Picking what's for dinner would have to be one of my least favourite jobs! Hubby and I can waste a whole hour just deciding what our meals are for the week. It's not meant to be so difficult! One of us came up with the idea of these meal sticks, or dinner lucky dip as we like to call it. The idea is pretty simple. All of the things we like to cook for dinner are written on ...
Cleaning/Organisation
Keep your Blogging Time Efficient
In Part One of this series, I covered using a spreadsheet for organisation. In Part 2, I covered using a calendar. They are the main tools I use to plan and structure my blogging, but there are a lot of ways you can get the best value from the time you put into blogging. KEEP YOUR BLOGGING TIME EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT Write Posts When You're in the Mood I used to start a ...
Keep your Blogging Organised with a Calendar
In Part One of this series, I told you all the ins and outs of using a spreadsheet to help keep you organised. Originally, this was all going in one post, but it grew and grew and hubby said I should I decided to break it up into a mini series. By using a calendar to keep my posts organised, I easily split the one post up into a few and planned when to post them. Here's how I ...
Keep your Blogging Organised with a Spreadsheet
I really enjoy blogging. It's a great way to share ideas and connect with like minded people. But blogging can be hard work. If I don't keep my blogging organised, or "organized" for my American friends, I can get a bit overwhelmed by it all and lose my blogging mojo. I'm going to share my blog organisation tips with you. Because we all know if we're organised, we don't waste ...
Orange Power Vinegar Cleaner
Today I'm joining in the fun on the Spring Has Sprung blog tour, which is being hosted by the lovely Cass from Cass Can Sew and Jane from Lil Pip. With the smell of Spring starting to linger in the air, it's a great time to get inspired with some Spring themed projects. You can find the blog schedule at the bottom of this post. There will be giveaways and Linky parties, so ...
Getting Shoe Polish Out of Carpet
I took my boots to the cobbler the other day (anyone else think of Karl Pilkington when they hear 'cobbler'?) to get the soles re-done. I picked them up looking shiny and new and took them home. I put them on this morning when I got up and 5 minutes later noticed a few horse shoe shaped marks all over the carpet. Not impressed! It's nice when the guy polishes your shoes after ...
The Low-down on Hand-Me-Downs
There is a lot of stigma around hand-me-downs, and I know a lot of people that curl their top lip up at the idea of them, but I'm not sure why. Especially, when it comes to kids clothes. Babies and children grow so quickly that things usually only fit for one season, so it seems a waste to see all your hard earned cash being spent on clothes that may only get worn a few ...
DIY Sugar Scrub: Great for mechanics
My brother is a mechanic and all-round handy guy, so often has grubby hands. I made up a pot of this to give to him for Christmas. It's lovely and moisturising for hard working, dry hands. It's great to use after a day gardening, cleaning or even packing (I always find my hands get really dirty and dried out packing boxes). The sugar scrubs off all the muck, and the honey and ...
Cutlery Storage Roll – Tutorial
Do you have one of those 'good' cutlery sets? You know the ones, they get pulled out for Christmas and then for the rest of the year, take up a huge amount of space in an awkwardly large box.Well, I decided to store them in a roll, like chefs knives. They take up a lot less space and still stay nice and shiny. You can see below, that they use about 1/4 of the space of the box. ...
Cleaning my Stove Burners – no scrubbing required!
I'm almost embarrassed to post this. My stove burners get pretty dirty. I guess I think life is too short to be scrubbing the grease off the stove burners, but now that I know this trick, I don't need to. All you need is a little bit of Ammonia and a zip-loc bag. Get a zip-loc bag and put your dirty stove burners in there. I did two at a time so that I could still use the ...
Get Organised – Laundry Storage and Dusting mittens
Being renters, we can't put any shelves up and the laundry at out house is a bit lacking in storage. I came across these little baskets at the local discount store and they are perfect! They have 2 suction cups on the back, so they stick to the tiles, and I can take them with me when we move out. The one on the left has my delicates bags in it and the one on the right is ...
Prettier than your average Whiteboard
Hi my name is Abby and I'm a listoholic. I love making a list. On a post it, on the computer, in my phone, in my head, on the backs of old envelopes... and don't get me started on Excel spreadsheets. It makes me feel like I'm sorting things out, even before I get started on actually doing anything on the list.I've been wanting a whiteboard for ages, but they're a bit ...
