Your elusive 12 week-old puppy walks into the living room. “Where have you been?” you ask, as if he will answer you. You immediately jump up and begin your search. Everything seems fine in the bedroom. Everything seems fine in the den. Everything is fine in the dining roo—oh no! Not your brand new Oriental rug. What are you going to do?Time is of the essence. So, you grab your trusty bottle of miracle spot remover and spray it directly on the stain. You press a towel you grabbed from the kitchen into the stain. You rub and scrub. It doesn’t seem like it’s working, so you try more spot remover and you scrub harder. At least you’re trying to take care of the accident quickly, but now you’ve got a bigger problem. You have an even larger puddle that includes urine with spot remover added to it. Even worse, you’ve scrubbed the rug so hard the fibers look frayed and unraveled. Adding spot remover to a urine stain and brushing it in does not mean you are removing the stain. Where did the stain go? You’ve spread it in the backing of the rug.

Want to make window cleaning easier than ever?

Try the Ultimate Window Cloth. This easy to use cloth is a brand new innovation in cleaning cloth technology. It features a dual sided design for unmatched cleaning power and drying ability. This amazing little cloth will allow you to clean windows, mirrors and other like surfaces with just water as a detergent. That’s right. No more window cleaner. Just add water to get your windows cleaner than ever and without a chemical residue or any kind of streaking or lint.

One side is made from microfiber so it is great for cleaning, while the other side is made of shammy material. This side is great for drying and polishing. To clean your windows all you have to do is get the cloth damp and wipe away. Wipe with one side to clean and remove build-up. Then flip it over and use the shammy side to dry and buff to a polished, streak-free shine. This cloth is totally reusable and washable. Use it over and over for sparkling windows, mirrors, chrome, counters and more. This is the fastest, easiest and safest way to clean windows. Welcome to the future of window washing!

Does the idea that good food has to take a long time to make keep you from spending time cooking? There are many ways to help speed and efficiency in the kitchen. The arrangement of your kitchen, as well as the tools you use, make all the difference. Don’t give up on trying to expand your skills and abilities. Try these suggestions to make gourmet cooking well within your time constraints.

You might have heard the old adage, “a place for everything and everything in its place.” This is a great time saving practice. Put the same things in the same place in your kitchen and work area. You will not waste time trying to find things and get frustrated. Tools and items that are frequently used should be placed accessible and easy to get. The bowl or platter you only use at Thanksgiving can be placed in the basement or in the back of the cupboard. It is also worth noting that you won’t know if something works until you try it and you might make changes as time goes by. Don’t be afraid to reorganize or adjust.

If you feel that your backyard is lacking a certain something, a water feature might be just the thing to bring new life to your outdoors. There are many different types of water features to consider, such as a pond or a waterfall. Flowing or still water has a peaceful relaxing quality to it, and water features allow you to bring this natural beauty right into your own yard. You may be thinking that the care and upkeep of a water feature may not be worth the hassle, but they are much less labor intensive as you may think. By following a few simple guidelines and understanding how your water feature lives and breathes, you can enjoy this natural work of art for as long as you own your home.

What is the Best Cleaner to use on Carpet?

Are you tired of carpet cleaners that don’t really work? Sick of sticky residues and stain fighters that don’t do what they are supposed to. Then try Quick n Brite the next time you shampoo your carpets. If you have your own steam cleaner, or if you have rented one from the store, then Quick n Brite liquid concentrate is the best soap to use in it. It will clean much better than anything available in stores, it won’t leave any kind of residue, and it is all-natural and doesn’t contain any harmful chemicals. The best part about it though, is that you can use it all over your home when you are done with the carpets. It is great for hundreds of jobs all over your home, so if you have some left after you are done cleaning your carpets, you can use it to pretreat laundry, clean cabinets, degrease stoves, remove upholstry stains, clean the bathroom and much, much more. It comes with a full money back guarantee and is 100% guaranteed to work. Anyone who uses it to clean their carpets never uses anything else again. It is widely recognized as the best carpet cleaning solution available.

“Among the most exciting applications of herbal medicine lie in treating abnormalities of the immune system. Clinical studies have shown that various herbal products are effective in treating allergies, asthma, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. Herbal medicine also has a unique potential usefulness in balancing the immune system in cases of chronic infection, preventing the immune system from turning on the body and causing destruction.”

Phyllis A. Balch, CNC Prescription for Herbal Healing

A healthy, properly functioning immune system is absolutely vital to good health. It is the key to the healing process from the tiniest scratch - to the most complex virus. Even the aging process is intimately linked with the immune system.

Compromised immunity leaves us vulnerable to disease and impairs our ability to heal properly and age well.

SIGNS OF IMPAIRED IMMUNE FUNCTION

• CANDIDIASIS/ YEAST INFECTIONS
• RECURRING INFECTIONS
• CHRONIC FATIGUE
• LISTLESSNESS

Mom, are you spending way too much time sorting, washing, and folding laundry?

Here are some quick easy tips to help get you out of the laundry room!

1) Sort Less

With the exception of whites that need to be bleached, brand new dark or red items that bleed or delicates, you may not need to sort laundry as much as you think.

Most high quality clothing doesn’t bleed. And there is no crime in washing towels with other laundry unless it will get linty (like microfiber cleaning cloths).

You might want to sort laundry by what room it will end up in. I throw my boy’s laundry all in together and despite what home economics gurus might tell you, I haven’t noticed any bad effects! This method simplifies things because each load goes to the same place. Instead of walking around the house delivering laundry to each room, you save energy and time.

Organic Gardening Organic gardening involves the utilization of materials derived from living things like compost and manure. The fertilizers contain only naturally occurring animal or plant materials with hardly any man-made chemicals or pesticides ever being used.

The fundamentals of organic gardening begin with the soil used for the process. The importance of organic gardening is laid on “feeding the soil and not the plant”. The soil contains organic matter, which serves as fertilizer providing nutrients to the plants. Organic matter consists of grass clippings, food scraps, leaves from autumn trees and ordinary trash; all of which can be converted into the perfect organic fertilizer and worked into the soil. The compost is also enriched with beneficial microorganisms and bugs both of which feed and protect the plants from disease causing microbes. All the organic gardener has to do is feed the beneficial microbes and let them do their work

Basic Landscaping

Most homeowners want a nicely landscaped yard. Yet many of these people cannot afford to hire professional landscapers.

If you fall into this group it doesn’t mean that you have to forgo some nice landscaping around your home. It means you have to take some time learning how to do it yourself.

The Internet is a great place to find landscaping design ideas to help you get started. Searching for terms such as “landscape designs” and “landscaping ideas” and “landscaping diy” will bring up a lot of good Web sites to visit for ideas and to learn the basics.

To learn which plants do well in your area, what plants need shade and what plants want sunshine, you can visit a local nursery. Usually workers at a nursery that only sells plants and gardening supplies will give you a lot more information than a garden center at a large department store.

Deciding on the style of furniture that will ultimately furnish your room can be quite an undertaking. With so many styles, colors, and fabrics available, it makes your decision that much harder. Once you have an idea as to what style you are interested in, decide on how many pieces will work within the space.Sometimes, adding too much furniture will make the room look cluttered and uncomfortable. Less is more. Measure the space and draw out the room, along with the furniture that you are considering to give you a visual idea. Also, try to make allowances for other things, such as floor lamps, statues, a magazine rack, plants, a water feature, and an area rug.

A mist fountain makes a great decoration for the home or office, but due to overuse, accidents, neglect, time or acts of god, your mist fountain may stop working or become broken. Don’t worry though because there are some easy steps you can take to get it back in working condition in no time. Basically there are only a handful of things that can go wrong with a mist lamp. 99% of the time, it is either a broken bowl, lack of mist, or lack of light from the LEDs. The following will be a breakdown of what to do in each of these instances.

There are many essential physical and psychological factors that will assist in the process of staying or becoming healthy. The most important of these have been listed in this article. It may for many people seem to be a very challenging list. If you are one of these people then I suggest that you make a start. Choose one thing that you can change about the way that you currently live. Make that change and stick to it and then make another change and so forth. If you find the list daunting then choose something relatively easy from the list to do - for example, increase the amount of filtered water that you drink in one day. This is adding something to how you live rather than taking something away. Adding in is easier than taking something away. When it comes to your diet try adding in eating one piece of fruit per day and do this for a week and then add in two pieces of fruit per day. Again you are adding in and not taking anything away. You may also be able to add in something for you mind or physical exercise. You will have made a good start.Attempting to change many things at the one time is very difficult and will make it difficult to succeed but you can make changes over many months - just keep the goal of improved health in your mind. Improved health is what you are working towards and having this in mind will help to keep you going when times get tough and you feel like giving up.

Weddings are very special occasions and because of this you want to make every aspect of the wedding process as elegant as possible right down to the wedding invitation envelope. There are lots of ways you can get creative on your wedding invitations and make them extra special and beautiful for your special wedding day. The following wedding invitation ideas will help you get an idea of what might work for your own wedding invitations and envelopes.Beach Wedding
A fun way to carry your theme of a beach wedding onto your wedding invitations and even the wedding invitations envelope is to hire an artist to design the invitations and envelopes. Invitations alone typically cost from several hundred dollars to several thousand so hiring an artist to design them won’t cost much more. Have the invitations printed out on a card stock of your choosing that include all the typed names of the bride and groom, location of the wedding, and time and date. Then, let the artist paint a beach scene on each invitation. Each invitation will be slightly different and beautiful in its own way. Also, have each envelope painted with a setting sun or a palm tree or something else beachy that will represent your wedding day.

My wife recently cleaned our oven. Not the inside but the top. You know, around the elements where it is just burnt on. We recently have changed to natural cleaning. So when it came time for the oven, my wife used non-toxic general purpose cleaner. While this is highly concentrated, the stains were also quite old. So, she used it full strength. She didn’t need a mask or gloves to do this. She just let it soak & then the baked-on crud slowly came off with some scrubbing.

Here’s the point. The various commercial cleaners from the store contain petroleum distillates. They produce potentially deadly fumes & are harmful to our environment. Not to mention the fact they cost much more per ounce then the natural cleaners. Often their packaging is non-recyclable.