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Friday Favorites – Week 330 – With DIY Projects

July 21, 2016 6 Comments

Greetings everyone! Welcome to this week’s linky party! This week I have some really great DIY projects to share with you. I love all of these because they all involve a lot of creativity and craftsmanship, and they are all woodworking projects. Hope you like them as much as I do!

Also, I wanted to let you know this is the last week I’ll be taking applications for Friday Favorites Hostesses. I wanted to give my current hostesses a chance to post the notice on their blogs, and since they are doing that this week, I’m posting the form here one final time. So if you’d like to sign up to host with us each week, please feel out the form. You’ll find it at the bottom of the post.

And one final thing…I just added a giveaway for a $25 Visa card and coupons for Arnold Bread. This giveaway will only be open for a few days, so please go over and enter: Arnold Bread Giveaway.

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Filed Under: crafts, decorating, Friday Favorites, Home/Garden Tagged With: DIY, makeover projects, wood projects

5 Plumbing Fixes You Can Do Yourself

June 17, 2016 4 Comments

Disclaimer: I am a brand ambassador for Roto-Rooter® and have received free products and compensation for today’s post. Information from today’s post is brought to you by the Roto-Rooter experts. The opinions are my own.

A few weeks ago I talked about how older houses generally have their fair share of problems, and I speak from experience. Fortunately, there are a lot of things you can do on your own so that you do not have to call out a plumber every two months. Today I’m sharing 5 plumbing fixes you can do yourself. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Home/Garden Tagged With: home maitenance, plumbing

Making Tough Jobs a Breeze with Mean Green

June 15, 2016 3 Comments

Disclosure: I am a brand ambassador for Mean Green, and have received free products and compensation for this post. The opinions are my own.

It definitely feels like summer around here, but I’m still working on some of my spring cleaning goals. A couple of months ago, I posted some spring cleaning tips, and one key tip that I stressed was to maintain your home every day. In case you missed that post, here’s the free printable checklist that I shared: [Read more…]

Filed Under: cleaning, Home/Garden, Printables, product review Tagged With: cleaning products, housekeeping, spring cleaning

Biz: My New Secret Weapon for Fighting Stains

June 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Disclosure: I am a Biz Ambassador, and this is a sponsored post written in partnership with the brand. All opinions are my own.

I’ve been using Biz now for two months, and I have to say, it is definitely a clothes saver! Previously I posted about BIZ, explaining how it works and why it’s effective. And today I’ve got a couple of examples of the product in action!

But first, let’s quickly review how you use Biz. Biz is a stain fighter that works to boost the power of your detergent by 80%. There are two methods for using the product. You can use it as a pre-treater: Just apply it to the stain, rub it gently, and then wait 5-10 minutes before washing. And the second method is to use it as laundry additive: Just pour a cap in with your laundry. [Read more…]

Filed Under: cleaning, Home/Garden Tagged With: cleaning products, housekeeping, laundry, laundry tips

Friday Favorites – Week 324 – With Patriotic Decor

June 9, 2016 2 Comments

Happy Friday Everyone! This week we are celebrating the stars and stripes with some great patriotic decorations! I don’t know about you, but I absolutely love anything red, white, and blue, especially when you throw in a mix of old-timey, shabby chic elements. I’d be happy decorating my home with this stuff all year round! If you feel the same way, then I know you will love this week’s features! Check them out, and as always I invite you to share your own decor, recipes, and other projects via this week’s linky!

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Filed Under: crafts, decorating, Home/Garden, Patriotic Tagged With: 4th of July, decor

Housekeeping with Mean Green

May 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

Disclosure: I am a brand ambassador for Mean Green, and have received free products and compensation for this post. The opinions are my own.

As a homemaker, maintaining a clean home is very important to me, and having the proper cleaning tools and products is a key factor in making sure that our home is not only neat and clean, but also germ free! Mean Green is the number one heavy duty cleaner in America with several varieties to get all your household cleaning jobs done. [Read more…]

Filed Under: cleaning, Home/Garden, product review Tagged With: cleaning products, housekeeping

Roto-Rooter Products

May 22, 2016 Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: I am a brand ambassador for Roto-Rooter® and have received free products and compensation for today’s post. The opinions are my own.

We live in an older home, and as a result, we’ve been no stranger to plumbing problems! When we first moved in to our home, we attempted to cut off many problems at the pass by converting the plumbing from a septic system to a city sewer system. Unfortunately we still experienced a lot of problems with clogging in our sinks and bathtub, as well as leaky pipes. My husband has had to work on these several times, but last year things got so bad that we had to call out the guys at Roto-Rooter. They did a great job of replacing some old copper pipes, which has prevented us from having anymore major clogging issues. But like anyone, we still experience the occasional clogs, and for that all you need is Roto-Rooter Gel Clog Remover®.

Roto-Rooter has been a trusted name in plumbing for 80 years. Now they have a line of sewer and septic products for home and professional use with more active ingredients than other brands. The Roto-Rooter line of products includes their Gel Clog Remover, Hair Clog Remover, and Septic Treatment. [Read more…]

Filed Under: cleaning, Home/Garden, product review Tagged With: plumbing

Friday Favorites – Week 321 – With Natural DIY Solutions

May 19, 2016 2 Comments

Hello everyone. Happy Friday! Today’s party celebrates a theme that has become near and dear to my heart over the past couple of years: Natural DIY Solutions.

I can’t say that I’m a completely all-natural kind of a girl. I still have a number of chemical cleaners that I use, and I certainly have my share of health and beauty products that contain chemicals. But I have started using essential oils in a number of areas in my life. I have a diffuser on my desk. And I especially love using cleaners made from essential oils.

Today I’m featuring posts, which teach how to make your own laundry and dish soap, as well as a post on how to make your own lavender oil!

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Filed Under: cleaning, Friday Favorites, Home/Garden Tagged With: DIY, essential oils, homemade cleaners, natural cleaners, natural living

Growing Our Garden

May 10, 2016 1 Comment

This spring my husband and I have taken on the task of building a lovely flower bed in our front yard, and it has been so much fun! It started as a simple off-hand conversation. I was looking through a catalog, and I came across the prettiest photograph of a flower garden. Without much thought I said, “I wish we could build something like this in our yard.”

I used the word “wish” because at the time, my husband was still healing up from a broken back. Not only was it a bad time for him to be out laboring in the yard, but we were also watching our pennies because he wasn’t working. But as with a lot of things, when my husband gets an idea, he is determined to make it happen, and if you tell him not to do something, he will be even more determined to do it, so within days, we started working on our flower bed. And again, I have to say that it has been so much fun! It’s given us the chance to work on an ongoing project together, which is great. And each day we get to go out and see what’s growing in the garden. Whether a bloom has just opened up or a plant has grown by a mere inch, I find it all very fun and exciting. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Home/Garden Tagged With: flower garden, flowers, gardening, planting

Fighting Stains with BIZ

April 29, 2016 9 Comments

Disclosure: I am a Biz Ambassador, and this is a sponsored post written in partnership with the brand. All opinions are my own.

As a wife and mom, I am always washing clothes. It’s one chore that I definitely don’t mind doing on my own, because I like to make sure that everyone’s clothes look perfect! I’m particular about how things get sorted; I’m particular about the cycles our clothes get washed with, and of course, I’m particular about what products get used to clean our clothes! Most recently I’ve started using BIZ^® as our stain fighter. Biz was the first enzyme based pre-soak and color-safe bleach

I deal with a variety of stains. As you know, my husband is basically a professional Mr. Fix-It, so he’s always out working on something, whether it’s a car, a lawn mower, or an appliance, so he’s always coming in with dirt, oil, and grease on his clothes. [Read more…]

Filed Under: cleaning, Home/Garden, product review Tagged With: cleaning, housekeeping, laundry