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| December Flowers |
I think Kelly at the Flower Shop outdid herself with the monthly arrangement, so festive and merry yet still incorporating my favourite colour in a rose: that gorgeous blush-coral-gold.
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| Go on Laugh Out Loud. |
A good friend sent me some new cocktail napkins for Christmas, and she had them monogrammed: LOL. They are now my favourite and best.
As you may remember there have been years when the state of my garden shed quite vexed me with indecision at Christmas time: to decorate or not to decorate?
I think it looks festive enough. I spent last week organizing the interior instead, it's shiny as a button in there.
We finally drove out to the tree farm to find our one and only:
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| Christmas Tree 2013 |
We are embracing the decorations made during the kindergarten years: may they never fell apart.
They are a bit delicate, made of popsicle sticks, cotton fluff and variously sized googly eyes.
Every year I find that there is one angel in particular I'm drawn to, this year it's the blue and yellow herald angel.
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| Herald Angel |
Don't worry, I have been up to some foolishness.
Of course I like to balance tomfoolery with sensible tasks. Now that I am very happily making my own
laundry detergent I decided to turn my attention to the dishwasher detergent.
You can make your own dishwasher detergent, it's easy as anything.
This is the recipe I used:
1 cup of washing soda
1 cup of Borax
1/4 cup of citric acid
1/2 cup of kosher salt
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| No hideous packaging required. |
Mix it all up and use 1 tablespoon per load.
Well, I know the proof is in the pudding so I took some pictures of my shiny clean dishes, compliments of my homemade dishwasher detergent.
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| Clean |
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| Clean |
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| Clean |
Aren't clean things so pretty? There's something about being able to make my own detergents that really pleases me. I have a shelf full of washing soda, borax, kosher salt and citric acid packets stored in my laundry room. When I run out of laundry or dishwasher detergent I can make my own, I'm free of the tyranny of the grocery store packaging and prices, it makes me feel quite independent. That's always a good feeling, isn't it?
I hope your week is off to a brilliant start and that you are feeling happy and merry.
xoxDani
