HomeMade Laundry Soap

This is all you need to make homemade laundry soap.   Washing Soda, Borax, Fels Naphtha Bar Soap(this is a heavy duty laundry soap bar) or ivory soap works also.  And the Oxy Clean is optional.  Grate your soap into little pieces.  In your food processor or blender, add soap, 1 cup baking soda and 1 cup borax.  Blend till soap is all broken up and mixed with powders.  Dump in large container with lid and add the optional Oxy Clean.  Mix well. 

You only need to use 1 or 2 Tablespoons of this in the washer per load.  I just use the little scoop that comes in the Oxy Clean.  I choose to use the Oxy Clean since hubby is a mechanic and I need all the help I can get with his clothes.  lol    If you are worried about a build up in your washer from this, you can use vinegar in the rinse cycle.  I found a Downy Ball at a yard sale for 25 cents and I just put distilled vinegar in it and throw it in.  Clothes come out clean, you don't smell like a salad due to the vinegar.  Annnnnnnnd, hanging clothes on the line out side makes this an extra frugal deal!!!

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I double my batch and put it in this pretty jar and the rest goes in Mason jars till I need it.  With just the two of us this will last us a loooooooong time!

My New Dryer!

Bet y'all thought you were gonna get to see a new appliance didn't ya?!
I love to hang clothes outside.  Not only do they smell good, it keeps the electric monster from eating my money.

The little tire under the clothes is a work in progress. 

I really, really, really want an umbrella clothes line.  I plan to paint the tire, fill it with soil and flowers and insert the pole to the umbrella line in it.

I will get this place fixed up!!!  This I swear!!!!!

Potting Table

I re purposed an old homemade wood doghouse to use has a potting table.   Still need to select a paint color for it.  I am thinking towards a bright yellow. 

I love how I can shove the ole wheelbarrow right inside of it also!

Did You Notice?!

I just changed the name of my blog. 

I wanted everything to match my Esty shop name to make things easier for me.

I am currently trying to run 3 home based business plus work full time so my hubby and I can get out of debt and just live life a little easier.

So I beg a little bit of patience from all of you while I get things geared up. 

I started here and now need to work on switching emails, face book, etc.....

But in the end I think that you will all like the changes i make.

Have a wonderful day everyone, I need to get busy plus go walk my 2 miles today!

Easy Peasy Candy Dish

While at my "other home" aka...Good Will store, I came up with a very simple idea for a home made candy dish. 

I took a small pudding cup (may a sorbet cup, not sure) and a pretty little bowl.  Use any color you like, I just prefer blue.

Add a little bit of E6000 glue and before you know it, a cute little candy dish!!

I paid less then a dollar for both items together.

Made a couple of them for my market booth.

I am off to the wonderful land of yard sales!!!  Have a wonderful day everyone!

Cute Soap Dish

Again, this is another project I saw somewhere else in blog land.

Take a small saucer and a cute little candle stick holder.  Add a little E6000 glue, which by the way I LOVE this stuff!!!    I glued the saucer to the candle holder, after sitting over night you have this....

Is this not the cutest little soap dish you have ever seen?!?!?!  I loooove it!!    So simple and so cheap!!  Both pieces cost me .25 each at a yard sale and I already had the glue!

Enjoy your day folks and I will visit with you soon!

PROJECTS!!!!!!

We just opened a booth at one of our local flea markets and I have been very swamped with making things for that.  I did have the fore sight to grab the camera and take pictures so I have almost a weeks worth of blogging!!  GO ME!!!!!

I get a lot of my ideas from trolling around other blogs.  I am also really bad at not remembering where I get my inspiration from, so if it is you, then a big Thank You!!  I will try to remember to write these things down in the future.  But lets face it folks, I am not that organized so don't hold your breath on that one.  lol

This is a small pile of items I used for one my my projects.  Wooden picture frames, skull decals, vintage bias tape, picture hangers  and paint.   What did I do with all this?  The answer is very simple.  Drumroll please!.................

Hair barrett holders!!!!!   My daughter likes them.  I am putting them in my booth to sell.

I will have more for you tomorrow!   Have a wonderful day everyone!!!