Housekeeping Hits - Music to clean house by!

1. I’m A Woman - Jerry Leiber
2. Respect - Otis Redding
3. I’m Every Woman - Ashford
4. I Will Survive - Dino Fekaris
5. Morning Train (Nine To Five) - Florrie Palmer
6. Proud Mary - John Fogerty
7. On The Radio - Donna Summer
8. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Carole King
9. Walking On Sunshine - Kimberley Rew
10. You Can’t Hurry Love - Edward Holland

Dyson DC17 Animal - The most powerful upright for pet hair. Outcleans all other vacuums, room after room. Level 3 Root Cyclone technology. Unique cleaner head and motorized brushbar for the bets pick-up across all floor types.

You know how sometimes, you vacuum your carpet and it looks clean from one angle but when you look at the carpet from the other side of the room you can still see stuff that the vacuum cleaner left behind? That was an increasing problem with my old vacuum cleaners. I vacuum from one direction, then end up having to make a second pass from the opposite direction to make sure I got everything.

Now I know we just got it, but I CAN tell you that with the Dyson, even if you vacuumed only once and in only one direction it’s clean from ALL angles. THAT’S impressive. We just ran a Rainbow vacuum twice over our carpets a week ago and the Dyson STILL picked up 4 canisters’ worth of dust and hair. It’s kind of funny because after running the Dyson through our beige carpet, it’s so much more obvious which spots need professional cleaning . And it wasn’t kidding about the “Never loses suction” part, because the last room I vacuumed was just as clean as the first room I vacuumed.

Sure it’s expensive, but my husband and I have already gone through 2 of those $100-range vacuum cleaners. At this rate we were going to end up spending our way to the cost of a Dyson.

Feng Shui For Dummies - Take a look around you. What do you see? Whether or not you’re aware of it, your environment profoundly affects your health, wealth, family life, relationships, and yes, even your destiny. Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway), which means wind water, is the ancient Chinese study of harmony and energy flow between you and your physical surroundings. You can enrich every aspect of your life by applying Feng Shui principles to your home (inside and out) and workplace (from window office to cubicle).

Feng Shui For Dummies is for anyone who seeks a better life. This clearly written, concise, and easy-to-understand guide can help anyone to

• Create harmony and happiness in your relationships
• Increase your prosperity
• Eliminate chronic patterns of failure, difficulty, and stress
• Energize your home or workplace
• Enjoy better health

This book shows you how to feel and access the energy of your environment (it’s easier than you may think!). Find out how your environment influences your life right now. Use the solutions in this book to overcome obstacles and enhance the positive. You’ll be sure to feel the before-and-after differences.

Feng Shui For Dummies also covers the following topics and more:

• The meaning and history of Feng Shui
• Making the most of the space in your home, both inside and outside
• Tapping into the power of the five elements
• Boosting your career
• Jazzing up your bedroom for increased health, energy, and romance
• Performing blessing ceremonies
• Cleansing and curing with meditation

Within the past 10 years, Feng Shui has gained widespread popularity in the West. Today, more and more people from all walks of life are practicing Feng Shui and experiencing the positive benefits of auspicious placement. This book shows you everything you need to know to help improve the flow of harmony, creativity, and abundance in your life.

Going to try and make this a regular listing here at Domesticated Diva - - our listing of favorite links that we’ve recently come across and want to share. We found most of them very fun, informative and found some GREAT stuff for the home here:

In Great Taste — Your Favorite Cooking and Kitchen Magazines and Catalogs!

The Best Gourmet Bithday Cakes at BakeMeAWish.com

Making Things Easy For My Family

Dirt Devil Floor Keeper

Save up to 70%,
Dinnerware, China, Crystal, Stemware, Flatware, more Dishes, Decor & More

DomesticBin.com

Dutch Gardens - Free Shipping on all orders!

Back To School at Home Focus

HomeVisions.com

LandscapeUSA.com

Earn Rewards for purchasing home improvement products online!

Eureka 4870GZ Boss Smart-Vac Upright Vacuum - A nice review on this beauty of a vaccum (can vaccum cleaners be beautiful?) - Let’s face it. Most vacuums just don’t cut it when it comes to really cleaning a home or office. Pesky pet hair embeds deeper in carpet than traditional vacuums go; bits and pieces of tracked-in dirt and debris hunker down under floor trim just out of reach of the latest brush innovations, rendering us to the silliness of handpicking behind that expensive vacuum, filling our pockets with lint, and wondering-who’s really the boss? Troubles like these made the folks at Eureka get down and dirty and, ultimately, design the Boss Smart-Vac Upright Vacuum.

Offering powerful performance for everyday household cleaning, the Eureka Boss is the solution for people who insist on having a truly clean home. The Boss’s Direct Air Control System features an air selector switch that lets you direct all suction either deep into the carpet or to the hose for easy above-the-floor cleaning. The Power Paw brush makes it easy to clean stairs and upholstery, and even claws up embedded pet hair, so Fido can spend more time inside. The motorized brush lets you go from carpet- to bare floor-cleaning with the flick of a switch. The Boss Smart-Vac is powered by a beefy, 12-amp motor that provides plenty of suction power for deep cleaning carpets, and leaves nothing behind on hard floors.

Pretty smart; right? Well, here’s the really smart part. The Boss Smart-Vac isn’t just the best household carpet- and floor-cleaning vacuum on the market; it’s also equipped with a unique, sealed HEPA filtration system that captures 99.97 percent of dust, pollen, allergens, and bacteria. So, vacuuming the house doesn’t mean you have to dust afterward, or sneeze while you’re doing it. Cleaner carpets and cleaner indoor air at the same time!

Plus, the Boss is loaded with user-friendly features to take the frustration out of vacuuming. A wide cleaning path covers a lot of ground quickly before company comes. And, unlike inferior models, the Boss is designed with a brush-view window that shows you how hard it’s working, letting you actually see the powerful brush roller remove dirt from carpets and floors. The exclusive dust trap system captures debris and dust in three stages. A handy stretch hose extends to five times its original length for reaching around furniture and sucking the cobwebs off the ceiling. And, a 30-foot cord won’t leave you coming up short. The bare floor brush is designed to smoothly glide across wood and tile floors while picking up more dust and debris in corners and along baseboards than any other model.

Consumers rate this one with 5 stars (on a scale of 1-5, 5 being the best).

Book Description
In her latest book, best-selling author of The Not So Big House Sarah Susanka teams up with architectural design writer Marc Vassallo to expand upon the message that has resonated with over a million homeowners and builders across the country: opting for personalized, well-crafted, thoughtfully designed spaces over superfluous square footage results in a home that comforts and nourishes those who live there.
In Inside The Not So Big House, Susanka and Vassallo focus their lens on the tangible and sometimes intangible details that bring an otherwise ordinary home to life. Incorporating such details as dropped ceilings, built-in shelves, pocket doors, window seats, and well-placed alcoves infuses a home with the character of its owners and conveys a uniqueness that’s mising in many homes built or remodeled today. From Rhode Island to San Diego, the 23 homes featured here illustrate exceptional attention to detail. Each offers inspiration for those building or remodeling to transform their home into an expression of all that is important to them. “Detail is everything in design. Sarah Susanka proves it again with this, her latest book.”

Major home clean up projects can be messy and difficult to contain the mess! I don’t care HOW strong your 2-ply Hefty bag is - - there aren’t enough bags to clean up some garages (taking a peek inside my own!)

Renting a rolling trash box is an efficient, economical way to handle extra trash when you clear overgrown landscaping or vacant lots, demolish the old work shed in the back, tear off an old roof or clean out the garage or basement.

Dumpsters are a weekly rental with delivery and pick-up in included in the price. Some companies will charge a flat fee per size of box, while others may charge one fee for the box and an additional dumping fee according to the weight of the material inside, especially if it exceeds a predetermined weight limit.

Boxes have weight limits, so you may need to rent smaller boxes to contain heavy materials such as dirt, tree stumps and and concrete.

Domesticated Diva is coming soon - keep your eyes peeled here! Covering domesticated topics from home improvement, home cleaning tips and all other sorts of tid bits interesting to women who run households, raise kids, hold down a career and sometimes find time to iron the wrinkles out of something!

Getting ready to launch this blog meant getting the fun and colorful design up and functioning first - - then installing some functional addons and scripts that will hopefully make this place run smoothly. Regular blogging to begin here soon!

In the meantime, let me introduct you to my NUMBER ONE cleaning product EVER!

I just have to say, I love Mr. Clean’s Magic Eraser. Just got done spiffing up the kitchen (I clean in order to blow off some steam) - and tried them out for the first time and just won’t ever go back, I swear. Counters, cabinets, the stove, the fridge .. and even the dirty little paw prints on the wall left by dirty kid hands.

Oh, and no - I get no compensation for the above message.. just one happy kitchen cleaner!