn't tell me.
Perhaps it is time to invest in a small stuffed kitten for him? Maybe it is being able to snuggle up with something warm that doesn't shove him away or tell him to get into his own bed. What ever it is, I do hope he grows out of it and soon!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Attempting to switch over to all Natural cleaning stuff
I have been thinking about this for some time now. I really like the idea of a cleaning my house and laundry with greener and more natural products. Safer and in some cases, as I will explain here, cheaper.
This post is mostly about my homemade laundry soap. I go through tons of laundry at my house, mountains of it. A lot of them are pastels for my girls, who simply love the mud and anything else they can possibly get on them.
So started my journey. With the economy as it is these days, we make barely enough money to pay the bills and get a few basic groceries. I have read online how homemade laundry soap is so much cheaper. I thought about this, cheaper is great, but does it clean? So instead of buying my usual detergent 2 months ago, I bought the ingredients to make it and then would just hope for the best. The first few formulas were a disaster! I browsed some more and found new ones, and took the ones that worked fairly good and changed it to how I liked it. I finally succeeded with 2 formulas, one powder and one liquid.
Make no mistake, these are no miracle workers, I still have to pre-soak and pre-treat. Sometimes I will pull something out of the washer and spray it down and throw it back in the laundry for the next round. All in all, my close are clean and smell good too!
To go along with my homemade laundry soap, I have made some fabric softener and pre-treating spray.
As I have the supplies to make soap, I get to choose from a variety of different scents. (I also so have a soap shop on Etsy-link to the left)
I make my laundry soap with my hand-poured goats milk soap, great scents, even cheaper than buying soap, and still works nicely.
I am currently selling a Make Your Own Liquid Laundry Soap Kit in my soap shop so you can make some of this at home. I will post my formulas for pre-treating spray and softener in a later post, when I make sure they are perfect.
More posts on making my house greener, safer and more natural will come as I slowly switch over.
By the way, to buy all the ingredients and make my own laundry items really has been a lot cheaper!
This post is mostly about my homemade laundry soap. I go through tons of laundry at my house, mountains of it. A lot of them are pastels for my girls, who simply love the mud and anything else they can possibly get on them.
So started my journey. With the economy as it is these days, we make barely enough money to pay the bills and get a few basic groceries. I have read online how homemade laundry soap is so much cheaper. I thought about this, cheaper is great, but does it clean? So instead of buying my usual detergent 2 months ago, I bought the ingredients to make it and then would just hope for the best. The first few formulas were a disaster! I browsed some more and found new ones, and took the ones that worked fairly good and changed it to how I liked it. I finally succeeded with 2 formulas, one powder and one liquid.
Make no mistake, these are no miracle workers, I still have to pre-soak and pre-treat. Sometimes I will pull something out of the washer and spray it down and throw it back in the laundry for the next round. All in all, my close are clean and smell good too!
To go along with my homemade laundry soap, I have made some fabric softener and pre-treating spray.
As I have the supplies to make soap, I get to choose from a variety of different scents. (I also so have a soap shop on Etsy-link to the left)
I make my laundry soap with my hand-poured goats milk soap, great scents, even cheaper than buying soap, and still works nicely.
I am currently selling a Make Your Own Liquid Laundry Soap Kit in my soap shop so you can make some of this at home. I will post my formulas for pre-treating spray and softener in a later post, when I make sure they are perfect.
More posts on making my house greener, safer and more natural will come as I slowly switch over.
By the way, to buy all the ingredients and make my own laundry items really has been a lot cheaper!
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