Homemade non toxic deodorant

I am making a number of cosmetics at home. I have homemade makeup remover, homemade soap (easier than you think) and also homemade non toxic deodorant.
The main ingredients is bicarbonate of soda. It "swallows" all smells so it is on its own good deodorant. Unfortunately I find it a little bit abrasive. That is why mixing it with other natural and non toxic ingredients makes more sense.

Homemade non toxic deodorant

New loft hatch

We are slowly progressing with your new loft hatch. I have found a few minutes to paint new cover. It is just a simple piece of wood. This loft is not going to be used very often. Just for a boiler flue check up. Also the loft got a coat of paint and i have fixed peeling paint on top of filler (where light used to be). It is hot here in Surrey( I know unusual) so paint is drying very quickly!

Lights are fixed and so, so bright!

 

Loft hatch as 2 coats of paint.

What a girl do when husband isn't at home? DIY!

Yes, Rob went to London for a stag do and I have all house for myself! Oh, just Rob's dad is fixing the down light in the utility room. Poor man isn't electrician so he has a fun with them. I have cleaned the house as usually, which is done on Saturday, did the weekly shopping, went to library, spent some time doing garden and also finally finished that "dodgy wall in the living room.

When we moved in our house all windows were single glazed and rotten! We are still finding a damage from it!

 This is our new radiator in living room. Pretty isn't it?

Bulling? Really?

I had very, very bad night yesterday in my second job. It looked like all went just from bad to worse. I don't usually get involved in "job" politics but unfortunately I have been on receiving end.

One of the "favourite" employees was trying to "push" me into leaving. It happened without any warning and left me really upset. I went from very surprised, to very upset to today very angry.

Very angry at myself that I didn't see it coming. Very angry at myself that I didn't protect myself from that happening! I will have to take action. I don't want be a victim of bulling. I am old enough to be able to deal with it.
Even with saying all of that It still leave me in very unhealthy state of mind. :-(

Limescale? - vinegar it!

We live in Surrey and unfortunately that means very, very hard water.

It is pretty annoying to see your bathroom 1 day after a  proper scrub having water marks everywhere. I am forever battling with limescale. I could go the easy way and just buy some really "effective" limescale remover from the shop, but what whey will not tell you is that they are quite TOXIC!

Bathroom towel hooks

It only took me 19 months to find a perfect towel hooks for our bathroom You know when you want to have something different but you don't exactly know what? You will just know when you will see it. That is how it happened with our hooks.

We had just ordinary silver hooks there to do the job but I was forever looking for something special. :-) And I have found it in little shop in Bude - Cornwall. When I saw them I have known that they will be perfect in our house!

My beautiful curtains - but so wrong

I have bought so, so lovely pair of curtains. They were perfect in size (no sewing needed) and I loved their horizontal stripes. The horizontal stripes didn't "arrive" in UK yet so it is quite hard to get curtains like this. I just loved them! But then we have woken up on Saturday morning and there was this strange yellow light in the room! Not nice! Everything looked dirty! My beautiful curtains went bad. I just could not leave them on. So back to ours simple stone coloured & short ones.

See here, they are just perfect.

Our new boiler

Our new boiler is installed and working! Such a luxury to have a hot water on the tap. :-) It takes about 3 second to get it. With our old one we had to wait about 10 minutes!
We are still not done with all the work. We do a little by little in every free time what we have. It is hard with both of us having 2 jobs. Also this weekend is full of birthdays and BBQ and visiting friends. I have attacked our garden and also managed to wash all windows. My husband was busy painting, sealing & ironing. :-)

We got boiler from 

New picture wall in our dining room.

We finally finished our new picture wall in our dining room. I have been really carefully about doing it right this time.
That is how we had it before. I liked it but it was a little bit empty. Also notice my husband put the "S" wrong way!
 

Third cat in the house!

We are having a few builders & boiler man in the house this week and they need to have our back door open. It means that our microchip cat latch is out of order. Our street has about 20 resident cats and they like to use our fence as nice walkway.

Curious cheeky ones have sometimes a little look around our house. It drives my husband crazy! :-))) You will turn around and there is some different cat in our living room! Our neighbour has this big white + tabby girl and she is very nosey! She get along with our cats (Meowgi loves her, but she is not very impressed by him). Fizzy likes to play with our cats toys and she loves cat nip bags.

Here is Fizzy (she has her name on the collar) scrubbing herself on cat nip bags.

Oh, the builders!

This week we are in the process of changing our 20 years old boiler.

Hura! (the Czech spelling). It doesn't go very smooth so far.
When they were the previous owners building the extension and adding utility room + bathroom, they did not build any hatch - access into the extension attic. It means that we had to first get that installed. Easy you say. We called the friends builders to do it.

Holiday in Cornwall

We have been in Cornwall for a few days. I actually never have been there before and I live in UK for about 10 years! Shame I know. We went there with my husband and his parents. Poor John was driving. It takes about 5 hours to get there!

We were staying in this beautiful beach hotel (Tommy Jacks). Their food was very good too and the staff was so helpful and nice. I can really recommend this hotel.

How to stay tidy & clutter free in our house

Writing yesterday post about selling unwanted stuff I have realised, that we apply quite a lots of "rules" in our home about everyday clutter and cleaning. We are quite tidy couple. We have to be! With our 2 cats we do a lots of cleaning! It is easier, if there are no necessary items around the house. Everything is washable or can be wiped down. Only non sensible item in our house is the cream carpet. Oh well, we inherited it from previous owners and it will be quite a expense to change it.

Even with our "rules" we still deal some days with clutter but I am more and more ruthless about it.
We have a saying that if we don't need it than we will not store it.
Here is the list how we deal with everyday stuff,  clutter and mess :-)

Selling and selling

We are making our house a little bit lighter. Over the 18 months of owning our home we slowly got more staff than we really need. You know when you get your first home you start buying a lots of decorations and kitchen utensils, blankets and cushions. Just too much for your little house. Then you start putting it in the attic, just in case of needing it. That is how our attic became really full. One day I poke my head there and saw all of that "not needed" staff. No! We are not keeping it.