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Feng Shui For Your Bed – 4 Steps
Wednesday, 7 Apr, 2010 – 12:44 | View Comments
Feng Shui For Your Bed – 4 Steps

Adapted from Feng Shui and Health, The Anatomy of a Home, by Nancy SantoPietro.
The most important interior factor affecting your health in your bedroom and in your home is the positioning of your bed.
If …

Light and Lemony Dusting Cloth – DIY Diva
Monday, 5 Apr, 2010 – 9:20 | View Comments
Light and Lemony Dusting Cloth – DIY Diva

Traditionally, food grade lemon oil has been used for dusting furniture because it is so lubricating and antispectic. I’ve included it in this excellent, natural, dust-removal formula.
You can also add the aromatherapy benefits of …

Tick Repellent – Detox Diva DIY
Sunday, 4 Apr, 2010 – 18:43 | View Comments
Tick Repellent – Detox Diva DIY

I researched deeply into herbalist lore to find a natural tick repellent, and eventually found rose geranium. I’ve used this formula on my dogs’ collars, and dabbed it on my myself and my family before …

The Love Shake – The Great Earth Day Smoothie Contest!
Thursday, 1 Apr, 2010 – 17:55 | View Comments
The Love Shake – The Great Earth Day Smoothie Contest!

Join GreenChiCafe’s The Great Earth Day Smoothie Contest! Send in your favorites, and we will put them on the site and choose our faves (heavily influenced by your comments) on Earth Day 2010, April 22nd. …

Best-kept Secrets of Housebreaking a Dog! Life, Love, and Laughter with Dogs
Wednesday, 31 Mar, 2010 – 12:18 | View Comments
Best-kept Secrets of Housebreaking a Dog! Life, Love, and Laughter with Dogs

One of the Life, Love, and Laughter with Dogs blog series by Annie Bailey.
I am currently immersed in puppy training with our new Queensland pup Mick. He is learning to differentiate between putting his …

Nontoxic Spring Cleaning Kit – DIY Diva
Tuesday, 30 Mar, 2010 – 9:26 | View Comments
Nontoxic Spring Cleaning Kit – DIY Diva

In the old days, spring cleaning meant giving everything in the house–curtains, bedding, corner cupboards–a thorough wash to remove the soot from winter fires and lamp oil. These days, of course, most of us heat …

Outwit Dust Mites
Monday, 29 Mar, 2010 – 12:58 | View Comments
Outwit Dust Mites

Dust mites thrive on sloughed-off human and animal skin. Given that 70 percent of dust is human skin (now that is hard to believe, but humans shed 10 pounds of skin a year), they thrive …

Simple Shaker Lemon Pie
Monday, 29 Mar, 2010 – 11:38 | View Comments
Simple Shaker Lemon Pie

by Debra Lynn Dadd, “The Queen of Green” – New York Times, author of Home Safe Home www.dld123.com
I live in Clearwater, Florida where there are old citrus trees in almost everyone’s backyard. My lemon tree …

Apricot, Coconut, Banana Smoothie
Friday, 26 Mar, 2010 – 5:25 | View Comments
Apricot, Coconut, Banana Smoothie

This is a perfect summer smoothie, when apricots are fresh and sweet, but it is a smoothie for the Gods. Apricot and coconut are a perfect combination, as neither cancels the other out, and banana’s …

No-Grain Muffins with Orange Zest
Friday, 26 Mar, 2010 – 5:20 | View Comments
No-Grain Muffins with Orange Zest

Dr. Joseph Mercola says that grains and carbohydrates make you fat, and in his book The No-Grain Diet, he offers ways to conquer cravings by eliminating grains. Here is provides “muffin” in all but …