Hi friends and Happy Friday! This morning I jumped on Pinterest for V-day teacher ideas and immediately got overwhelmed. I set out on a few errands and figured I’d get inspired somewhere along the way. I had seen some cute mustache mugs at 99cents Only and thought I could fill those with some hot chocolate [...]
Hi friends and Happy Friday! Well, we’re already over half way into January and Twenty 13 has been great so far! I usually have a little bit of a hard time after the holidays and January, February and March are not my most favorite months. No offense if your birthday falls in these months…Holden’s birthday [...]
One of my fondest Christmas memories was when our family would get together with another family at the holidays, have dinner and exchange gifts. I remember my mom’s friend, Judy, arriving with a big basket filled with beautifully wrapped packages. We’d all sit around the fire after dinner in our living room calling out names [...]
I mentioned here what I had in mind for our end-of-the-year teacher goodies and I wanted to share how they turned out because I think this is my new favorite gifty gift. They come together so quickly and are very inexpensive, yet have that personal touch. First, pick up some terra-cotta pots {I used 6″}, [...]
A random pile of facts from our weekend… 1. Made {Baked Oatmeal} for our Saturday breakfast. {followed the link above, but subbed almond/coconut milk and coconut extract} Such a fun twist on regular ‘ol boring oatmeal…next time I’m adding some fresh berries to the mix. 2. We had an impromptu garage sale on Saturday morning. [...]
Part of my job description of {stay-at-home-mama} is stretching our dollar. Jay works hard and I/we try to get the most out of our money, most of the time. Without cutting too much out of our lives. I’m not going to lie, we’re feeling the results of this messed up {putting it lightly} economy, but [...]
Need a last minute gift and want to personalize it a bit? Hot glue a few rosettes to a store bought cosmetic bag, clutch, cloth wine bottle gift bag or even a plain stocking…again, I learned how to roll rosettes from this tutorial and found it very easy. I recently picked up a remnant of [...]
Now that the stockings are hung by the chimney with care, what is St. Nick going to put in there? I am Santa is always doing a mad dash for stocking stuffers, so here is Flip Flop Follies’ list that you can pass along to him… {this was a staple in our stockings growing up} Lifesaver [...]
Need a quick, easy and cheap way to decorate for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas? I spotted this on Pinterest and knew immediately that this {craft} was made for me. Literally FIVE minutes and you’re done. 1. Grab some pinecones {Holden and I found these at our local car wash!} 2. Pick up some ribbon {I got this [...]
Tonight Holden ate FREE at Casa Aspiras. Our Target recently underwent the {fresh food upgrade} and we’ve gotten a couple free coupons to come and check it out. I’m in there at LEAST once a week so why not grab some free eggs and a free box of Kraft mac n cheese, right? Those two [...]
