Make your own...

...Toothpaste! Simply mix baking soda and hydrogen peroxide in the right amount together and add either Stevia (natural calorie-free sweetener) or peppermint oil or any other tasty oils to make it the flavor you want. You can also make it more fun by adding a natural food colorant. Some recipes suggest also to add glycerin as an emulsifier and salt as an abrasive but I don't like the idea of it plus this simpler recipe can be used with kids too without any possibility of harming their young mouthes.

Making your own toothpaste saves you money, produces less waste (no used tubes to trash), gives you the certainty of having a healthy product with no Fluoride (which is not needed anymore nowadays as opposite as what you might know), to use with no toxic ingredients for you and your kids and the choice of flavoring it as you like.

Once produced, store in a small soap dispenser (better if travel size) so that you can dispense some on the toothbrush easily and if you notice that the compound is getting a bit dry simply add a little bit more hydrogen peroxide.

Enjoy!

Cakes and more

This is the second Mei Tai i made, once again for a Barter and once again I used Ikea Fabric and I liked this even more, even if this version is not padded as it's a spring-summer version. Soon I'll be publishing the third one, again for a Barter :)... then I'll start production for customers.







This is one of the cakes I made with the bread machine, pretty awesome! It was very very good and came out with a thick spongy consistency, very good to dip in the tea too, later cakes came out softer and even better, practice makes perfect =)

Home made bread

My husband got me a bread machine for my 30th birthday =)
The bread machine makes wonderful bread if you follow some simple rules and you can make it as you like it =) only one thing annoys me a little and I'm not quite sure it can be done otherwise, this is the fact you must use a little sugar in order to have the yeast work and make the bread rise. I don't like using sugar, i do like brown sugar but would still prefer not to have any sugar in my bread.

My first washable pad

Not perfect but after all it was my first therefore kind of an experiment, it works well for the start or finish of the period, but for the other days i'll have to use another kind with more absorbing material, in this one I used cotton and a waterproof fabric that I was given by a friend, not as cool as PUL but still working fine, the next one will be flannel lined as it's softer and feels better =)

Mei-Tai! Make your own, with Ikea fabric and...

Here is the first Mei Tai realized for a Barter =) not perfect but hey it's the first I make! It works and it's tough so... I used Ikea fabric and premade shoulder straps and belt made of soft inside+nice fabric ouside, they were one long piece given to me form another barter that I divided in 3 pieces for the purpose.