12.26.2015
5 Ways to Make Every Day Rock!
1. Do at least one thing every day that makes your heart sing!
2. If you’re doing something you don’t enjoy, don’t just whistle, but sing or even dance while you work (this is how I get through a sinkful of dishes.
3. Set your alarm to play a get-up-and-go or you-can-do-it song for blah tasks that you have to do, like wake up early (I’m so not a cheery morning person.
4. Share a song! When I hear a tune that reminds me of a pal or what she is going through, I send her the mp3 or text her and tell her I am thinking about her. It makes my day better knowing I’ve made hers!
5. Sing in the shower – or any place you can be completely yourself. It does your soul good to be silly, off-key and totally pressure-and judgment free! It is perfect if it can be rme enhanced, too…
12.09.2015
3 Steps to Make Your Home More Energy Efficient
One of the easiest ways to cut the cost of living in your home is through a few efficient home renovations. There are a number of 'green' renovations designed to make a home more energy efficient, which does more than save the homeowner money; it also reduces their carbon footprint, reducing the effect they have on the environment.
The first step to determining what needs to be renovated is to perform an energy audit. Determine where the major leaks of energy in your home are and what can be done to improve them, and then make the proper renovations.
Sealing Leaks
12.02.2015
6 Easy Steps To Finally Finish Your School Project
I know you would love to have your finger wear one of those Joy Jewelers college rings…
But wait, before you do, you literally have to sweat blood and tears to hurdle the challenges before you graduate, like the project that you were assigned to do a month ago.
If you have no clue on how to make your school project, here are some tips:
11.08.2015
Looking For A Boarding Facility
Whether you're going out of town for a day or a week, you might need someone to watch your dog if you can't taken your pet with you. A dog boarding Detroit facility offers amenities for pets that stay there, such as time outside to get exercise, food and water. There are a few ways that you can choose the best boarding facility for your dog so that you know the animal gets the best care possible.
11.04.2015
Buying the Right Patio Furniture
Everyone in your household agrees that it’s high time you upgraded your ratty old patio furniture. Although these outdoor furnishings have given you years of reliable service, they’ve incurred considerable weather damage and are starting to succumb to oxidation. When shopping around for your next wave of patio furniture, make sure to prioritize the following qualities.
If resiliency is what you’re after, look for outdoor furnishings that feature aluminum or
10.09.2015
Just 5 More Reasons to Want a Pool
You don’t have to be a world class swimmer to enjoy owning a pool. In fact there are a lot of things that are so great about it that don’t even involve actual swimming. Fountain Blue Pools list these five benefits of pools:
10.07.2015
Does Your Home Need Pest Control Services?
When pests notice the outside temperatures start to plummet, they begin looking for a warm place to spend the winter. Unfortunately many times they choose our homes as a place of refuge.
If you notice the following signs in your home, it might be time to call the experts in home pest control.
Droppings
10.06.2015
Why Isn't My Medical Practice Growing?
If you run a medical practice, one of your primary entrepreneurial goals is probably to ensure that the company keeps growing. However, many small business owners find that their medical practices become stagnant at some point. Luckily, identifying roadblocks is one of the best ways to get your company back on the course to continual growth. Here are some growth-blocking errors you may be committing:
1. You're Running Out Of Products.
9.18.2015
How to Deal: #OnFights
No matter what stage you are in your relationship, having fights are inevitable.
Here’s how to deal:
Arguments are expected in relationships, because you and your partner won’t agree on all things, all the time. During fights, don’t let your emotions get the best (or worst) of you. Fighting is like a song. It hits the high notes then everything cools down. Don’t attempt to throw off his cherished black fang guitar pick when you are angry with him. You will end up saying things or making decisions you might regret later on. But don’t avoid issues either – because the sooner you resolve them, the better.
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#OnFights
No matter what stage you are in your relationship, having fights are inevitable.
Here’s how to deal:
Arguments are expected in relationships, because you and your partner won’t agree on all things, all the time. During fights, don’t let your emotions get the best (or worst) of you. Fighting is like a song. It hits the high notes then everything cools down. Don’t attempt to throw off his cherished black fang guitar pick when you are angry with him. You will end up saying things or making decisions you might regret later on. But don’t avoid issues either – because the sooner you resolve them, the better.
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9.09.2015
2 Reasons to Choose a Tritoon Boat
If you’re looking for power and luxury in your boating experience, you can’t go wrong with a pontoon boat. Whether you’re an avid angler or you simply like to sail the waters, pontoons are versatile and up for the task. Triple toon boats are pontoon boats for the most committed boaters.
High Resale Value
Although the resale value of a boat you’re about to purchase probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind, the fact is that tritoon boats maintain a high value – simply because they’re so loved by their owners, few part with them. If, however, something comes up and you need to sell your boat (or you want to upgrade), you can count on a high value from your tritoon.
Better Performance
Tritoons are a must for anyone who loves water skiing and tubing, as the extra boost of power makes both activities a much more fun experience. Go faster when you need to and further when you’re cruising with almost twice the speed of a pontoon and a bigger fuel tank.
There’s more room for passengers on a tritoon, but even if you prefer to boat alone, tritons are simply the smartest investment. Ask about test driving one today.
9.08.2015
No-Nonsense Hacks to Organize Your Closet
Closets are the last thing you would like to devote your time to clean up, right?
Here is a step-by-step guide to organizing your closet.
Foldables
Fold clothes in one standard style and size to make your closet look neat and impressive.
How to arrange your foldables:
9.07.2015
Don’t Take Mold For Granted
Have you ever come home after a hard day’s work tired, grabbed a drink and relaxed in front of the television?
Then that familiar feeling starts: an irritation in your nose and constant, bothersome sneezing and sniffles. Sometimes, this only occurs in specific areas of your house or a particular room. If this is so, your symptoms may be due to the presence of mold.
9.06.2015
How to Create A Perfect Study Place For Your Child
Getting your child to put down the video game controller and take out his homework can sometimes turn into a battle of epic proportions.
He will do it later; he is too tired; he can’t find his pen…
An inviting study corner can help jumpstart an afternoon homework habit. Here are tips on how to create a perfect study nook for your child:
Try it out for size.
9.05.2015
School Wear Repair
The start of school means coming face to face with broken zippers, loose buttons and scruffy shoes. Instead of hurrying out to buy new sets of everything, check if they can still be repaired.
Here are insider how-to’s of simple repairs:
Jammed or broken zippers:
9.04.2015
Smart Strategies to Organizing Your Kids’ Closets and School Bags
Waking up early to get the kids ready for school is hard enough.
But who went the extra trouble of hunting for that left sock, or that pair of scissors for art class, or the Get-In-touch notebook?
I know I did, a million times!
Say goodbye to crazy and messy weekday mornings by following these tips!
Closet Cleanup
9.02.2015
4 Steps: How to Choose the Right Bathtub
After a long, stressful day at work, it is important to be able to de-stress and take some time out of your busy day. Taking a long vacation is, of course, out of the question, so the next best thing is to create your own “my space” in your home to sit back, relax and unwind.
Back in the old days, bath tubs were used for simply bathing and cleaning the body. Now, the contemporary tub has evolved and can be your own special space to soak, relax and wash off the stresses of the day. Technology and innovation has re-mastered the simple bathtub, and literally turned it into your own personal spa. Various models include whirlpool jets, classic claw-footed models, tubs you step down into, tubs with bubble massage, the choices are limitless!
If you are thinking of replacing your old bathtub, here are 4 basic steps into choosing the right bathtub for you.
8.31.2015
How to Make Homemade Oven Cleaner
Practically all commercially made cleaners contain toxic, hazardous chemicals that can lead to respiratory issues, skin problems and can pollute the air you breathe in your home. A natural disinfectant cleaner made from cheap and common household ingredients will let you clean your house and reduce your family’s exposure to harsh chemicals while you do it.
What You Will Need:
- Clean sponge and spatula
- 3/4 cups baking soda
- 1/4 cup salt
- 1/4 cup water (extra for moistening surfaces)
Procedure
Moisten all of the oven surfaces with sponge and some water. Using the baking soda, salt and 1/4 cup of water, make a thick paste and spread throughout the oven’s interior, avoiding bare metal and any openings. Let it sit overnight. Remove any remaining residue with a spatula and wipe the surface clean. Gently rub stubborn areas with fine steel wool.
8.30.2015
How To Clean Your Mirror Without the Nasty Chemicals
How would you like to stand in front of a mirror and see yourself in all you glory? Imagine looking at a mirror that looks like it was just delivered to you straight from the factory – shiny, streak free and perfect.
Here is how to clean your mirror without the nasty chemicals.
What you will need:
- Newspaper (lots, if you have a lot of glass surfaces to clean
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/4 cup rubbing alcohol
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 2 cups warm distilled water
- clean spray bottle
Procedure:
Make sure your spray bottle is clean and dry. Mix everything (except the newspaper, of course 
There you have it. Your very own non toxic glass cleaner!
8.17.2015
Feng Shui Tweaks For Small Homes
Compact living is now becoming a part of the rapidly urbanizing metropolitan lifestyle. Minimalism has even become the preference of many a small space dweller, whether in a studio condo unit or modern single detached starter homes. And even here, proper feng shui is essential. Thus, necessity leads to the reinvention of tweaks to manage chi or life energies.
Feng shui tweaks mainly come in the form of the spatial compass layouting of the main door of the house unit and the master bedroom, kitchen and ultimately, the master’s bed. These are complemented by feng shui enhancement of symbolic lucky charms or symbolisms both in art and furniture accessories.
8.15.2015
How to Clean Your Home The Old-Fashioned Way
There is a way to make your home sparkle like how our grandmas made our home sparkle when we were kids, by using five simple ingredients.
No kidding. Five Ingredients.
Here they are.
(Knowledge of these five ingredients thanks to Michael De Jong in his book Clean: The Humble Art of Zen Cleansing)
#1:Baking Soda
8.14.2015
How To Match Your Décor With Your Personality
Our personality should transcend to our decor choices.
Here are some tips on how to match your decor with your personality.
Style #1: Contemporary Chic
8.12.2015
Big Ideas for Compact Gardens
A small garden is trickier to design. One needs to be more creative and selective of the features that will go into the limited space while considering the aesthetics and function one wants.
Here are a few points to consider:
8.11.2015
How To Enhance Your Space With Wood Flooring
Wood flooring is unparalleled for its timeless quality. It affords any space with warmth, coziness and a sense of sophistication. A wide variety of patterns and designs can also be achieved with this flooring material through the many different species of wood and cuts available. Above all these, wood flooring will never go out of style.
Since natural wood flooring is hard to obtain nowadays as certain wood species are endangered, modern alternatives have been produced to simulate its beauty. Materials such as vinyl and ceramic have been utilized to create the wood flooring look. There is also the engineered or laminated wood, which is processed for better wear protection. These different materials come with their own advantages and disadvantages, so before finalizing your flooring, read on and find out what material is best for your lifestyle and budget.
Solid wood
8.10.2015
How To Clean Electronic Appliances The Right Way
We are surrounded by different gadgets and appliances designed to make our lives easier and more enjoyable. Most of us can’t imagine life without these things, so it makes sense to take care of them to make them last longer and work better.
Here are some tops on cleaning TVs, computers and other electronic appliances in your home:
How to Clean Televisions and DVD Players
8.09.2015
10 Ways to Maximize Small Spaces
Small spaces need not be a curse if you know what to do. Choose bright colors and play with lighting to extend your space, make use of multipurpose furniture, and find creative ways to deal with your clutter.
Here are 10 Ways to Maximize Small Spaces:
- Make use of spaces above and below areas occupied by furniture, appliances and stairways. Utilize under-the-bed storage and overhead shelves and cabinets. Wall mount appliances such as TV and DVD players in order to free up floor space. Spaces under the stairways can be used as foyer, telephone nook or shoe/coat/umbrella storage.
- Think multi-purpose rooms, where daytime and nighttime uses are combined. Japanese tatami rooms are used as living, dining and bedroom. Analyze your lifestyle. A living room can also become a home office, home theater, reading room, family room or music room all rolled into one.
- Have an open plan, which makes small areas look more spacious by reducing visual and physical barriers. Lay out in such a way that the living and dining room flow naturally to the garden, thereby visually “borrowing” exterior space and increasing the sense of spaciousness. Using skylight and glass partitions can also extend living space.
- Play with color and light. An effective combination of color and light can create an illusion of bigger space. Maximize sunlight. In cases where it is limited, use different types of illumination that go well with your color scheme. You are not anymore limited to light colors. Depth and contrast can create more interesting spaces.
- Expand living spaces. New sofa can double as lounge chairs or reading chairs. Ottomans can be used not only as extra seats,but also as footrests, center tables and additional storage spaces.
- Optimize kitchen spaces. Modern kitchen cabinet designs have become very specialized with the use of wire baskets for different kinds of utensils. Hang special condiment racks, napkin holders, and cooking utensil hooks on walls. Use a hanging appliance garage for microwave ovens and toasters to free up kitchen counter space. Place corner baskets where needed. Pantry-organizers can double your cabinet space.
- Design small bathroom spaces efficiently. Wash basins with built-in vanity cabinets that provide additional storage spaces are now available. Use shower glass enclosures to open up an otherwise tight space. An etagere is a kind of shelf unit that can be placed on top of a water closet that further adds storage space.
- Maximize wardrobe spaces. Sliding doors can save more circulation space than regular swing out closet doors. Full-length mirrors can be integrated on the doors to make the room look bigger, and at the same time can be used for dressing up. Use drawers and shelves with dividers to organize socks, underwear, ties, etc. , as well as inexpensive hanging organizers where you can put towels and shirts in an orderly manner.
- Use day beds and sofa beds. A sofa by day and bed by night used to be hard to find, but are now very popular. This makes it possible to make the bedroom double up as a home office or study room.
- Choose right-sized furniture. Avoid bulky furniture that is designed for grand spaces. Use correct furniture proportion in a more intimate scale. Make sure you measure carefully. Using masking tape to outline the spaces to be occupied by the furniture is a good way to visualize and stimulate how all the furniture pieces will interact with each other.
8.08.2015
How to Pick Out the Best Cooktop
Apart from the oven, the cooktop is one appliance that does a lot of work in the kitchen. Your main cooktop doesn’t have to be just for display while the one in the dirty kitchen does all the work. Cooktop technology has advanced to produce easy to clean, reliable and aesthetically pleasing products.
TYPES OF COOKTOPS
Gas
8.06.2015
{Internet Safety}Is Your Child Safe at Home?
Our kids know the drill. It is that same drill our parents constantly hammered in our heads when we were our kids’ age – “Never talk to strangers. Never let any stranger go inside your house.”
But what if a stranger has been constantly entering your home?
Without you knowing it?
8.01.2015
Women’s Wigs & Synthetic Wigs Reviews–Wigsbuy.com
Have you tried wearing a wig yet?
Women’s wigs have come a long way and have become one of most women’s secret fashion accessory. Be they quality wigs for women or synthetic wigs, the modern woman has embraced the wig as a very important weapon to complete their look.
How else can you look fierce like Rihanna?
7.25.2015
5 Smart Strategies to Improve Your Home Office
Times have changed. You may be doing most of your office work at home or you are a work-at-home person!
Either way, here are 5 smart strategies to spiff up your home office:
1. Start with an ovis table with drawers for storage, a comfortable chair and a filing cabinet where you can stash all your paper work.
2. Bring life to a dull corkboard by covering it in fabric. Fasten to the back with double-sided tape.
3. If your office is part of a bigger space like the living room, define the area by laying down a rug.
4. Get organized using everyday items. Wide glasses can hold mail, while empty jam jars or baby food jars can hold small supplies like paper clips.
5. Line your table with sheets of paper. You can easily jot down notes and tear and dispose as needed.
7.16.2015
4 Ways to De-Clutter Your Room
1. Make a “Throw, Keep, Give” pile. Separating your stash into these categories will make organizing so much easier.
2. Sort things out. Creating groupings can give a shelf or closet instant visual appeal. Think of categorizing by color (works well with clothes and shoes), genre (great for DVDs, CDs or books), and by size (books, jewelries, guitars, your guitar input jack, tiny knick-knacks, and your photos.
3. Don’t fear disposing. Battle your inner Pack Rat and give yourself a serious talking-to. Have you used the item in the last six months? In the last year? If it’s just bee sitting in your closet, it’s about time you make room for something new.
4. Make time. Rome wasn’t built in a day – and neither are clean rooms. It took a while for your room to get as messy as it is now, and it is going to take as much time (if not a little more) to get it back in tiptop shape.
7.02.2015
4 Multi-Tasking Kitchen Products
The most amazing, all around household cleaners are probably lurking in your kitchen, and the best part about them is that they are all affordable.
Baking soda, lemons, vinegar, even the humble salt can all be used to disinfect your bathroom, make laundry fresh, and keep candles from dripping!
Another plus – they are mostly earth-friendly too!
Lemon
Stash lemon peels in your kitchen corners to keep insects away. You can also pour the juice down sink drains to repel cockroaches
5.19.2015
Don’t Rush to Grow Up
Thirteen is such a special age, but the curious ting is that you won’t fully realize it until years later. Looking back, I am filled with fondness for the young, awkward, painfully naïve me who loves listening to Garth Brooks every time I feel down. But at that time, of course, I would have traded places with someone older and wiser in a heartbeat.
So what I mean is, being a teen is meant to be savored. Don’t be in such a hurry to turn 20, 25, and 30. You have the rest of your life to be a full-fledged grown up; for now, all you’ve really got to focus on is growing up.
5.02.2015
How To Clean a Dirty Stovetop
When I see kitchens like this:
…I shrink in shame. After so many mealtimes, my stovetop looks sooo dirty.
Here’s what I learned from my mom: The key to keeping this major kitchen area clean is to be extra vigilant of spills and stains – once you see it, even while cooking, wipe it off, because it will harden. Constant cleaning also results to a bacteria-free cooking zone.
To lessen the stress you feel whenever you see your dirty stovetop, here is what you can do:
1. Make sure that before you turn on the burners, the stovetop is clean. Heat just makes food stick to the stovetop more. For daily cleaning, use a mixture of three parts water to one part baking soda on a clean sponge. If the dirt is particularly tough, you can try this:
2. After an especially greasy cook-off, shut off the power or gas, take out the removable parts, and soak them in a solution of equal parts ammonia and water.
3. Clean out tough grime left on the burners by putting on a large pot filled with water and a half-cup of baking soda. Let this solution boil over onto the burners.
4. If grease and other foodstuff have hardened onto your stovetop, you may have to scrape them off gently with a razor blade. Soften extra-sticky areas by spraying on your ammonia and water solution. Wipe off.
5.01.2015
Four Tips To Maintain Your Vinyl Tiles
What’s not to love about vinyl tiles? They are water-resistant, affordable and come in myriad patterns and colors.
But without proper maintenance, your pretty vinyl floor can become pretty faded and dirty. This is because the patterned or colored surface is printed on a vinyl sheet, and its protective topcoat may wear off from use. Plus, tiles with textured surfaces also contribute to dirt buildup.
Need to repair your vinyl tiles? I have tried this and it really worked:
Mop your tiles if a broom can’t remove the surface dirt. Use lukewarm water with mild detergent if the tiles are extra-dirty, and run the mop across the tile surface.
To remove stubborn scuffmarks, apply a bit of eucalyptus oil to the spot with a dry cloth. To avoid scratches, put felt pads like these ones underneath your furniture’s legs.
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Sunlight may discolor and fade vinyl tiles over time. If you have direct sunlight streaming through a window, always draw the curtains in that area.
To lengthen your vinyl floor’s life, use vinyl finish solutions like Pledge Floor Care, Multi-Surface Finish, 27-Ounce Bottles (Pack of 6). Apply two coats of the solution on the floor and go over it with an electric polisher. Buff every two weeks.