We have more winners!

You all will have to start sharing my blog with your friends! I feel absolutely awful that there was only one person who won't win a coupon! Don't make me do this again! :( The list was randomized and the first six people on the list get a coupon! So send me your Full name and address to frillsnfreckles@gmail.com and I'll get those out to you!

 

Stacy, is there anything I can do for you?? I'm so sorry! You can have an extra entry to my next giveaway :) Hey, it's my blog and I can do what I want to...right? :) If I don't have addresses from all of the top 6 people here in the next three days, they will forfeit their coupon. Thanks again to everyone who participated! I truly appreciate you.

Coupons here, coupons there, coupons coupons everywhere!

For anyone who coupons, you know how addicting it can be. Well, I knew my couponing was saving us a lot of money, but that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted to see HOW much I was saving. So I had Luke make me an Excel worksheet (because Excel and I can't seem to get along), and I've added all of my grocery, baby, and drugstore purchases to it since the beginning of the year. It's pretty impressive! But don't take my word for it...take a look!

Sorry for the size! But a savings of over $500 in not much more than a month. I'm interested to see how it looks by the end of the year! Granted we're not a very large family - two adults, a three year old that hardly eats anything, a one year old that will eat anything you put in front of him, and an eight year old that only lives with us part time (my stepdaughter). Not enough to have to spend a fortune on groceries and all supplies. But I also won't feed my family garbage to save a few bucks. I dont feed them hamburger helper or ramen noodles, and I don't buy anything with white flour, high fructose corn syrup, or canned veggies. (Disclaimer: I'm not judging you if you eat that stuff, I just prefer not to!) So the myth that couponing only benefits you if you buy processed foods is not true. I can promise you that!


BUT! This has nothing to do with food! Purex is at it again! They've sent me SIX coupons to give away to my lovely followers! (3) Triple Action Liquid Detergent and (3) Action Packs.

I'm giving you two ways to win again! :)

1. Follow my blog! As you can tell by my large fan base (ha!), I'd love more followers. So tell me you're a new follower, or if you're awesome and already follow my blog, just leave a comment telling me you already love me and have stopped by to say hi! :)

2. Extra entries!! Tell your friends! If you send someone over to follow my blog, have them leave an extra comment that says "Jane Doe sent me to follow your blog". For every person you send over, you'll get an extra entry.

Six chances to win? Awesome! I'd say you all have good odds ;) Share with your friends! But be quick...I'll be picking winners Tuesday night at 9pm.

Thank you Fisher Price!

Last Christmas, Breleigh's big gift was the Fisher Price IXL Learning System. After tons of research, review reading, and store browsing, we I finally decided on that one. We've been through quite a few sets of batteries. She absolutely loves it. But I'm also very careful about where she uses it, and what she's doing with it. I didn't spend $80 (the price at the time) for her to turn around and toss the darn thing on the floor.

Probably six weeks ago, she went to turn it on, and you could see the backlight, but it wouldn't do ANYTHING. No sounds, no picture, nada. I emailed Fisher Price about the problem, and they told me to do their live chat to troubleshoot to see if they could talk me through it to fix the problem. Wouldn't you know that halfway through our troubleshooting, my computer would NOT reconnect to the chat. I must have talked to four different people before I finally gave up. By the time I got back to the computer, I had an email from Fisher Price Consumer Relations telling me that they were going to replace her IXL. They emailed me a label, I paid for the shipping, and mailed it to them. We received the IXL from UPS today. About three days after an email stating they were sending it back. Not only did they replace it, but they replaced it with an "updated" version that had a  new look and more content.

I can't begin to praise Fisher Price enough for their help and quickness and resolving this problem. We planned to take the IXL with us to Disney in two weeks, and I was worried it wouldn't be fixed in time. No worries. I didn't have to argue with anyone about why the toy was broken, or a receipt, or how long it was broken. They quickly remedied the problem. Thanks for the great customer service, Fisher Price!

Can't stop me now!

I promised you a new DIY project, didn't I? Well, I finally found some time to finish it. I wanted to make Breleigh a new tank top before summer is already here starts. We do live in Florida, after all, and winter doesn't stick around for too long. I didn't  have a pattern, but patterns and I don't agree anyway, so I just kind of went with it. It did take me four hours, but since I started from scratch, I guess it could have been worse. So here is all of my hard work and pin pokes on my little beauty of a model. She is gorgeous, isn't she?

I had to work hard for that smile. Once I finally did get a smile she said "Mooooom! Take a picture of a funny face!" So, in typical Breleigh fashion...

 

 

Don't be surprised, this is normal for her :)

I am a DIY ninja.

Okay, not really. But I just saw the Walmart commercial about being a ninja, and I quietly giggle every time. Quietly because I get made fun of otherwise. Anyway, back on track.
One of my goals for this year was to do at least one DIY project a month. Well I'm awesome and just finished my second one of the month (The third will be done by the end of this week, holla! Wait for pictures). I have a slight obsession with Pinterest, so while I'm not cool enough to think of any of this stuff on my own, I like to think I make nice additions to the massive overload of ideas that is Pinterest.
I needed something for the blank wall in our bedroom. I had a frame that I got for free because it had a defect, and took the mat out since it was the defective part. The frame itself is gorgeous, I think.

 

Supplies: Frame, one piece of scrapbook paper, any kind of stick on letters (or just print on the paper if you want), and some ribbon! I already had the frame, so I spent $5 after coupons for the rest.

After putting the letters in. I had to glue the ribbon to the back of the frame since it didn't have any kind of hanging hooks or anything.

And you may laugh at this, but unless you have a man around to do the laundry, you don't realize how awesome it is ;) He does laundry, I vacuum. Trust me, it's an even trade where hate for chores is concerned.

So easy, and literally took me 10 minutes if you don't count the drying time for the ribbon. And should make for interesting comments with the dry erase marker lol

County Fair

 

This picture says it all, right? :) My not so little brother called and asked if we'd go an impromptu trip to the county fair. While there's not a lot for my younger kids to do obviously, I was unaware of the petting zoo. My brother brought along a roll of quarters for the feed machines, and we must've been there for close to an hour. As you can tell by Breleigh's face, she was quite intrigued by the camel lol

 

Mason, on the other hand, not all that sure about these funny smelling creatures. At one point it looked like he would cry, then he just kind of turned his head away :)

Purex/Jockey giveaway winner!

Yay, wasn't that fun?! We have a winner! Drumroll please.......

Jill, you'll have to get ahold of me and give me your address and sports bra size. They come in plain sizes (S-XL). Congratulations!
Stick around everyone, there will be another giveaway next week :) Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to become a follower :) I'm also tackling this dresser this weekend, so I'll have pictures soon!