ShareOrganization 2012 My husband and I were talking about goals that we have for ourselves this year.  Our kids are young so just having a good time while they are little is important to us.    This means we need to be better about organization. Organization is constant with my 3 year old. Don’t forget I [...]

Share Just recently I signed up for FREE the Craftsy Crafting Daily Deals.   I’m so impressed with all of the amazing classes and deals on crafting supplies.  If you are at all interested in learning a new hobby or like to improve on one you already know.  In addition there are some FREE patterns on [...]

Share This year is my first year as a stay-at-home working Mom.  Since my daughter is a bit older and the twins are still infants I thought it would be best to make ornaments for the tree. We made stars, and snowflakes from paper.  Doodle had a great time cutting out different shapes and we [...]

Share Do you like to sew?  Do you like to create crafts?   Have you heard of the Sewing Expo? If you haven’t read my posts about this before I wanted to share with you that on Thursday, September 29 – Saturday,  October 1, 2011 is the Chantilly Original Sewing and Quilt Expo located at the [...]

Share Did you see the Harbor Freight coupons in the 4/18/10 SS? There is a coupon for a FREE LED flashlight without a purchase! My hubby likes to go to to Harbor Freight to pick up tools at great prices and we always make sure we have a 20% off coupon or a FREE flashlight [...]

ShareWhen my husband and I married almost 8 years ago we bought our first house that year.  It was so exciting and we knew right off the bat that we wanted to do some updates to it.  We were so excited to jump into them too.  Before we sold the house almost 3 years later [...]

Share Battery Hack on YouTube.  Have you seen this video? My hubby who loves to tinker with electronics sent me this as a frugal way to save money.  Hmmm…don’t think we need 1.5 volt batteries right now but if we do we might think about doing this. Click HERE – 12 volt Energizer Batteries = [...]

Share This weekend has been a busy weekend.  After buying lots of fabric on Friday and even Saturday!  Yes, I went back and bought more.  I went WAY over my budget, but I have fabric to last me years and years.  Just like everything else I try not to ever buy my fabric at retail [...]

Share Have I mentioned that I really like fabric?   Well, I really do.  It’s crazy I know.  I have a very good stockpile of all sorts of fabrics in particular quilting cottons. My hubby called me to tell me about the Burke Joann Store was closing in order to move to a bigger store in [...]

Share Last Saturday we put together “The Dirt” for my Square Foot Garden.   See my first post HERE. My hubby created the box a couple weekends ago.  He decided to use pre-treated wood for this project.  There is some controversy of using it because of the chemicals that are used such as extra copper so [...]