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Hi there!

I hope that you had a great week.

Like I said in my last post, we have been extremely busy around here.  I can’t believe that my last post was on Monday night!  I have not been a good blogger lately…opps!

I am ready for trick-or-treating this weekend, how about you?

I have told you all before that I receive a lot emails from my Shaklee customers telling me how satisfied they are with their new products!  I absolutely LOVE hearing that…truly, I do!

Well, I wanted to share one email that I got last week with you.  I received this email from a customer named Joi with 17 PHOTOS…you know how I LOVE those!!!  I was soooo excited to see the awesome pictures.  Of course, I asked her if I could share with you guys and she said yes!

So here is what she wrote…

Hi Bonnie,

I am just emailing to let you know I stumbled across your blog and love it ! I was amazed by the pictures of how clean your home is and knew I had to give it a try. So I ordered the basic H and scour off along with a few mirco fiber cloths and waited anxiously for them to arrive. Within less then 3 days they arrived I felt like a child at Christmas had to open and try them right away ! I love to clean but hate having many different products to keep switching back and forth to. I have attached some before and after pictures and am so completely amazed at how great they work and love that my kids are not being exposed to awful fumes . I was able to get little fingerprints { which there are always a ton of I have a 10 year old and 3 year old twins } off my black hutch when I had tried all other products . My  kitchen sink looked so good the next morning I didn't want to put our breakfast dishes in it LOL. The granite in our kitchen has a beautiful shine and my floors feel so squeaky clean.  I am definitely  hooked and thinking about trying the dishwasher detergent next. So many thanks for the introduction to some fabulous products! 

She is such a sweetheart, isn’t she?

Thanks some much Joi!

Here are the photos that she sent me…

Here is a photo of her sink!  Gorgeous, right?  I LOVE that big single sink.

It’s sparkling!

I wouldn’t want to put my dishes in there either.

Here is another sink!  I am in LOVE with this one…so pretty…and now clean too!

Here is her oven door BEFORE SCOUR OFF.

Here is the AFTER.

Here is a picture of her shiny floor.

Here is her black hutch with NO FINGER PRINTS!

Here is her beautiful granite counter tops so clean looking!

Here is her squeaky clean stove top…you can actually see reflections off it!

Sweet!

CLEAN!!!!

And no harsh chemicals!

Here whole house is clean!  She makes you just want get up a CLEAN RIGHT NOW, doesn’t she?

Beautiful streak-free windows!

She doesn’t even own any clutter, I bet!

Thank you so much Joi!!!!

I LOVED that you sent these to me!  That was so sweet of you.

She used Scour Off on the sink, stove and oven and Basic H (household) Organic Concentrate for everything else.

I thought that this would be a GREAT time to add a little GIVEAWAY to this post.

I am GIVING AWAY BASIC H2 samples to 5  PEOPLE!!!!!

I am giving away enough Basic H2 to make two bottles of powerful cleaner when diluted in 16 ounces of water.

You must be a follower of my blog!

Entry : Tell me why you are interested in these products!

FOR BONUS ENTRIES…..

Entry 2: Post about my giveaway  (leave a link)

Entry 3: Like me on Facebook. (leave a link)

Entry 4: Tweet or Facebook about my giveaway (leave a link)

Entry 5: Order something from my website this week (3 entries)

I will announce the WINNERS next week.

Good Luck!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

Bonnie :)

Please visit my online Shaklee Shop to learn more about these products or buy them now.

I hope that you all had a great weekend!

I wanted to show you how the hubs and I have a date night in.  It is hard for us to get out sometimes but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a date in.

We were supposed to go out and plans changed so I went to my favorite store…the good old Trader Joes and picked up our date food. 

I was really in the mood for a wine and cheese kinda thing.

So I bought nuts, crackers, several different kinds of cheeses including honey goat cheese  (yum…that stuff in the BEST) strawberries, blueberries, smoked oysters and champagne grapes  (if you haven’t tried these grapes yet, you are missing out….yummy).

The kids helped my fill our platter before the they went to bed.  (I even made a small tray for them.)

I was so excited for this.  I think I loved shopping and setting everything up just as much as eating it, lol!

Doesn’t it look delicious…and romantic?

Oh yeah,  I can’t forget the wine.  Can you guess which one is for me?

What wine is your favorite?

So there it is!  My romantic date night in. 

Of course we also had to cuddle up and watch a romantic movie…my choice!

I love these kind of dates!!!

Do you ever have date nights at home?

What is your favorite date?

How often do you and your husband/boyfriend go on date?  I am just wondering.

Bonnie :)

Linking to these parties!

Do you Know Amaretto Vineyard?

Jessica is a wife and mother to a beautiful girl.  She is a crafter, cook, bargain-hunter and loves anything thrifty!

Recently she purchased some Get Clean products from me and she wanted to share her experience with us and she included her before and after pictures!

I hate to clean. I do it every now and then because if I did not, well, my house would soon look like this:

DISCLAIMER: This is SO not my house!  Source

But cleaning is still probably my least favorite thing to do.  Well, second-least, falling shortly behind exercise.  Especially now, considering that we moved (whilst Mr. Amaretto was in the hospital nonetheless!) and my entire house looks like this:

Disclaimer: This IS my house; or my garage at least... sigh...

But I've seen the various bloggers out there touting the wonders of Shaklee Get Clean products lately, and it piqued my interest.  The first few posts I saw, I chalked up to the whole infomercial concept.  I actually started ignoring anything I saw related to Shaklee, figuring it was just another late-night gimmick trying to reel me in.
But one morning, I guess my 'scam resistor' was weak, and I stopped to read this post at House of Grace, showing photo-proof of the amazing Shaklee clean-up from Veronica of Life in the Thrifty Lane.
I couldn't resist.  I immediately ordered a bottle of Basic H2 and a tub of Scour Off paste.  While I waited for my purchase to arrive, I headed to the Dollar Tree to grab three spray bottles and some microfiber cloths, hoping that the magic unpacking fairies would have my new home in tip-top shape before the shipment arrived. 
Those blasted fairies must be on strike, because they haven't shown up yet.
So, I will post a full-on before and after cleaning story at some point in the future.  But for now I found two spots (that I could see behind all the unpacking clutter!) that could use a quick clean-up.
Spot 1:
Little Miss Amaretto's seat at our (glass-topped) kitchen table.  This spot is normally a pretty sticky one; does it make me a horrible mommy that I usually only deep-clean it when we have company coming???  Any-who, this before picture shows the aftermath of a few days' worth of Mac & Cheese dinners (which are surprisingly difficult to prepare when all 3 of your colanders are still lost in cardboard boxes somewhere.  Three!  Who has three colanders, and who can't find a single one of them!?!  I refuse to purchase another...)

A few spritzes of Glass Cleaning mix (which, by the way, only took 2 DROPS of the ultra-concentrated solution to make 16 oz of spray cleaner - VERY economical!) and here are the amazing results:

I KNOW!!!  Can you believe that's the same table?  I am not talking heavy elbow grease or special tools or techniques.  This was a few spritzes of spray and a few wipes with a paper towel.  I did go back a second time (with the added benefit of my fingernail behind the towel) to get a few of the stickier spots of Mac & Cheese up, but that's it!  In seconds my table (or the quarter of it that it currently unblemished by the never-ending unpacking process!) was transformed from dull and blah to sparkle and wow!  I want to make that "DING" sound that the Mr. Clean commercials always use every time I look at these results!
Spot 2:
My stainless-steel sink is uber-grimy looking, mainly because it has a never-ending drip that leaves splatters all over.  We intend to fix the drip this weekend, and in the meantime I wanted to see if I could shine it up a bit with my bottle of All-Purpose Cleaning mix (just 1/4 tsp of the ultra-concentrated solution for an entire spray bottle - still super-thrifty... I made up both spritz bottles and you can't even tell there's anything missing from my original bottle of concentrate).
Here is the before; note the grimy ring on the counter top next to the sink and the uglies left behind by my bottle of dish soap.  Dull and quite grimy:

Here I spritzed on the all-purpose cleaner and went to town with my paper towels.  It looked much better but there was still a bit of residue from the dish soap rings that I couldn't quite scrub off.  A quick swipe with my Magic Eraser and VOILA!
(DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible for temporary or permanent blindness caused by viewing the next photograph without sunglasses; you have been warned)

HOLY RUSTED METAL, BATMAN!!!  Have you ever seen something so shiny in your life?  I am in awe.  Two days later, the shine is still there (I haven't returned the dish soap bottle to its spot yet, I am too excited by my spot of shiny wonder).  Again, I just want to make that "DING" sound of sparkle whenever I walk by this beautiful spot on my sink (and by spot, I mean just that... this little section you see pictured is all that I could get to at the time I was cleaning; the rest of the sink is still messy and covered in drip-splats!).

Doesn’t her house look clean?

Thank you Jessica for writing this!

I am glad that you LOVE Get Clean products as much as I do.

Please visit her blog and tell her how great her table and sink looks!  She is new to blogging so please stop by and say, “Hi”.

If you love Shaklee and want to be featured please let me know.

(I did not ask Jessica to write this or compensate her in anyway.  She is a satisfied customer!)

If you also want to get clean with safe, natural products that actually work and save you money,

then please visit my online Shaklee site today.

Email me for more ways to save at DonahueWellness@hotmail.com.

Have a great Sunday!

Bonnie :)