The Love Of Home Files #18
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For The Love Of Home Files #18, I’ve been wandering the web, searching for springlike scenes and recipes. As well as sweet-smelling soap, stove-top potpourri, and scented vinegar to clean your home naturally.
Spring isn’t far away now!
Sue@brocante_victoria gave her old cupboard a springlike refresh, filling it with white stoneware and pitchers.
This bedroom is the epitome of “cozy” with its layers of colorful linens. The braided rug underneath and the various patterns work well together in this small room.
Kristi at French Creek Farmhouse has layers of green for her porch in her sweet farmhouse vignette.
Chippy greens evoke a sense of calm and serenity. When I was young, I wouldn’t have liked this kind of thing. But the shabby and chippy look has grown on me over the years.
Herbal Concoctions
Lavender Soap Recipe:
Linda at It All Started With Paint has a DIY lavender soap recipe. She describes it as some fancy, fun, easy, great-smelling homemade soap.
In my book, there’s an herb growing somewhere that will solve most any problem. Whether it’s a smell you don’t care for or ants coming in under your window.
How To Make Scented Cleaning Vinegar:
Mom 4 Real has a step-by-step DIY for making scented cleaning vinegar. She calls vinegar one of the best natural solutions on the planet.
We often spend good money on cleaning solutions when we could skip that and make our own for pennies.
Best Springtime Potpourri:
Sara at Gathering Dreams created three stove-top potpourri ideas that are sure to make your home smell like springtime.
Nothing makes the house smell better than a saucepan of goodies on the stove. There are so many ways to make our home smell good without using fancy sprays and perfumes.
Let’s Eat Healthier!
Turkey Taco Salad Meal Prep:
Chungah at Damn Delicious shows how she prepares her turkey taco salad meal prep.
Meal prep is the practice of preparing key components of a dish—like grains, roasted veggies, or cooked protein—before you plan to eat it. It saves time, and you’ll have meals ready to go when it’s time to eat.
Slow Cooker Freezer Meals:
Lee at Fit Foodie Finds has a recipe for six crockpot freezer meals. She says these crockpot freezer meals are perfect for easy meal-prep dinners throughout the week.
I hope you enjoyed these finds at The Love Of Home Files #18. And maybe it will inspire you to make, cook, or decorate something.
Spring is a time of renewal—try something new!
Love that cupboard full of white pitchers and soup tureens. And that bedroom is so lovely! Who would’v thunk that those different patterns and colors would somehow go together?
Will look at those freezable slow cooker meals. With my husband working 12 hours shifts, he has to pack a lot of meals for work. I try to make things where we have leftovers and then I can put those leftovers in the freezer for him to grab and go.
The French Creek Farmhouse porch display is beautiful. I’m not a fan of chippy paint either, but it some settings it is just perfect. The balance of the mix of the whites with that pale green is perfect in my eyes, it really speaks of Spring.
That lavender soap was too pretty to use. I’d keep it in a dish as decoration and fragrance only.
I thoroughly enjoyed your post, Brenda. So much terrific information!
I love the way the first blogger added ecru balls of crochet thread to the while bowls and such.
Glad you pointed that out! I went back to look again and appreciate that detail.