I just HAD to share this awesome giveaway!! She is amazing & I really hope I win!! :)
The Hop, Skip and a Jump Maternity Frock GROSGRAIN GIVEAWAY!!!!
The Hop, Skip and a Jump Maternity Frock GROSGRAIN GIVEAWAY!!!!
Inspired by Michelle's fun tutorial, I decided to try my own variation on a cereal box tote for our trips to the library. I covered my box with fabric (instead of paper), and used mod podge. I think it turned out pretty good for a crafting newbie such as myself... What do you think??
Before
After
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I'm always looking for ways to cut down household costs, and even more so this summer. One thing that I have decided to do is to stop buying most household cleaners. Here are some great links to get started:
8 Smart Uses for Vinegar
Homemade Cleaning Products
Disinfecting Multi-surface Cleaner
Dishwasher Soap
Homemade Cleaners
As my current supply diminishes, I plan on implementing many of these tips, so I don't spend so much $$$ cleaning!
Do you have any "Green Clean" tips to share??
8 Smart Uses for Vinegar
Homemade Cleaning Products
Disinfecting Multi-surface Cleaner
Dishwasher Soap
Homemade Cleaners
As my current supply diminishes, I plan on implementing many of these tips, so I don't spend so much $$$ cleaning!
Do you have any "Green Clean" tips to share??
So for awhile I've been wanting some of these for my living room. Then a couple of weeks ago, I found some of these at the dollar store:
Score!
Now, don't look too closely, because it was my first attempt at mod podging anything, and I got a little impatient near the end.
Now, I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist, and as a result I think I "need" things to be more matchy-matchy. So at first I didn't really like how they turned out (the different patterns, etc.). But as they have sat on my mantle the past two days, they have started to grow on me....
Score! Now, don't look too closely, because it was my first attempt at mod podging anything, and I got a little impatient near the end.
Now, I tend to be a
Grosgrain Kathleen has another GREAT giveaway! Go check it out! I hope to be as creative and skilled as she is one day..
I found this great little design shop downtown on Saturday. I LOVE that window/picture, especially the colors! They definitely don't match my house right now, but I think when I redo my bedroom I will HAVE to use some aqua.
On my bedside table:
-Hubby's cell phone
On my TV:
-Law & Order:SVU
On the menu for tonight:
-Cashew Chicken
On my To Do List:
-laundry
-clip and sort coupons
-dishes
New Recipe I tried last week:
-a very bland, disappointing egg salad. I won't share the link. eww.
In the craft basket:
-"Family" sign--watch for that in the next few days.
Looking forward to:
-my sister coming in 2 weeks!
Homemaking Tip for this week:
-When organizing, create a "ground zero". I am in the process of reorganizing our entire house (it's amazing how much stuff can accumulate in just a few months!), and am using my bedroom as ground zero. **Keep in mind my husband's gone. He wouldn't be happy walking around my piles to get to his side of the bed.** Anyway, I'm clearing out entire areas and putting things back ONLY if they have a place. I'm probably 1/2 done, and I already have 3 LARGE bags to sell or donate.
Favorite Blog Post of the week (mine or other):
-girl talk: What Rachel Barley Knows -- this is SO powerful!!!
Favorite photo from last week:
Lesson learned the past few days:
-When you feel like you are on track & doing great spiritually, WATCH OUT! Because Satan attacks when we least expect it, and NO ONE is immune.
On my Prayer List:
-my husband & kids
-my niece and nephew
-my mom, whose has been very sick this week
-both of my grandfathers who have been diagnosed with cancer in the past month
Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:
-"Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled" Titus 2:3-5
-"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." Deut. 6:5-7
**Thanks to Sandra for hosting Happy Homemaker Monday!
