Sooo...last week I got the bright idea to make some homemade oven gloves from some vintage Laura Ashley fabric I bought at the beginning of mine and Gary's marriage. You know you're getting old when vintage means sometime in your life time! Anyway, I had some fabric which I had sewn and used before. It…
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Creative Letter Writing Ideas
I was lost as to what to call this post. I've gone with creative letter writing ideas, but to be honest, it only gives one creative letter writing idea. I got absolutely no sleep last night...nada...zilch...zero. Needless to say, I am walking around like a brainless zombie, who is not certain what day it is,…
Prolonging the Life of Cut Flowers
There is one thing I enjoy more than freshly cut roses, and that is freshly dried roses. To be honest, I love everything about roses, from their buds to their flowers to the rose hips they leave behind. Last week I spent a very happy afternoon drying some roses and their petals, decorating our home…
Around the House in 80 Hours: Week 2 – Kitchen
This week was all about the kitchen. I basically wanted to give it a really deep clean, a thorough organise and a little bit of prettying. We all worked so hard on this, clocking up over 50 hours between us. Gary helped out by giving me a whole day of work, which given it was…
Be-you-tiful Science: How to Make Your Own Lip Balm
A couple of weekends ago, my four girls and I cooked up a beauty storm in the kitchen! Oh. my. goodness. What a mess! I had kind of decided that we had most of the ingredients for a rather nice lip balm. I'm guessing my beauty range is as ad hoc as my cooking. It…
Around the House in 80 Hours: Progress Week One – Bathroom
This week we have concentrated on the bathroom, which has needed such a lot of work done to it. We only have one bathroom between the seven of us (we have a second loo upstairs but only one bath/shower), which means this bathroom has to work hard and, as a corner room off the kitchen…
Heeeelp…….
Okay, so I began crocheting. I thought it looked really easy and the end product looked so professional, so I bought my wool (100% cotton) and my crochet hook (of undefined size) and excitedly began. Only I really did not understand the youtube videos. So I bought a book. It was for beginners, and apparently…
Home Making – Soap Nuts
Over the past year I have tried out many different recipes for home-made laundry soap. We have very hard water and to be honest I wasn't that impressed with any of them. At least I wasn't until this summer. I had come across soap nuts during one of my forays into the world-wide web and…
Spar-Klean Science – The Science Behind Microfiber Cloths
As you all might recall, I have been trying to reduce the chemicals I buy, reduce the amount of money I spend at the same time as enjoying the whole process of making my own products. I am focusing on the kitchen first and the last time I posted about my home-made endeavors it was…
Spar-Klean Science: Home-Made Washing Up Liquid
I've tried lots of recipes over the past few months and none have worked from an aesthetic point of view. Sure they all cleaned, they all smelt gorgeous and very lacking in chemicals and they were all kind to sensitive hands. Thing was, they were scummy. Or at least they left a nasty scummy water…