ILOVE to give gifts but it is starting to get expensive
and with a couple of weddings, bridal showers and birthdays coming up wasn't sure what I was going to do until today!
I went to the handy dandy Dollar Store with my mom on Saturday and hit the jackpot! I love movies and popcorn so I am Super excited when I found these CUTE Popcorn bowls for a $1. So, I bought 10 of them. I really wanted to buy more but I stopped myself. I also grabbed some filler and the shrink wrap with a bow.
Who knew I would love the Dollar Store as much as I do... anyone who knows me well knows that has never been my personality but it is now. I LOVE IT!
I then couldn't decided between Walmart or Target ( I Heart Target, a LOT!) so I started with Walmart {since its first on my way home} and hit the Jackpot AGAIN! One of my ALL time FAVORITE movies for $5 (YES...Five Dollars) so I had to get it then hit the candy isle and then the popcorn isle.
Now that everything has been purchased and put together I have spent a total of $12 bucks! How AWESOME is that! I love giving Pretty wrapped gifts I hope every one enjoys as much as I enjoyed giving!
Tis almost the season to be grateful, I decided to start a little early this year. Oh so much has happen this past year and every ounce of it I am grateful for. As I was reading one of my amazing sis-n-laws blog it made me think about everything. She was talking about mental pictures, and I loved it. What is a mental picture? To me it is something that only I saw and now cherish. We all may see the same thing but we all interpret it differently.
Just in the last month I have a handful of mental picture that make megrateful for so much.
First, Elder Gurr turning around with a great big smile before he went through security! That smile was priceless. I can’t wait to see it again, but that smile gave me several things to be grateful for…that my heavenly father Loves me, that the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is the true church, Missionaries who are spreading the gospel all over the world, that families can be together forever and that 2 years isn’t that long (we’ll be back at the airport waiting for that GREAT BIG SMILE, before we know it.)
Second, this adorable little boy who was visiting my ward on Sunday, he might be around 8 well he was visiting because it was the primary program and his cousin had a big part so the whole family came to watch, they were sitting a couple of rows in front of me and I couldn’t help but watch him. Then I was able to help out in my old sunbeam class and he was in primary and we was so eager to answer all the questions and to help whenever he could, we sang “Hello, Hello” to him and his sisters and he stood there with a smiled from ear to ear. That smiled touched my heart and I will forever begrateful to know that we are all Children of God and that he loves us.
Third, the moon tonight about 7:30 was beautiful. It was low, so it was huge with a bit of a yellow tint. It makes megratefulto know that there is a great big world out there that was created by a loving heavenly father. My dad has a favorite primary song that comes to mind whenever I am sitting in the forest or on the beach, watching the sun come up or go down, whenever I am looking out the window of my house because it’s too hot to go outside or looking out a tiny window of an airplane. The song is…
“My Heavenly Father Loves Me”
Whenever I hear the song of a bird Or look at the blue, blue sky, Whenever I feel the rain on my face Or the wind as it rushes by, Whenever I touch a velvet rose Or walk by our lilac tree, I’m glad that I live in this beautiful world Heavenly Father created for me.
How perfect is that! There have been times that this song has brought tears to my eyes, (which really isn’t a surprise, considering I cry at everything) but it reminds me to be grateful for the small things.
So, here are three of this year’s mental pictures, they are dear to my heart and had some serious impact on me, as I ponder each day before I read my scriptures and say my prayers, the first two just keep coming back to me, was I suppose to learn something from that little down syndrome boys smile or from Elder Gurr’s eagerness to serve the Lord , I don’t know, but what I do know is that it has reminded me of how much my Father in Heaven loves me and that I am not alone even though it feels like it sometimes, I have an amazing family who I love and they love me, I am a daughter of God, the Savior atoned for my sins so that I can return to him someday! I have so much to begrateful for why wait until Thanksgiving to say it!
and so it this one. I do love the Sea Bags, and still want one but I think I love this one more.
My friend Kellie, sent me an email today about this blog Deals to Meals (dealstomeals.blogspot.com)
It is a fun blog it has all sort of recipes and fun hints on saving money while you grocery shop.
There giveaway is a BOSCH and I really really really want to win!
My mom has a Bosch and I love it, I want one so bad. It can do everything, and it makes it all so easy. It has made making bread a piece of cake and my favorite rolls are fabulous when made in it.
Here's the recipe to the best rolls ever!
Crescent Rolls (Easiest recipe you'll ever find and they are out of this world) 1 cup of warm mashed potatoes 2/3 cup sugar 1 1/2 tsp. salt 2/3 cup soft butter 2 eggs 1 Tbsp. yeast 1 1/2 cup warm water add about 7 cups of Flour
Mix on lowest speed (#1) for 4 minutes Divide dough into 3 balls Roll the balls into circles and butter. Then cut into triangles with a pizza cutter. Roll into crescents and place on buttered cookie sheet. Let rise til double. Bake @ 375 for 15 minutes (approximately)
You will love them and never go back to your old rolls again.
Thank you Kellie for the Blog info and thank you everyone for putting up with yet another giveaway!
I did make cupcakes last week with my mom, that I will post pictures of later.
super cute sea bags in a magazine while I was standing in line at the grocery store. They are made out of sails that have sailed around the world, then recycled and made into bags in Portland, Maine. When I got home that night I goggled them to see if I was able to by one here in Arizona.
I did come across a blog, That I read everyday. It's The Willow Home & Garden I love it. This is the cutest store I have ever seen. It's here in Phoenix and as soon as I have a free day I want to go, if anyone wants to make plans to take an afternoon and go let me know!
So, now to the important part... on the blog I found, she is doing a SEA BAG Giveaway and I really really really want to win it. To be entered multiple you have to become a follower of the blog or post a blog about it or tweet/facebook about it! Now that I become a follower and blogged about it hopefully it will help increase my chances because I really really really love love love these SEA BAGS.
Now, I want to go to Portland, Maine just to see where they are made. Maybe Blake will get his mission call (which we should know in less then two weeks) then that will give me an excuse to go there and shop.
So I have this client, Janelle and she has crazy red hair. It's Bright, Vibrant, and oh so shiney! I loved it!
(Client)
The first time I did it in January I wanted something crazy like it but I was way to scared to do something like it! So for the past 3 months i have been trying to figure out what I could do.
(Marcia Cross)
I knew that I wanted something on the Copper side like Marcia Cross. I was reading in Behind the Chair (hair magazine) and there was a picture of her and her color formula. I was in Luck!
I thought about it for 4 more days and finally did it on Wednesday! I am still a little stressed about it but I am starting to love it! It's browner then I wanted so next time I will change the formula just a little, I need to add more copper but it's a great start.
The Salon has been open for a year, It's been so much fun, so stressful...
you name it I have probably felt it!
To celebrate we had a Luau! Here are a few pictures of the day! I was so busy with clients that I didn't get to join the party but it looks like they were having fun without me.
As many of you know, I enjoy baking. I really like to make cupcakes. I think my fascination started when I had my very first Sprinkles Cupcake and fell in love. It was moist, rich, the frosting was fabulous and I loved the way they looked. So Chic! Last year sometime I was in Barnes and Noble and saw this adorable cookbook. I didn't buy it right then but I thought about it days and finally decided that I had to have it.
It's called Hello,Cupcake!
Isn't it so cute and very clever??? And yes, some are difficult but with practice and patience anything is possibly, Right? Well, after $40 bucks, running around town trying to find chocolate covered sunflower seeds and white circus peanuts, (which I never found, so I had to use orange ones and dip them in white chocolate) tons of green frosting, and almost no sleep (because I wanted my first attempt to be perfect) I made the cutest little Bunny Holes.
(they are definitely not as cute as the picture in the cookbook, but they're cute! If I do say so myself.) After all of this, I have decided that I want to do the whole Julie/Julia girl and make everything in the cookbook. Only problem, it's going to take me forever with there being several things for Easter, Halloween and Christmas. I can only make so many cupcakes and with it costing as much as it did, I would rather spend the money on shoes or something, not cupcakes. (I am still trying to get in shape, that many cupcakes would not be good for me) That being said I am totally going to do this, it should be fun. Maybe by the time I am done doing this I will be ready to open my own Bakery/Cafe. Now, that would be fun!
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