Confession: I've been a die hard Swiffer loyalist since their products first hit the market 20 years ago! I am never without their products in my cleaning supplies. So when they reached out and asked if I'd share my experiences with their WetJet, I was more than happy to oblige. This post is sponsored by Swiffer but all opinions expressed are my own.

Now that I'm a mom of two kids who seem to live on the floor, keeping it clean is especially important around here. We take care not to track in extra dirt by taking our shoes off at the door and generally trying to keep food contained but there seems to be a never ending trail of dirt when it comes to little kids no matter how how we try.  Add that to the complexity of having an older home with especially delicate floors, finding the right solution can be tricky. We need something that gets the job done quickly and effectively but won't harm our sensitive 100+ year old parquet.  Enter Swiffer WetJet.  Using a similar design as their dry Swiffer, this model has added a new feature: it can spray a fine mist of their special floor solution ahead of push of the the Swiffer wand armed with an absorbent pad.

Setup is super fast.  Simply put the pad on the Swiffer WetJet and insert the cleaning solution bottle. This tool lets you clean an entire floor in a matter of minutes (perfect for naptime bursts of cleaning energy). The mist is quite fine and directed so it's easy avoid getting any overspray on nearby rugs, furniture or baseboards.  A little goes a long way - moistening but not saturating the floor (compared to how a mop would.) Keeping the moisture to a minimum is so important to prolonging the life of these floors so that's a huge plus.




The result is sparkling clean floors without any of the hassle of carrying around a mop and bucket.  The best part is the disposal. Just pull the pad off and drop in the trash.  No wringing or sloshing around dirty water buckets required. And because the moisture level is so low, the floors dry very quickly.

An added bonus is that my kids absolutely love to "swiff"!  It's a chore that never meets with any complaining - especially the WetJet that has that cool dispensing cleaning fluid button. In fact, I sometimes have to play referee so they can each have a turn. So this makes the perfect rainy day activity with them - they love to do it and I love the result. What more can I ask for than that? 

The Gift of Memories Saved: KODAK Digitizing Box (Sponsored post)

We all have that person in our lives who is tough to shop for around this time of year. There comes in a point in some lives where another pair of slippers or candle just isn't going to delight anymore. Those type of people tend to value experience and making memories over "stuff". If you have one of those, I have the perfect gift for you: Kodak Digitizing Box!



A super simple and easy service that allows you to dust off those old videotapes, film reels, photos and slides and bring them into the modern age. Aside from allowing you to organize and share online, it also helps you preserve them for future generations.



A few years ago, I gave this gift to myself and I love having these family treasures accessible online and saved in my photo archives. This year I decided I'd do the same for a loved one.





The process is as easy as ever. The Kodak Digitizing Box is the modern version of the yellow envelope that you might remember from way back when. It arrived a few days after the order was made and includes a welcome guide with step-by-step instructions, safety barcodes for every item, a pre-paid return shipping label, and access to a personal concierge to answer any questions.. You decide which memories you want digitized and then send it back. Within a week I received an email that the files were ready for download and my original items were on their way back. A few days after that I had the box back in my hands along with memory stick and CD of all of those memories.


Now we have these priceless memories saved and can be shared at Christmas with the whole family.

Ready to start preserving the past? KODAK Digitizing Box is offering you $10 off your first order with code LIMESTONE for a limited time.

Dead Dinner Party | Halloween Dining Room

It's October 3rd and you know what that means! It's all out Halloween prep mode around here. I won't be putting up my exterior decorations until middle of October but I couldn't help put a little spooky fun inside so I could join in the Halloween Home Tour fun. In case you are wondering, both of the kids just love their "skellies" and say 'hi' to them as if they were an old family friends.

This dinner party is so dead,  alternate title: Me, waiting for my kids to finish eating would be fitting here. Feel free to add your own captions.

The centerpiece was super easy. I arranged a wooden board with taper candles, 2 fall berry garlands and a bag of plastic skulls using hot glue.  It set the scene and required no special arranging skills.


I hung the male and female victorian style talking silhouettes over the wine stand and they made the perfect artwork.  And yes, they do talk which is totally fun when the living guests arrive. Aren't they perfect?



My favorite element was definitely this LED skull light that blinks a bit to give it that abandoned neon sign look (you'll be seeing it again in my outdoor decorations).  I decided to embellish it a bit by hanging it in front of the chalkboard to make a bigger impact and then hanging more of the berry garlands around it.  It makes the whole dining room glow when all the lights are off which is especially eerie.






A few finishing touches like these skeleton fish filet, my free printable halloween wine labels and a bunch of cockscomb picked up from the corner bodega completed the look.

I hope you enjoyed a little party to celebrate the start of my favorite month.  For lots more inspiration, stop by all the lovely inspiration on Ella Claire's Halloween Home Tour.


disclosure: Lowes provided the supplies for some of the items in this post but all of the opinions expressed are my own.