I spend an inappropriate amount of time at my computer pinning, pinning, pinning things that I dream about...house stuff, kids stuff, food stuff, clothes stuff.
I have to admit that a large percentage of what I pin will probably never. happen.
That wooden spiral staircase with the curly slide in tandem...yeah. That probably will not show up in any of my future homes. But it is a super cool idea and I like to think that I would choose the slide every. time.
So, while there is a lot that probably won't get done from my boards, I am going to try to be intentional to actually do some of the things that I pin.
Enter Pintentional posts.
My goal is to do at least one of the things I pin a week and blog about it. I have been being pintentional over Christmas so that I have some back up posts in the event that a week gets too busy. So don't hate me when you see something Christmasie show up in say February or March, mkay?
Would love to hear how you are being pintentional. If anyone reading this could help me figure out how to do a link party thingy...I would love to hear about it...I think that would be FUN!
Otherwise...just leave comments about what you are up to...thanks!
Here we go:
Pintentional Post #1
Homemade Laundry Detergent from here: http://beingcreativetokeepmysanity.blogspot.com/2010/11/homemade-laundry-soap.html
She has lots of great homemade soaps...I plan to do the dishwasher detergent once I run out of the one I just bought over Christmas...
Here is me following her step by steps:
After searching several stores for the Fels-Naptha and Zote soaps before Christmas, I found them both conveniently shelved close together at Wal-Mart today. (figures.) I picked the Zote over the Fels-Naptha because I preferred it's scent. She suggested the pink Zote soap, I went with the white. Not sure why, but I imagine it will make little difference.
I also found the huge cookie jar and scoop (in a set of three) at Wal-Mart. It hurt a little to spend what I would have spent on another jug of laundry detergent on what is going to hold my homemade laundry detergent...but this is a 'gift' that will keep on giving, right?
My fancy 5 gallon bucket.
The shredding of the soap was the most time consuming part and the only part that vaguely resembles work. Took me under 10 minutes even while serving lunches and refilling juice cups.
I mixed it all by hand and scooped it into my fun cookie jar.
Ta-Da!!
Smells super yum, btw.
Here it is at home on top of my dryer.
While you salivate over my non-matching circa 1971 Kenmore set, rest assured that some laundry was removed from the top of the dryer and hamper for this picture.
No. My laundry room is not this clean.
Ever.
I have not tried the soap yet, so I can not speak of it's capability of making my families clothes sparkle...
but it feels great to know that I did something that I pintended to do.
Yay for Pintentionality!
