Soooo fun!!!

Seriously so fun and to sweet!



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Soooo excitedddd....

So this morning I log in to check my emails and had an email from the wonderful Lulu from Lulu and Co saying I won her giveaway!!! I NEVER win anything and in the past month or so I have won 4!! I won a giveaway from another of my favorite blogs, Sara from The Mama Canon blog and then about a month ago I won an awesome giveaway from Vinyl Vineyard which I have yet to share, I received them and haven't gotten them up yet and as soon as I do I will post pictures! All of these little gifts I have won are incredible but my favorite part is that I will have a little something from each of these wonderful people!

Now I didn't win this next one ( pictured above ) from a blog but from a contest I entered through twitter moms. I won the cutest little gift set! I had to write an entry about someone who is a role model in my life and blog about it, which I did and the first 20 people to do so won a tupperware gift set. I received it today and it is the cutestt!! Now you too can still enter for the big prize which is whomever you nominate will win $5,000 to the charity of choice ( I believe I have that right ) plus each of you will receive a 1,000 gift certificate to spend on tupperware! Go here to checkout the contest! Enter and share you story as to who has inspired you! Now that's alot of tupperware! I can't remember the last time I had an actual piece of tupperware and this stuff is awesome! I cannot believe the difference between it and the stuff you get at the grocery store. It's so thick and durable and soooooo much prettier!

Alright with all my luckiness ( luckiness? ) it's only fair that I share and give back to you! So I am planning a mighty sweet giveaway for you all! You are all SOOO WONDERFUL! I have 44 followers now, FOURTY FOUR people who are interested in my blog and what I write and share. Seriously it warms my heart and makes me so giddy! I tell my husband everyday 40 followers, 41, 42, I love it! Your all such wonderful, talented, warm individuals. Whenever we are out and about or whatever and I score a good deal or have an idea I always tell him I can't wait to blog about it, lol. Not sure exactly what the giveaway shall be, but I will be plannin all weekend so come back on Monday and I shall announce it! Yippee! You know it's going to include some yummy candles somewhere!

Ohhhh and I have sooooo much to blog about, I will probably save it for Sunday but we'll see. I scored some more FreeCycle freebies as well as some awesome garage sale finds!! Wooohooo!!! Have a Wonderful Weekend!!!

Am I crazy? Edited for DIY Thursday....

Edited For DIY Day over at A Soft Place to Land! Nothing huge, or super cool or even exciting, just a few small small redos. After checkin out my redos, head on over to Kimbas at a Soft Place to Land and check out everyones amazing DIY projects for the week! Be prepared to be inspired!

Don't answer that. But seriously I received my Free paint sample from Glidden, I ordered Robins Egg Blue, but help me out my friends, is this Robins Egg Blue? I have the letter painted in the Robins Egg Blue Sample I received and the little planter pot is in Robins Egg Blue that I bought from Michaels.

Am I right? Is this color off? Isn't robins egg supposed to have more of the greenish, aqua tint to it than the cloud blue color? I don't care about the sample, I am wanting a room in robins egg and don't want the sample to change my mind, I like the color on the pot. Just wondering if it's just me....

Seriously, am I crazy? I know, right. Don't say it. A chalkboard letter, I'm outta my mind. I could have at least wrote a word that started with R. This was more fitting though. Just playin in the paint anyhow.

My 1.00 tin from Hobby Lobby turned into yes another chalkboard. But I don't think it will stay this way as it's a bit to bumpy. I think I will paint the whole thing, scrap some pretty paper to the middle and make it a magnet board or monogram it and hang it, not sure. I will share when I am done, I have 2 of these to play with.

Some letters I painted, playing around in the paint some more. I love letters so much. These nice big letters are .99 at Michaels right now, they are MDF, and about 9 to 10 inches. Again painted in my so called robins egg blue, and one in Red Delicious the paint sample my grandma received. Again totally different than the swatch but still a pretty color.

Horrible picture, not sure what happened. An old frame, a little burlap, and a wooden birdie cutout from michaels that I painted white, these birds are awesome! I have used them on many projects, they are 1.99 a bag for 10, can't remember but I believe you get at least 10. I am working on something else with them.

Yep another chalkboard, sorry. I made this one from the free frames I showed you yesterday, ahh love freecycle. My pics are terrible, you see all the yuckiness once they are uploaded and I was just to lazy to retake them.




Again, the different shades of blue. It's bothering me.

And finally, my shadowbox frame. This was ugly and from the dollar store, I didn't take a before picture but have no fear I have one identical and will upload it after I get some sleep. I took everything out, adhered some scrapbook paper and glued a key. I left the frame as was and just sanded it a bit but you can't tell.

Aren't these little frames fun? 1.00 from michaels dollar section, love that little area! I added some scrap paper but don't worry I don't like it either. I already have plans for this little frame, you just wait. They had these in orange and black, oval and square, I got a couple.

My littlest guy, precious, right? I love him sooooo much! He's with grampy. Don't you want to squeeze those cheeks? I get too.

Just for fun, took some pictures at my Grammas, This one is bad, my oldest had the cushion from the swing in the floor in front of it playin and I just snapped a picture and ccropped it the best I could. My mom made this lovely and it is lovely. I love this one, color and all!


Grams living room, she hates her house, I think she is crazy and have offered to trade on many occasions. Mom made the shelf above the couch, another lovely.

Love this too, and guess who made it mommmm...


Excuse my luggage on the table, mom too made this shelf and the cabinet next to it. Pretty.



And here is the cabinet up close. Love love love this! As you can see she made it out of an old door. Awesome!

And that's all I got! Have a Great Wednesday!!!

More Hobby Lobby Clearance....Scoreeee!

Ok, this is my second time typing all of this out, I guess in all the bargain shopping excitement I have lost it, well I know I have. Hubby agrees. Anywho I hit the other Hobby Lobby in my area tonight and scored a TON more, lovely stuff that just needs a little help. I love it all anyway, some of you may think I am screaming lock me up, I am crazy but really I am not. Are you considered a shopaholic when you only buy clearance? Like seriously some would think so but it really angers me when people think that as I shop the clearance and the bargains. I don't buy $100 shoes, and $300 purses, etc nothin wrong with that I just won't buy it if it isn't on sale and well I can't afford the high dollar stuff either. Plus doesn't it feel so much better to get it super cheap? Anyway what I am getting at is I hardly think coming home with a carload of goodwill crap that cost $10 or $20 dollars or hittin the Hobby Lobby and and coming home with 10 bags of stuff for $20 constitutes me as being a shopaholic. I don't buy myself clothes, I probably would if I lost some weight but guarantee they would be clearance deals. My kids have nice clothes, nothing expensive, usually get the good stuff on clearance the year before. I like shoes, but again I have about 4 pairs of nikes, I love sneakers, but each one of my nikes were under $10. I used to work at kohls as the Shoe Department Manager, and again I shopped the deals. My gramma always says how do you find these, I never see any, well I look, and I look, and I look. Plus my like my hobby lobby purchases for example, I repaint, repurpose and hope to resell. Anyway, rambling, sorry on to the good stuff, lots of pictures....


These crown hooks were 1.00 and I think they will be so cute painted white and distressed a bit! I got the last 3 they had.

These are little tin wall hangy things, love love love them, I got the only 2 for 1.00 each, these would be so super cute as chalkboards but the middle is probably to bumpy for that. Have you ever made a chalkboard on something slightly textured? Did it work?

This is a little towel hanger, sooooo cute and 1.20 I believe it was.

Matching towel bar to the above...I know this picture is awful but this is really neat and was 2.20 I believe.

These little frames were .30, they will look cute repainted or papered.

This was 1.80 and love it as is I think!

I got 2 of these little piggy trays for 1.00 each, they are good sized, I like them as is, not me but they were super cute. Repainted and hanging on the wall or sitting on a shelf?

These were one of my favorites, they are large and were 2.00 and 3.00 each, these will definately get repainted and will look so cute with a chunky pillar or a moss ball!! They are nice and heavy and you can't beat the price!

These letters are cute but will get redone and they are nice big chunky letters and were only .90 each!

This is missing 3 of the pegs but was only 1.00 and I knew I could fix her up and make her pretty at the price! Those are tiles in it, while not ugly I still think I will paper those and brighten this up a bit!

These I bought about 10 of at 1.40 each and these are tin and very good size and are going to make wonderful magnetic boards. They will get painted or papered and both.

These frames are nice and heavy and cute but the paper is all messed up and scratched, these will definately get makeovers with new paper or paint! 1.00 each I thought it was worth it!

These letters are awesome, very big and ONLY 1.40 each, they are metal, tin, whatever, lol. I will paint it a white or something brighter. They only had x, q, and I left. Slim pickins, lol.

Bad picture but it's a little soap dish, was .80 and not sure why I bought it but it is the colors I want in my bathroom so I guess I was drawn to it. Brown and aqua, mmmm....

These were 1.00 each I believe and love love love them! I originally planned on redoing them but heck they are toile, and black and white, so I think I like them like this, whatcha think?

Another one I wasn't sure why I got it, it was 1.00, cute little box with a mirror inside and nice little compartments for jewelry and stuff I guess.

And these the best find of the day as they were FREEEE! Another freecycle score!!! Who doesn't love free frames? There are 2 of the octagon ones, and 1 big one and 2 medium ones! Scoreee, definately got plans for these!




And these leaves were in the free box of frames, I think these will be painted and go in a frame or something for some fall wall art.

Geesh, I am wore out! I also stopped at Kmart and got a 3 pack of sparkle paper towels, 4 pack of angel soft toilet paper, 3 monster energy drinks ( my addiction, so bad. ), a bottle of cascade rinse agent, 2 bags of chips, box of pasta for drumroll....$1.88 total!!! Woohooo! I could of gotten more and planned it better but we were in a hurry, hungry and wanted to get home so I just grabbed. I used another coupon for free rinse agent, plus 2.00 off angel soft and sparkle when you buy both, plus had a 10.00 off kmart coupon that was going to expire. I also made a new friend at Kmart, she was lookin at my coupons and was like omg your a coupon freak too, lol and I shared with her and she said please come back more often, haha! Ok so no more shoppin for me except gotta make another trip to hobby lobby for a blog buddy and menards as I need some 4x4s for something I am working on!!! Now seriously I will have some transformations to show you tomorrow! I am going to work right now on them so come backkkkkkk!!!

Bargain shoppin at Hobby Lobby, TjMax, and Marshalls...Woot!

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Ohhhh how I love me some clearance! So I didn't hit any garage sales this weekend which I am bummed about as there were TONS, but next week, lol. This weekend I hit up TjMax, Marshalls, and of course GoodWill!! It was so much fun!!!! I found soooooo many goodies, well goodies to me, lol.

I found both of these jars for a total of 2.99, one matches exactly to another I got at another Goodwill awhile back. The goodwill I hit today had lots of goodies but they were soooo much higer priced! So I behaved.



I got these, love love love them, they had more matching these but a bundle of 4 was 3.99 and sorry but I thought that was high, so I stuck with one bundle. I love these in a jar!



This was at TJMax for 1.00, Woohooo! These things aren't always cheap, its a flower punch that makes pop up flowers, can't wait to try it out!

This tray was marked down to $3.oo, It will be spray painted and used for something, come back and see :)

These little shadow boxes were 3.00 each at TjMax, Definately changing these up, I am seein some pretty paper and keys, hehe...

These different little plates were 1.00, not normally something I would choose but I immediately had an idea for them!

Loved these monogram napkins and totally have a plan for them, can't wait to show you!

This little cutie was 3.00, I love this and think I will spray it white.

This was oddly one of my fave purchases of all! I have been wanting one of these for awhile for change, love that it counts up the change for me, lol. This was marked down to $3.00, awesome! And it's bigger than the others I have seen! I want to start collecting all of the change from the week and every couple of weeks turn it in and use it for something for the family, whether it's something small like going for ice cream or whatever, something, ya know?

These are my Marshalls goodies, their clearance isle was wiped out but still I managed to find something, the towel bar was 18.00 normally and marked down to $2.00, you can't tell in the picture but it's such a pretty one, it has a little design on it, love it and needed one! The little cup was to cute for 1.00 and the pear topiary for 2.00 is cute as is but I think I will pick all the pears off use them for something and then use the topiary form to make another, totally worth 2.00.

Ok now on to my fave Hobby Lobby, These huge clock hands were marked down to 2.00 yep, you read that right! I think these are so cool, no idea where they are going though, lol.

This little gold one was 1.00, definately getting painted...

Ahhhh the middle black one is definately my favorite, and for 3.00! The other black one was 2.20

These were 1.00 and the small was .60, totally need some paint!

These little mirrors that will get a paint job were only....drumroll please....1.60!!!!!! I wish they would of had more!

A sad little letter but only .30....



Ok these are boring but they were marked down to 4.00 at TjMax...Great for back to school.

And I got my 7 month old this little guess tee for 3.00 there. I also got my oldest some cute shoes for 4.24 at target and my littlest a spiderman tee for 3.24, I don't like character stuff but his chubby little self will look so cute in it and I knew it would make hubby happy as yes he is a comic book lovin, superhero chasin, computer whizin, pushin up his glasses kind of nerd, haha! Seriously though, he is. This was NOT disclosed til AFTER we tied the knot!!! HAHA! He had all the comic books hid and didn't bring them out til AFTER we married, had no idea! Haha, it's all good though, I love it!

So anywho, did you find any great deals this weekend? If you live near Hobby Lobby I totally recommend checking it out and they have frames at 90% off, HUGE ones for 4.00, 5.00 and 6.00, soooooooo many of them! I have to go back and get me some frames! There was just so much, my friend Tracy went with me and we were like 2 little kids in a candy store, she got LOTS of neat ones! It's so nice to have a friend who enjoys bargain shopping and doing the same things I do.

Now if all goes well, I will be craftin the night away in yes my still unorganized cluttered messy, messy room but hey everything is moved and in there now, lol. I seriously have no clue where I am going to cram all of my stuff. I need to be having a huge sale not going to them, haha. Anyways come back tomorrow and I will show you some transformations from the goodies above!!! Also have a table redo and chalkboard redo that I WILL post tomorrow that I have been talkin about for weeks. Seriously, Tomorrow.

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