Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #467

Messy Messy Fail - Truly, I would love to post on time one of these days.  Next week's party is my day lol.  Doubtful.

Tidy Victory - My indoor houseplants are looking incredible right now, and I really have my homemade fertilizer to thank.  Whenever I use either a banana, eggs or coffee, I put the leftovers into a mason jar, fill the rest of the jar with water and let it sit for a couple days.  Then I pour the fertilizer water that was created out of the jar into a watering can, fill the rest of that watering can with water and use that to water my plants.  Nearly all houseplants love the potassium from banana peels, iron from the egg shells or acidity from the leftover coffee.  So why pay for fertilizer from the store when you can just use your own?

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #466

Messy Messy Fail -  Why can't I post on time?!?!?!?!  Over a week late AGAIN!

Tidy Victory - I cleaned Ethan's room.  Greatest victory EVER!  BTW, Ethan is my keeper of ALL things great and small, if that puts this tidy victory into a better perspective.

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #465

Messy Messy Fail - I was late this last week's power and now this party.  Wait until you see next week - late again :D

Tidy Victory - Continuing to get rid or more and more unwanted clothing that I don't need!  Unsure of why I've felt a need to keep it for this long, but out it goes!

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #464

Messy Messy Fail - I left some of my cool weather tolerant but not freeze tolerant plants outside just a bit too long and now I'm trying to nurse them back to health. I have a mandvilla, a fern and a palm that have seen better days.  Nothing feels mushy so hopefully just a matter of time before they return!

Tidy Victory - The amarylis plants that I purchased after Christmas at a crazy discounted rate continues to bloom!  I have a tinkerbell variety that just opened and now a ferrari is coming - they are so stunning!

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #463

Messy Messy Fail - I have got to figure out some new dinners to make that won't break the bank with the rising costs of groceries.  Seriously cannot believe how much we are paying for eggs, its nuts!

Tidy Victory - I discovered the scented laundry beads at Dollar Tree rumored to be misshapen Downey Unstoppables and I LOVE THEM.  They make the laundry smell SO GOOD and at $1.25 for a giant container, I am down!

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #462

Messy Messy Fail - When you have pumpkins turning to mush in your garage that you need to harvest seeds from. :/

Tidy Victory - I back on the reading bandwagon and have already finished one book, Klara and the Sun, and will be starting my next shortly.  I used to read prolifically when I was in elementary and middle school, and I decided it was time to get back to that.

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #461

Messy Messy Fail - Only I could somehow manage to get concealer on the white number of my Bills jersey :/. Nor did I realize it until I got to work.

Tidy Victory - Christmas tree is DOWN - check out my Instragram to see exactly what shape it was in! :O

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #460

Messy Messy Fail - Late gain.  I blame my Christmas vacation.

Tidy Victory - I got SO MUCH done over break it was fantastic!  Lots of projects, decluttering and organizing cause Lord knows we need it.

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #458

Messy Messy Fail - One Christmas present did not make it in time for Christmas although I was assured it would.....
Tidy Victory - So I was credited back the cost and it came yesterday - free present yay!

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #457

Messy Messy Fail - I still have apples from the end of September in my cold breezeway waiting for something to happen to them.

Tidy Victory - Ina's applesauce it is - at least the baby will like it!

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #456

Messy Messy Fail - So what does one do when the dog gets a hold of the baby's elf on the shelf and chews a hole in her hat?

Tidy Victory - One makes an elf on the shelf patch!  Be watching me on instagram at Lovemymessymessymess for the grand reveal. :D

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party #455

Messy Messy Fail - My lack of Christmas decorations up, and the abundance of Halloween/fall decor still out.  Gotta buy more totes.  

Tidy Victory - I got everything I wanted to plant in the ground into the ground.  So excited to see what makes it through the winter!