My new house has hardwoods, Travertine and ceramic tile though out. When we first moved in, I had no idea how I was going to clean it all and what supplies I was going to need to do it right. My husband and I spent hours online researching the best tools to use and we decided to give the Shark Deluxe Steam Mop a try.The Shark Steam Mop cleans floors by heating plain water into a steam and uses ...

We are getting ready to move to a new house and we were looking for an inexpensive TV to put in my son's new playroom. My husband saw The Sharper Image Wonderwall Entertainment Projector at Belk on sale for $64.99 and thought it would be a cool inexpensive alternative.With the Wonderwall you are able to hook up video games, cable boxes, DVD players and other kinds on components to it and th...

For my birthday this year, I got a rather unusual present. A rare snow here in the south messed up our roads and after days of being stuck in the house, I decided it would be safe to venture out. Well, I was wrong and never even made it out of my neighborhood before we had a wreck. Thankfully, everyone was OK and the impact was taken by the tire and several things related to it. Since the repai...

When my daughter first heard about My Twinn dolls, she begged us to get her one. We thought it was a really cool idea and since it was the only big thing she asked for that Christmas, Santa brought her one.My Twinn Dolls are custom made dolls designed to look like the child they are for, hence the name MY Twinn. To create a doll, you go through a series of steps to pick features that most match...

We recently finished a bathroom in the basement of our house. My husband found a vanity top he liked and we looked for months for a cabinet we liked to go with it. We wanted something a little different that had some character to it and did not look like a basic in stock home improvement store cabinet.The one we finally settled on is part of the Crosscreek cabinetry line from Kraftmaid and is c...

Last Spring we decided we wanted to grow a little container garden on our bottom deck. To save some money on the containers, I had the painters who painted our house save me some of the 5 gallon paint buckets they used. I have always been a big fan of Miracle Grow products and I had a few left over bags from other projects which I was planning to use on the garden to also save some money but wh...

Our new house came with a Rheem Fury Rheemglas Energy Miser water heater model # 82v52.2 It has a 50 gallon tank with both upper and lower heating elements and is 240 volts.  This is the first electric water heater we have ever owned and we were not familiar with the Rheem brand. We did some research on them and found that they are the number one name brand of water heaters and a favorite...

Several weekends ago I helped my ex-husband install his new all season door. It came out well but let me tell you, this project took way longer than we expected it to and took a whole bunch of tools to get it done.The door is by Anderson Windows and Doors and is the 2000 series self storing door model number 21632. The door is reversible which means that none of the hardware has been installed ...

We have a Jack and Jill bathroom in our house that is divided into 3 separate sections. The middle section is where the toilet and the bathtub are and in this section there is no cabinet or storage space. We needed a place to put things in there like soaps, extra toilet paper and other little things so we decided we needed an over the toilet cabinet also called a spacesaver in there.W...

For the project I am helping my ex-husband with, we are taking the wall surrounding his fireplace and boxing it in with wainscoting. This is a 2 step process. Step one was to paint the wall underneath in a semi gloss paint in one color. Step 2 was adding the wood strips over this color in white to complete the wainscoting look.We knew we had to plan out the placement of the wood ...

The Monarch of the Seas is Royal Caribbean's oldest and smallest ship currently in it's fleet. This was our first time sailing on her but we have been on her sister ship the Sovereign of the Seas twice before. The ships are very similar in layout and design.The Monarch was once the biggest and most advanced ship of her time but even though she is now the oldest, she is still holding up ...

My new office/craft room has a funky hip look to it and I needed an office chair that fit in. I searched high and low for one that looked different from all the basic black chairs out there and I found just the look I wanted in the Divoga modern white bucket chair.The chair has a 70's inspired rounded bucket shape and is covered in a faux white leather upholstery. It sits on a chrome base a...

I had seen Immersion Blenders used many times on TV shows on the Food Network and wanted one but did not want to pay the high price for the models they were using. I was not sure if it was going to be something I would use enough to justify spending alot of money on one. In Walmarts black Friday ad, they had one advertised for only $5.00 and it became the top item on my shopping ...

Growing your own herbs and vegetables on your balcony or patio is an easy and inexpensive way to grow some healthy food to eat and do a little gardening at the same time. It's perfect for those who have a small space or limited time for a large garden and it's a great way to teach children the joy of gardening and give them some responsibility as well.It all begins with choosing the co...

I have been helping my ex-husband decorate his house since he moved in. When we got to the downstairs bathroom, I was dreading working in there. I knew he wanted to repaint it but my past experiences with painting bathrooms have not been pleasant ones since they have so many built in obstacles that have to be worked around and getting a smooth coat of paint up is hard to do.Since we knew w...

I grew up in South Florida and every home we had down there had at least 1 sliding glass door. If we were ever locked out of the house, the first door we would try to get into was one of the sliding doors because they could be easily shaken and pushed off their tracks. My father used to take broom stick handles and put them down on the bottom tracks to keep the door from pushing open as easily,...

What do you get when you mix a Convertible, a SUV and a Transformer? The answer is the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited.Meet Bumblebee (yes, we name our cars), he is a 2008 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited 4 X 2 and he is a whole lot of fun. Yes, I know in this day of high fuel prices that he was probably not the most fuel efficient vehicle we could have chosen, but it is the car my husband has wanted for&n...

I recently stumbled upon a travel package that saved me a ton of time and money too. It was for our trip to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to visit the amusement park Dollywood.We live about 4 hours from Pigeon Forge so we were driving there but still need to find a place to stay and get tickets to the park. Pigeon Forge and the Gatlinburg area have hundreds of hotels. I knew finding one was going to ...

I developed a true appreciation for this product when I helped my 7 year old son with a school project this weekend. Ghostline posterboard is just like traditional posterboard in ever way except it had lines already drawn on it to make projects fast and easy. I purchased ours in a pack of 3 but I think many stores sell them as single sheets as well. They run a bit more money than plain white po...

As you can tell from my nickname I am a Disney fan. We collect many Disney related items but we tend to focus on our favorite characters which are the Disney Villains. Unfortunately merchandise related to them is much more limited than with many of the other characters so we were very surprised to find this puzzle in the Dollar Store of all places.This puzzle just happens to be of my husbands f...