a recycled post, gearing up for 2010, & homemade recipes!
Hiya RYD readers!! How are ya? Hope you had a wonderful holiday.
Here’s a post I wrote about last year… if you need any ideas for what to do with your X-Mas cards!
I’ve been looking at last year’s Green Vision’s and thinking about what some will be in 2010…
My vision board is a work in progress as I find pictures and words to summarize my goals and future!
Lately, I’ve been doing my best to meditate and visual what it is I truly want and what makes me happy. I also focus some time on my boys’ and our future together as unschooler’s. It’s going to be a great journey. I can only hope we make it the greatest experience.
{Anywho}
I mentioned in an earlier post; I was going to make homemade gifts/goods for Christmas and that’s exactly what I did. ( I didn’t get any pictures of the green cleaning supplies; but I promise I made them.) I bought 2 new squirt bottles and reused and old one. I filled them up with…
1/2 cup of vinegar
1/4 cup of baking soda
10-20 drops of peppermint essential oil
put contents into a glass pitcher and add 1/2 gallon (2 liters) H20!
That’s it! You’re ready to go clean as it is an all purpose solution!
I put the squirt bottles in a reused gift bag along with a sample of Dr. Bronner’s Almond scented soap, a glass mason jar filled with baking soda and a coconut scrub brush. The Dr. Bronner’s and baking soda make a good soft scrub in case you didn’t know. Something I’ve been doing for years. I HEART Dr. Bronner’s soap. I highly recommend buying some- you can even find it at Target. A little goes a long way… it’s an all purpose soap. It’s amazing. 2 squirts to 2 gallons… is the recipe on their bottle.
Since my bro didn’t get any Dr. Bronner’s soap; I reused a baking soda can added in more baking soda, put in about 10-20 drops of Tangerine essential oil and sealed it with it’s lid. Poked holes in the top- voila’ it’s an instant carpet deodorizer! He’s always complaining about smells in his house… he’s a bachelor with roommates… so you know what I mean. LOL!
I also made a salt scrub for a close friend of the family. She loved the one I made for her on Mother’s Day so I decided to whip up a winter batch she would like!
Here’s what I did…
Bath Salt Scrub
1 cup of sea salt – fine works best… if you have course you can blend it down into fine using your blender or food processor.
1 cup of epsom salts
1/2 -3/4’s of oat powder (oats put into the blender and pulverized)
20 drops of essential oil of your choice … I chose peppermint for the holidays!
1/3 cup of organic EVOO
Stir all ingredients in a stainless steel or glass bowl for 2min’s or more then put into a glass mason jar! Or whatever dish suits your fancy.
For mother’s day I added in a lot more EVOO… you can do more or less depending on how slick you like to feel when you get out of the shower.
Enjoy!
P.S.
I will attempt to post a Meatless Monday recipe today! We’ll see… 
