Pillsbury Giveaway Winner Announcement!

I'm afraid with moving I didn't get this giveaway publicized much. That's good for the few that did enter, however.

The winner is:

Comment #5 is: Manda said... 5

Friend requested you on FB as Manda Valenti

Thanks!
avalenti6936 at yahoo dot com
February 25, 2011 1:48 PM

I will be contacting Manda. She will have 48 hours to reply or I will choose another winner.

Thanks so much to those of you who entered!

Squidoo Hopping 3/10/11

First of all, let me apologize for not posting last week! I didn't even realize and think about it until Sunday. As you know, we were moving to our new house starting last Wednesday. We settled in to the house as our home right away. We still have quite a bit of unpacking to do...or I should say that I do.

For this week, I want to go back to sharing the lenses that are on the bottom of my list of lenses. Yikes! One of them had gone over the 500,000 mark on lens rank.

Our Homeschool Journey 2010/2011 Part 3---I've taken the time to get this one updated this morning. It's a week past time to start building part 4. I do hope to get to that soon, as well as building more book review lenses!

Next up is Our Unschooling Journey 3--this was part 3 of my attempt to allow Jasmine to unschool. I don't really know what to do as far as updating these since it's over...with the exception of adding links to our homeschool journey lenses for this year. Any tips and hints will be appreciated.

Thanks for your attention, and I hope to see you hop along with us this week. The linky stays live for a week and you are welcome to share any and all blog posts you have posted that mention squidoo in them!! Please, since I missed last week, link up any that you did last week as well. Thanks!

WIP Wednesday 3/9/11

Happy WIP Wednesday!
Our WIP here is still our move. We've only been living in the house 4 days but for some reason it feels like a long time. I love that we all feel so at home here.
Below is a photo of what my "craft" room is looking like right now. Notice that my sewing machine is out, as I did have a bag order to get completed this week. I'm anxious to get the room organized now that most everything else is now unpacked.

The kitchen is completely unpacked so I thought I would include a photo there too. You will notice my still a WIP of the placemats I am making. The one out of 6 I am making that is done, is on the table.

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Mailbox Monday 3/7/2011

Whoa! Better late than never, it's still Monday by my clock. Busy busy moving in to our new house. In fact, this is my first blog post since last Wednesday!

I'm happy to announce that we got mail of our own on our very first day to stay here in our new home! A big thanks to Rainne who was thoughtful and sent me out an envelope of coupons to make sure I would get mail right away here. Steve got a letter on the home owners insurance.

Anyway, here is this past week's list:

Magazines: Time, People, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, Forbes Life, Car & Driver, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Other mail:
Water bottle gift from synovate.com
4 other pieces of hausernet mail
Commission check from Jerky Direct
3 envelopes of coupons from gather member (including the one I talk about in the beginning) Thanks again!
Free coupon and $1.50 coupon for Philadelphia Cooking Creme from Kraft



In my email:
$20 paypal from gather
.10 paypal from myallfriends
$1.58 paypal from mylikes
etsy order

WIP Wednesday 3/2/11

Good Wednesday to all and welcome to the weekly WIP post. WIP Wednesday is hosted by Every Day Crochet. Please click the button at the bottom of my post to join in the fun and see what others are working on.

For us it's been moving still. Today is the day to close on the house!!!!!
We are really nowhere close to being ready to move. I've been packing boxes for weeks. I've stepped it up this past week or so, but still so much to do!

I packed all my crafts away a week ago and had been working on making placemats for our table. You can see by the photo that I did get a set of 6 crocheted but only completed one. I have the fringe on the other 5 to go, but now they are packed to finish later. It's crunch time on moving!!!

You can see in the photos more boxes are packed in both rooms. Some of these are now in my car and he is taking apart desks and such to put in his vehicle. We will head straight to the house after closing today to drop what we can off. Then it will be home where we have steak in the crockpot for a quick supper. He has to get up at midnight tonight for work tomorrow and Jasmine and I have church activities tonight. We just want to get what we can over there. I wish closing was earlier in the day. I have a full day tomorrow but will get another car load of boxes over there. Friday we have to be there early early for the cable to be hooked up. I will take another load of boxes then. Saturday and Sunday we have a moving truck to use. Can you say exhausted!!

I find muself over committed on the computer but trying to work on the move and in between all the things that I do online.

Anyway, here are my photos for the week.

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Mailbox Monday 2/28/2011

Welcome to Mailbox Monday hosted by afrugalfriend.net.  Please click the button at the bottom of my post and play along.

I got quite the pile of mail this past week!
Magazines:
Time
Sports Illustrated
People
Bloomberg Buusinessweek
Entertainment Weekly
Remedy

Other mail:
Dust and other Poems book to read and review (this actually came last week but I forgot to list it)
Pillsbury Prize Pack (apron, pen and 100 Winning Bake -Off Recipes magazine--which a set the same is up for giveaway on my blog through myblogspark)
Coupon Train
Three sheets of address labels won on listia
Maggi Chicken Flavored Pasta Soup mix packet with buy 3 get 1 free coupon
Copenhagen coupons
5 other pieces of hausernet mail

Shop Hop Saturday 2/26/11

Good Saturday to all!  I am later than usual getting my shop hop blog posted for this week.  This morning I was busy with some posts on gather and packing a few boxes.  This afternoon I had a good time visiting with my friend Heather.  I met her through gather then found out we only live 30 minutes from each other.  It's always so great for me when she comes to visit and I have someone to visit with (rant and whine too) in person instead of just on the computer all the time.

Due to our move, I have packed up all of my crafts and have dedicated the time I usually work on crafts to packing boxes.  Four more days and we close on the house!!

However, I did finish up that table runner and got it listed in my etsy store this week.  In addition, I put together a set of little girls bracelets that were already made.  I also put together 2 more of the hot pad and coaster sets with items I already had made.
You can see of it below:

Hot Pad and Coaster Set in Country Blue

marsha32 

Hot Pad and Coaster Set 

Little Girls Bracelets Set of 5 

Christmas Table Runner

 

We are moving starting Wednesday and will be living in the house by this time next Saturday.  I won't have anything new to list in my etsy shop between now and then.  I'm not sure if I will make this post next week or not!  I have a feeling that all of Saturday is going to be dedicated to getting us as settled in to start staying in our new home as I can.  I will be taking a car load of boxes over on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and putting away what I can each day as well.

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Drugstore Bootstrap Challenge Week 4

Welcome to Week 4 of the Drugstore Bootstrap challenge for the month of February.  The challenge is posted by Frugal Follies and you can find the post here.

We only have Walgreen's here.

My Rules:
1.  I can spend no more than $10 out of pocket the whole month.
2.  Sales tax does not count in the $10 total.
3.  I can start with the $5 in register rewards that I have on hand.
4.  I can use any coupons that I can, and they also do not count in the total, as the total is just out of pocket.

As you know, I blew the $10 OOP for the month after the 3rd week of shopping.  Also as you know, we are closing on our house next week.  Since I blew it, I decided to not worry about it too much, and most all I bought this week is now packed to moved to our new home.  I still feel like I did pretty well!

I bought:
RePhresh Tampons, on sale for $5.99, used $1 coupon and got back $5 in RR's.
2-Clorox Clean Up Wipes in sale 2 for $6, got back $2 in RR's
2 Ziploc freezer bags, on sale 2 for $5 with Walgreen's coupon and I used $1/2 coupon
Dove Deoderant, on sale for $1.99 with Walgreen's coupon and I used a $2 coupon
2 Glade Relax spray, on sale 2 for $5, used 2-$1 coupons and got back $1 in RR's.
I then used my $10 in RR's from the previous week.


I paid $7.98 OOP (not including sales tax), saved $18.58 total in coupons (including Walgreen's coupons), and have $8 total is RR's for my next shopping.


This brings my total OOP for the month to $21.65.  I still feel good about it since over the month I now have several items for our new home.


What will the March challenge be?