I made a button!

As you may or may not already see, I made a button for my blog!  You can simply copy the code and put it on your blog!  It was super easy to do as well!

Myths About Couponing

My friend Carmen from Extreme Couponing with Carmen wrote a fabulous blog post about the myths of couponing and I found it interesting. 
Here is a list of the myths she talks about:

#1 - Myth: Using coupons means that I’m broke.

#2 - Myth: I can’t find coupons for the items I purchase.

#3 - Myth: You can’t be brand loyal and save money.

#4 - Myth: Coupons cause you to buy things you might not purchase otherwise.

#5 - Myth: Buying generic is always cheaper.

Carmen breaks each myth down and gives you the truth behind each myth.  Overall couponing is easy, you just have to know how to do it!  Hope this gets you the right start to couponing!

My Real Small Stockpile!

So I don’t have a huge stockpile by any means!  But I do have the start of a small one.  Right now all our cleaning and laundry things are in the laundry room.  Our bath and toiletry items are in the guest bathroom.  I haven’t been able to start a stockpile on much of anything else because I haven’t found the deals are those things yet.  I actually haven’t seemed to find many deals on anything lately but that is half my fault since I have been slacking in the ‘find good deals’ department. 

I am still getting my newspaper and coupons every week and still look through my circulars to find the deals.  I just haven’t been doing my research online to scope the greatest deals.  I think partly because I wasn’t in town for a few weeks in December due to Christmas.  I swear I need to get back on top of things!

Here are a few pictures of my stock in the laundry room.  Like I said it is rather small…but hopefully one day the start of something.

Baby Shower!

One of my good friends is due in February and a small group of us hosted a baby shower for her last month.  It was a lot of fun and I got to make some really cute stuff for the precious little girl that we are all anticipating.  I got to make the momma to be a three tier diaper cake, baby booties, baby legs, a ruffle butt onesie and a couple of bibs and birb cloths.  It was tons of fun buying all the pink cute girlie stuff!

Here are pictures of the things I made.
Diaper Cake

Booties

Baby Legs

Ruffle butt Onesie

Bibs and burp cloths

I also made the favors for the party.  I found a cute recipe online and had to give it a try!  They were really easy and quick to make!  They are little pink pacifiers!  Here is the link to a recipe that is identical to the one I used.



It was so much fun making all this cute stuff!

DIY Felt Wreath

I finally made one!  A felt wreath that I have longed to make for about a year now!  I found a couple of tutorials around the interwebs for a cute and easy to make wreath.  It took me a while to actually sit down and make it but when I did, I realized that I didn’t have a wreath which I thought for sure I have bought at the Dollar Store.  So two days ago, I made it out to Michael’s and found my wreath so that I could get started.  And here is my beautiful wreath

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The pic came out rather fuzzy but oh well.

Girl Scout Cookie Fake Out!

Yesterday I had an inkling to make cookies, any kind really.  So after checking out a few of the baking blogs I have bookmarked I came across a recipe to make those yummy minty flavored Girl Scout cookies!  Mmmm, homemade thin mints!  Then my hubby suggests that I make homemade tagalongs (his favorite), so I start my search for a recipe.  I came across this lovely recipe.  Mmmmm, those sounds delicious!  So I went to the store to get more flour (I knew I didn’t have enough for both recipes), sticks of butter and mint extract.

Overall the recipes were great!  I wish I would have made the thin mints a little bigger, they came out quite small.  I also would have made the tagalong cookies smaller.  The recipe said they wouldn’t expand and they did!  So they were a little big.

 

 

I plan on only eating a few () and then serving the rest on Friday at Trivia Night!!

Pictures to come soon!

Menu Planning Monday (11/1)

Here is my menu for the week:

Monday - Meatloaf with Green Cabbage and Bacon
Tuesday - Crockpot Rotisserie Chicken with Roasted Red Peppers and Asparagus
Wednesday - Crockpot Pot Roast with Yellow Squash and Zucchini
Thursday - Eggplant Lasagna with Creamy Broccoli
Friday – Dinner out for a friend’s birthday!
Saturday - Breakfast – Eggs, Bacon and Hashbrowns (Might go ahead and make this in the Crockpot depending on how I feel)

I’ll post recipes and pictures once I make the meals so you can try them out too!