Addicted to Pinterest, but blogging? Not so much.

I'm terrible at blogging.  I'm a perfectionist.  I don't want to post something half-assed, half finished, or only half intelligible.  (I do like finding things half price, though!)

The good news is I've been busy DOING THINGS!

I've organized my crafty projects into a binder . . .


though organized is a pretty generous word.  I've PRINTED them, and stuck em in a three hole punch and put them IN a binder.  Someday soon I will come to sorting and actually organizing them, but for the moment they're in a collective space where my husband won't kill me or I won't kill him for throwing away page 3 of 5 of the instructions I was working on (because inevitably I would have been on page 2).




I also have done much cleaning the house since my last post.  (Yay for a clean house!)  We've all got that *ONE* spot that signifies a clean house, even if the rest of the place is a complete sty.  For me, it's the stairs.  After a lot of searching, I extracted the brush attachment from some clutter (oops!) and vacuumed the stairs, so all is right in the world again.

Before - ick

After!

I also followed the advice on Chris and Robin's Nest about how to clean microfiber furniture.  My results weren't nearly as stunning as displayed on the blog, but I was pretty pleased that hubby came home and noticed an immediate difference. 

The instructions basically are to vacuum to get any dirt, pet hair, and crumbs off the surface, spray rubbing alcohol, and then rub it with a white sponge (to avoid color transfer) and then a white scrub brush (to "fluff" the fabric again).  

A few additions or substitutions I would make to the instructions: I'm not sure why I had difficulty with the "scrub sponge" (which I took to mean magical eraser type of thing) . . . .maybe my Dollar General magic erasers weren't up to par, but they nearly disintegrated/exploded immediately upon scrubbing.  So after ending up with two erasers in pieces, I decided to go ahead and use white rags.  They seemed to be easier on the hands to me, and worked pretty well in extracting the liquid and dirt.
 

Ewwww. . . that was on my couch!

Exploded off-brand eraser sponge.

 Another thing that wasn't mentioned in the blog that I found effective was to not let the rubbing alcohol sit on the surface.  After a few tries on a few cushions, I basically sprayed a fine mist and immediately applied the elbow grease. 

I felt a bit like the Pinterest mythbusters.  I realized that one of the downfalls of Pinterest was that people read the one or two lines below a pin/picture, think "Great! I can use this!" and repin it.  A snowball effect ensues, and suddenly everyone is repinning this with very few going to the site, and even fewer having actually attempted the trick.  Of course, I mean no disrespect to Robin, nor do I mean to convey that this trick didn't work.  It just didn't work FOR ME exactly as prescribed in the blog, thus my additions here.

Tomorrow I have a training session for a work at home job I've picked up (hooray!).  Since the little man will be at the sitter's house (and the house is clean!), maybe I can get really crafty tomorrow!