Archives for January 2014

Cleaning Between the Mesh Screen and Glass Door on Your Microwave

This is how my microwave door looks.  It’s not that I don’t occasionally wipe the front of the microwave when I’m cleaning.  The problem is that it won’t come off.  This yucky look is trapped on the inside of the door, between the glass door and mesh screen.  You can’t reach it by the usual opening of the door.  I found out that in order to ever have a door that I can actually see through, I would need to {Read More}

Cleaning Your Basesboards

Okay. I’m finally getting around to attempting to clean my baseboards.  It is one of those “don’t-really need-to-get-to chores.”  If you’re like me, you look at them throughout the year and silently say in your head, “I need to clean those one day.” Which outside of my head means “never.”   Well, I actually cleaned them today.  I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter what kind of baseboards or what

How To Make Homemade Gel Air Fresheners

During the summer, I made air freshener with baking soda, essential oil and sidewalk chalk (to color baking soda). So, I thought it was time to try and make the gel air fresheners.  I’m on a mission to make everything homemade.  This was a fairly easy DIY to make. You only need a couple of ingredients and it’s quite inexpensive. I used lemon essential oil to scent the gel air freshener.  It has a wonderful

How to Make Snow Cream

We woke up to lots of snow in Maryland! My kids are normally very excited about the sight of snow.  However, they were a little disappointed since school doesn’t officially start for them until January 6th.  When they think of snow, they think of being out of school due to school being closed because of bad weather.  Oh, well.  Perhaps it will snow again on January 5th.  Of course, the snow brought on the lovely