Introducing: Dinga!

Meet Dinga!

Hiking on Mount Mansfield

Dinga is our 9 year old Staffordshire Terrier (yes she's a pit bull-type doggle).  She makes me laugh constantly... like when she's randomly upside down as you come around the corner... or "talking" to us because we aren't throwing her ball... She has a big personality...I wonder where she could get that from? 

Exploring in Burlington with mom

Playing in the snow last winter

Pinterest Test #1: Carpets

Today begins the first in a little series of testing some cleaning ideas I found on Pinterest.  Do you guys pin? I looooooove it.  You can find and follow me here.

I saw this method for cleaning carpets one day on Pinterest, and thought I'd try it out on a stain that has been persistently troublesome for... pfffft... at least a year in front of our bathroom... I was pretty pleasantly surprised by how it worked!!

All you need is your iron, a spray bottle with the ammonia/water mix (50/50 ammonia and HOT water) and some white rags.  Mine are old tanks and t-shirts that I cut up periodically.

Spray your stain liberally, place the white cloth over top, and iron! You'll start to see the soil come through the cloth... here's what mine looked like after:

 Pretty gross, right?

Give it a try!  You can find the original blog post here where she uses this on a RED carpet with what seems like little color transfer.  Might be good to test an inconspicuous area first if you're nervous about colored carpeting.

Happy Cleaning!