Don’t you just wish sometimes that you could just stop everything and do the thing you love to do? Well for brief periods of time, I’ve been able to get the old creative juices flowing and try some new painting techniques and new subjects that I normally would never have tried! Love the time spent on the following pieces as they represent lessons learned from each painting!
My New Paperback Book
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DISCLAIMER< THIS IS WHAT WORKS FOR ME AND MY HOUSEHOLD< I AM MAKING NO PROMISES< AM NOT PAID TO SELL PRODUCTS OR ANYTHING ELSE, THIS IS MEANT ONLY TO GIVE OPTION AND IS MERELY A RECCOMMENDATION BASED ON WHAT I LIKE!
Yay, So very Simple and Absolutely Wonderful!
Pour White Distilled Vinegar in an empty 2 liter bottle
Add as much Pure Essential Oils as you wish of any scent that you wish.
I actually added about 5 drops of pure Essential Lavendar Oil which scented it more than enough
for our family.
I then shook it up to evenly mix it.
Pour 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup into each load on the rinse cycle…
Your clothes will come out feeling so soft and will be static free!
The Natural recipe works wonderfully by itself, however there is another option!
depending on how organic or natural you want to go!
2. Recipe for Fabric Softner using White Vinegar and Hair Conditioner
The first time I even made Homemade Fabric Softener using White Vinegar this was the recipe I used!
6 cups white vinegar
1 bottle of hair conditioner, whatever fragrance you love
4 cups of water
Mix all the ingredients together, again I use a recycled 2 liter bottle and shake before each use.
I use approximately 1/2 cup in rinse cycle and clothes smell great and are soft. The conditioner
will settle to the bottom or float to the top, so the fabric softener has to be shaken with each use.
Mrs. Suzy Homemaker
Feeling Like Mrs. Suzy Homemaker lately! Had been getting on Pinterest and found all these recipes for homemade laundry detergents, fabric softener, soaps, dishwasher detergent….Had to try them and honestly I love them! Especially the detergents and the fabric softener!
Recipe for Laundry Detergent
1 bar of Fels-Neptha Soap
I cup 20 Mule Team Borax
1 cup Arm & Hammer Baking Washing Soap
1 5 gallon Bucket with Lid!
Shred Soap with a grater, I used a cheese grater it did a wonderful job…. Put grated soap in a pot of about 6 cups of water and melt. Do not let it boil. The whole process took be about 10 minutes to grate and to melt. Fill your 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. After soap is melted pour into the 5 gallon bucket with the water and stir! Add I cup each of the Borax and the Arm & Hammer baking washing soap and stir again. Fill the remainder of the bucket up with hot water and stir again. Place lid on detergent and leave for 24 hours! The solution will gel up and is almost like a Jello consistency. After it gels, you can either fill all your containers or do one as you need them which was what I opted for as I do not have the space to store 10 gallon of detergent which is what this recipe makes! When filling your containers, fill half with the detergent solution and the other half with water! Thus it doubles the 5 gallon of solution you made Yay! Important to note…You will need to shake your detergent before actual use as the solution tends to settle, but mixes well when shook.. Add about 1/2 cup to your washer and wash away…For my white clothes I’ve added a little more because I have 2 boys that love to go without shoes outside in their bare feet!
Such a money saver and smells so wonderful! I had less than $10 in the bar of soap and 1 box each of the Borax and Arm& Hammer Laundry Boosters.
My other favorites are the Fabric softener with Essential oils and the Dishwasher Recipes, but will have to post them later, as I have 2 starving BOYS staring me down waiting for their lunch!
Update as of March 5, 2014: I am so pleased to announce that after using homemade detergent for 1 year now…That I still love it more today then when I made it the first time! One batch of this lasted me around 8 months! What a bargain! I have shared this recipe over and over again with many of my friends!
Hello All, It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged so I missed really taking the time and doing it! I have been a little busy bee lately and it is wonderful but takes me away from my blog at times.
This is my “Something” that I’ve gotten accomplished!
My New Paperback Book
I have had my latest Adult Ficion book, Tell the Enemy to Scat on an Ebook since July 2012, but I wanted to do a paperback version to take do booksignings with ! Which by the way I have a huge event coming up On April 13th as per the following: Everyone is Invited!
Neva Lomason Library Book Festival will be hosting local Author Christine Gilliam Hornback along with 30 plus other authors as she speaks and signs her Juvenile Fiction books entitled Jenny Lynn’s Secret Mission and Caleb’s Cereal. Christine will have her new book entitled Tell the Enemy to Scat as well! Come out and support local Authors and your local Library. 710 Rome Street Carrollton, Ga 30117, ph (770)836-6711
I also was able to finish all the edits on my Audio book from my latest Juvenile Fiction Caleb’s Cereal! Below is a sample of the audio from Amazon.com which I thought was so COOOOL!
Juvenile Ficion released April 2012
Finally I’ve been teaching painting lessons to a couple groups of children and adults. I’ve been doing a Sip-N-Stroke painting class usually the 2nd Saturday of each month. I also teach at the GMKS and Beyond Arts Center in Douglasville, Ga every Thursday, and then at a homeschool group on Monday’s so Yay!
My normal days of course include taking care of my husband of 32 years, and raising 2 boys ages 12 and 8 and getting them homeschooled. Have you ever tried to feed two growing boys?????It is a full time job, believe me! I love my life, GOD is so very good to me and my family….Looking forward to walking through some long awatied doors that he has just recently been opening! So Yay! Today is my celebration of getting somethings accomplished!
Dreaming with GOD may sound like a wild notion for some of you, for others it makes perfect sense.
My Pastor has been teaching on dreaming with GOD or really seeing yourself as GOD sees you. Dreaming with GOD, also means that you have what GOD wants to get to you. Why? The answer is so that only GOD can get glory out of your life and your life’s purpose will be fulfilled the way that GOD planned for you.
So many times we see ourselves in the light of how we grew up, what our parents said we were, or maybe how our friends
saw us, or our teachers etc. Unfortunely, our images of ourselves are usually so distorted that when the
Lord begins to show us a different image on the inside we have a difficult time seeing past what others told us that we were.
When I first became a Christian I was going to a very “traditional church.” By traditional, I mean it was the Bible belt south that
preached that hell was hot and if you didn’t walk the line that it (hell) would be your eternal home. Don’t get me wrong I do believe that
the wages of sin is death because the scripture states if you sow to the flesh you will of the flesh reap coruption, however the scripture also
says that we can sow to the Spirit and of the Spirit we reap eternal life. When? When do we recieve or reap eternal life? Many would say when we
get to Heaven, but according to scripture that is not true. The minute we are born again we crossed over from death unto life. We became the
sons and daughters of GOD; He adopted us into his family. So, if we have become His children, do we not have access to what Jesus
died to give us when we accepted what he did for us? We have eternal life the minute we accept Jesus. Yes there is an eternal everlasting life “in the sweet by and by”, but we don’t have to wait it is ours now!
Dreaming with GOD usually begins with simple desires. The scripture states in Proverbs that if we keep our eyes stayed upon him we will have the
desires of our heart. The scripture also states that a desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul! I believe the scripture in Jeremiah 29:11 I know the toughts I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. I love this scripture because it shows us that the Lord already has a wonderful plan for our lives, so what are we waiting for? The scripture also says he does exceedingly, abundantly, more than we can ask or think. Have you ever
just thought or imagined how much that is…if you have then you are Dreaming with GOD!
Dreaming with GOD is not some mystical thing, it is simply thinking and meditating upon what he has done for us and what he says is ours now that we have come into a heavenly kingdom. Jesus taught his desciples to pray Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thine Kingdom come thy will be done.
Where? On earth as it is in heaven.. What is available in heaven? Everything, everything that we could possibly imagine or hope for, right? He has made it available to us through Jesus’ death and ressurrection, we are not orphans who have nothing, NO, we are Kings Kids and we have a Kingdom that we can access by faith…! How exciting to know that what things soever you desire when you pray you shall have them! The limits are off!
The dreams that the Lord has given me persoanlly are things that I cannot fulfill without him! He wants to co-labor with me to fulfill his purposes in our lives. If I could have done everything on my own then I would not have had need for a Savior! But, I can do nothing unless I am connected to the vine. The vine is Jesus, He is my lifeline! He is my door to the Kingdom, he is the only door to the Kingdom! Dreams fulfilled by GOD only come by faith…All of what the Father has for me can only be obtained by faith in what Jesus has made available to me. The Bible says that hope deferred maketh the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul! It gives our Father great pleasure to give his Kingdom to his children…Won’t you begin dreaming with GOD today and let him
cause your dreams become reality!
I wanted to encourage you that its never too late, you are never too old to dream. If you have dreamed a dream and it did not come when or how you thought it should have, dream again. Don’t quit until you see your desires come! Get up and walk toward that thing whatever it may be, just don’t quit!
My true story of finally having children after my husband and I were married for twenty years!
Definition of OPPORTUNITY
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