Household
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Best Products to Eliminate Pantry Moths: Proven Checklist
Start here: the exact powders, traps, tools, and airtight storage that I used to get rid of my pantry moths completely and for good! Organized as a quick, skimmable checklist. Core Killers & Barriers: Natural, Safe, Eco-Friendly Control Food-Grade Diatomaceous Earth (DE) Use a thin, even dusting in cabinet corners, peg holes, and cracks. Avoid breathing dust; reapply only after wet cleaning. Boric Acid Powder (non-food zones) Lightly place in inaccessible crevices and behind toe-kicks. Keep away from food prep areas and kids/pets. Blue Light for Insect Traps Lightly place in inaccessible crevices and behind toe-kicks. Keep away from food prep areas and kids/pets. BONUS Leave a comment below: “Send…
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An Easier, Prettier, Method To Lighten Your Hair With Honey Everyday
The great thing about lightening your hair with honey is that your hair suffers no damage. The bad thing about lightening your hair with honey is that results appear slowly. You need multiple applications to get a deeper, brighter appearance — and then your hair starts growing again, and you have a whole new batch of dark hair to light. Sitting with hair “dripping” wet for over an hour is not a fun or practical way to spend an hour. While experimenting on my own, I’ve come up with a few tweaks to ensure your hair gets a daily boost of a honey’s peroxide enhancing benefits. NOTE: Please see this…
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Low-Maintenance African Violet Kokedama
Are you as enamored as I am with Kokedama hanging gardens? The Japanese style of tying the rootballs of plants in balls of moss and hanging from the ceiling? I’m in love. What’s not to love? But wait! There’s a lot not to love. First of all, the mess? Hanging plants will need to be watered, and then, how? The only way to prevent a mess is to take them down, water them thoroughly, and then keep them down until they are dry enough to not drip all over your floors. But then, won’t they need to be watered again? Ah yes, but I’m so in love with the design…
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I’m Getting New Furniture!
That beautiful, so beautifully, now-distressed table — which my boys so “artfully” created, is now my desk. We are turning the dark, dreary, unused dining room into my office. This “table” has an optional leaf, which makes the table a big square — which is perfect for me — as I like to spread out — and the kids keep coming in the ask me questions for their homework — which is perfect, so we can all spread out. I’m going to be using these cute chairs, which, are actually dining room chairs, and will make a comfy office chair. The idea is to turn the room into an office like this:…
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During the Winter Break Cold Spell of 2018…
No matter where you might be right now, it’s likely there is some kind of weather to talk about. Here, it’s like we are living in a Mariah Mundi novel, where we are covered in a gray fog of cold, and we aren’t sure where the night begins or the morning starts. And it doesn’t help that the boys find themselves hungry as wolves at 10:30 pm, so they cook, and then have enough energy to play another round of a game, and are up till 2 in the morning. This afternoon, while I was chopping vegetables for this stew, I heard them all bickering over a game — as…
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How Instant Pot Helps Moms Compete Head to Head with Chipotle
If you want to know just how fragile and precarious our lives are as mothers, as leaders of the meals, and all that’s involved to get a meal on the table (counter) that is perfectly timed, warm and good enough to stand up to Chipotle, Noodles & Company and the latest instant meal craze that has captured our children’s attention, just think about the quote I saw on an Instant Pot forum by a woman after my own heart: “I would take a bullet for my Instant Pot.” If that’s not a testament to harried mom’s reaching out for help, I don’t know what is. I’m not new to pressure…
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Let There Be LED Light
The time change, the shift of the sun, and the onset of so much darkness did not visit us without groans of despair this winter. While researching lights for light therapy, I stumbled upon some information about LED lights — and how environmentally friendly they are — putting off a great amount of light with relatively low energy pull. And they are very flexible — and they can come in rolls of tape! So, I thought it might be fun to try to brighten up the kitchen with LED light tape. The most common use for this tape in the kitchen is to use it under the cabinets to brighten…
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“As You Grow” Pesto
There’s not quite enough basil to make pesto yet. Basil is slow, and takes forever — and I can see myself during the busy days of back-to-school in September, trying to carve out an afternoon to harvest the Basil that’s finally started to explode. But the mint is, as always, prolific — and there is that batch of cilantro from the grocery store that I must use up quickly — so for these reasons and more, I’m tuning every bunch of greens I can find into pesto — as I go. I remember, back in the days when the kids were little, and I had so much extra time, even…
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One Peaceful Spot
What’s left after all the Christmas decorations finally left today.
