Clean Your Silver Simply

I honestly can't remember where I learned this trick. Maybe my Mom? It's pretty funky. To get the tarnish off your silver and help it go from this:

To this:

In just a few minutes all you need are three ingredients:

Tin Foil 

Baking Soda

Hot Water

~Take a pot of hot water and line it with tinfoil. Add lots of baking soda.... perhaps half a cup? Put the silver in the water (make sure it makes contact with the foil). 

That's the mug in the mixture. 

It should take more than a couple of minutes to start seeing the tarnish go. 

Take the silver out of the water and wash it gently with some mild soup to get any extra tarnish wiped away. It should be looking just peachy.    

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January Walks

We been talking some long walks in the fields around my In-Laws house on the weekends. Snow is absent from the Maine landscape right now, which makes it perfect for walking on the hard ground....skipping over the mud and slush stage completely. Our dogs have been loving these wintry walks....often running so hard during it than when they get home, the sleep the rest of the day away. 

Curious Chloe

                Bounding Buddy

Some beavers have dammed up a large area of a nearby stream, making for some fun (but cautious) walking on the iced up shallows. 

The larger stream that meanders by the field is a favorite skating spot of some locals. But, it's important to wait until the ice is completely frozen....one skater on this ice was fine, but all of us standing in the same area made the ice groan. We decided to walk home through the field instead. 

 The swampy area abounds with old wood.

Winter berries and a black lab completely content.

My husband spotted this bald eagle as we drove home the day before our walk. He was perched in a tree over the river. They live their lives over the river, nesting nearby, and fishing all day. Usually these birds are seen gliding high over the city. 

Maggie's Direct Down Pillow

Everybody wants to sleep on my pillow. 

This was not always the case. For the longest time, I had a regular pillow with synthetic stuffing. A recent review opportunity gave me the chance to have a very very *special* pillow that is total decadence for my head. 

I'm not even exaggerating. 

I am a late night blogger, which means my hubby usually goes to bed before me. Every night when I try to get into bed, I find my husband snoozing on my new pillow....he *never* did that before. I don't blame him; I look forward to sleeping on my pillow every night. It is really plush but has a good amount of give so that your head can settle into alignment with the rest of your body. I just wish I had a pillow for every bed in the house!! Something else that looks incredible on the site:

700 Fill Cotten Sateen Down Comforter 

Maggie's Direct is the company that sent me this pillow (that everyone in my household covets). They are located in Maine and their goal is to make high quality products at low cost to the consumer. They manufacture down comforters, pillows, featherbeds, and comforter covers right out of their factory. They don't have a retail store and they don't mail out expensive catalogs....you can find them only on the internet, which helps to keep their overhead low. 

Maggie's Direct is a social networking shopping site. They use the power of word of mouth and referrals to pass the word along about their company. You earn social bucks to spend money on their site, and you also earn money through anyone you refer. It's a great deal!!

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I received product for reimbursement for this post. All opinions are my own and written in my own words.