Just call me a Crafty Recessionista : a Copperbrill Review

How to live a lavish lifestyle during a recession: polish what you have!

This bowl in the picture is dark dark dark. Note the right side with the tarnish. The left side is shiny copper.

This copper bowl was handed down from Godmother Mista (but could have come from any garage sale) that I just polished in 10 minutes with the AMAZING Copperbrill from Amazon or William Sonoma. This bowl had not been polished in years, and the tarnish was serious. But I knew it could come back to shiny because tomato acid (I keep the vegetables in it) would remove spots of tarnish. When I polish the other side, I will have a gorgeous copper bowl that retails for over a hundred dollars. Hurray!

How to polish using the Copperbrill:
Run the copper bowl or pan under hot soapy water.

With a damp sponge (use the one that comes with the Copperbrill), rub a scoop of the Copperbrill onto the copper.

Rub in circles and watch the copper turn a lighter shade of copper. If it's like this bowl, it will require more rubbing and possibly a few runs of this process.

Rinse the Copperbrill off under hot water, and with a clean spunge wipe off the Copperbrill. Dry an polish with a clean cloth.

Voila!

You can buy Copperbrill from Amazon.

Here are more copper bowls at Williams Sonoma.

Our new Beautysleep mattress from David at Macy's

Everyone, this is David at Macy's. Not David the Groom, but David the Mattress Professional. I've been wanting a new mattress ever since David moved in, and I sold my Stearns and Foster Queen size mattress on Craig's list. I had a bed frame, but David had a full size sleigh bed, so la de da, we kept his mattress and lost mine! :(...

So now that we are married, I took us to Macy's for their holiday sale, and found all mattresses on sale. If you ask me, they are all prices that they should be, and no one should buy a mattress that is not on sale, but anyway.

David the Mattress Professional was so great. Encouraged us to listed to our bodies as we tested the mattresses. My David was actually quite involved, testing the firm side, then the plush side, and we were on the same page about what we liked! Yay.

Shown here is David the Mattress Professional demonstrating the wrapped coils inside of the Beautysleep mattress. This is the mattress from the bowling ball commercial, where the woman drops the bowling ball on the mattress, and the pins on the other side don't move.

PS: If you are going to go shopping for a mattress, and you go to Sleepy's or somewhere where they promise to beat other prices, don't even do the research. I did the research, and learned that the stores change the model of the mattress, so no one really offers the same thing. Just go with a store you trust.