So I’ve set a new goal for myself this year: at least 1 blog article each week. It may be a long post, but could be just a short mention of another product, Columbus business or cleaning tip. It doesn’t matter which, but a post-a-week it is. It’s your job to help keep me honest.

This week’s Mosaic Mention? Ceiling fans. How many of us run our ceiling fans all summer, turn them off in the fall when it gets chilly, take one look at the giant streaming dust-bunny and turn them right back on again? Never mind all that dust they’re tossing into the air. I mean, if you can’t see it, it’s not there, right? Well, here’s a quick and easy way to clean your ceiling fans.

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Last week I had the chance to clean for a friend who has a toddler and one on the way. Because she is concerned about the Earth her children will inherit, and because she totally rocks, she requested that I do a “green clean” of her place.  Great!  However, I had never done a green clean before and wanted to be sure to do it right.

I very easily could have gone to the mega-store down the road and purchased a whole line-up of  products newly designed and marketed by the major manufacturers of everyday cleaning stuff, but that didn’t feel right somehow. I want to do green cleaning, but not boost the bottom line of the companies who are simply cashing in on this ‘latest trend’.  So I did a little reasearch.

I hopped on the Internet and found tons of resources for making my own products!

Many of the recipes that I ended up using came from the blogs of  Annie B. Bond on the Care2.com site.  One of my favorite recipes was for “Creamy Soft Scrubber”:

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