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Thy Hand Hath Provided: Homemade Laundry Soap: It's About Time. Sometimes I shy away from projects. Not because I think they will be too much work or too expensive but because I just can't handle thinking about one more thing. That's what happened when I first considered making my own laundry soap a couple years ago. Sometimes, not getting into one more thing is really smart. Sometimes, it's not smart. Waiting to start making my own laundry soap?

It was a friend from church who jolted me to my senses by giving Jamey and I a couple gallons of her homemade laundry soap. Our local (non-chain) grocery store carries all three of the ingredients, but they were out of the bar laundry soap for over a month, so I had to order it on Amazon (with my trusty swagbucks). Do you want to know how cheap it is? The Fels-Naptha bar cost $4.20 shipped from Amazon. Drum roll, please... If you have a top loading machine (like me), you will use 5/8 of a cup per load. Go on, do a happy laundry dance. Geninne's Art Blog. Skinny Taco Dip | Ginas Skinny Recipes. A must have at every large get together: birthdays, football, holidays – this dip always disappears! This is my daughter Karina's favorite dip, which she has nicknamed "the stuff". It's easy to prepare and everyone always wants the recipe when they try it. Serve it at your next party with your favorite baked tortilla chips and play around with the toppings – try jalapeños, scallions or avocados.

Skinny Taco DipServings: 24 • Serving Size: 1/24th of dip • Old Points: 2 pts • Points+: 2 ptsCalories: 59.2 • Fat: 3.6 g • Protein: 2.2 g • Carb: 4.7 g • Fiber: 0.6 g Ingredients: 8 oz 1/3 less fat Philadelphia cream cheese 8 oz reduced fat sour cream 16 oz jar mild salsa1/2 packet taco seasoning 2 cups iceberg lettuce, shredded fine 2 large tomatoes, seeds removed and diced 1 cup reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese 2.25 oz sliced black olives Directions: In a large bowl combine cream cheese, sour cream, salsa and taco seasoning and mix well with an electric mixer. OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software. The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer. DIY Beauty: Homemade Teeth Whitening for less than $1.00 per Application! « Pixi Wishes & Forehead Kisses. Repurposed Hardcover Book to Notebook Tutorial. I’ve told you before I’m a bit obsessed with books.

I love all books where I intend to read them or not. A local library has a huge book sale every year where you can pick up a grocery bag of books for $3! So at the last sale I picked up a big stack of hard cover books to be repurposed. Don’t worry, I’m not destroying literary classics, and I use all parts of the book so nothing is wasted. What you need-Hardcover bookPaperDecorative paperSmall bit of ribbonPaper cutterWhite glueHot gluePadding compound (optional)Clamps or bulldog clipsFirst you need to cut the pages out of your book so your just left with the cover. Slather on a nice layer of white glue to the inside of your cover. Apply your decorative paper. Also cut a piece of thin recycled cardboard the size of your notepad and a piece of decorative paper about 3 inches by the width of your notepad (this will be used to wrap the top edge of the pad).

Don’t worry about the ends of the ribbon, they will be covered by the notepads. Things i want to make.