Laundry Soap Recipes.....

For those of you who don't know I have been making my own laundry soap for well over 6 months. It has been working very well and saves us a lot of money. I came across I link a week or so ago that has several different laundry soap recipes. The recipe that I use can be found at The Simple Dollar. This other site called the Tip Nut has 10 different laundry soap recipes. It is so easy to make up. I also use Oxi Clean with my whites and let them soak a while because with 3 kids I do get some pretty dirty clothes. I would encourage you to give it a try.

New Clothes Line.....
I decided to put up a clothes line to help cut down on how much I use my drier. Our drier runs on gas and so I am hoping to cut our gas bill in half. I should of thought about doing this earlier in the summer. So what I did was put up some shelving brackets and then Brandon bought some PVC pipe for me to use as my rod. It has been working very well.

Painting Fun....

The kids have been having a great time painting pictures. I am using a old fitted bed sheet to protect my table from the mess and to also make clean up a bit easier. I think it works pretty well. I am going to keep my eye out for some twin bed sheets at a garage sale, which I think would fit the table better, but for now the dark green sheet works just fine.