As many of you know, I like to organize my craft room....a LOT!
When I come across the perfect organizing "thing", I pick it up. If I won't use it, I know one of you will! How do I know that? Because many of you ask when I'm going to come organize your stamp room for you...that's how! I can't come to your house and organize for you, but I sure can keep my eye out for fun finds to make your organizing easier. :)
This wooden rack is one of those things I recently picked up. I thought my punches may fit in it, but that wasn't so. However, this would make a kick-butt ink pad holder! You would have a column for each of the 4 SU color families and have 8 slots left for in-colors or whatever.
I cleaned this rack up for quite awhile. My e-cloth Cleaning and Dusting Wand was the PERFECT tool for the job! I also patched up a couple spots with wood glue. Now the rack is clean and ready for a new life...tucked into a happy stamp room somewhere in Springfield. ;)
I just have one of these. If you would like to purchase, be the first to contact me. Local buyer only. Thanks!
If you are reading this, then you are more than likely on your computer, laptop, or smart phone often...surfing blogs and Facebook, shopping online...you love your electronics and you know it! :)
That's why I wanted to tell you about an effective, easy, and safe way to keep your precious gadgets clean, clear, and shiny! If you are like me, sometimes the electronics are a little neglected in the cleaning department. But think of all the germs, dirt, and grime that they must collect as much as we use them on a daily basis.
I am very happy that e-cloth includes electronic cleaning in their home cleaning line. And right now you can get the Electronics Spray Cleaner and the Electronics Cloth together, on sale, in an Electronics Cleaning Pack.
When I started purchasing e-cloths as a customer....six orders in two weeks, mind you....Jeff asked, "Does e-cloth have something to clean electronic screens with?" What a great question!
And I had the answer. I knew e-cloth sold something for electronics. But to be honest, it looks like some weird contraption, and I just wasn't sure about that.
Despite the weird packaging, I HAD wanted to try the electronics cleaner and cloth, but I didn't want Jeff to judge me for how many e-cloths I had already purchased. But now, here he was, practically telling me to buy more. Place another order? Really? OK!
First, I told him that the cleaner and cloth had been sold on QVC and there was a video. So as any very romantic couple would do, we had a date night moment where we sat and watched the QVC taping together. Aw, how sweet!
You can watch it, too. Grab your guy, pop some popcorn, and cuddle...here ya go!
QVC always seals the deal, doesn't it?! ;)
Jeff said, "Let's get it." I said, "Cool, can I add another General Purpose Cloth while I'm at it?" HA!
Once we got the electronics cleaning stuff, Jeff became obsessed with cleaning all the screens on the televisions, his reader, his i-Pod, his phone. And even though I expected Jeff to become our resident electronics cleaning man, I have actually become hooked on taking care of my own devices with e-cloth. I love how slick, clean, and shiny they are! You know...remember how clean they were when you first got them? That's how clean I am talking!
Important Note: If you have already have home cleaning e-cloths like General Purpose and Glass Polishing, don't use those on your electronic screens. The microfibers "pull" grime and bacteria so well that they can take off protective coatings on your screens. However, I do use a damp General Purpose on my keyboards and around screens, just not ON them.
I also love that the cleaning spray is non-toxic and non-aerosol. Good for the environment and right in line with the e-cloth mission. And it not only cleans, but adds a protective layer.
I highly recommend cleaning your electronics with these, and picking up this pack while it's on sale for over 1/2 off!
The QVC price on the Electronics Cleaning Pack was $24.55 after shipping. Right now we have it priced at $11.99 with FREE shipping in our e-cloth store here at Milk Allergy Mom. :)
Scroll down a little further to add it to your cart and enjoy the convenient and secure check-out through Paypal using your Paypal account or a credit/debit card.
Today I want to show you how I use General Purpose e-cloths in my craft room. To learn how e-cloths work with just water and no chemicals, just click here. There's a quick video you can watch. Many of you know how much I love my craft room. And I share a lot of my supplies because I teach stamping classes in my home. Sometimes I get in the mood to sanitize my ink pads, plastic stamp cases, markers, and acrylic blocks...especially during flu season! Now I quickly and easily use water and e-cloth.
Some complain that their rubber stamps don't cling to their acrylic blocks well. Well, that happens because of the grime on the blocks. e-cloth cleans up our pretty clear blocks like nobody's business! Get your cling back, ladies!
As you may see from our new header, I am going to start incorporating some info about cleaning with e-cloths at this blog now. At my other blog, Milk Allergy Mom, we started selling these chemical-free cleaning cloths as part of our mission to help allergy families. But really, chemical-free cleaning is for everyone! I think you, my crafty friends, will like the quickness and cost savings that comes with using e-cloths. My cleaning time is literally now cut in half...not to mention that my family is now also getting on board with the household chores more. And with not buying chemicals and e-cloths lasting about 6 years, e-cloths save a lot of money, too! Those are two things that we crafters need more of: TIME AND MONEY! More time and more money for playing and crafting! Can I get an "amen, Sister!"? So let me tell you a little bit (ok, a lot) about e-cloth and why I love the product so dang much! SCIENTIFIC PROOF These high-end microfiber cloths are scientifically proven to pick up over 99% of common household bacteria. That means you don't need chemicals to clean most surfaces. With just water, e-cloth was proven to remove more bacteria than bleach!
CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY Cutting-edge microfiber technology happens in Asia, and e-cloths are made in Korea. The factory works with e-cloth to continually come up with new textile innovations. The e-cloth factory in Korea also adheres to strict fair labor rules and is checked on by the e-cloth company regularly.
A TRACK RECORD e-cloth has been in the U.K. since 1995 and has become Europe's number one chemical-free cleaning company. They guarantee their product for 300 washes, and that means up to 6 years with once-a-week machine washings.
In the last five years, e-cloth has expanded into Canada, the U.S. and South America. We are fortunate to be part of spreading the word about chemical-free cleaning.
EASY CLEANING AND AMAZING RESULTS Microfiber technology allows e-cloths to actually pick up crud instead of just smear it around. No more corralling all the dirt and grime into a corner and then trying to retrieve it into a cotton rag. Just do some back and forth motions with a damp e-cloth and surfaces come squeaky clean and dry quickly.
No more spraying a chemical onto the surface, wiping with a wet rag, rinsing with a water rag, and drying with a dry towel. Ack! Too many steps and boo chemicals!
What about grease and tough grime? With e-cloths, I have cleaned tough grease off my stove hood with just water, gotten soap scum out of the tub with no cleaning products, and Jeff is having too much fun cleaning out disgusting coffee pots at his office. He had his co-worker clean this coffee pot with a damp General Purpose e-cloth on the end of a knife. Jeff said the coffee pot didn't even smell like coffee anymore!
LAST FOR DAYS BETWEEN WASHINGS WITH NO STINK!
Not only does quality microfiber pick up gunk amazingly well, but it also releases over 99% of bacteria when rinsed in a faucet. After a cleaning job, just rinse the cloth in warm water with a little soap and hang it to dry. These cloths dry quickly, within hours, and then they are like new again because the bacteria is gone.
No more smelly cloths.
The cloth that Jeff used on the coffee pot just got rinsed in hot water with a little soap, and then we continued to use it on other jobs!
I do wash our cloths about once a week as a matter of principle. The cloths have specific washing instructions to help them last for years. HUSBANDS & KIDS CAN HELP With e-cloth, cleaning is so safe and easy, that everyone can get involved!
Remember, you are just using water so even small children can help and succeed.
My husband actually likes to help me clean with e-cloths because he is still in the "astonished stage".
And now I'm just in charge of the few chemical cleaning jobs we have left: inside toilets, inside the oven, dishes, and laundry. That's it.
HIGHEST QUALITY ~ LOWEST PRICES When Real Simple magazine featured e-cloth's General Purpose Cloths, they were right when they said not all microfiber is created equal. e-cloth is not the same as big box store microfiber. The difference is that e-cloth washes up great, lasts for years, and gives fantastic results!
But e-cloth price points are literally 1/3 to 1/2 that of other high-end microfiber companies. There's just not a lot of mark-up at e-cloth because we sell direct to customers, and I love that!
FREE SHIPPING Not only does e-cloth have the best price points for high-end microfiber, but we also ship ANY size orders for FREE within the lower 48 states! I put in 6 consecutive orders within two weeks as a customer because it didn't cost me any shipping to keep shopping and keep trying more product. That's pretty awesome for an online store!
LOOK FOR THE PINK CUPCAKE If you are in the market to shop for some chemical-free cleaning cloths, we hope that you will shop at our store, e-cloth Allergy Friendly, with the pink cupcake.
Please spread the word about chemical-free cleaning. Your friends will thank you for sharing a safer, healthier, and easier way to clean! And of course, we would love you to send them our way. :)
TAKE THE CHEMICAL-FREE CHALLENGE! I always suggest starting out with the General Purpose Cloth as it is very versatile and can be used in kitchens, bathrooms, for dusting, and even on windows when paired with a Glass & Polishing Cloth. Plus, it was chosen as the "Best Overall Cleaning Product" by Real Simple!
Thank you for all your support, and we look forward to continually sharing more about e-cloth along with plenty of crafting and organizing (as always) with you! If you have any questions, please ask.
I've been organizing this week! I have figured out that this pretty much happens each new year. It's kind of how I celebrate my birthday. ;)
Click on the pictures to see more details as you read on.
My file cabinet still holds my card rack for cards I am selling. Something new is putting cards from friends into a huge glass canister. I love that! Both the rack and canister are on my file cabinet. I decided to tape pictures onto the file cabinet as putting them on with magnets was getting messy looking. Now I freed up some cutesy magnets for my magnetic dry erase board (see later).
My white tower shelf is still full of baskets. Baskets for giveaways, baskets of sale items, baskets of card samples... Oh, and plates for food photos at Milk Allergy Mom.
My favorite part of the tower is the crate of blue jars. I got these at resale stores. The wood clothespins are good for wrapping ribbon around. And the wood cubes are just decorative until my boys ask for them.
My stand-up table now houses an oblong milk glass dish (great for holding accessory containers from SU), a ceramic egg carton from Mike's, my Joann's white organizer (bought last year), and my adorable new, purple ceramic strawberry basket. Squeeeeel! Love it!
Oooo, my hutch shelves are reorganized. I kept the canisters up top. But I put my Copics and Sharpies out now. The Sharpies look much happier in the milk glass goblets. Ooooo la la! More milk glass houses SU accessory containers. Love my metal shopping cart from the antique store and wire basket from consignment, too. They house ribbon. The Sizzix embossing machine matches the Copics tote too well...on accident. The little white coffee cup is from Goodwill. :) And a big thing of twine always adds a natural touch, don't you think?
I am REALLY liking this new solution. On my sit-down table, I put a wine crate across the front. It was from an antique store, and I got it for free when I bought all the blue jars inside it. I would have paid for the crate. ;) But don't tell them that. I put the perfect sized milk glass vases inside to corral all my go-to supplies like clear blocks, writing tools, and the candy dish of course!
And I am GAGA over the clothespins that clip nicely onto the crate. It's now the perfect place to clip up my finished products or notes as I work. Last night I finished these cards for upcoming Stamp Club.
More things I dust are the items on my Memory Keepers wall shelf. I collected some ice cream dishes, salt shakers, and milk glass vases at Goodwills and consignment. I bought my Ball Jars at Meijer although they are usually at resale places.
In case you are wondering, I don't live at Goodwill and consignment stores. I just get in the mood a couple times a year to go searching for things. And I always find useful items! Then I get it out of my system for 6 months or so. :) My garage sales are always part of my purging and making room for more treasure finds because I'm not really a hoarder.
I love having all these special, unique items as part of my organizing. Cutesy items inspire me, and I love to be in my stamp room surrounded by all the fun things around me.
But with all this cutesy stuff on display comes dusting. I get asked about that. And honestly, I don't dust as much as I should. But in my reorganizing, I used my new e-cloth dust cloths and seriously, they made the job MUCH easier. It's nice when a cloth will actually PICK UP the dust and not just push it around and into the air. I foresee dusting more often now that I have e-cloths!
Last weekend, I attended an overnight crop. I had a blast! I talked more than I cropped, but that's another topic. ;)
As many of you know, my Milk Allergy Mom blog is now an online retailer for e-cloth's microfiber cleaning products, "the perfect cleaning with just water". e-cloth has been in the UK for nearly 20 years, and the products are used to clean and disinfect using just water! Chemical-free cleaning is all over Europe and Canada, and I hope it takes off in the U.S. soon because we use too many chemicals!
I've become a bit obsessed and attached to my easy cleaning cloths so I actually took them along to the crop. One, I had to show them off. And two, I planned to use them if needed. :)
And as it turns out, I found a damp General Purpose Cloth most helpful with my crafting! 1. A damp General Purpose Cloth kept my table area squeaky clean. Quick drying is awesome! 2. A damp General Purpose Cloth cleaned acrylic blocks and rubber stamps to restore a great cling! 3. A damp General Purpose Cloth kept my fingers clean, no fingerprints on my pictures!
With playing with my "greasy" hair often and snacking continually, being able to wipe my hands clean with just water was a huge time saver at the crop. No more getting up to wash my hands at a sink all the time to keep my pictures clean. Quick wipes with the e-cloth also saved my dry, cracked hands from too much soap and water washing.
If you want a cloth for wiping fingerprints off of your PICTURES, you would need to use a dry cloth. I recommend the "Glasses Cloth" as a small, compact option for crafters. :)
Did you know that e-cloth's General Purpose Cloth was chosen by Real Simple Magazine as the "Best Overall Cleaning Product" for 2012?! It's good for up to 300 machine washings, dries quickly, and can be used all over your home (kitchens, bathrooms, dusting, crafting, windows, etc) for sanitizing and cleaning with just water!
If you would like to subscribe to our e-cloth emails about periodic sales, JUST CLICK HERE.
And if you would like to purchase your own General Purpose Cloth to try, you can click the cupcake logo on the top right sidebar to enter our store and look around or you can simply click below to purchase the General Purpose Cloth. It comes in yellow, blue, dark green, and my favorite...lavender. :) I would love you to give e-cloth and chemical-free cleaning a try. I guarantee you will love it!
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