tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42785751353007987542024-03-12T21:01:49.635-05:00Watson FamilyA journal of the happenings of the Watson Family household!! This is a place to post latest pictures, funny moments, memories, etc to share with friends and family.Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-5559570290648532642011-07-11T13:35:00.000-05:002011-07-11T13:35:35.992-05:00Bye Bye PiPi!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YF64EKU9qq2ATNdRyFIF3CReyH15fNCDE1yjraoJYHHKTCe5jRHKbJCjSKkToQV0DvpWpNmXuZ4G9y8QCKCb9LyE-veYynQe3tunZ6tvGJhArHSMqGFIc0fEk2aHw6ISyg8jETezsvo/s1600/193741_1766949925969_1005790846_32006887_5156710_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YF64EKU9qq2ATNdRyFIF3CReyH15fNCDE1yjraoJYHHKTCe5jRHKbJCjSKkToQV0DvpWpNmXuZ4G9y8QCKCb9LyE-veYynQe3tunZ6tvGJhArHSMqGFIc0fEk2aHw6ISyg8jETezsvo/s320/193741_1766949925969_1005790846_32006887_5156710_o.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">(this is the latest picture I have of Alyssa with her pipi - it is 4 months old)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I have to tell you I have been COMPLETELY SHOCKED this week! I have been dreading, I mean really dreading, the whole weaning Alyssa from her pipi delimna! For a while now she has only been taking it at nap time and at nighttime but I just KNEW she would give such a fight if we tried to take it away!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Well, once again, my baby girl has shocked me!! It all started Friday night. I had a mom's night out and somehow ended up with the pipi in my purse...well I didn't make it home until way after the kiddo's bed time. Daniel said she went down without a fuss, not even asking for it!! (of course she had played really hard up at her Granny's house that evening so we just figured she was too tired to care).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Well the next day I put her down for her nap and she cried pretty good so I finally gave in (I know bad mommy but oh well) and gave it to her. But that night we put her down and I thought we would try again to not give it to her. Well, she cried for me but then Daddy went in there after me and when he came out of the room she was quiet - and stayed quiet! I assumed that he gave in but he didn't! I asked him "what is your secret?" He said "I just stroked her hair and her cheek until she stopped crying".</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Well Sunday at nap time Daddy wasn't around so I thought I would give that a try - and guess what - it WORKED!! And it worked again last night and again today at naptime!! All we do is stroke her cheeks and her hair until she stops crying (which takes less than a minute) and she quiets down and we don't hear another peep!!!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">THANK YOU JESUS!! I could not have dreamed this to be any easier!! OMG!!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">:-( But wait...that just means she is growing up even more :-( ... oh my heart! I don't know if I can take this :-(...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Anyways, until next time,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Kellie</div>Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-52102972959966537112011-05-10T13:58:00.000-05:002011-05-10T13:58:13.147-05:00Coupon Savings Today!The kids and I took a quick shopping trip today and got some good savings! Overall I had a 35% savings on the value of my purchases! Not as good as some trips but still not bad at all!! <br />
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Here is what I got at Walgreens. <br />
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Here is what I got at CVS:<br />
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The Xtra detergent was on sale for $1.49 (normally $2.99) for their 28 load botle. I had two coupons that were $1/2 which made them $0.99 each. I applied the $3 ECB and only payed $1.03 for them!<br />
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So I purchased $26.73 worth of items for $10.03 - which was a $16.70 savings!! What a deal!<br />
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Here are some of the good deals I got at Wal-Mart -<br />
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I price match boneless skinless chicken breasts. Wal-Mart had them for $1.88/lb but I found them in another grocer's sales ad for $1/lb!!! So on the package I got, which was 4.61 lbs, that was a $4.05 savings! <br />
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Wal-Mart had their Taco Bell brand taco shells for $1.32 but I matched another grocer's ad for $0.99. I then had a $1/2 MF coupon that I put on top of that so I got each package for $0.49!!<br />
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Wal-Mart had their Pilsbury Cinnamon Rolls for $1.28 (for the small can) I price matched that with another grocer's ad for $0.79 and then added a $0.40/2 MF coupon so I got each tube for $0.39!! They also had their Pilsbury crescent rolls for $1.27 for the small can that I price matched also with that ad for $0.79. I then added a $0.50/2 MF coupon so I got those for $0.29 a tube!<br />
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Wal-Mart had their Hamburger Helper for $1.50 each. I price matched them with another grocer's ad for $1.25 and then added $0.75/3 MF coupons so I got them for $1 a box!<br />
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So not a bad trip at all! I really like this saving money thing!Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-82090528510613642612011-05-05T17:23:00.000-05:002011-05-05T17:23:34.625-05:00I saved $71.83 today!!WHOO HOO!! I went shopping today using my sales ads and my coupons and saved $71.83!! I am so happy!! I thought I would share some of the deals that I got :-)!!<br />
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I went to four different stores - Target, Walgreens, CVS and Wal-Mart.<br />
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Here is a picture of what I got from Target! I paid $4.98 for all of this!!!<br />
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The Suave shampoo was $0.84. I had a MF coupon for $0.75/1 so I got it for $0.09!!<br />
Target had web coupons if you buy an Airwick Freshmatic refill ($4.99 value) you got the gadget ($4.99 value) free. I had two of these coupons. So I picked up two gadgets and two refills. I also had a MF coupon that was buy one refill and get one free. So I got all 4 of these items ($19.96 value) for $4.99!!!<br />
The degree deodorant was $0.97 and I had a $1.00/1 MF coupon for ANY degree deoderant. So I actually made $0.03 on this deodorant! They applied the full coupon amount!! WHOO HOO! (love it when stores pay me to take items off of their shelf for them :-) )<br />
The scissors were $1.49 each and I had a $1.00/1 MF coupon for each so I paid $0.49 for each of them!<br />
I also had a $0.05 deduction applied to my total because I used my own bag to carry my items out in. I also had $0.22 left on a gift card from the last time I was in the store! <br />
So in the end I got $27.49 worth of items and paid only $4.98!! That is a $22.51 savings!!<br />
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Next stop was Walgreens!! Here are items that I got for $10.82!!<br />
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The Cottonelle 12 Big Rolls were on sale for $5 each and they had a deal going if you bought two then you got $3 RR. Also the May Walgreens Coupon book had a $1/1 and that was applied to each and then I had two $0.50/1 MF Coupons! (and I had a SUPER SWEET cashier that knew her stuff and when the register would not take the MF coupons she manually entered them (because you are able to stack a Walgreens coupon with a MF coupon!) So that came to be $2.00 for each package!! (that is $0.16 a roll!!)<br />
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The U by Kotex pads and liners were on sale for 2/$7 and you got back $2 RR when you bought 2. I also had two $1/1 MF coupons to put on them so I ended up getting them for $1.50 a package!!!<br />
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I used the $5 RR I got on these on a second transaction to put towards Mother's Day gifts for the grandmas that the kids picked out for them :-) (I can't share them on here because the grandma's might read this before they get their gifts!)<br />
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After this stop we went to McDonald's for lunch! I let the kids play for a while on the playground! It was a BEAUTIFUL day and perfect for being outside. They really seemed to enjoy the break too! While they were playing I got to go through sales ads that I had picked up from my good friend Wendy this morning to figure out my match ups for our Wal-Mart trip!<br />
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We then went to CVS. Here is a picture of what I got for $12.35!!<br />
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On the first transaction I got the Colgate toothpaste. The sale was you got it for $2.77 and then you got $2.77 back in ECBs! (this means this was FREE!!!!)<br />
I also got the Herbal Essence styling products. CVS had them on sale for 2/$5.97 and you got back $2 in ECB bucks! I had a $1/1 MF coupon to put on top of that so I got each for $1.48!<br />
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On the second transaction I got three Listerine mouthwashes! CVS had them on sale for $3.99 and I had three $1/1 MF coupons so I got each of them for $2.99 (good price for Listerine...not free but we were out). I used my $4.77 ECB from the first transaction to help pay for this one so that I got my full savings on the first transaction!<br />
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Our last stop was Wal-Mart! Now I won't share everything that I got at Wal-Mart because a lot of it was our normal things that we needed and some didn't even have coupons (BOO! but what can you do!). But I did find some really good savings and in the end I paid $58.47 for $78.71 worth of items - a savings of $20.24!! That $20 is big to me! :-)<br />
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But here are a few of the deals that I got:<br />
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The Scott Naturals toilet paper were on sale for $2.68 each (they were 4 mega roll pkg) I had two $1.50/1 MF coupons which made these $1.18 a package (which was $0.29 for each MEGA roll!!) Man! I scored big on toilet paper today! LOL!! We are stocked for a little while now :-)<br />
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The Skinner pasta was on sale at Krogers this week - they were running a deal that if you bought 10 of any of the participating items then you got an extra $5 off. Thankfully the ad put the $0.50 off savings for each product so that you could price match!. So the Krogers ad showed these pasta packages to be $0.38 each if you bought 10. The price of these at Wal-Mart was $1.04 each!! That was as savings of $0.66 on EACH - or $6.60 total!!<br />
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I also got the Reach Floss - Wal-Mart had it for $0.88 and I had $1/1 MF coupons!! So Wal-Mart paid me $0.12 per package of floss to take them out of their store!! I only had 3 of these coupons left - so the total that Wal-Mart paid me today to take these was $0.36!! (once again I LOVE it when stores pay me to take merchandise out of the store for them!!) <br />
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I also matched a deal at David's for pork butt roast (my favorite kind of roast - SO TENDER!). They had it on sale for $1.99/lb. Wal-Mart's price was $2.28/lb. With the 7.24 lb roast that I got I saved $2.09!! (and a roast that size will make two meals for my family!!)<br />
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I also matched David's ad for their Totino Party Pizzas! My kids LOVE these pizzas and they make such easy lunches! David's had them 10/$10. Wal-Mart's price was $1.12 each!! I also had two $1/5 MF coupons to put on top of them so I got each pizza for $0.80. This provided a total savings of $3.20!!<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">So it was a successful day!! I think I am really starting to figure out this whole couponing thing and am starting to see the savings for our family! I find it to be a fun challenge to do for my family!</div><div><br />
</div>Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-40949254073606895932011-04-19T08:22:00.000-05:002011-04-19T08:22:27.687-05:00Alyssa Turns Two!!It's hard to believe that Sunday my baby girl turned two years old!! OMG! Where does the time go?? She is growing up way too fast!!<br />
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She is ALL GIRL!! The frillier, shiner, blingier - the better!! She LOVES her baby dolls! She spends all day hugging them, putting them in the cradle with a blanket, walking them in their stroller, feeding them (she tries to feed them her cereal) and she even sings to them! She was so excited to get baby bottles for her birthday so that she can now give them a bottle!<br />
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She loves her doll house and will spend countless time playing with it! <br />
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She also loves shoes! In fact she got 4 pair for her birthday!!<br />
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She is my precious princess and I can't imagine life without her!<br />
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Of course I love these two little guys as well! Even though they love to torture their sister and remove all of her baby doll's clothes!! That's what brothers are for!!<br />
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But look at how much life she brings to the group!! (this picture just cracks me up! Not only the decked out princess but the typical "why me?" look on Aaron and Seth in his own little world! A true picture of how our life is!! LOL!)<br />
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Have a great day!Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-9760990914554734442011-04-15T07:40:00.000-05:002011-04-15T07:40:59.252-05:00My Successful Coupon Shopping TripOk I have spent all week obtaining coupons and scoping out sales ads and planning a couponing trip! I went on this shopping trip yesterday and I believe it paid off!!! :-) You really can save a lot of money if you learn how to work your coupons with your ads and take advantage of your store "perks". Here is a little summary of my adventure :-)<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">CVS TRIP</span></b><br />
My biggest savings trip was CVS! I ended up getting $75.32 worth of items and only spending $15.36!!! Here are some of the savings I took advantage of!<br />
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I did this trip in two transactions so that I could use my earned ECBs for savings yesterday!<br />
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Transaction 1:<br />
Gain Dishwashing Liquid -they had it on sale for $0.97 and I had two coupons of get $1/1. So I got two bottles FREE!!!<br />
They were also doing a sale where if you spent $20 in purchases of selected items you get $10 ECB. I bought a Airwick Automatic starter - it was priced at $6 (normal price $12) and I had a $4/1 coupon. I bought a Airwick Compact starter - it was priced at $5 (normal price $10) and I had a $2/1 coupon. I bought a double refill for the warmer (that I bought elsewhere) for $5 and had a $1/1 coupon. I ended that $20 purchase with a $4 lysol disinfectant. So $20 worth of items - $7 in coupons which means I was out of pocket on this transaction $13 BUT I got $10 ECB!!! (Which is the same as paying $3 for all of these items!!!)<br />
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They had a special on their Special K bars - by 3 pkg and get $4 ECB. The say was 3/$10 and I had a $2/3 coupon. So I paid $8 and got $4 in ECB, so I really spent $4 for 3 boxes of Special K Bars!<br />
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I also had a coupon to get a full size Essence of Beauty item ($3.99 value) FREE!! (which by the way I got the Pomegranate Apple hand soap and it smells wonderful!!!)<br />
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I also had a $4 off a $20 purchase coupon (and it applies to the gross total, before coupons!)<br />
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So this first transaction I spent $15.36 and got $14 back in ECB!!!<br />
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Here is what I did on the 2nd transaction:<br />
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I got a 36 count bag of eggs for $2.99 (had to have them for our Easter party this morning)<br />
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They had Dove eggs candy 2/$6 and I had a $1/2 coupon so I got them 2/$5.<br />
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I bought a bag of Wonka sweetarts - on sale for $2.50 and I had a $0.55/1 coupon so got them for $1.95<br />
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I bought 2 Xtra Detergents. They had them on sale for $1.49 each. I had a $1/2 coupon so I paid $1.98 ($0.99 each)<br />
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The total for this transaction was $11.92 - I gave both my ECB to them, which was $14. So I was nothing out of pocket. (Hind sight though - I should have kept the $4 ECB for a later shopping trip because I only needed $1.92 from it and they applied that but I did not get the other $2.08 back...oh well, I'm learning!)<br />
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So in total I spent $15.36 for $75.32 (retail value) of items!! WHOO HOO!!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Target Trip!</b></span><br />
Probably the 2nd biggest savings trip of the day was Target where I got $105.63 worth of items and only paid $48.86!!<br />
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The key to Target is to find the deals where you can stack Target coupons on top of MF coupons! And find the deals where you get back the gift cards!<br />
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I won't tell you every item I bought because I bought a lot of stuff!! But here are some of the best deals that I got!<br />
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They had Glade's new Spring Collection on sale. I got a room spray that was priced at $2.99. I had a $1/1 target coupon and a $1/1 MF coupon - which means I got the spray for $0.99<br />
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I had a Target coupon if you buy a Airwick warmer refill double pack ($4.89) you got the warmer free ($2.49). I had MF for $1 off warmer and MF coupon for $1 refill. So I got the warmer free and paid $2.89 for the refill!!<br />
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They were running a good sale on Green Works cleaning products. If you bought 3 cleaning items you got the dishwashing liquid (2.59) free. I bouth the glass cleaner (2.49), all purpose cleaner (2.49) and toilet bowl cleaner (2.39) and I had $2 in MF coupons towards this. So I paid $5.37 for $9.96 worth of cleaners.<br />
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I got me a couple of free candies :-) They had single serve bags of Skittle Blenders for $0.69 and I had a MF coupon $1.50/2 of ANY Skittles blenders - so they were FREE!<br />
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They had another deal if you bought 3 of selected Always and Tampax items you got a $5 gift card. I bought a box of Always pantyliners $5.49 (had $1 MF coupon), and two boxes of Tampax tampons ($5 each) and had 2 MF coupons - each were $1/1. So I paid $12.49 and got back $5 (which I used in a second transaction) so I really got all this for $7.49!<br />
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I did have some other items that I matched MF coupons with Target coupons for good savings but these were the big highlights!<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Walgreens</span></b><br />
I also found some good savings at Walgreens! They had a sale going - they had their small pkg of Carefree pantyliners on sale for $0.99 (reg $1.49) and you got back $0.99 in RR!! (so do the math - you get them free!!) They only allowed one per transaction - but I had two transactions so I made sure I had one in each!<br />
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They also had a deal if you bought two Got2B styling products you got $5 in RR. They had them on sale for $5 each and I had a coupon for $2/1 so I paid $8 and got $5 RR (which I used on the next transaction...so I really only paid $3)<br />
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On my second transaction they were out of all the products I was going to buy to take advantage of using my RR...but I found that they had Disney Princess balls (big balls) so I grabbed one for Alyssa's birthday and used my RR to pay for it!! :-)<br />
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That was my biggest savings! I did have a little bit of price matching and coupon use at Wal-Mart! But I need to figure out how to get hold of more grocery ads for price matching so I can do better there! I also took advantage of a few savings at HEB!<br />
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And I figured out I still need to work on my organization of my coupons and shopping lists and stuff! But I think I am going to like saving all this money!!<br />
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And it is a good thing I saved money! I came home to find out our toilet broke and flooded the bathroom hall and boys room! I came home to the carpet pulled up and carpet padding drying on the porch. We had to go last night and buy new toilet and vanity and I have got company coming TODAY for Alyssa's birthday party that is TOMORROW!! Crazy!Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-16652049251815702362011-04-01T10:01:00.000-05:002011-04-01T09:58:16.059-05:00Another Couponing AdventureWell I tried out coupons again yesterday. This time I went to Wal-Mart. My original total was $57.12, then after coupons applied it was $48.82. At first I was a bit bummed that I only saved $8.30 but the more I thought about it I realized that was about a 15% savings, which is better than nothing, right???<p>But I did get a few good deals though. <p>First off I had a coupon for $2/2 Mars Easter products. The coupon said it included the mini candy eggs, which are $1 each at Wal-Mart. So do the math - that means I got some free candy! That will always make a girl happy!! :-)<p>I also had a $0.40/1 off any Frigo cheese products. This was an online print off coupon that I was able to get my computer to print 2 before it stopped me. Well Wal-Mart had individual servings of Frigo string cheese for $0.33!! Do the math! $0.40 off of $0.33 means I got paid for buying string cheese! :-) (and I was surprised - there was no problem with the full amount of the coupon being applied!)<p>I also had a $0.50/1 coupon for any Dawn product! I was needing some dishwashing liquid for the camper and used the coupon on a $0.97 bottle! So I only paid $0.47 for dishwashing soap!<p>I also had a $1/2 any Peter Pan peanut butter. I got two small reduced fat containers (perfect size for the camper) for $1.88 each (which was $1.38 each after coupons). <p>I was happy with the fun deals that I got! I want to keep learning and figuring out how I can save even more. <p>I asked the hubby if I could have the money I am saving for me (for sewing stuff). I told him we would be still saving money because I would just be using what we saved on groceries. I told him it would give me incentive to really see how much we can save. Sounds like a wonderful plan to me...I don't know if he is buying it though. I will just have to keep working on him!<p>Well I need to get back to my family - we are out camping!!!Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-36569458817211842082011-03-24T21:42:00.000-05:002011-03-24T21:42:04.895-05:00Coupons!Ok - so I have decided to get back into couponing! I have hooked up with some good online resources (such as <a href="http://www.monesavingmom.com/">www.monesavingmom.com</a>)!! <br />
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Tonight I went to Target - I got $45.68 and only paid $20.88!! WHOO! HOO! $16.80 was from coupons and $8 was from cash that the boys had (that they bought toys with)!<br />
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Here are some of the deals that I got!<br />
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I bought a pair of Circo toddler socks - they were $1 and I had a Target web coupon for $1/1 Circo item - meaning they were FREE after the coupon!<br />
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I bought a bottle of SoftScrub Total cleaner- the price was $3.99 - I had a Target web coupon for $1 and a manufacturer's coupon for $1.50 - so I paid $1.49.<br />
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I bought Kraft Homestyle Macaroni and Cheese - the price was $2.04 - I had a Target web coupon for $0.75 and a manufacturer's coupon for $0.50 - so I paid $0.79.<br />
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I bought Colgate Total Advanced toothpaste - the price was $3.24 - I had a Target web coupon for $1 off and a manufacturer's coupon for $1.00- so I paid $1.24<br />
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I bought Flinstone's vitamins - the price was $6.49 - I had a Target web coupon for $2 off and a manufacturer's coupon for $1 off so I paid $3.49.<br />
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I also had some other items that just had one coupon attached to give some savings as well!!<br />
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Doing coupons is hard work and can be time consuming - but if you play it right you really can get some savings! I am hoping to "learn the system" and really find some savings! Wish me luck! :-)Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-49643195549003358862011-03-07T08:48:00.001-06:002011-03-07T08:48:51.273-06:00Fun Drinking StrawsDaniel's brother and his wife came out to visit on Saturday and brought the kids some fun drinking straws. They twisted and bent to make glasses for the kids to wear while drinking!<br />
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Seth would NOT try them - just didn't want any part of it! But Aaron LOVED them and had a lot of fun with them. Alyssa got the hang of it too! <br />
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Here are some super cute pictures we got of our fun!!<br />
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Hopefully I put a smile on your face today!Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-20336116492985222462011-02-15T08:19:00.000-06:002011-02-15T08:19:20.732-06:00Good Morning GirlsI had a hard time figuring out what blog to put this post on (maybe my problem is that I have too many blogs - LOL). I was trying to decide if it should go here or on my homeschooling blog. I finally decided to put it here and I will put a link post on the homeschooling blog!<br />
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For a few months now I have been following two blogs - <a href="http://womenlivingwell-courtney.blogspot.com/">Women Living Well</a>, authored by Courtney, a wonderful blog with many tips of how to be a homemaker, a wife, and a mother. She was even featured on the Rachel Ray show. She is also co-author of <a href="http://www.goodmorninggirls.org/">Good Morning Girls</a>. Good Morning Girls is the "hub" blog for Good Morning Girls groups! These groups are basically quiet time accountability groups. These are groups of women who check in with each other each morning to say that they had their quiet time and share anything that they learned or discovered through their study of the Word that morning. The Good Morning Girls blog hosts a bible study each semester that the groups can choose to go through together if they want. The bible study this semester is the book of James. Whosoever chooses is going through the book of James, a few verses a day, using the S.O.A.P. method. (which is write down the Scripture, then write down Observations, then write down Applications, and then write out a Prayer).<br />
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When they started announcing that the winter semester was fixing to start up I thought this would be something neat to be involved with. They have a discussion forum where ladies can go to find a group to get plugged into, or to start a group. When I went there I noticed that there were quite a few ladies that were looking for a group that mentioned that they homeschooled. I got the idea to start a Good Morning Girls facebook group for homeschool moms. So I put a post on there that I was starting that and within just a couple of days there were 30 ladies that wanted to be a part of this group!!<br />
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This group is made up of ladies from all over the United States!! And we are having a blast getting to know each other through Facebook. There are some super neat ladies in this group. We are doing the James study and I know I am learning a lot! <br />
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And this is the part that made me conflicted on what blog to share... Several in our family were recently involved in a Valentine's project for our kids!! One mom put a post on the group several weeks ago about her daughter being upset that since she was homeschooled she was not involved in any valentine's exchanges like kids in public school are. She was writing to see if we had any suggestions. Well the idea came to my mind about doing a group project for our kids. I posed the idea of our kids mailing valentine's to one another. And there were quite a few that thought this was also a good idea! Another mom even mentioned that it could be a geography lesson. You could get a map and mark where the valentine's were from!<br />
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There were 12 families that were involved in this project that spanned over 9 different states! I personally thought this project was a lot of fun! My kids LOVED getting all the valentine's in the mail! In fact it created a monster out of my 21 month old Alyssa!! She got to where everytime Daniel brought the mail in she thought it was for her! LOL!<br />
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Here are some pics from opening our valentines. (you will notice the same clothes on the kids - LOL! - we got most of these during our winter storm. Which means we got quite a bit in the same day...and then some more the next day (when we spent the day in our pjs because it was so cold outside)! And then we opened the rest yesterday at the table since we were out of town this weekend).<br />
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</div>Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-37248867375743746892011-02-10T12:14:00.000-06:002011-02-10T12:14:50.639-06:00A new post on my new blogIn case you missed the post yesterday :-) I have created a new blog for my sewing posts! So from now on all sewing related posts will be posted on that blog instead of this blog. There is a form on that blog to sign up to receive posts by email. You can also follow the blog if you like to read your blog posts through a reader!<br />
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I made my first post on that blog today - a new valentine's outfit for me!! Click on this link <a href="http://loveofsewing.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-valentines-dress.html">http://loveofsewing.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-valentines-dress.html</a> to go see that post!<br />
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Just wanted to make sure I gave you fair warning that I will no longer be posting sewing posts on this blog!!Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-38514422566127937462011-02-09T18:55:00.000-06:002011-02-09T18:55:45.861-06:00I have a new sewing blog!I have thought about this for some time but have finally made the "plunge"! I have decided to start a sewing blog to dedicate to all my sewing posts! Everything about the new blog will be sewing related! I will have a list of sewing blogs that I follow and that is where I will put my sewing posts!<br />
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I invite all of you over to my new blog. Come in look around, become a follower, subscribe via email, and let me know what you think!! I love comments!! :-)<br />
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See you over there!<br />
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(I will still have this blog open to post family updates, stories, funnies, etc...)Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-76355244119623532582011-02-07T12:10:00.000-06:002011-02-07T12:10:27.781-06:00I want this book!!<img src="http://www.allfreesewing.com/master_images/Contests/sew-seren-2..jpg" /><br />
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Allfreesewing.com is offering a giveaway for this book!!! <a href="http://www.allfreesewing.com/sweeps/Sew-Serendipity-Book-Giveaway">Click here</a> for more information. I would love to win this book!! I get an extra chance at winning if I blog about it :-). Wish me luck!!!Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-69202728395567756072011-02-03T16:36:00.001-06:002011-02-09T10:25:41.258-06:00Another Dress!!WOW! I didn't think that when I posted <a href="http://watsonfamilyjournal.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-obsession.html">this post</a> with my drawing of my new design for a dress for Alyssa that I would be writing another post that SAME DAY of the completed dress!! I can't believe that not only was this a dress that I designed - it WORKED without any redos and it came together QUICK!!! This is definitely a pattern I will be saving and doing again!!<br />
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And if any of you are interested let me know and I can post the pattern on here for you!!<br />
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So here is my dress!! It is an elastic waist skrit (with wide elastic that shows on outside). The top is a peasant style top and the skirt is a circle style skirt!<br />
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Here is Alyssa modeling it! She LOVES it!!<br />
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</div>Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-78981359914915117542011-02-03T08:07:00.000-06:002011-02-03T08:07:15.233-06:00A new obsession?Ok so I may be becoming obsessed! But I had so much fun designing Alyssa's Valentines Dress! I have always wanted to be able to design my own clothes but never thought I would actually ever get there! And I did (well I didn't design something for me, but I did do it for my daughter! Hopefully one day I will do it for myself!)<br />
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Anyways when I was looking through my fabrics to figure out what to do I actually had several ideas in my head and I am now starting on the second idea in my head. I spent last night with a notebook scribbling out notes!<br />
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Hopefully this will turn into a cute dress when I am done! :-)<br />
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I just looked through several pictures of dresses online that I liked and sat at my table with several different fabrics and figured out what I wanted to do! (side note: the red polka dot material, all of the material on the bodice of the dress, and the heart material were actually cotton tea towels that were on the $1 aisle at Target!!! I had seen a post of a lady making skirts out of them and originally was going to do that but decided to use them in this dress instead!)<br />
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The dress actually looks better on Alyssa than on the hanger - so here she is modeling the dress. Unfortunately she wasn't in much of a modeling mood this morning. Oh well! (she's eating her cereal in this picture)<br />
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I have almost finished my evening dress refashion that was mentioned in <a href="http://watsonfamilyjournal.blogspot.com/2011/01/getting-ready-for-las-vegas.html">this post</a>. I can't wait to show off the results! I have had a lot of fun with it and am very pleased with how it is turning out!!<br />
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Valentine's day is just around the corner! The wheels in my head are in overdrive right now trying to figure out the perfect dress to make for Alyssa :-) Her granny gave her some super cute red sparkly shoes this weekend (which she LOVED) I just now need to make the perfect dress to go with them :-)<br />
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I don't know if you remember the dress I made her last year (with the matching skirt for me). I thought I would share pictures again :-)<br />
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Oh she has grown up so much over the past year!!<br />
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Hopefully I will be back soon with pictures of an adorable Valentine's dress for this year! :-)Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-73173173553539766422011-01-25T17:17:00.000-06:002011-01-25T17:17:58.345-06:00Getting Ready for Las Vegas!My husband's national sales meeting for the company he works with is going to be in Las Vegas this year in a couple of months! I have been given the opportunity to meet him up there- whoo hoo!!<br />
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I thought it would be fun to make some fun outfits for my trip!! I made an outfit yesterday but couldn't get good pictures of me in it (it is SO HARD to photograph yourself - almost impossible!) So I thought I would just have to wait until I actually wore the dress and got someone else to photograph.<br />
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But - I found another way! :-) The night that I fly up there is the night of their awards banquet - meaning I would need something nice to wear. I have several after-five dresses that don't fit, and since I have started this whole refashion thing, decided that I could refashion them! :-) But in order to do that I was going to need to use my body double dress form. I have had it for quite some time but for some reason don't use it as often as I should (but probably will alot more now)<br />
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Anyways - all that to say that when I pulled it out I realized that I could use it to get pictures of my other outfit! I don't like pictures of dresses on dress forms quite as well as them on people - but you gotta do what you gotta do!<br />
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So here is my dress I made yesterday!<br />
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I got the idea from <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/article/elegant-and-easy-dress?backto=true&backtourl=/photogallery/sewing-projects-clothes-and-accessories#slide_6">this link</a>. The main difference is the fact that I lined it. I used a cream colored muslin, sewed the sides of the main fabric together and then the sides of the lining together. Then I put the two together, right sides facing, and sewed the bottom hem. Then flipped it and topstiched the bottom hem and then sewed the armholes and then turned down the top band like stated in the directions on the other link. By adding the lining I did not worry about having to serge any edges - I had no exposed edges. (In fact the dress is actually reversible which has got me to really thinking about some future projects!)<br />
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This dress took only about 1 1/2 hours from start (as in getting measurements and marking out a pattern) to finish!!<br />
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Also the top link didn't give full instructions, even though it was super easy to figure out. I didn't catch on though that your cord for the top was one long piece that only tied on one side. I used two pieces so that I had ties on both sides. I think I would have preferred only having a tie on one side. I will have to remember that for next time.<br />
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Anyways, I love how versatile this dress is. There are many different things you can do to it. Here are some pictures of ways I have thought of.<br />
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And, to give you a peek - here is the dress I am fixing to refashion! This dress has a lot of special meaning to me. My husband bought it for me the Christmas we were dating. My Christmas present that year was the dress, jewelry and tickets to a show! (yes he was quite romantic and still can be at times today!) He picked out the dress too! I loved it and still do but it no longer fits! :-( I gained quite a bit of weight since then and even though I have lost most of it, after three kids my body is just a different shape :-(<br />
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Anyways - I have a fabulous idea in my head to refashion it! I just hope and pray that I can make it work!<br />
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Here's the dress.<br />
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I will try to remember to take pics along the way of the process and will hopefully have a future post of a cute new dress!!! (keep your fingers crossed!)Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-19664305649832332152011-01-19T21:28:00.000-06:002011-01-19T21:28:35.766-06:00Another Ruffle Shirt for Mommy!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIxeXyeucz-NEyekdPnl_PcgsI5BVlxKrax_jcVU4zQl4RrGA6p6xqRZNb9SfMDl83W1JKGsRiYYezmtSDaN1X9ztArDQYKhaLoX-MBIgew3-wKb42t7hpXM4gIh6_uMcReTcGoWhj-uc/s1600/IMG_2029.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIxeXyeucz-NEyekdPnl_PcgsI5BVlxKrax_jcVU4zQl4RrGA6p6xqRZNb9SfMDl83W1JKGsRiYYezmtSDaN1X9ztArDQYKhaLoX-MBIgew3-wKb42t7hpXM4gIh6_uMcReTcGoWhj-uc/s320/IMG_2029.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had so much fun with my ruffle shirt yesterday that I thought to try some more! :-) (I have several shirts to refashion...I did one today). Today I decided to try my own design :-) I had in mind kind of what I wanted and just went from there, piecing it as I went. I was very pleased with the results!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I started with a long sleeved white t-shirt that fits but has stains on it. I was going to make it short sleeved but when I laid it out to see everything I noticed a hole in the shoulder seam. Oh well, I just made it a tank top instead :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To make the ruffles I had a white jersey knit pillowcase. I have had it forever...don't really know where it came from because I don't have any matching sheets LOL but for some reason have just held it in my drawer. I guess it was just waiting to be transformed into something fabulous!! :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I made strips 4 inches in width and as long as the side of the pillowcase (don't know what that measurement was, sorry). I marked lines on my shirt with my fabric chalk starting at the armpit area and then every 3 inches down. I gathered my strips and and pinned them on the lines and then sewed them on. I started at the bottom and sewed up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is a picture of the middle of the process. You can see a couple of rows sewn on the bottom and if you look really really close you can see the light blue lines on the shirt.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When I finished all the rows I knew I needed to do something to finish off the top. I decided to make flowers to put across the top.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I used the instructions from <a href="http://tearosehome.blogspot.com/2010/01/tutorialruffle-shirt.html">this ruffle shirt post</a> (her instruction for the corsage) and put a row of 6 flowers across the top of the top ruffle!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was really pleased with the results.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here I was trying to get a picture myself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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And then decided I needed help so I got my hubby to help. I told him not to worry about my head because I would cut it out...he told me that my online friends need to see my face...oh well...here it is. And look Alyssa saw a camera and had to get in the picture :-)<br />
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</div>Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-82462182738528995312011-01-18T18:06:00.000-06:002011-01-18T18:06:11.917-06:00My Ruffled Shirt!!Ever since I found the blog <a href="http://tearosehome.blogspot.com/">Tea Rose Home</a> about a week ago I have loved looking through posts on it! Her creations are just stunning!! And ever since I viewed <a href="http://tearosehome.blogspot.com/2010/01/tutorialruffle-shirt.html">this post</a> on there on the ruffled shirt she did I was bound and determined to make one for myself!<br />
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Well I made one today! I realized that I had the perfect shirt to refashion in order to make this ruffled shirt. I have this long sleeved red t-shirt. It was a t-shrit that I had back before I lost all the weight. In fact i wore this shirt through all 3 pregnancies! So, needless to say, it is a <i>tad bit </i>too big (about 3 sizes too big). But for some reason I have hung on to it. It has just been sitting in my closet! I guess it was waiting for me to change it into something fabulous!! :-)<br />
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I unfortunately forgot to get before pictures and am really kicking myself for it because the shirt made quite a transformation!<br />
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I took a t-shirt that fits now and used it as a guide to figure out what I needed to do with the red shirt to make it fit. I cut off the sleeves completely and made it into a tank top.<br />
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I did all my alterations and then made sure the new tank top fit - and it did - like a glove!! YAY ME!!<br />
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I then used the sleeves that I cut off to make all my strips for the ruffles. I pretty much followed the tutorial on the other blog to the t (<a href="http://tearosehome.blogspot.com/2010/01/tutorialruffle-shirt.html">here is the link again</a>) so I will let you go there and get instructions if you want to do this yourself!<br />
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Here are some pictures of the finished project. (sorry they are not the best quality - it is really hard to photograph yourself. I tried to get my 5 year old to help but that just wasn't working)<br />
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Here it is with a cardigan...how it will be worn during the cold months!<br />
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Here's the shirt by itself.<br />
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I had a whole bunch of a beautiful light brown corduroy fabric that I needed to do something with. I have been doing a lot of looking online lately for sewing ideas and sewing patterns and stuff and found some to work for this corduroy! <br />
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I was really happy with the results! And I was super happy that Alyssa was doing well enough to go to church this morning so we could show off our new skirts!!<br />
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I got the idea for my skirt at <a href="http://www.xtreme-knitting.com/photos-cordskirt.htm">this link</a> and for Alyssa's skirt at <a href="http://tearosehome.blogspot.com/2009/12/tutorial-corduroy-skirt-for-little-girl.html">this link</a>. I really really liked the flowers that were on the skirt at the link for Alyssa's skirt and thought they would be fun to put on both of our skirts! (In fact that website has quite a few ideas that I want to try out!) I also made Alyssa a matching hair bow!!<br />
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Here is some pictures of the finished project.<br />
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Alyssa's finished skirt:<br />
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Mine and Alyssa's finished skirt:<br />
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Alyssa's hair bow:<br />
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Alyssa and I ready for church in our new outfits!<br />
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Seth took this picture of Alyssa and I :-) (Alyssa always has that expression when Seth has the camera LOL!!)<br />
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Alyssa modeling her new outfit!<br />
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so whatcha think?!?!?Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-60693081137168606472011-01-10T19:47:00.000-06:002011-01-10T19:47:08.739-06:00Alyssa has new pajamas!!My poor baby girl is sick :-( But I just made her happy! I just presented her with a new pair of pajamas that I made her!! It was of course another refashion project.<br />
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You see I got a pair of pajama pants for Christmas that my husband just thought were plain hideous. (Sorry Mom) They were a pair of fuzzy fleece pajama pants that had tinkerbell all over them. I tried to wear them Sunday when it was bitterly cold (and it wasn't even to bed...just to lounge around the house) and he gave me such a hard time about them.<br />
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But Alyssa, on the other hand, loved them! She loves soft fuzzy stuff and she LOVES and ADORES tinkerbell (she calls her beebell).<br />
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So that gave me an idea - what if I could take these pants and make them into pajamas for her.<br />
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Here's a pic of the pajama pants and the sleeper that I used to make a pattern. (this is a sleeper that she is currently fitting in so I couldn't cut it for the pattern - just had to use it as a guide)<br />
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I used the sleeper as a guide and cut out all my pattern pieces and then sewed it together. I used the bottom of the pajama pants as the bottom of the sleeper (so that I didn't have to hem an edge...and I decided against trying to to put the feet portion in the sleeper).<br />
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I used the waistband of the pants as the bottom of the sleeves (once again so I didn't have to hem the sleeve edge.<br />
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Here is the finished sleeper!<br />
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Here is my precious baby girl modeling her new pjs. You can tell by her droopy eyes that she is not feeling good, but the pjs did bring a smile to her face :-) (so you see Mom you just didn't realize at the time that you were buying another Christmas present for Alyssa!)<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last year my sister got her this adorable tie dress from a craft fair. Last year it was way too big - this year it quickly became too short! She only got to wear it once this Summer!! But I love the fabric and since it has a lot of red in it I thought it would be pretty for Christmas. And I had a perfect white shirt to go with it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So here is the before - the dress and the shirt.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Here is the after! I took the ties from the dress and made them into a ribbon bow for the front of the shirt. I gathered the material from the original dress to make the skirt.<br />
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I added a pretty Christmas sweater I had to it to complet the outfit!<br />
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This weekend we went and took Christmas pictures (my hubby happens to be a pretty awesome photographer! Doesn't do it professionally but he certainly could!!) Here is one of my favorites we got of Alyssa and it is a good model of her outfit!<br />
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(and you can't see from this picture but I love the length of this dress - hits her about mid calf! You just can't hardly find dresses that long for little girls right now!)Kelliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466185436023385023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4278575135300798754.post-51264707953442522692010-12-20T11:53:00.001-06:002010-12-20T11:53:36.218-06:00Cinnamon Raisin Bread<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5Nal9_BnYJKW_GWruzmUYeOf4j_cvlEUsunRprxzQ7kbJEh29782esa_QjI0WaYRVQ6ZMmmLOARwl5YvQZAQu3N78Z2_iy45XkcUYaAFeXegYHSs-t1apSmFca09IS3ge7DZuj2v0OII/s1600/IMG_1971.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF5Nal9_BnYJKW_GWruzmUYeOf4j_cvlEUsunRprxzQ7kbJEh29782esa_QjI0WaYRVQ6ZMmmLOARwl5YvQZAQu3N78Z2_iy45XkcUYaAFeXegYHSs-t1apSmFca09IS3ge7DZuj2v0OII/s400/IMG_1971.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Don't that look YUMMY? Can't you just smell it!! I love homemade bread and have discovered that I love homemade cinnamon raisin bread too!! YUM!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I thought I would share the recipe! I take my <a href="http://watsonfamilyjournal.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-new-homemade-bread-recipe.html">basic recipe I have for no-knead bread</a> and add a few steps :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Ingredients:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">3 pkg dry yeast (about 6 3/4 tsp)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">3 3/4 cups warm water (100 to 110 degrees)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">10 cups all-purpose flour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">6 tbsp sugar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">6 tbsp stick margarine, melted</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">1 tbsp salt</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">2 large eggs, lightly beaten</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">cooking spray</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">6 tbsp melted butter, divided</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">1 cup sugar, divided</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">6 tbsp cinnamon, divided</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">raisins</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">1. Dissolve yeast in warm water in a large bowl; let stand 5 minutes. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">2. Add flour and next 4 ingredients to yeast mixture, stirring until well blended. Cover and let rise in a warm place (85 degrees), free from drafts, 30 minutes or until double in size. (Press two fingers into dough, if indention remains, the dough has risen enough.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">3.Divide dough roughly into 3 equal pieces. If the dough is a bit sticky you may have to add flour to it and knead a few times.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">4. For each piece of dough, roll out dough into a rectangle with the short width no wider than the (long) width of your loaf pan. Melt 2 tbsp of butter and spread out over dough. Mix 1/3 cup of sugar with 2 tbsp of cinnamon and spread all over the dough. Spinkle some raisins, if desired, over the do. Then roll up the dough tightly and press seam. Place in a prepared loaf pan.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">5. Repeat the process for the other two pieces of dough. Then set the three loaves in a warm place and let rice for an additional 20 to 30 minutes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">4. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until loaves sound hollow when tapped. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><br />
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