Love the Home You Have 31 Day Challenge | Days 9-15 | Video

Hey everyone! Sorry about another late night post but here I am typing away at 12 am. My day hasn't even been busy. Instead, it was a lot of laying around with little being done. We all kinda had a lazy day. Plus my video editor was messing up and I had to do the whole uninstall/reinstall process which too a while. Anyway, enough rambling....I am back sharing days 9-15 in the Love the Home You have 31 day challenge. Also let me explain I went through updating my home-keeping notebook, I totally printed off 2015 calendars and even filled them in. What a dumb-ass thing to do. All that printer ink wasted! I didn't even realize it through the editing process. Sigh. Just know I fixed it! I am still getting confused about what year we are in. :) I still hope you enjoy the video.

Love the Home You Have 31 Day Challenge | Video | Days 3-8

Hello friends! I hope you are having a wonderful Saturday night. It's cold and rainy here....prompting us to stay cozy in the house. Speaking of the house, how are you guys doing with the love the home you have 31 day challenge? Are you keeping up!? If you not...jump right in where we are now which is day 9. The video takes you through days 3-8. If haven't checked out the first couple of days, you can find the video right here. These challenges are designed to inspire and motivate us to love our homes a little more by cleaning it up, de-cluttering and remembering what's important. Hope you enjoy! 

Love the Home You Have 31 Day Challenge | Days 1 & 2 | Video

Hello friends! I hope you Saturday evening is going well. I am back tonight starting off our new January Love the Home You Have Challenge. I fell in love with this charming book ( which you can find right here ) and for months now I have wanted to do the 31 day challenge in the back of the book. However, we had Thanksgiving in November and Christmas in December. So for a fresh year, month and day I thought January was the perfect time to challenge not only myself but you guys too in the daily tasks designed to help us love our homes more. It's no secret this house we are in hasn't really felt like home. And regardless if we are moving in the future or staying put....this challenge will hopefully help me to get rid of clutter, make the house cleaner and help me appreciate everything I do have. I plan on posting these videos every Saturday in January and also daily on instagram. I would love it if you followed along! Here's how the first couple of challenges went. Hope you enjoy! 

Daily Instagram Challenges January 12 -19, 2015 | Video |

Late night hello to you all! I hope you are having a wonderful night or maybe a great morning. This post is going up a little later because I have been so busy working around the house to get ready to leave Wednesday morning for Louisiana.

I have been sharing instagram challenges each day. These are just daily challenges that are meant to be done in 15 minutes or less. I think most of us can carve out 15 minutes to hit the little cluttered or dirty hot spots in your homes. Some of you guys requested that I also share the challenges in videos to make them easier to find and keep up with. I would love it if you followed along and shared your pictures using #kjdailychallenges so I can see your pictures too! Here's the challenges from last week. 

If you are just joining in, you don't have to start at the beginning. Just jump in where and when you want. I have been loving talking to you guys on instagram. You have been so fun and I have really working hard to make it a platform where I can share and talk to you guys. So feel free to click the button below and follow along! 

Instagram 2015 Daily Challenges | Video |

Hello friends! I hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday. It's freezing here and I am just minutes away from getting a fire going to warm things up in the house. Anyway, I am back with the daily instagram challenges that I have been sharing on instagram. These are just daily challenges that are meant to be done in 15 minutes or less. I think most of us can carve out 15 minutes to hit the little cluttered or dirty hot spots in your homes. Some of you guys requested that I also share the challenges in videos to make them easier to find and keep up with. I would love it if you followed along and shared your pictures using #kjdailychallenges so I can see your pictures too! Here's the challenges from last week. 

If you are just joining in, you don't have to start at the beginning. Just jump in where and when you want. I have been loving talking to you guys on instagram. You have been so fun and I have really working hard to make it a platform where I can share and talk to you guys. So feel free to click the button below and follow along! 

My Easy, Cheap, & Effective Homemade Laundry Soap Recipe VIDEO

Hello friends, I am back today with my updated homemade laundry soap. I have made it a few different ways in the past but this updated recipe is my favorite! Its super easy and cheap to make and is really effective in cleaning the laundry. If you want to see how I make it, everything you need to know is in the video! More pictures and full recipe below.

As I said, I have tried a lot of different methods. This was one of them which I grated ivory soap. It worked great and I liked the way it looked in the jar but I quickly grew tired of grating soap. Then new items were coming out like the Downy UnStopables that go into washer rather than the dryer. So it incorporated rather nice into the recipe. Also I am using the Fels Naptha soap that I found in Wamart for about $1 a bar. Last time, I couldn't find it and used the ivory. Both work well. 

3 bars Fels Naptha, grated ($1x 3) ( or 6 bars of Ivory Soap ) 

1 box Borax  ($5  - 76 ounces)

1 box Washing Soda ($4  -  55 ounces)

2 cups of baking soda ($.50 cents)

1 container of OxyClean or Las Totally Awesome Oxygen Powder ( found at Dollar Tree $1 )

1-2 container Downy Unstopables  ($7 - 13.2 ounces) 

To grate the Fels Naptha I decided to not use the grater and instead use my food processor. I found it easier to add a little bit of the Oxygen Powder to help the blades chop up the soap. 

Use a large container ( even a garbage bag works ) to mix up the soap and rest of the ingredients. You need to really take your time and make sure its well incorporated. 

Use two or three scoops per load ( depending on the size of your washer ) and don't worry if it doesn't suds up as much as other laundry soaps. It will suds a little but not a lot. Cleaning power of any soap does not depend on suds...so don't worry! Also this is perfectly safe for HE washers. The key is a fine grind! No big, bulky chunks…as HE machines use less water and don’t break down large chunks of soap. 

I like to use the rubbermaid storage container to mix and store the laundry soap on the top shelf of our laundry room. But for convenience I keep a glass container on my dryer for easy access. 

This recipe will last you a long long time. It really depends on the size of your family and how much laundry you do. For most people I think one batch will last a family of 4 at least 6 months. But again it depends on the size of your family and if you are measuring correctly. Its cheaper, it works just as well if not better than store bought laundry detergents and easy to make. I think giving these out to family and friends for holidays or whenever is a great way to share the love. My sister is a working college student and I just made her a batch that I will give her in a couple weeks. I would love to hear from you if you have a homemade laundry recipe that you love ...if you care to share! If you have any questions leave them below or on youtube! Stayed tuned for a quick laundry tip that has to do with softener sheets or the lack there of! 

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Cleaning for Company - Part 1 - VIDEO

Hello everyone! I am here with part 1 of my Cleaning for Company Series. This is pretty much a cross between my weekly cleaning and zone cleaning. Since being in the car accident, zone cleaning has been basically non existent. But I did have to get ready for our company and thought I would take you through it! Hopefully you get some inspiration and maybe a few tips in the video below. Hope you enjoy!  

Thanks for watching! Part 2 coming tomorrow! :) 

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Home Management: My Spring Cleaning Tips! - VIDEO -

Hello friends! I hope you are having a great evening. I am back sharing some of my spring cleaning tips with you all in hopes it answers some of the questions I have been getting. Last year I did the Spring Cleaning Challenge which was basically zone cleaning. If you want to check those blog posts out you can can click here... they are all labeled under Household Tips.

Today I am just sharing some of my own personal tips to take you right through spring cleaning. Its not like it use to be. Really spring cleaning came during a time when a lot of people were using wood stoves and such creating a lot of suet and dust so every spring season they would clean it up. If we just keep up with our daily routines and weekly cleaning, spring cleaning should not be a huge task. I still need to record my morning and afternoon routine but I have have already shared my night time routine where I show how I get the house together every night before we go to bed. I think routines are KEY to keeping your home clean and organized. I have also already shared my cleaning routine for Home Zone 1. I will have zone 2 - The Kitchen - up in the coming weeks but just taking time to reduce clutter and pick up everyday, it will keep the big cleaning days to a minimum. Also if you are interested in making your own cleaning products, check out my video where I show you how to make 6 cleaning products with items you probably already have in your house. I even included my homemade eye makeup remover!

There are a lot of tips in the video below.. I hope you find them helpful!

Be sure to let us know in the comments if you have any spring cleaning tips! : 

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How to $ Save $ Money by Making Your Own Cleaning Supplies! - VIDEO -

Hello friends! I hope your night is going well. I decided to go ahead and post this tonight even if it is almost 10pm... I know a lot of you are night owls such as myself! So I am here with my Homemade Cleaning Supplies. These are super simple to make and most of you probably have the products in your homes already to make these. The nice thing about making your own...you have a lot of product left over to make many more bottles throughout the month costing you a fraction of the cost to buy them. Everything is in the video and the recipes are in full below!  

As I mentioned in the video.. I totally forgot to make my homemade furniture polish so I will do a quick video on that in the coming days! 

Home Management: My FULL Nightly Routine! - VIDEO -

Hello everyone! I am here with my Nightly Routine. I decided to show you this routine first, opposed to my morning/afternoon routine because its more important. Mornings around here would be a complete mess without the nightly routine. I don't leave anything to chance. I have been through those mornings when I have had to search for a lost shoe or lost car keys. It just ruins my entire day when that happens. So in an effort to make my families life run smoother in the morning hours, I stick to this nightly routine that takes care of everything! Hope you enjoy!

Do you have a nightly routine!? I would love to hear from you! 

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Zone Cleaning VIDEO: Zone 1 - Front Porch, Entrance & Dining Room + More

Hello friends! I am here with my first ZONE CLEANING VIDEO! This shows how I clean zone 1 which is the Front Porch, Entrance Way and Dining Room. Editing this video proved to be a big problem that I will have to take account in later videos. BUT.. its done and I hope you guys enjoy it! I have also included my first zone video along with the video of the video with the supplies I use below.. in case you're interested! 

Here's how I break down the zones in lots of detail. 

And here are the supplies I use plus my Homemade Citrus All Purpose Cleaner

Stay tuned for more zone cleaning videos and I also have my nightly routine coming up soon too! 

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