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Keeping House: Live Like Company’s Coming

July 6, 2010

I love to be a hostess, having company, throwing a dinner party… that’s my ideal Saturday night. I love the preparation with my husband, getting the house ready, preparing the food and sharing an evening together with friends and or family. Lately we’ve been extremely social, every weekend someone’s coming for dinner. This has caused [...]

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The Art of Loading the Dishwasher, an Unexpected Commentary on Life

June 18, 2010

I love to load the dishwasher! It is the one household task that I can do breathlessly without thought, consideration or effort. I could stand in my kitchen all day and load and reload our beautiful stainless steel GE domestic device. I’m quite good at it; my husband gave up loading the dishwasher years ago, [...]

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Lilacs, Love and a Little Marriage Inspiration

May 29, 2010

We’ve spent the last few weekend puttering around the house; doing yard work, creating new gardens, spreading grass seed, planting bulbs, trees and flowers and of course a little spring cleaning. While I was working in the backyard, I stopped to cut these lilacs and bring  them inside the house. As I was arranging them, [...]

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Loving Home: Do you clean on schedule?

March 25, 2010

Do you have a strict weekly or monthly routine for cleaning that allocates what needs to be done and when? I’ve heard myths about people who follow a cleaning agenda according to the days of the week and the weeks of the month. For example: Monday – Laundry, Tuesday-Dusting, Wednesday-Bathrooms, third Monday of every month [...]

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Loving Home: Your Spring Cleaning To-Do List

March 18, 2010

The time for spring cleaning is coming near. I’m getting ready for my own spring cleaning, I can’t wait till it’s warm enough to open all the windows, air out the house and clean my oven… it’s in some desperate need of some TLC. In my preparation I found this great spring cleaning to-do list [...]

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I like it… I love it: Swiffer Wet Jet

March 10, 2010

In my post about the art of cleaning the floor a few weeks ago, I confessed my strong aversion to buckets and  mentioned one of my favourite household domestic products the Swiffer Wet Jet, so I thought it was a natural selection for my next I like it… I love it. What is it? The [...]

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Quick and Easy Cleaning – Get Your Home Ready for Last Minute Guests

March 2, 2010

Sometimes clean enough housekeeping is all you have time for; we all try to keep up with the day to day chores of keeping house, but sometimes it can get away from you. It happens to me from time to time and I would like to think that at some point this happens to everyone [...]

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Loving Home: The Art of Cleaning- The Floor

February 25, 2010

I am going to say upfront, I HATE BUCKETS! The whole idea of cleaning my floors like my Mother did; with a mop, a bucket and some Pine-Sol seems just archaic to me. There’s something about putting your mop back into the dirty water to clean your floor that just doesn’t sit right with me. [...]

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