Chores can be Fun!

Creating a weekly blog takes effort, no one wants to read about the boring everyday things you got up to. Everybody has to do the cleaning, washing and cooking. Coming up with content means you have to do things that you would not normally do or are not a chore or do I?

Here are a few natural cleaning products and tips that you can use around your home to ditch some of those chemicals.

Wood cleaner and polish

½ C White Vinegar (just plain old white vinegar, or you can use ACV for darker woods, if you like)
¼ C Olive Oil (organic, extra virgin olive oil)
1 tbsp Lemon Juice
1 tbsp Vegetable Glycerin (optional, but a really great addition – non-GMO, organic vegetable glycerin)
20-30 drops Lavender Essential Oil (organic lavender essential oil)
Instructions
Mix all ingredients in a glass spray bottle. Shake well before each use.

Spray on wood and rub with microfiber or other soft cloth.

Toilet Cleaner

1 cup vinegar (just plain old white vinegar)
7 drops each ginger essential oil, helps reduce campylobacter strain, cinnamon essential oil, clove essential oil are effective at killing E. coli, staphylococcus, salmonella, and streptococcus.
Glass spray bottle

Instructions

1. Combine the vinegar and essential oils in the glass spray bottle.
2. To use, shake vigorously before spraying on the sides of the toilet bowl and under the rim.
3. Take the top off of the spray bottle and dump the rest of the contents into the bowl. Let the vinegar soak in the bowl for an hour before scrubbing thoroughly with a brush and flushing.

Drain cleaner

Baking Soda – ½ cup
Distilled White Vinegar – 1 cup

Instructions
Pour the baking soda over the drain followed by the vinegar. Let it sit for 10 to 20 minutes and then flush with very hot water.

This last one makes me happy every time, no not because it’s cleaning my drains but just watching the chemical reaction. Simple things! 😂

I was talking about school dinners recently with some friends, the ones we loved and those that were awful. Pink Fluff was one we remembered enjoying and I decided to make it for Sunday Dinner dessert. Just raspberry jelly and evaporated milk, simple but oh so good! 😋

Dissolve the jelly (I used raspberry) in half the amount of boiling water suggested.

Whisk a tin of evaporated milk until frothy and then add the slightly cooled jelly and continue whisking until fully combined.

Pour into serving dishes and chill for at least 2 hours. You can add fresh raspberries as a garnish to make this simple dessert a little more special.

What school dinner or pudding do you remember?

This week I have had fun joining in with #StylecraftBlogstarsGardenParty event. I have so far made two of the three cute tin covers. #Stylecraft have a lovely selection of coloured organic cotton yarns. The pattern designer for the tin covers was Lucy #Attic24

Here is the link to the pattern https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/2022/05/stylecraft-blogstars-garden-party.html

These will be great for my summer dining table to pop some wild meadow flowers in and cutlery and napkins for all our outside dining I hope we can have.

So yes this week the Spice/herb should have been ‘P’ but I have not got around to making the Lemon and Poppyseed Butter Biscuits but will be making today ready for tomorrow’s Craft Butterflies Meeting where we will be making Shaker Cards. Therefore I will post on next week’s blog.

The next couple of weeks are looking super busy, youngest daughter coming home from University for the Summer, friends and relatives visiting, a friend’s wedding and the Jubilee Weekend. This should give me some good content for the next couple of blogs 😂

Have a great week and thanks for dropping by.

Chris x