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Friday, April 8, 2011

Springtime

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Happy weekend!!! WooHoo!

This week, I was going through some pictures on my computer and I found some of our landscape photos that I took last year.  I like to see the progress of all our plants.

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We built our house almost 4 years ago and it is still a work in progress.

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I love watching it all grow!

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I can’t believe the difference one year can make!!!

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I am actually not a big gardener.  Not because I don’t want to be,  it is just hard to do anything outside with my little boys on the loose, ha!  Maybe this year will be easier. :)  Last year, my parents came out to help me.

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A lot needs to be done this year, we need to start soon!

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Some of these boxwoods got damaged by our huge snow storm.  I hope they will be ok!

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I want to take out these hostas and put in roses or something.

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I love this set!  (I bought it at a garage sale of only $50! :)

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I am exciting for spring and everything to come back to life again!

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So pretty!!!

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I love our little flower beds!  I also love bringing the flowers in the house!

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Even Michael looks so little here!  Wow!  What a difference a year makes.  I can’t believe he will be 4 this month!!

(I am not sure where his shoes went, lol….boys!)

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I can’t wait for it to actually stay nice over here so we can get to work!

Have you started any yard work or planting yet?

Enjoy your weekend!! :)

Bonnie

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ASSIGNMENT: OCEAN WILDERNESS

(Phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of California. Via Visible Earth. Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSF.)

I'm headed offshore—and off the grid—into the Gulf of California, aka the Sea of Cortez, through late April, helping out with some field research and working on a new Mother Jones piece.

Please browse the archives until I return with new images and stories. 

And please email me links to any interesting ocean news/developments, so I can catch up when I get back: julia.whitty@gmail.com.


Here's where I'll be after meandering a while by boat. Some of you recognize the landmarks and seamarks for tiny Isla Rasa.

FRIDAY BRAIN CANDY: THE COSMIC OCEAN


Seahorse Nebula. Via APOD. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI).

Lagoon Nebula. Via APOD. Credit & Copyright: Russell Croman.

Breaking waves in the Lagoon Nebula. Via the Hubbard Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA.

Seagull Nebula. Via WISE (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA.

Crab Nebula. Via the Hubbard Space Telescope. Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team.



Prawn Nebula. Via APOD. Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh.

Jellyfish Nebula. Via APOD. Credit & Copyright: Bob Franke.

Phytoplankton bloom in the North Atlantic. Via the Earth Observatory. Credit: NASA, Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Get Clean Green Bundle

Good morning!

I just wanted to write a quick post to let you all know about…

 

 Shaklee’s NEW EARTH DAY Get Clean Green Bundle!

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Celebrate Earth Day with Get Clean Basic H2 Organic Super Cleaning Concentrate.

The natural and nontoxic way to clean, Basic H2 tackles literally a thousand household jobs!!! :)

 

And it's safe for you, your home and your planet!

 

Special offer:

 

Buy a bottle of Get Clean Basic H2 Organic Super

Cleaning Concentrate (16 fl. oz.) and 3 spray bottles,

 get a Microfiber Cleaning Cloth for FREE!

All for ONLY $17.25 (member’s price)

 

Safe, Powerful, Green and Smart

Get Clean Basic H2 - each bottle contains an unbelievable amount of supersafe, really powerful, grease busting clean that saves money and helps keep the planet green.

Just mix, spray, and wipe for sparkling windows, floors, mirrors, and more. One bottle of Basic H2 contains the equivalent cleaning uses of over 5,000 bottles of Windex.**

That’s over 5,000 fewer bottles going to the landfill!

 

Get Clean Green Bundle includes:

 

- 1 Get Clean Basic H2 Organic Super Cleaning Concentrate (16 fl. oz.)

- 3 Get Clean Spray bottles

- FREE Get Clean Super Microfiber Cleaning Cloth

Get Clean Basic H2 is Super Concentrated

- Window Cleaner – costs less than 1¢

  Just add 2 drops of Basic H2 to 16 oz of water

- All-purpose cleaner – costs only 3¢

  Just add ¼ tsp of Basic H2 to 16 oz of water

 

*This promotional offer is available from April 4 – 30, 2011, or while supplies last, to all Shaklee Family Members. Savings based on Member Net (MN) price. This product promotion offer (#59735) gives you Basic H2® Organic Super Cleaning Concentrate (16 fl. oz.) and the 3-pack Get Clean® spray bottles at regular price and PV, plus a Super Microfiber Cleaning Cloth for free. There is no PV on the free product. To receive this offer, you must use the promotional code #59735 when ordering. Offer availability is subject to change without notice.

**This label comparison was conducted on June 25, 2010, and is valid only for the named product marketed at that time. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Some of you might be sick of hearing about Shaklee because I talk about it a lot, lol!  That is because, behind the scenes, I am getting a lot of emails from women thanking me for sharing Shaklee with them.  That is why I do what I do!  :)  Thanks so much for sharing your experiences with me, I truly appreciate it!!!!

Here are some emails that I received…

Bonnie,

After reading about the Shaklee cleaning products, at the end of February I placed an order to try several products.  I am probably not your average reader.  I don't have a blog and my children are grown, but I do work full time.  I clean my house myself.  I had two main reasons I wanted to try the Shaklee products.  I have several mirrors in my home, but our master bath has a really large mirror.  No matter how often I cleaned or how hard I pressed, that mirror (and the others) was always streaky.  The second reason was for furniture dust.  I don't like using products that leave a waxy finish and buildup on your furniture.  So I was basically just dusting with a clean cloth.  I couldn't get the dust off the furniture.  I could move it around but it remained wherever the dust cloth ended.  Needless to say, cleaning became less important because I just felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything.

The Shaklee H2 has been great.  No more streaky mirrors and no more dust residue on furniture.  Plus I am using it on my floors.  My house is much cleaner because I am actually enjoying doing the cleaning because I see results.  The next thing I did was make myself a cleaning schedule since the cleaning has to be done after work or on weekends (I prefer after work).  So I took an April calendar and entered the nights I would not be able to clean due to meetings, grocery shopping, etc.  I have my whole cleaning schedule for April right at my fingertips.  I also started cleaning up the dishes every evening and either putting away dishes or emptying the dishwasher instead of waiting.  It makes for a much more peaceful house; I love walking into my house and seeing things in order.

My husband is always bringing someone home with him.  I always hated it because I felt like the house was a mess with stuff on the counters and the rest of the house not really clean.  Now I am comfortable with people coming in unannounced because I know my house is respectably clean and neat.  It makes me feel so much better.

I have the Shaklee laundry products and will be trying those as soon as my current product is used up.  I just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying the products and thank you for the information you provide on your blog.  It is helpful, informative and motivating.

Barbara

Hi Bonnie,

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE everything so far! I already reordered more shake and snack bars, b/c if I am going to commit, I didn't want to run out.

The cleaning products are so wonderful, I can't even believe it. They make cleaning so easy. Honestly, the window/mirror cleaner w/ the microfiber is so awesome-my glass has never looked that good. I have been cleaning up a storm these last few days b/c it's so fun to get such great results.

I am really giving it some thought, but I am pretty sure I would like to become a distributor. I am just so excited about the products, that I want to tell everyone.

Heather

Hey Bonnie!

I love all of my products and am just now having to order my detergent and some new stuff, so it’s great how long everything lasts!  Mostly, I love how well it cleans and not sneezing & coughing while cleaning!!  I hate that I ever used all of those chemicals in our home with our son, but so glad I switched!!

Jenn

Good Morning Bonnie,
I joined the Shaklee bandwagon several months ago after reading your blog...and LOVE love love it...literally threw away my cleaners and haven't looked back. Even switched to using their laundry products etc.
With two toddlers and another on the way, its been a piece of mind being as toxic free as I can with cleaners anyway.
I was curious if they still carry the makeup line? I didn't see it on the site yesterday. If not, do you have any you sell?
Have a blessed day,
Kristen

BONNIE!

I just received my order earlier this week...AND...

I LOVE IT!

Oh my, I don't know where to start!

I guess with the laundry soap. I ordered the liquid. LOVE the scent, love the small amount, and it suds up so nice. I also noticed that my dryer lint looked different. I'm not sure how to explain it. Now for the real test: I washed our cat beds and dog bed covers...using the liquid soap and some nature bright. OMGoodness! I've never seen them so clean and fluffy. When I took them out they just felt clean. When I put them in the dryer, this was the change in lint. It was just fur, not a "cotton-like" sheet the color of the fabric. If that makes sense.

So then I moved on to my dogs water/food bowls. We use stainless steel bowls because they are more santinary, but they always end up with a film. NOTHING has ever gotten them non-filmy except using a gob of Dawn dish soap and a magic eraser. Even then, I had to clean it several times, rinse and repeat to get it somewhat clean. There was always a bit of a film. I don't know if it was from the soap or what! I used a small drop of the hand dish wash soap and OH MY. They came clean. NO FILM. None whatsoever. With that tiny little bit of soap. And I love the smell of the soap too.

Tonight, I'm putting the scour paste to work on both my ovens...yikes! It does smell like cherries.

I ordered Basic H and G, but haven't opened those yet. I need to pick up spray bottles from the $1 store.

I'm lovin' it, Bonnie!

Thanks,
Heidi
PS Just in case you didn't know, I have a small crafty blog too (besides my son's blog).
http://stampwithheidi.blogspot.com/



Hi Bonnie,



I just wanted to let you know that I received my Shaklee products already!  I have to admit I was a skeptic so I only purchased a few products to test things out and I am more than pleasantly surprised for so many reasons, but I'm sure you already know that :)



First I will admit that I am not an oven cleaner.  The self cleaning feature always frightened me because it just heats up so high and gets all of the surrounding cabinets so hot.  I actually have never purchased oven cleaner because I know they are such awful products and not something I would want to be using myself let alone around my 2 little girls.  I wish I had some photos, but the "Scour Off worked like a charm, taking off almost 8 years of grime in my oven.  How embarrasing is that story, not cleaning my oven is 8 years.  The other place I tackled with the "scour off" was my shower doors.  They have been my bane since the moment we bought our house.  The hard water stains I was certain were etched into the glass.  I have tried every product on the market and have only gotten heachaches while using them, literally.  Now I have to admit that it did not remove all of the marks, probably because they really are etched in the glass but my doors are the cleanest the have ever been and the "scour off" was pleasant to work with.  I didn't need to lock myself in the bathroom with the vent turned on and windows open in order to clean them.  I have yet to really begin to utilize the H2 but can only imagine how well it will work based on the "scour off".  I just wanted to let you know that I am 1 happy customer and will definitely be telling my friends about these products.



Sincerely,



Heather



Thanks so much!!!!



You can buy the GET CLEAN BUNDLE here!



Have a great day! :)



Bonnie



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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

How to Organize your Receipts

Welcome to Week 8 of our Organize your Life series!

Organize your LIFE

 

If you are just joining in, please link up your blog here so we can all help motivate each other!

I am reading and using the book called, Organize Now! by Jennifer Ford Berry, to help me organize my life! :)

This week is Organizing Your Receipts! 

 

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GOALS FOR THIS WEEK!

Gather all receipts.

I am pretty good about filing my needed receipts.  I usually keep them in my wallet until I file them.

 

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Record all your receipts. We used to record everything through Quicken.  We have to down pat now!

File. File. File  I have a file for everything!

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Put Tax deductible receipts in a file.  I keep mine in HERE!

File business receipts.  I keep a binder for some of my Shaklee papers.

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I keep most of my Shaklee receipts on my computer but I keep some in here too!

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Toss/Shred.  Toss or shred any receipt that you don’t need!  I hate EXTRA paper!!

 

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Want extra TIPS?!?!?!

 

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Make sure you check out Organize Now!

You can buy it here!

PAST POSTS!!!

 

To read the 1st week’s post, on Organizing your Mind, click HERE!

To read the 2nd week’s post, on Organizing your Schedule, click HERE!

To read the 3rd week’s post, on Organizing your Cleaning Schedule, click HERE!

To read the 4th week’s post, on Organizing your Priorities, click HERE!

To read the 5th week’s post, on Organizing your Personal Information, click HERE!

To read the 6th week’s post on Organizing your Finances, click HERE!

To read the 7th week’s post on Organizing your Bill-Paying, click HERE!

How do you organize your receipts?

How has this series helped you?

Please grab a button and follow this blog if you are linking up!

 

Organize your life

Please link up your Receipt System BELOW!

Have a great day! :)

Bonnie

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Ikea Family Live

Have you heard about Ikea Family Live?  It’s sort of like Houzz, but with a personal twist. 

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First spotted via Vintage Simple after she posted this homey image: 

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I’ve been quite smitten since. 

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Instead of “Idea Books”, they have “Home Stories”, where people take you into their own homes and share the process of designing them. 

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Like the family above, who converted an old school into their house.  Read their “Home Story” here.

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I’ve always had a thing for European design sensibilities. 

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Mixed with the fact that I’ve been in love with Ikea forever…

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Ikea Family Live is a smorgasbord of inspiration for me. 

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And now maybe for you too.

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