Going All Hippie On Your Asses. . .

Lovely day so far.  It's 1:00 p.m., and I've been puttering around my house being totally domestic today.  I have dinner cooking in the crock pot, I've been using recipes that I found on Pinterest to make stuff (get to that in a minute), and I sent my twosome (Kaleigh and her boyfriend Victor) out to build my planter boxes.  I was really looking forward to building those myself, but those two irritate the hell out of me sitting in my living room, gazing into each other's eyes--BARF!   So I put them to work. 

How cute are they?  All proud of their work.  Of course, now we need to go to Lowe's to replace the drill bits they have broken, but it's a small price to pay.  Hopefully I'm cultivating some hippie-ness in them too.  Bonus.

I made some finger paints this morning.  I like to try out recipes before I use them in my classroom so I can be sure how they will turn out.  The picture isn't perfect, but I guess you can see how pretty the colors are.  I was thinking that this would be a great gift for a child's birthday too.  They would be prettier in baby food jars, but I didn't have any so I used what I had on hand.  I will ask around on Monday for some jars. 

One other thing I made is dishwasher detergent.  I HATE the storebought stuff, my dishes never seem clean, and are very spotty.  Well after using this stuff I will never go back and SCORE---it's cheaper----WOOO-HOOO!!   I'm sure it's environmentally friendlier too.

I made homemade Febreeze--I go through this stuff like crazy because I like everything to always smell fresh, especially in my classroom so when parents and children come in, it's really pleasant.  I made some of that, and I'm pretty pleased with it as well.  Next will be laundry detergent.  As some of you may know, I have a little "THING" about laundry detergent.  I get nervous if I have less than several bottles or boxes, and I love to stock pile the stuff.  Let's don't delve into that too deeply--we all have our "stuff".  Mine happens to be laundry detergent and fresh sheets.  Enough said.