Flippin' Waffle Iron Winner and Homemaker Monday: An Accidental Discovery Regarding Copper Polishing

This flippin' waffle iron giveaway was so fun and I'm so grateful to all of you who participated! I especially loved seeing all the tweets out there every day. Thank you!

And the lucky winner is....

Tami @ A Godly Homemaker!

So happy for you, Tami! Just email me your mailing address and I will get that off for you today! (mom2my9 [at] gmail [dot] com)

And now, without further ado....

Welcome to the 78th weekly edition of...

Thank you for joining us! If you're new to this carnival and would like to enter your post, please check HERE for the rules and regs.

YOURS: Today's "YOURS" goes to Panamamama over at "Tales From a Panama Mama"! I loved her post because it goes perfectly with my post! Panamamama posted tips on how to clean our home in a more earth-friendly manner. She lists recipes for homemade cleaning products, how to use compost, and suggests that instead of using paper towels and napkins, that we use rags and cloth napkins, instead, which is something I've been doing for a long time now..

(Just a sample of some really cute cloth napkins. I keep wanting to call them nappies, but that means diapers in England, so I must refrain.)

So, if you'd like to venture on over to Panamamama's blog to check out all of her tips, just click HERE. Thank you so much, Panamamama, for linking up with us and sharing your homemaking tips! We'll look forward to seeing more from you in the future! (If you'd like, please feel free to take the "I Was Featured" button from my left sidebar!)

MINE: So John makes this drink. It is vile, but he loves it. Perhaps he makes it because he knows that none of the kids or the wife will drink half of it every time he makes one. He gets 4 or 5 limes, cuts them in half, squeezes them into a glass of ice, adds half a teaspoon of salt, then fills the glass with water, and chugs it down. Vile, right?

I bring this up because we have a copper sink in our island...

Over time, the elements have caused a copper patina to form, so it looks like this...

...which is fine with me, since my kitchen is in the rustic style. I love a good copper patina. However, when John placed the squeezed limes in this copper sink and left them there for a few hours, I noticed that THIS occurred...

I was awestruck knowing that just the acid from the limes would cause the copper to shine again like it was new. So I did an experiment to double check.

Here is the tile laid in the upper level of our island with the patina caused by the natural air circulation and constant wiping down with a wet cloth...

Here is me squeezing lime juice onto the tile...

...and leaving it to sit for a while...

Here is how the tile looked upon my returning to the kitchen after my siesta and wiping off the lime juice...

Is this not amazing? As you can see, there are a couple of little spots that were missed, so I did the lime thing again, and THIS was the result...

This is a photo of the tile with the afternoon sun shining in on it, but you get the idea. Just thought I'd share. You know me, just helping along whenever I can. Thanks for listening.

OURS: Okay, it's your turn! I can't wait to see what all of you awesome homemakers have for us today. If this is your first time, don't be nervous, just feel free to pick anything homemaking from your archives and enjoy getting to know your new blog visitors! Thanks for being here and I hope you have a Happy Homemaker Monday!