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An Organic Bathroom Cleaner ~ New Try

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Good Morning Friday!

I am super excited today. Tomorrow is the vintage purse party at Von Maur and I am so excited to see their new arrivals. There is one dream bag that I would love to own but it’s way too expensive right now. I am hoping to maybe get it in a couple of years. I just don’t want to pay that high price tag right now. I know that I am going to have to purchase it used and that is okay with me if I can get a low price! 

But I am mainly looking forward to a “mom” day.  Just a few hours with no husband or kids. I love attending these. They are wonderful and I do enjoy them. 

Okay, ladies today I wanted to share my recent experience with the Mrs. Meyer’s cream cleaner. I used it in both bathrooms this week and I am happy to report that I loved it! Even our daughter, who is responsible for cleaning her own bathroom loved using it!

I always forget about baking soda and how it is a great cleaner to use in your home. This cleaner has baking soda in it and since it is a cream you don’t have to worry about scratching your sink or other items in your home. It foams quite nicely as well. I don’t know about you but I love seeing foam when I clean. 




This is my husband’s side of the counter. It is always dirty and I don’t know why but it is. It cleaned this right up and the smell is delightful. It has a great lemon smell even our daughter once again commented on it. I love the fact that this does not have harsh chemicals. I want my daughter to learn to clean and when a product smells great and works it helps! 

I did find this on the Walmart website but it was sold out and on Amazon but it cost more and did not look that easy to purchase. On the Grove website, you pay a one-year membership of $20 and you get access to all of their products. I only paid $3.79 for my cleaner. I was on the fence about becoming a member for years but I am so glad that I did. 

I hope you guys enjoy this post and I am working on a Youtube video for this weekend. It’s just going to be a “catch up” video. I have not posted a video on Youtube in about 4 weeks. Have a great weekend!

(photos via Mrs. Shockley)

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Recent Home To-Do’s

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Good Morning Everyone,

And ready set go…. we’re in August! I have been trying to find ways to improve our home life. Well… maybe improve home life for me. Since I have been working from home since March (I can’t believe it) I have been taking a second look at my home.

Now I can tackle those small projects or try to come up with ways to make things more efficient or more organized. I recently organized the freezer. Our top drawer was always a mess.

This is what it looked like before. It was such a mess and my husband would just dump food here. 


I went to HomeGoods and found these great and affordable plastic bins to use to organize the food. They were only $7.99 for this stack of four. Fantastic right?

Here is what it looks like now. I love it. Now we can see everything that we have and not keep buying extra items we don’t need. This was a quick and cheap fix. I should have done it sooner! 

My family and I have also been on this biscuit kick. I don’t know why but we all have been craving these and wanting them with dinner. These are bad to eat but they taste so wonderful!

Fresh flowers have still been a go-to for me. I can’t start my week without them. I must have them around. Either a small bouquet on the dinner table or a bouquet in the office. Flowers, flowers, they make me happy!

 

So my second order from Grove Collaborative arrived. I ordered the ginger Method Squirt mop cleaner, Mrs. Meyer’s cream baking soda cleaner, and two bottles of Mrs. Meyer’s room freshener spray. I love all of these products. I just went and checked my account for the next order and they are debuting the Mrs. Meyer’s mum scent! I can’t wait to try that! If you wish to take an interest in Grove here is my referral link. I hope you enjoy the products! 


I also changed my cleaning schedule. I use to clean on the weekends and it just drove me nuts! I wanted my weekends free to run my errands or maybe attend a farmers market or an antique store. So I have changed my schedule to include one chore or two chores each day to accomplish. By the end of the week, the areas that need to be taken care of are finished and I have a free weekend. Now don’t get me wrong I still have the basics, like washing dishes and making the bed but the house has been staying quite tidy this way. 

During my breaks, I still find time to go outside on the front porch and read my book. I am still reading the Signature of All Things. It has been a wonderful book. I don’t read much fiction but this book I have really enjoyed! 

And lastly, our daughter has started school. We are starting with a hybrid school year so it will be a challenge to us both. I will be micro-managing her classes and work. She is not happy with my new role but I need to keep tabs or her. She has a hard time staying focused and I believe the extra support will help. 

I hope you all are staying safe and taking care of your homes. Don’t forget to take time out for yourself. I always pick a day each week to go window shopping or run an errand to someplace I would enjoy. Happy moms and wives make the world go round!

Have a great Monday!! 




(photos via Mrs. Shockley)


Laundry Room Update

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Good Morning Everyone,


The days are moving right along. Our salons and barbershops are set to open next week at 25% capacity. So we will see how this next step of transition goes…. 
Last week I mentioned getting a closet organizer for my laundry room. I am so glad that I did. I truly regret not having cabinets installed in the laundry room while we were building. I really don’t remember why I didn’t. It would have made my life so much easier and come to think of it why did I not have a countertop installed for folding???? 

Ugghhh, simple things…. 
So this is my laundry room. It has been like this for the last 7 years. Every time I opened the door and would think to myself, “this needs to be revamped”! It’s not horrible but it is not the greatest.

I knew I needed a spot to hang my clothes to dry and I knew I needed shelving for storage. 

Earlier in April I was standing in the room and it just dawned on me….. a closet organizer! That would help with this space. So I went on Amazon and found this free-standing closet.  Above is my husband putting it together. It was really simple to do. 


I was so pleased when he finished putting it together. When I saw this online I had already placed every item on the shelf in my head. 

I am so happy with the way it turned out. I asked my husband about the cabinets and he said that we could install some later. He also didn’t understand why we did not have any installed. The things you learn over time. Well, I hope you all enjoyed this small little update. Maybe this provided some inspiration for some of you to use a closet organizer for some space in your life. 

Enjoy your day!
(photos via Mrs. Shockley)

A Simple Cookware Organizer

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Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you all had a great Mother’s Day weekend. My weekend was very quiet. I didn’t get out of bed on Mother’s Day until 10:30! I just wanted to lay there and so I did. I made myself a nice breakfast, sat in my sitting room, and read. It was quite enjoyable. 

It has been unseasonably cold here in Indy. But I am not complaining, I love it! In today’s post, I wanted to share this recent organizational find from Amazon. 
This is how my pot cabinet looked. I was so frustrated with it but had no idea how to fix it. 

There is pot residue in my cabinets from years of moving them around. 

Then I saw this cabinet pan organizer. Once I looked at the price I knew I had to have it!

I also ordered this lid organizer from Amazon but saw that it was sold out so I found this one and this one.

I am so glad that I ordered these tools to use in my cabinets. My space looks so much better and orderly. 

Thank you to everyone who reads my blog. I do appreciate your visits and comments. Have a great week!

(photos via Mrs. Shockley)

My First Grove Collaborative Order

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Good Morning Everyone,


I hope you are still well. We are hanging in there. At the end of the week, we will find out if our state will open up for business. I really don’t know. It’s hard because you don’t want to put people at risk but you don’t want to see people lose their jobs. 


What a mess…


Okay on to something fun. Most of you know that I follow Jennifer L. Scott from the Daily Connoisseur and she recently shared her Mother’s Day Gift Guide. For the last few years, I have been so tempted to purchase some of the organic home cleaning supplies from Grove Collaborative.


When she discussed the new rose scent that was debuting I knew at that point that I WANTED to try it. So I ordered my first set. 

So when my package arrived it looked so pretty. I got the dish liquid, hand soap, walnut scrubber, and one bottle of the all-purpose cleaner for free! I opened it and it smells just like fresh-cut roses. It is lovely. 

I ordered a second bottle for the upstairs of the all-purpose cleaner, cleaning caddy, and brush set. 


Now, this is a membership once you order but you can cancel. I believe you have to email them. I did push off my next order. You can select to push it off for a few months. I am going to think about it. I know when the holidays get here I want to try some of the Christmas scents and I may order a few as gifts. We will see. 

Let me know in the comments section if you are a Grove Collaborative subscriber. I am curious about how others are using this system. 

Thanks for reading!
(photos via Mrs. Shockley)

Elegant Blue and White Storage Bins

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Good Morning Everyone,


I must say being home for the last few weeks has given me a different perspective on things. I have been thinking more about what I really want to do. I really would love to launch a lifestyle company. That would be the dream..seriously… but we will see. 


I have been finding more organizational items for my home. Below is the newest item that I discovered. 

These are the Threshold Floral Bins and I purchased three of them. I saw them on a fellow blogger’s post and just had to order some. Blue and white….. I could not pass these up!



This is my printer station in my office. Now I have had these two storage bins for about 6 years and I thought it needed a little refresh. So this is before….

And this is after… so much better and it looks great. These two storage bins are pretty big. The price was not bad either. I have all of my files in both bins and it is orderly and nice. 

The smaller bin went under my sink and I have filled it with my feminine toiletries. I hope you guys enjoy these beautiful little storage bins. I love the colors and the pattern. There is just something so beautiful and elegant about blue and white. I believe that I will always love it. 

Have a great weekend!
(photos via Mrs. Shockley)

Silverware Caddies

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Good Morning Everyone,


I hope you all had a great weekend. I did a lot of online shopping but it’s mostly items for my home. I am trying to re-organize everything. I will share a few posts this week.

In today’s post, I wanted to share this great little silverware caddy that I found on Amazon. 

I didn’t think the cups that hold the silverware would be this big but I am happy. I have been wanting a silverware caddy for a long time but I could never find one that I liked. 
This is great for entertaining. I normally just have the silverware out for people to use but this looks so much better and the utensils have a location. 
Now it did come with the metal caddy to hold the cups but I did not particularly care for it. I thought it was ugly and liked the idea of having my cups placed wherever I wanted. 

Let me know in the comments section below if you use a silverware caddy for your entertaining purposes. 

Have a great Monday!

(photos via Mrs. Shockley)