A Great Natural Drain Cleaner

Apple cider and baking soda make for a great drain cleaner.
Try 2 to 1 table spoon ratio of apple cider to baking powder to create a foam and pour it down your sinks, toilets, outside drains.
After 15 minutes flush through with hot water and your done.

You can even bath in this stuff to detoxify your skin and it will clean the bath after you :).

Substituting Chemicals For Natural Products

Chemicals in our cleaners can be quite harmful to us in many ways so i decided i would try to find more natural products that we can substitute those harmful items with.

If you know of any healthy cleaning substitutes that you would like to share, im sure a lot of folk will be greatful :).

1. Avoid anything with amonia in it, its used for cutting grease BUT it also contributes to the cause of athsma.
One option to choose instead is vinegar.

2.Chlorene is commonly used as a dissinfectant BUT not only can it irratate your lungs and skin, but it can be lethal if ingested.
Look instead for products that use lemon juice or tea tree oil.

For any kind of deoderizer, opt for bicarbonate of soda and essential oils .

Natural Cleaning with White Distilled Vinegar

These tips were taken from a you tube video, check it out .

White distilled Vinegar can be used to clean countertops , tables , computers and children toys too.

100 % Natural
100 % Safe

And you can mix :
500 ml of Vinegar
1 teaspoon baking soda
or 1 teaspoon of lemon oil

Smells great , kills bacteria and reduce bacterial fungi growth.

Give it a try -

How To- Clean Using Toothpaste

To remove grubby, sticky and dirty marks from your door frames, light switches and skirting boards ect,take a damp cloth soaked in bicarbonate of soda, wring out and add a spot of tooth paste to the cloth and commence rubbing on the marks.

Once you are happy with the result, wipe over with a clean cloth to remove any residue and you should be good to go :)

Mothers Day Gift Ideas

Lets have a think about what we might like to get for our mothers on this special day, some of us will just ask what they might like for a gift, whilst others will just go out and buy something they think their mother may like or use.
However, there is always the option of the personal touch, a gift or a card created by your own hands, in my view there is nothing better, but realistically not everyone has the time to be creative so lets compile a list of gift ideas that may help if your stuck this year.

First and formost on my list is flowers or a pot plant
Perfume

Jewellery

Bags

Clothing items

Beauty products

Skin products

Bath products

Foot care- as in foot spa or some foot care products

Vouchers are a great idea
you can get vouchers for almost anything these days, including ...
massage

Hair

Nails

Sauna

Beauty treatments and therapies

Hair products

Then there are the "cutsie items" that i still love even though my youngest is 18 now ,
Teddy Bears with "i love mam" on (or words along those lines )

Quirky fuzzy flowers with smiley faces

Little ornaments or trinket boxes.

Then there are things like a Meal Out, or perhaps a family get together and a nice meal in, just pamper your mam on her special day and let her know how much she is appreciated.

If you can think of any more nice ideas for mothers day please feel free to add them here.
If you do have time to get creative, why not check out my "Mothers Day Hamper" Tutorial, just click on the title of this page to be taken to the tutorial page.
Have fun .x

My Mothers Day Hamper Tutorial

Check out this simple and inexpensive gift idea for mothers day,
i hope you enjoy it, let me know what you think :)

Junk Jewellry - absaloutely or no go ?

I dont know about you guys but i have a serious junk jewellry fetish, it only took hold around november last year but trust me i have been gathering quite a nice little collection.
Not bad for someone who never changed her jewellry from a gold chain and hoop earings in years eh :).

Once the clothes bug hit me just prior to this, accessories were a must, i still tend to stick with just earings and necklaces but im not frightened of bold beads and strong colours, along with a lot of softer colours i have.

I prefer longer necklaces that hang down past my cheast for two reasons, one to break up any plainess in my clothing and the other because im not the petitist of ladies and chokers are a definate no no for me lol.

Seriously though, i wear a lot of long line tops, mainly one or two colours so i like to accessorise with contrasting or slightly lighter / darker colours to help break them up.
Because im a lrg lady, i unfortunately have a lrg cheast to match, so i prefer my necklaces not to stop at my cheast level, but to flow way past and onto my rib level.
Thats not to say i dont wear necklaces that sit at my neck or on my cheast, i just prefer longer ones.

Why not share your preferences in jewellry with us, you may even want to share pictures of your favourite pieces and where you purchased them and how much they were, that would be fantastic.
I will share some pictures of some of my jewellery in a later post and try to remember where i got them from , but in the mean time the picture above is a very disorganised version of my jewllery board, eek lol .
Have fun and i hope to hear from you soon.