Real Life with Lindsay Archives - Page 9 of 76

I am obsessed with steam cleaners. In my adult life, I’ve had a big carpet cleaner, a few steam mops and a handheld steam cleaner. My husband, Tom, would roll his eyes every time a new one came home, but I thought I needed all of those different types of steam cleaners for different applications.

When Tom came home from work last week and saw yet another one in the house, he said, “Lindsay. Really?” Yes, really! Between HomeRight’s new SteamMachine Plus and original SteamMachine, I can get rid of all of those other ones. The SteamMachine Plus is a steam mop that has many attachments – including one for carpet! – and a handheld unit (like a Dust Buster) that pops out of the mop for quick tasks, like steaming garments. The SteamMachine is a much larger unit with a larger tank for your larger projects.

I have plenty of uses for both of them. Here are 20 of my favorite uses:

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I have eleventy billion things to do around my house – shelves to hang, walls to paint, furniture to overhaul. But sometimes, you just need a little project to make you feel like you got one entire project completed in a single hour, right?

Meet my newest obsession – over the top hair bows. I have had a bow in Emma’s hair since the moment she had hair, but as she gets bigger, her bows are getting bigger, too. I’ll use any excuse to put a bow in her hair. Actually, I don’t really need an excuse. I just do it.

Today’s “excuse” is to match a team t-shirt. My son, Zack, is involved in a creative competition through school, and his team has matching t-shirts to wear. Because my husband, Tom, and I are the coaches, Emma has a shirt, too (the team calls her their mascot). I decided to make coordinating bows for all of the girls on the team (plus Emma) to wear on competition day. What a great excuse to make four bows!

I learned how to make these stacked hair bows from a fabulous set of videos on YouTube that makes tying the bows SO easy. I’ll show you the steps I went through to make this one, and link to each video that I used to make each part. I bought all of my ribbon at Jo-Ann.

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20 Ways to Use Your Steam Cleaner

How to Make Stacked Hair Bows