Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Monday Cleaning ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”  John Lennon Remember the simple days?  Remember when school was a place you loved to go to learn and see your friends?  Your teacher was kind and knowledgeable  and life seemed simple? Well, I feel that way about products in our lives....

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.”   Dean Koontz When I think of all the chemicals and products 'they' try to sell us for the kitchen or bathroom, it is mind boggling.  Personally I stopped using most of them in my house over 20 years ago.  Currently my favorite is using Thieves Oil in a special bottle that I literally only mix a few ounces of it with 30 ounces of water. It smells wonderful and disinfects beautifully. It works well on stainless, glass, counters, kitchen or bathroom....

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”  Oscar Wilde What do you like to stockpile?  For awhile I kept a deep pantry filled with black beans, navy beans, refried black beans, pinto beans... I think you get the picture. The second thing I stockpile are towels for the kitchen. I actually buy bathroom hand towels in the colors I need. I buy a mid price towel and I have found they last close to 15 years or more. They migrate from kitchen duty to cleaning duty as they get older and then to rags.  Stockpiling tea towels is another t...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.” Charles Bukowski Monday is the beginning of the week. So, if I blog on Mondays, you are likely to start seeing my thoughts on cleaning.  I know my adult kids will not even read these journal entries. Monday seems to be the primary clean day and Friday is the secondary ready for the weekend clean day.  We get through the weekend and usually the house gets pretty gnarly. Especially...