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Bohemian Fashion. Happy Friday! How is everyone?? I'm on the go today because I have lots of plans for the weekend! You know, painting rocks, gardening, and taking lots of photos of my Goodwill finds from earlier this week. So far I have only posted on the music part of my purchase - Goodwill: A Classic Rock Treasure Chest (hint: lots of Jimi Hendrix)! To wrap up the week and kick off the weekend, I have composed an eclectic array of images that have a great bohemian vibe to them. For me, bohemian fashion has no rules because it is too eclectic, too unique, and too endless in the department of possibilities. If you haven't already noticed, that's how I like most things in my life: interior decor, gardening, cooking, fashion, lifestyle, travel: no rules, just my personal artistic taste fueled by lots of inspiration. Here is some bohemian fashion inspiration for you.....

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Make your own housecleaning products. Making your own cleaning products is a good way to save money and control the use of chemicals in your home. Most of the following recipes are made from nontoxic ingredients, but there are some chemicals as well. If you store any of these, be sure to label them so you know what is in the container —and keep these and any household cleaners out of the reach of children and pets! Here are some simple recipes for the most common household chores. Window cleaner • Spray bottle with club soda • 2 teaspoons white vinegar in a quart of warm water. Put in a spray bottle Consumer Reports' tried-and-true window cleaner: • 1/2 cup soapy ammonia • 1 pint rubbing alcohol Mix well, put in spray bottles and label Disinfectant • White vinegar • 3 tablespoons castile soap • 20-30 drops of tea tree extract Mix in a 16-ounce sprayer and top with water All-purpose cleaner • Club soda • 1 part white vinegar • 1 part water Mix in a spray bottle Non-abrasive cleaner Shake baking soda on surface or damp sponge and scrub.

Four Homemade Cleaners. This was easier than I thought it would be. One of Betsy’s goals for the year was to ditch some of our standard cleaners that we use around the house and make them! Honestly, I was a bit skeptical about this project mainly because I wasn’t sure that homemade cleaners would really get the job done. And my lovely wife is a bit of a neat freak so there’s no way she would use something that didn’t perform well.

So a couple of weekends ago she went out and bought a few staple ingredients and some empty spray bottles and we spent a few minutes mixing up four different homemade cleaners that have since replaced 90% of the cleaners we use around the house. For the last few weeks we’ve been using them now and I’ve been so impressed by how well they are working, I thought I’d share them all with you in case any of you are interested in ditching the chemicals. The Cost of Cleaning. Basic stuff. Really Clean Cleaning. The Basics. . - Homemade: How to Make 100′s of Everyday Products Mixing the Solutions. People of the Rainbow Gathering. Ever hear about Rainbow Gatherings? They're temporary community events typically held in outdoor settings; a place where people practice ideals like peace, love and harmony.

The original Rainbow Gathering was in 1972 and was started as an alternative to mainstream popular culture. In the United States, the annual event is held on National Forest land from July 1 through 7. The highlight is when everyone gathers together in a large circle, and each person prays silently for peace. After going to Rainbow Gatherings for several years, self-taught Canadian photographer and art director Benoit Paillé got permission to take portraits of his "brothers and sisters. " "The pictures you see are very precious since photography is not usually allowed during the event," he says. Over the last three years, Paillé captured these moments at Rainbow Gatherings across Spain, Canada, and Mexico. Benoit Paillé on: Flickr, deviantART, Behance. How to Make Your Own Beauty Products from Scratch - Health.

Let's keep things simple this week. When it comes to personal-care products, we are big believers in streamlining what you use—see "Eight Products You Think You Need But Don't" for a refresher—buying less in general, and getting creative. We have both always loved experimenting in our kitchens and our bathrooms, checking ingredients in products we love, isolating the main ones, and then trying them on their own. Sometimes it works: A favorite hair leave-in contained aloe, for example, so one day we tried aloe alone and found that, lo and behold, it worked just fine on its own. And sometimes it didn't. Over the years we have tried dozens of DIY beauty recipes to find ones we like—and that work. Below are our favorite six. And the best thing about these is that none contains more than four ingredients, and chances are good you have them all in your kitchen already.

Simple body scrub Honey face wash One-ingredient eye liner Perfume Shave oil Yogurt face mask Read more on their blog.