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This is a guest post from Grace at Blessed Elements.

I’ve lived a ‘Going Green’ Life Style even before it became popular. We use to refer to it
as living the Polly Pioneer life.

Some people begin the adventure but become disillusioned as it takes organization and
work. Buying the ingredients and making your own soap from scratch takes time and
effort compared to the convenience of opening a bottle and pouring the laundry soap into
the washer with soap bought from the store.

The health results are well worth it but there is work that goes into being a ‘greenie’.
If your interested in making the switch to a ‘greener’ life style then you may enjoy
beginning to make your own clothes detergent.

Here is my recipe for making my own detergent and I’ve kept it as simple as possible.
I keep mine as a powder rather than making a liquid because I have no desire to spend
more time by cooking my soap.

I use three ingredients for my soap powder.

Fels-Naptha – The manufacturer states that the soap grated and added to a wash cycle,
about 1/16th a bar’s worth of Fels-Naptha per load, is said to eliminate residual resins that
can remain in clothes up to a year.

Washing Soda – Washing Soda is a natural water softener, boosts detergent cleaning
power by 40percent as it cleans and deodorizes.

Borax – Is useful for [Read more…]

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Welcome to this week’s Giveaway Gala! Each week, this linky will be featured on the Fabulous Collective Media Magic blogs. You can add your giveaways as well, and they will also be featured. Make sure you check out our featured giveaways while you are here 🙂

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With your hosts:

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1 – The first rule about the Retweet Club is to talk about the Retweet Club.

2 – Tweet the last entry on the spreadsheet (copy and paste!) – The first spot will always be about the RT Club post!

3 – Choose any post you want that’s family friendly!

4 – Add your tweet to be retweeted – typed AS you want it tweeted (refer to the first spot for an example). Please make sure it is only 140 characters.

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6 – You can retweet more than one and post more than one request. We ask that you retweet one for each that you post. We will randomly tweet off the list too.

Optional – You can follow the hosts and send us a tweet telling us you are part of the #RTClub and we’ll follow you back!

If you’d like the code to post the listing on your blog, please contact me and I’ll send it to you.

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So lets say you always wanted to be a cowboy or cowgirl. Maybe a little Carrie Underwood playing in your car when no one is around? Or maybe you are just a country music fan who wants to learn some new moves.
Game Mill has a a game for you, Country Dance 2.

Country Dance 2 is the second in the series. This time there are eighteen award winning artists singing in 30 hit tracks. Take a look at this track list. When playing most of the dancing involves moving your arms around, because you are using the wii remote to track where you are. This might not sound very fun, but the controller is quite sensitive and the game play is spot on. Your [Read more…]

Skylanders is one of the most popular gifts this holiday season. There are quite a few layers to Skylanders- We will start at the most basic and fun and get deeper from there.

Skylanders is a 3d platformer for just about every platform out there right now , 3DS, Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3. The main characters are the Skylanders, who are monster-type characters who are fighting an evil force trying to destroy their world. For kids it is easy to understand and get into. Now comes the interesting part. The main character with whom you play as is also an action figure who is in the real world. Once this figure is placed on the portal, the character comes to life in the video game.

There are also light rpg elements to the game as well. There is leveling up as enemies are defeated and special items are collected, which are silly hats. This adds an exploration element to the game and is a bit more to bite into for more experienced players.

The physical figures themselves are very interesting. The figures have RFID’s encoded in them which means all your data for your character, the level ups, the currency, the collectibles [Read more…]