Frugal Friday

Preorder the new Harry Potter DVD for only $9.99 with free shipping... I am SO EXCITED!!!

Here is a great idea for Christmas gifts or if you are just as excited as me to get some of these movies when they come out.

Target and Walmart online are offering these top movies for only $9.99 with free shipping if you preorder them!!! What a sweet deal. Check out the Target deal here, and the Walmart deal here.

These are the DVD's in the special:
-Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
-Angels and Demons
-Night at the Museum 2
-Santa Buddies
-G Force
-Star Trek
-Four Christmases
-Julie & Julia
-Terminator Salvation
-My Sister's Keeper

I know! There are some great titles to check out. Hope you enjoy the frugal tip. :)

Christmas Wreath Craft!

As soon as I saw this idea over at one of my favorite craft blogs, Nannygoat, I rushed out to the dollar store and got busy. I think this turns out so great (other than my horrible picture taking, it is much cuter in real life). I still want to add a green ribbon or something at the top, but I'm not sure exactly how yet.

Any craft with a hot glue gun I love! This was so easy and cheap. I used smaller ornaments for mine, I ended up with $5 worth from the local dollar tree. And yes, it is hanging on a bar in my laundry room! Don't worry, after Thanksgiving it will find a nice home on a door for the Christmas season. I can't wait.

Let me know if you make one, I would LOVE to see it. :)

Menu Monday!

Here are the meals I am going to attempt to make this week. We don't have much room in the kitchen until Thursday/Friday, so I am trying to have some easy things planned so I'm not to tempted just to pick something up.

Monday- Burgers on the grill and fries.
Tuesday- Stromboli
Wednesday- "Healthified" Chicken and Broccoli
Thursday- Taco Soup, from freezer
Friday- Friends over to help move furniture, pizza.

For more great Menu Planning ideas, visit orgjunkie.com

Ahhhh! We Are Under Construction Still!!!

I'm not gone, don't worry... but I am losing it. We are doing some work on our house this week. Other than painting, painting, painting, all of our bedrooms and the hallway are getting NEW carpet, and the bathroom floor is getting redone. YEAH!

I am so excited, but....

That means that we are living out of our living room, yup, all our bedroom furniture and possessions now reside in our kitchen and the three of us (the 2 year old included) are sleeping in the living room. LOL, this has been interesting to say the least. The past few days, we haven't got much sleep, but hopefully Thursday we will have our house back to normal with new paint and carpet. :) Wish me luck that I'll survive until then.

This is what all of our bedrooms look like at the moment. Thanks to our great friends and family we moved everything and pulled up all the carpet last week.

Yeah, this is my kitchen and dinning room. All of the furniture and stuff in ALL of our bedrooms now lives in here. See my computer desk??? I don't either, lol.

Our families current sleeping arrangement, yeah, we are all going to sleep when the two year old does. It's crazy over here... put will be SO worth it soon. :)

Here's a preview. My new WHITE sink. The old one was maroon with no stopper, yuck. Thanks to my wonderful husband and brother in-law we already have the bathroom almost done.

I can't wait to get done with the construction and enjoy my new carpet and paint. Tomorrow Molly's room is getting painted pink, I am so excited to see how it looks. :)

Menu Monday!

Here are some of the meals I have planned for this week. A couple new recipes in the mix again.

Monday- Easy Grands Pepperoni Pizzas
Tuesday- Taco Sloppy Joes
Wednesday- Crock Pot Meatloaf (new one)
Thursday- Friends over to help pull carpet, Pizza Night
Friday- Weeknight Ravioli Bake (new one)

For more great Menu Plans visit, orgjunkie.com

Frugal Friday, Sew Something Saturday, and Spotlight Sunday in ONE!!!!

I'm so happy that this project if finally done. I picked up a puppet stage at a "Kids Closet Sale" a month ago for only $5. I was so excited that I got such a good deal, but it definitely needed some work. Here is the picture of the "Newly Redone" Stage... :)
I painted it with black chalkboard paint so the kids can write there names or what play they are doing on it. LOVE chalkboard paint, it is so fun. I also sewed some cute black curtains with colored polka dots for it.

They look much more colorful and cuter on the puppet stage. :)

Now... Here is what it looked like before...

But I can't leave you with that, so one more picture of the after, just because I am so excited...

Toddler Time Thursday! stART Project

Over at A Mommy's Adventures they do a weekly project link that I've been so excited to join. A Story + Art = A Great stART. You combine a story you read with a fun art project.

This week we read, Clifford's The Big Leaf Pile. ( I can't for the life of me figure out how to add underline on here?) Molly loves this Clifford book, and the leaves in our backyard are piling up so this was the perfect week to focus on it.

After we read the book, we headed outside to gather up a bag of leaves, which as you can see are not hard to find in our yard.

Then I traced a picture of a tree onto white paper and Molly got busy coloring it brown.

And then we simply glued our leaves to the top of the tree. This went really well, we have been working on gluing. She always wants to glue something on, and then take it back off. But we managed to keep the leaves on the tree today. :)

And Ta Da! Here is the tree Molly made.

To celebrate we decided to play in a pile of leaves just like Clifford.

I know it may not be the most creative art project, but we had a blast making it. For some great creative stART projects, head over to A Mommy's Adventures.