Making Laundry Detergent

So I have heard about making your own laundry soap before but never did it. Recently my Pastor's wife did and said she loves it. So I decided to try it last night went and purchased everything I needed which I found all of the ingredients at Walmart supercenter, first you take a 1/3 of your Fels-Naptha bar and grate it, boil 4 cups of water, once water is boiling add the grated bar and whisk until completely melted, then add 4 more cups if hot water, add 1/2 cup of Borax, and 1/2 cup of Arm and Hammer Super Washing Soda and whisk until melted, be careful cause it can get bubbly quick, once melted take off burner. If you would like it to have a little bit of a smell you can use about 40 drops of your favorite essential oil fragrance or get a small thing of your favorite smell of detergent and substitute a cup full of it for the water, I just use essential oil because I already have it from massages. Now this recipe makes 2 gallons there is a 5 gallon recipe which I can get for you but I don't have an easy to use 5 gallon bucket laying around or the room for it, I used a large ( like Costco liquid) size laundry detergent container I already had or you can use 2 milk jugs. If you use one container put 22 cups of water in it, if you use 2 put 11 cups in each container. Then add your hot laundry mixture 1 container it will be all of it 2 containers will be about 4 cups each container. Shake and let sit for 24 hours, occasionally mix because I guess the solids can sometimes separate from the liquid, I didn't have this problem but just be aware of it. I haven't tried mine yet but will be Thursday ( laundry day) and let you know if I like it for the past 2-3 years I have been stuck on this all natural detergent called Eccos so I am a little weary. This recipe is very cheap to make costing between $1-$1.50 a gallon to make so for the 2 gallons it cost about $2.50 to make that is CHEAP

A little taste of heaven on earth

This stuff is so good, yum yum yum. As the Holiday season nears my family always has a craving for hot cocoa, we drink it almost every night. We all have our favorites the kids get no sugar added they are just happy it's chocolate :-), my husband likes any of it also but really likes the dark chocolate and my favorite is candy cane hot cocoa and the dark chocolate. You can make candy cane hot cocoa yourself I actually do, but it is still to early to buy Candy Canes, so I found this till Candy Canes do come in season. It so YUMMY but I like mint and chocolate together :-)

All by Myself, 

So tomorrow at church we are having a fundraiser for "Signs of LIFE Praise", we are having a dinner. My Pastors wife who usually leads the decorating was going to be gone so I had to decorate solo, I love decorating but when it is for someone or something my nerves get to me. So I followed my gut feeling and first instinct. I had great help and opinions from one of my dear friends and one of the young ladies who is part of our sign team, I am very excited and nervous to see what people think.

Making Points

My husband often surprises me with things, leaves me notes, sweet text messages etc, and I do the same as well. He has been very busy the last couple weeks and I have hardly seen him, I have missed him :-). Well this week he made big points, he was on a job in Portland painting, painted this before painting the wall all the way and sent it to me :-)

Home Sweet Home

Sitting here in the hotel and all I can think about is going home. Home is definitely where my heart is.

Norman Richard Owens

On Sept 15th at 8:13pm Norman Richard Owens took his last breath :-( I feel blessed to have known him, he was a very loving and generous man. He wasn't married and didn't have kids, no I take that back he did have kids, he had all of us his nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews, we were his kids. I remember when I was getting married he was one person I really wanted to be there and he was :-) as happy as can be. I remember him giving me a big hug after the wedding, telling me I was the most gorgeous bride he ever laid eyes on, kissing my cheek and slipping something in my hand, then he said bye. I didn't look to see what was in my hand till later, shame on me, but inside my hand sat $500, I was in shock and started crying. At the time I didn't think about it but that could have been $500 that he didn't have, but that was uncle Norman he would give whatever he could to help someone even if it meant him taking a punch and suffering a little. He loved people and helping people become better, in many different ways. He loved his family he was always near or with his siblings, or some family member. Uncle Norman knew many people and was loved by all. I love you Uncle Norman.

NEW.....

So we have a lot of good and new changes going on in our church and lives I am very excited. One thing is I am our sign team leader, I LOVE SIGNING, I am not a very expressive praiser those who have seen me in church :-/ but for some reason when I am signing I get into it, the girls crack up at me (in a good way ;-). We have a new name "Signs of LIFE Praise" I don't know about anyone else but I love our name, we are working on getting choir robes which I cannot wait for, no making sure I have a black outfit every month :). We do a Special every month seems like a lot but we don't do a new song every month, that would be exhausting, our last new song was "For Every Mountain" by Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, we did really good and we were anointed which is the whole purpose. As soon as I figure out how to get the video to upload I will. The newest song we are learning is "Holy Thou Art God" the IBC version, I am very excited about it and praying it turns out good. Here are some videos of other church sign teams signing this song, when we do ours I will post the video.

http://www.holyghostdrama.com/ (this one you will have to copy and paste the link it is a little over half way down)