Crunchy Betty
Food on Your Face
One of my biggest pet peeves since starting this journey into making household products is putting deliciously nontoxic cleaners into empty plastic spray bottles.
It just seems so wrong on so many levels. If we're trying …
I just asked Skip to help me with inspiration to introduce this homemade all-purpose cleaner, because it's refreshingly effective and so easy to make. It zips away grease and stuck-on grime like a magician disappearing a …
Remember when we defined "crunchy" a while back?
(That day was beautiful.)
Well, we also came up with the term "soggy" to represent products that were ... well ... the opposite of crunchy.
To take it further: I'd …
All day – all day – I spent trying to figure out how to tint lip gloss with food so it didn’t contain water, so we wouldn’t have to worry about preservatives. No go. And, actually, Crunchy Amanda …
Hello, lovelies.
If you have not written your letter to a loved one yet, I highly suggest you do so now. Before reading any further.
Because I'm about to reveal the purpose of this, and it will be far more meaningful …
Today we're going to do something wholly different.
It's a two-parter, which is why I'm getting a jump on things. The second part of this exercise will happen Monday afternoon at some point.
It will be the moment when …
Lord help me, people. I've spent the last two days trying to write a concise, easy guide to essential oils and their safety, and it ended up being just an enormous dump of information that no would want to ingest in a single …
You know how, if your pants fall down just a little tiny bit when you're leaning over and a millimeter of your crack shows? A MILLIMETER?
Everyone CAN see that. Everyone sees it. Even the men in the space …
What does "crunchy" mean to you?
While you're reading, ponder this.
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You belong to a tribe. If you're reading this, if you've ever commented on this site, if this reaches your email inbox, if you've sent me an …
Meet Binky. She’s a good robot, as far as robots go. She’s a little immodest, but we won’t hold that against her. Binky serves two purposes. She gives and she gets. When she gives, it is good. What she …
Who noticed? The distress ink in the picture tile tutorial? I didn’t say a word about it. Today, though, I’m going to. Say several words about it. (And at the bottom you’ll find a whole heap o’ photos …
Lately I've been having this huge urge to decorate the house. This is big news. I do not decorate.
Arguably, one of the reasons why is because I. absolutely. hate. to. buy. mass. produced. decor. (Also, I can't ever …
Guest Post by Sarah O’Leary, Wellness The Natural Way
Ah, romance. It’s everywhere – from the inane romantic comedies that Hollywood subjects us to each year, to entire publishing companies devoted to churning out …
Not one single natural ingredient has me quite as verklempt as borax.
Nearly every "green cleaning" site lists it as a wonder cleaner. Natural beauty books are rife with suggesting it as a hair softener. People put it in …
My grandmother would hum while she swept.
"You are my *swish*shine ... my only *swish*shine ..."
Her fragile alto voice would tremble a little at the high notes, but she always managed to cover it perfectly with a …
