Blogging Without Obligation -- the basic facts and a free button for your sidebar.
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Showing posts with label top-draw. Show all posts
9/28/09
Blogging Without Obligation
I think I could use this button on my blog since I am only posting once in a while at Shoutpost or tBlog (days are numbered) now.
Blogging Without Obligation -- the basic facts and a free button for your sidebar.
Blogging Without Obligation -- the basic facts and a free button for your sidebar.
2/8/09
Toxic Dryer Sheets
Bonnie Hunt on her TV show mentioned how dryer sheets can be toxic to your health and to reconsider using them.
If you get a rash or welts, feel stuffy, watery eyes, sneezing just from wearing your clothing, you could have an environmental allergy to a household product. You will have to remove potential items from your life to find out what it is that is bothering you. Sometimes it could be what other people use also.
Soaps, shampoos, conditioners, perfumes, shaving cream etc, can all have the same allergic result.
Even dry cleaning can do this to you.
Getting back to the dryer sheets, use 1/4 cup of vinegar in your laundry for light fabrics (cottons) and 1/2 cup for heavier fabrics (jeans, bedspreads, etc) instead of fabric softeners. Vinegar is a natural product and less expensive.
As for the dryer sheets -- those spikey dryer balls work really well. I have found them to "fluff up" the towels a bit better than the stiffness dryer sheets tend to do to them due to the residue the dryer sheets leave.
Here is an article on fabric softener and dryer sheets with some alternatives ...
Articles listed below on the subject by Dr. Anne Steinemann, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, can be found at: CleanerIndoorAir
Toxic Chemicals in Scented Laundry Detergent and Fabric Softener by Dr. Anne Steinemann
Toxic Chemicals Emitted by Air Fresheners by Dr. Anne Steinemann
Toxic Chemicals Emitted by Dryer Sheets and Scented Laundry Products by Dr. Anne Steinemann
Hope this helps someone.
If you get a rash or welts, feel stuffy, watery eyes, sneezing just from wearing your clothing, you could have an environmental allergy to a household product. You will have to remove potential items from your life to find out what it is that is bothering you. Sometimes it could be what other people use also.
Soaps, shampoos, conditioners, perfumes, shaving cream etc, can all have the same allergic result.
Even dry cleaning can do this to you.
Getting back to the dryer sheets, use 1/4 cup of vinegar in your laundry for light fabrics (cottons) and 1/2 cup for heavier fabrics (jeans, bedspreads, etc) instead of fabric softeners. Vinegar is a natural product and less expensive.
As for the dryer sheets -- those spikey dryer balls work really well. I have found them to "fluff up" the towels a bit better than the stiffness dryer sheets tend to do to them due to the residue the dryer sheets leave.
Here is an article on fabric softener and dryer sheets with some alternatives ...
Articles listed below on the subject by Dr. Anne Steinemann, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, can be found at: CleanerIndoorAir
Toxic Chemicals in Scented Laundry Detergent and Fabric Softener by Dr. Anne Steinemann
Toxic Chemicals Emitted by Air Fresheners by Dr. Anne Steinemann
Toxic Chemicals Emitted by Dryer Sheets and Scented Laundry Products by Dr. Anne Steinemann
Hope this helps someone.
10/10/07
Push Presents
I just saw this on the Today Show (10/3/07).
Evidently, it is the new rage in America although it has been tradition in Europe and Asia.
A "push present" is a gift given to a woman from her significant other after the birth of a child. These gifts are usually fancy baubles like jewelry to commemorate the event. In some instances, monograms of the child's name on a necklace or picture jewelry.
They can establish family tradition and be handed down through the generations.
Some jewelry stores, like Tiffany's, have push presents gift registers.
After viewing some of the pricey jewelry, one of the reporters said she never got gifts for childbirths #4 and #5.
I bet she is out shopping today during lunch.
Evidently, it is the new rage in America although it has been tradition in Europe and Asia.
A "push present" is a gift given to a woman from her significant other after the birth of a child. These gifts are usually fancy baubles like jewelry to commemorate the event. In some instances, monograms of the child's name on a necklace or picture jewelry.
They can establish family tradition and be handed down through the generations.
Some jewelry stores, like Tiffany's, have push presents gift registers.
After viewing some of the pricey jewelry, one of the reporters said she never got gifts for childbirths #4 and #5.
I bet she is out shopping today during lunch.
6/6/07
Vocabulary Words to Know
Here is a great list to study and educate you no matter what age you are.
100 Words every High School Graduate Should Know
For the multi-tasker teen, while taking a shower, you can quiz yourself or study the top 100 SAT words on this shower curtain before the big test. Better yet, get one for the wee ones and start them early.
If you already know the top 100, you can get the Top 500 SAT Words shower curtain.
Now that you know some new impressive words, you may increase your Boggle or Scrabble scores.
100 Words every High School Graduate Should Know
For the multi-tasker teen, while taking a shower, you can quiz yourself or study the top 100 SAT words on this shower curtain before the big test. Better yet, get one for the wee ones and start them early.
If you already know the top 100, you can get the Top 500 SAT Words shower curtain.
Now that you know some new impressive words, you may increase your Boggle or Scrabble scores.
9/16/06
Talk like a Pirate Day
Shiver me timbers me hearties!
Today was International Talk Like a Pirate day - savvy!
I am just enjoying this now ---arrrgh! Had some "cackle fruit" for breakfast. Too bad it did not happen on my birthday but it is every September 19th. I could have had a pirate party (pin the sail on the ship?) with a treasure chest booty of Ring Dings. Oh and the Ring Dings don't come individually foil wrapped anymore, there are two to a package and no little cardboard to sturdy them in the package so some of them were smooshed.
This is amusing because yesterday, I was looking at an old newspaper and there was an article about pirates and how the British used Pirates to keep the Spanish and French away from their land claims or resources. The pirates were very welcomed into the ports because the British liked them spending their "tourist dollars". At times they were loved or hated depends on which day you are talking about and the social climate at the time. LOL
It also mentioned that Sir Francis Drake was a pirate too -- hated by the Spanish and French but loved by the English. I guess he was a fancy pirate since he has been portrayed in history books more of a romantic man of the sea than a pirate who plunders.
Privateering was popular during colonial times in America. Some of the privateering made some of our historical political figures rich! I live in the New England area, and there are plenty of privateer colonial mansions for the tourist to visit.
Walking the plank was something in a Robert Louis Stevenson story, not an actual activity that pirates engaged in. So Robert had a vivid imagination and started this fictional tradition AFTER the golden years of piracy died down and out. I do believe walking the plank appears in Peter Pan too.
I went and took a pirate name quiz and my pirate name is Dread Pirate Flint with the following description:"Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you have a keen head for how to make a profit. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!"
The HTML code was not working for me so I could not post the box.
So what is your pirate name? Could make a good TBlog name too! Sink me!
I missed the Pirate Mom last night on Wife Swap, not that I was that interested in that, arrgh. LOL -- I would have rathered walk the plank.
Pirate Dictionary
More Pirate phrases
Edward and the Pirates -- a great picture book to read to kids. Edward is reading a book about pirates at bedtime and they appear in his room demanding he give them the book but he finds out their deep dark secret!
A very entertaining and creative adventure book.
Literary Pirate: noun - 1. literary pirate - someone who uses another person''s words or ideas as if they were his own ... plagiarizer, plagiariser
Fair Winds! Godspeed!
A tbuck doubloon for your comment, matey!
Or you can walk the plank! Or sing a shantey!
Today was International Talk Like a Pirate day - savvy!
I am just enjoying this now ---arrrgh! Had some "cackle fruit" for breakfast. Too bad it did not happen on my birthday but it is every September 19th. I could have had a pirate party (pin the sail on the ship?) with a treasure chest booty of Ring Dings. Oh and the Ring Dings don't come individually foil wrapped anymore, there are two to a package and no little cardboard to sturdy them in the package so some of them were smooshed.
This is amusing because yesterday, I was looking at an old newspaper and there was an article about pirates and how the British used Pirates to keep the Spanish and French away from their land claims or resources. The pirates were very welcomed into the ports because the British liked them spending their "tourist dollars". At times they were loved or hated depends on which day you are talking about and the social climate at the time. LOL
It also mentioned that Sir Francis Drake was a pirate too -- hated by the Spanish and French but loved by the English. I guess he was a fancy pirate since he has been portrayed in history books more of a romantic man of the sea than a pirate who plunders.
Privateering was popular during colonial times in America. Some of the privateering made some of our historical political figures rich! I live in the New England area, and there are plenty of privateer colonial mansions for the tourist to visit.
Walking the plank was something in a Robert Louis Stevenson story, not an actual activity that pirates engaged in. So Robert had a vivid imagination and started this fictional tradition AFTER the golden years of piracy died down and out. I do believe walking the plank appears in Peter Pan too.
I went and took a pirate name quiz and my pirate name is Dread Pirate Flint with the following description:"Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you have a keen head for how to make a profit. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!"
The HTML code was not working for me so I could not post the box.
So what is your pirate name? Could make a good TBlog name too! Sink me!
I missed the Pirate Mom last night on Wife Swap, not that I was that interested in that, arrgh. LOL -- I would have rathered walk the plank.
Pirate Dictionary
More Pirate phrases
Edward and the Pirates -- a great picture book to read to kids. Edward is reading a book about pirates at bedtime and they appear in his room demanding he give them the book but he finds out their deep dark secret!
A very entertaining and creative adventure book.
Literary Pirate: noun - 1. literary pirate - someone who uses another person''s words or ideas as if they were his own ... plagiarizer, plagiariser
Fair Winds! Godspeed!
A tbuck doubloon for your comment, matey!
Or you can walk the plank! Or sing a shantey!
9/6/06
The Memory Project
Last night on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, I saw this moving news story and just thought what a great idea and a good cause so I just had to blog this most exceptional program.
Ben Schumaker started The Memory Project, drawing portraits of children living in ophanages in poor countries.
He said that he was very moved by a Guatemala man who told his story of his forgotten childhood since he grew up in an orphange and had no pictures of himself in his youth or even his family.
Ben set out to make a difference in the lives of these children and The Memory Project was born. Now he has high school students participating in the program drawing the portraits of the orphaned children.
It seems that the students doing the drawing become very attached to their subject especially when drawing their eyes.
On the back of each portrait, the artist's picture and a little note is attached and the whole project is laminated.
I think this is a truly wonderful project.
A little time and effort to give one child a life long memory as a keepsake to value the rest of their lives. It also gives MORE than you can ever imagine in the long run.
Below are the links to the news story article. There is also a picture documentary you can look at.
CBS News Story/Article
The Memory Project
Ben Schumaker started The Memory Project, drawing portraits of children living in ophanages in poor countries.
He said that he was very moved by a Guatemala man who told his story of his forgotten childhood since he grew up in an orphange and had no pictures of himself in his youth or even his family.
Ben set out to make a difference in the lives of these children and The Memory Project was born. Now he has high school students participating in the program drawing the portraits of the orphaned children.
It seems that the students doing the drawing become very attached to their subject especially when drawing their eyes.
On the back of each portrait, the artist's picture and a little note is attached and the whole project is laminated.
I think this is a truly wonderful project.
A little time and effort to give one child a life long memory as a keepsake to value the rest of their lives. It also gives MORE than you can ever imagine in the long run.
Below are the links to the news story article. There is also a picture documentary you can look at.
CBS News Story/Article
The Memory Project
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