Things I Like Episode 1

The Cleanse was derailed by my intervening life... fear not, it will return once I have sorted things out with said life. In the interim I am starting this series of pictures posts chronicling things I like about my home and everyday habits, things that ground me and make me smile. Enjoy!

1) Hot biscuit cinnamon buns, with orange drippy glaze...

2) The weekly Famer's Market haul arranged on my table...

3) Sunny heirloom cherry tomatoes in my (invisible) pyrex mixing bowls...

4) The prism that fills my kitchen with rainbows...

5) My husbands shoes, recently returned from the shop and smelling like shoe polish...

7) My wonderful husband, happily eating pancakes with applesauce on them... *grin*

That's all for today, more to come in the next week!

Yours,

DD

The Cleanse: Day One

So,

One a scale of 1-5 stars for accomplishment in house cleaning, I'd say today is about a 2. I did manage to keep the kitchen straight, thus far, the living room is somewhat less cluttered, and the upstairs bathroom has been mostly cleaned. However, if I am going to get this house in order anytime soon, I'll have to do better than that each day.

On the other hand, I did accomplish the canning of peaches this morning! It is the start of the very brief peach season here in Cbus, so BW and I buy them when they are available. We can only eat so many peaches before they rot, so canning it is! I canned these peach halves using the hot pack method in a medium syrup (my 50's cookbooks say that's sirup, with an i) and then a water bath. They look lovely sitting on my counter cooling. I hope they will taste just as lovely when we go to eat them!

Tomorrow's Cleanse quest: Master Bedroom...

Starting Over: The Cleanse

Well,

It's been just over a year since I wrote anything here. In the intervening year I have gotten married, been working harder as a freelance choreographer and dancer, and have officially quit my day job, thanks to my wonderful and supportive husband. So, let's start over shall we?

I have a unique opportunity to be exactly what I want to be: a housewife with real career to back it up. My choreography doesn't take up nearly all of my time, so when I am home the natural thing to do it keep house. Our apartment has suffered form our busy schedules, when I was working close to 60 hrs a week and BW was working 40, there wasn't much time to make the apartment ours. My first mission as a true Deviant Domestic is to get the house functioning, one space at a time.

First stop: upstairs!...