Homemade Laundry Detergent

I while ago (March) I found a recipe to make your own laundry detergent.  It sounded pretty neat and I'm constantly on the lookout to save some cash, so I gave it a try.  

I bought all the ingredients and mixed up a batch.  I have to say I rather like it!  It's now 5 months later and I think I still have at least half of it left.  Nice!  When it runs out I will definitely be making some more.  

Here is where I found the recipe: Being Creative to Keep My Sanity Blog

This is everything you need to make it.  I found it all at my local Walmart for just under $20.

Click on over to her blog for the full directions on how to make your own.  

I use it in my HE front loader just as I would regular powder detergent and it works great!

Some Yummy Goodness

I think I just found my new favorite treat. Pretzels, peanut butter, chocolate.... mmmmm.

I followed this recipe except I had to add more powdered sugar to make it easier to handle. It was still pretty sticky. I think the next time I make this I will use this recipe for the peanut butter filling:

1/2 cup peanut butter
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar

Stir peanut butter and butter together. Add powder sugar and mix till combined. Shape into balls using about a teaspoon of the mixture per ball.

Sandwich peanut butter ball between two pretzels.  Then dip pretzels into melted chocolate. Allow to cool on waxed paper.

So yummy!!!

Rock-a-bye!

Apparently more and more people are acquainting themselves with some of my talents.  This is a good thing!  I love to share what I can do with others.  It makes me happy!

My latest project was a cake and cupcakes for a friend's baby shower.  The theme was Rock-a-bye baby/Rock and roll.  So I made an electric guitar cake and a ton of somewhat matching cupcakes.  They were all really cute!

The cupcakes have chocolate guitars and chocolate duckies on top of them.  They were really cool, but they kept breaking.  Which was kinda frustrating.  But the ones that held up were awesome!