Quick and easy.

Shiny copper pots for the holidays.

Maybe you use your copper pots every day, as I do, or you like to have them sparkle for the holidays. 

There is a painless and quick way to make them shine. 

All you need is CLR (available in every hardware store) 
coarse salt, a lemon, a sponge and gloves. 

No need to scrub,

just glide a corner of your CLR soaked sponge over pot.

Dip a lemon, cut in half, in coarse salt and rub.  

Let rest a minute. 

Wash with soap and water.  

Dry immediately or it leaves streaks. 

One more pot to go. 

Caution: do not let CLR stand on natural stone surfaces.

Unlike copper polish,  
CLR rinses clean and does not leave a residue. 

(CLR meets U.S. EPA Safer Product Standards).

I use my copper pots every day. 

They hang from bicycle hooks. 
More friendly than metal hooks. 

Wishing you a happy week.

Gina  

Polishing copper pots

Not difficult at all.

When you know of this secret.

I keep mine handy because I use them everyday but I don't polish them every day.  

They are hanging from bicycle hooks. 

All you need is CLR (available in every hardware store) Sea Salt, a sponge and gloves. 

No need to scrub,
just glide a corner of your CLR soaked sponge over pot, rub on a little salt and let stand for a few minutes. 

Wash with soap and water.  Dry immediately. 

One more pot to go. 

Caution: do not let CLR stand on natural stone surfaces.

I use my copper pots every day.  Only two days after scrubbing they show scorch marks on the bottom.  That is to be expected, especially since I don't have a designated pot scrubber as you might find in a fancy French restaurant kitchen.  

Just out of the oven, four loaves of Squash bread. 

Have a great remainder of the week dear friends, 

Gina  

My Nephew Chandler

My nephew Chandler,
the Tennis Star.

Photographed by his friend Lindsey Holmes

Giving comfort to a little girl in India.

Chandler went to India to teach.

He did more than that. 

Not just one arm, but two arms.

Gina 

Seventeen Rabbits it is

Congratulations Sieglinde you are the winner!

You found them all, all 17 of them. 

You can choose from Hollyhock seeds or Aster seeds from Lake Maggiore, Italy.  

Happy Easter,

Gina