So, remember last month I told you about the One Small Change Challenge that Hip Mountain Mama is hosting? (Click on the ‘One Small Change Challenge’ highlighted words above to take you to the new blogsite)! If your new to my blog just see last month’s post here. Well, this past month my small change(s) were to:
- Add a brick to all of our toilet tanks
- Add more green plants to our home
- Make cloth napkins to reduce the amount of paper towels we use
My challenges have been going well so far…adding the brick was easy, check and done, we’ll see if there is any difference in the water bill later this month. Adding more green plants to the house was easy too…so far they are all still alive, let’s cross our fingers that they live a nice, long, happy plant life 🙂 It’s so nice to have so much green in our house these days considering winter looks like it’s never leaving. And making the cloth napkins was a super easy sewing project that I did in ONE nap time!! We still use paper towels but now we use a lot less. I really want to rid our home of them completely but that will take a little more time I think.
For this month, I am going to just choose one change. Have you seen these recently:
It’s a knit cover for your swiffer sweeper. I found this pattern for free at Michael’s last November and planned on making a bunch back then but a little bout of 3 month long morning sickness shot that plan to the netherworld. You can find this pattern at the Michael’s website here, if you want to make some for yourself. It seems like a super simple pattern that should be pretty fast to make, i think even a beginner knitter could get one done quickly.
I am getting the itch to do some major knitting now that I am finally showing 🙂 Besides the swiffer cover, I plan to make some baby booties, a sweet baby blanket and a car seat blankie for Bean III. I made Noah and Penelope all of these before they were born, so I gotta be fair and make this little one a set too 🙂 I am getting antsy to find out the gender of this babycakes, which we could do at our next midwife appointment. I would love to make something that is not white, green or yellow….hmmm, do you think we should find out!!!!!????? We still haven’t decided yet!!
I love the swiffer covers. I don’t knit so I found an awesome pattern on ravelry.com for one. I found out the gender with both my babes…I don’t think I could have held out for a surprise…so I’m no help! 🙂
I didn’t find out with my first. 6.5 long years later, I did find out with my second. I preferred the surprise:)
no no no dont find out…you know, we know, everyone knows ur having a BABY!!! NOBODY knows if its a baby she or a baby he…and you and hubby should be the first to find out the surprise and see and meet this little bundle of love!
just checked out your homemade deo. i dont realllly like coconut smells, so what oil could you use??? baby oil??? or any aromatherapy oils?
enjoy your blog and your pen reminds me of my little one who just turned 1 couple of weeks ago. cute and cheeky with a dazzling smile xxx
becky
Just saw the swiffer covers today. Very cool; I might try some myself!
and by finding one on ravelry, i meant i found one to crochet 😉
Thanks for the swiffer knit pattern! Great idea, I’m going to try it! I also may have to try the brick in the toilet tank!
Check out my friends’ blog on repurposing. The stuff they are making is STINKIN CUTE!http://city-made.com/
Isn’t it great having plants in the home!!
I love that swifter cover…thanks for sharing!!
Suzy
I have seen the swiffer covers before and I’m wondering if they work well. Will you please update us once you have used it for a while?
Hey! I hope things are going awesome for your March so far!!
Make sure to stop by the One Small Change blog to enter into our latest giveaway and see what the community is up to!
http://1smallchangeblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/giveaway-reusable-produce-bags.html
We also started a face book fan page which can be accessed from the blog! 🙂
Thanks!
Suzy
I just found out I am pregs with our 3rd and we are asking the same question–should we find out this time?! I am going to make one of your belly bands, last time I bought a cheap one and it fell apart. But right now I have to get off your blog and go cook dinner–I have been clicking around for 30 minutes!
definately going to try those swiffer covers i have so much cotton yarn from all of the washcloths i used to make. Great idea those little covers.
As far as finding out what you are going to have…..Don’t…I didn’t with either of mine, and the surprise was so very special.I was wrong I thought my first was a boy, and I knew the second was. I was right with the second, but no, you gotta get the pool going, thats fun! Enjoy Mama. I love your blog!!!