All about Fairies

All things fairies. We’re definitely in the magical fairy stage of life. Started off on the path behind our house and came upon a perfect boulder to construct a fairy house. Enthusiastically, Ellie pulled out her collecting bag and found sticks, bark, pine needles, pine cones and of course ‘mud’. There’s soft pine for beds, bark for slides coming out of the house. Sticks, stuck down from the ceiling to be used by fairies to come and go, all according to Ellie. We danced around the fairy house when it was finished. The Fairy song by Ellie, “Magical Fairy, come to your house, Magical Fairy I love you, lalalalaaaa”. It was very to listen to her angelic voice making up magical words.

The Recipe

From the Book: Reader’s Digest Homemade

Laundry SoaP
½ c soap flakes (grated Ivory soap)
½ c baking soda
¼ c washing soda
¼ c borax

clean 16 oz container w/lid

mix all ingredients and use appx. ½ c per load instead of store bought detergent.

Mixing, stirring, using, and it really works!

Made some laundry soap a few weeks back and it works! Here are some pics of the ingredients. The best part about this soap is the laundry that's hung out to dry is actually much softer than when I use over the counter detergent. At least the towels aren't like cardboard anymore and no one in the house is complaining about 'sandpaper towels'.
I'm trying out the dish detergent tonight. Next on the agenda is a good floor cleaner to remove 30 years of who knows what off the pine floors. Whenever it rains I smell cat and old dog...nice huh?