Where have I been?

Well, Magazines Mondays, Thrifty Thursdays, Aloha Fridays, and even catch up Saturdays have been on hold since I went on vacation! We went to the Big Island of Hawaii! It was so much fun and it was the first vacation I have went on since I had my daughter, it was really different and exciting to have her along for vacation! Here are some photos from our trip:

Baby Clothing Addictions

I love to buy baby clothing so much that I wondered do I have an addiction to buying them? Well actually I don't one thing about addition is that you can't stop yourself and well I can. Also I've read some other moms blogs about being addicted to buying them and well it's normal anyways! I think it's fun to dress my baby in all kinds of cute stuff and it's fun to buy them too! I find myself shopping for her way more than myself these days! She's more in style that me! Don't get me wrong I still try to keep up my appearence but her closet it packed way more than mine!

Do you have a baby clothing addition? What are your favorite brands?

I LOVE Carters! I also have alot more faves but just too many to list!

These are carters outfits we have all of these but pink one on the right which I believe my daughters friend Isla does have, her mom and I love this brand! I am assuming one day we will accidently dress them in the same outfit at the same time but it would be cute for them to be dressed the same!

This one my mom bought for MacKenzie, it is also Carters brand! Very cute!

Trying something new!

I've been taking my daughters portraits since she was born and I was getting tired of doing the same type of photo shoots so I signed up for a online photography school (not for a future degree, just for fun and it's free!). The first day I reviewed some material on the website I got inspired! The website showed a new type of baby photography that I wished I knew about since MacKenzie was a newborn.  They set up a link to a blog of a lady who made this popular. Click here to see her blog.

This is my version of this type of photography (notice my baby is awake as she is much too old to be sleeping thru such a thing).

Photo Removed For PRIVACY reasons, sorry...

KCWC

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The challenge is to:

For one hour each day the week of September 20-26 work on making clothes for kids.

 

Look for what I make next week!

 

 

Gardening and Beyond!

My family has been into to gardening alot lately! We love it so much! It's wonderful family time outdoors too! I ran across this cute idea while reading a blog and wanted to share:

Click here to view the blog that this idea came from.

I love to read blogs about DIY projects, I would say that was what first got me into reading blogs. I have found so many neat ideas others have posted on their blogs and I was able to do something similiar for my own home! Even if you can't replicate their project exactly it's okay it's not the point it's just a way to get your creative juices going and make something of your own that works in a similiar way for you! I love this idea above and may do something similiar soon!

Hair Clip Storage Solutions!

If you have many different types of hair clips this one would work well! Also great for traveling!

This idea came from: click here.

Cute idea for clips...

This idea came from a blog I read click here to view.

I love this idea so much! I may do something similiar for Miss.MacKenzie's little clips!

Click here for the instructions on how to make it!

Above image from: click here.

This is a similar idea with bigger clips but I think I like the one above this one better! I think the big clips need bigger dresses to go with them!

 

Saturday Blog Catchup #2

Saturday Blog Catchup

Thrifty Thursday's

Here are some things I did recently that I consider to be thrifty!

1) Ordered Business Cards online a couple weeks ago and forgot to mention the great deal I got! I saved money just from ordering online instead of getting them in a office store then I got them on sale at 50% off the normal price! What a deal!

2) Old Navy shopping trip! We went to Old Navy on Military Savings day! We got a percentage off on all our purchases! Plus they were having a sale that was 30-40% off the already low clearence marked items! I got MacKenzie a adorable pair of shoes that were not on sale but still very cheap for soft sole mary janes for babies, I paid $7.50 before the military discount was taken off!

3) Got a T.J. Beary Tales story for MacKenzie's Bear on clearence for only $1! This was at our military store on base we call the Annex.



What have you done to be thrifty lately?