9/14 shopping trips

So I decided to run out today to pick up a few things and use up some coupons.. I was a bit disappointed that I forgot my Special K coupons at home for my CVS trip, and for Walmart they were all out of the purina one beyond cat food and I couldn't find the $.97 icy hot for my coupons :( Ill have to keep checking back.

CVS trip....

Special K 3/$9
Pop $.99ea x 3
Soft Soap $2.99
Aussie $2.99
Herbal Essence $2.99
Rephresh $6.79

Total $28

used a $5/$25 Q, $9 ecbs and $9.73 in coupons

total oop = $4.06

got back $14.79 in ECBs!!! Even with forgetting the special K coupon I still defiantly made out on this one!!


Walmart
(gallon of milk not pictured)
Total $19.04

after coupons = $8.61

I wanted to use more of my cascade coupons but I didn't this trip.. and i have one more spic and span to use and tons of purina and icy hot coupons that i need to use up. this trip wasn't what I had hoped it would be .. but i really needed milk and wanted Sunny D..

Newest buys!

So I made two trips to my two local Goodwills this week.. and Walmart.. and Ross.. and still more stores coming up, but I wanted to post now before it got TOO long.
Here are my finds:


Walmart clearance shirt $3. Reg: $14! This picture doesn't do it justice since it's black, but it's really adorable on and will be great when I need to dress up or go for an interview or something.
Ross: $7.. a bit higher than I wanted to spend but again, the picture doesn't do it justice. This shirt looks SO cute on, I've tried so many of these shirts on and they never look good on me, they make me look frumpy or pregnant but this one actually looks awesome! I can't wait to wear it somewhere with a bright colored tank top underneath.
My second walmart clearance find $3, reg $14, its a silky material, so soft, so nice on.
Goodwill tshirt, I loved the colors and its a nice lounge around the house shirt.
Goodwill shirt. I found this on the "don't want" rack outside of the fitting rooms and was surprised at how cute I thought it was and how cute it actually looked on me. It has an opening in the back, not a big one though (you can see it in the picture). This will be nice to wear out and when we go to Florida. I cant wait to wear it.
Ross clearance $5. zip up hoodie. It's lightweight but super soft inside, it will be nice to wear over a plain tshirt in the fall. There was a SUPERRRRRR (and i mean super) fuzzy one for $24 that I debated getting, but I put it back.. I have a ton of fuzzy sweatshirts i really dont need another. Maybe if it was $10 I would've got it.
Goodwill long sleeved shirt from the Loft. Its a baby blue color and soooffftttt.


Non clothing items:


bunny with bendable legs and ears $.69
3 Christmas Ornaments. the cat Hallmark Keepsake one was $.99, the snowman was $.69 and the santa was $.99, the santa still has a tag on it saying it was $8.99 at Kohls. I normally dont like santas but I thought he was really cute, and the details on both the santa and snowman are just REALLY well done. I can't wait for christmas!!

For use with my christmas village.. I am slowly growing my village, and I found this with all of the pieces still included and all packaged up. The fake snow is even still all together.. I dont even think it was ever used, honestly!



I also got a bath towel and a rug at Ross both for $3 but I already had them out/put away and forgot to get pictures of them.





Thanks for looking!! :)

Oh, How Pinteresting!

Today I am linking up with


First of all, if you haven't heard of, or started an account with Pinterest yet.. you NEED to.
You need an invite right now though and I have already sent a bunch of friends requests to join and they are hooked.. so if you are interested in joining please let me know and i'd be more than happy to send you an invite!

I love saving pictures of things that I love, want to do/create/etc, to a folder on my desktop. I still have yet to upload EVERYTHING that I have saved in that folder.. but i'll get there eventually.. until then I am loving the site. I get on every single day .. most of the time more than just once and will spend hours just looking at things, and pinning things and getting ideas. I adore this website.


Here are some of my recent pins:

I ADORE this piece.. I want more than anything to have something like this in my home before I die.

Source: room-galleries.myhomeideas.com via Kristin on Pinterest

How cute is this??? I love it. I think whenever we buy and move into our new home, I want this in our entry way somewhere... I just think its cute!

Source: hu2.com via Kristin on Pinterest

A Terrarium: I want to make one (or 50) of these, so badly! I have more than enough things to make them in, and I have found SO many ADORABLE ideas. This is one of my favorite things to look up on here now, I am obsessed!

Source: etsy.com via Kristin on Pinterest

another idea that I LOVE... a bit morbid to some, but I think its lovely

Source: sfgirlbybay.com via Kristin on Pinterest

A craft idea that I REALLY want to do.. Important dates!

Source: andreasteed.com via Kristin on Pinterest

Another crafty idea that I really want to do that would go along great with the important dates one.. a 'collage' of keys!

Source: younghouselove.com via Kristin on Pinterest

There are SOOOOOO many other things that I have on there, and that I have yet to upload.
I would love followers on there, and will defiantly follow back as I love to peek into what other people are pinning!!!



Thank you so much for joining me and taking a peek into my pins, and I look forward to seeing you soon! =]

My first White Wednesday!!

Hello everyone! I am linking up to my very first White Wednesday!!

Now I have never participated in a White Wednesday previously because I just do not have that much white in our home, unfortunately. Hubby really doesn't like white, and most of our furniture is wood or black. I plan on redoing a couple of pieces though, and really want to do a dark stain on top and white (or possibly gray) on the bottom.

I went around and took pictures of a few of the white knick knacks I have scattered around.. We recently did a big deep clean because we had someone come to look at our house so there isn't as much out as there was... but here are a few things!

First is the top of one of my book shelves ... I had to move the picture over so you could see the white cat better, and ignore the hubby's model plane -.- After Easter I took everything down and never really did re-decorate anything, I just kind of threw things around and didn't do much with anything.


My little white Goodwill bird basking in the (nonexistent) Pennsylvania sun amongst the plants on the window sill.
Some of my Willow tree collection sitting on a silver tray with fake pearls, heart gem stones and a key.

Top of my corner hutch with all my birdhouses and random country knick knacks
More Willow Tree scattered about..


Not too much white :(
I defiantly need to start adding some more.. lighten my color scheme up!
First I need to get the hubby more into the idea!


Thank you for checking me out, sorry my link up is a bit boring!

12 more days!

Until I am 24.
I may seem excited about this because of the exclamation point you see in my title.. but in reality, I am not. It's not so much the "getting older" part.. it's just that I never actually do any celebrating of my birthday. Every year my fiance and I will go out to eat and go to the movies, or to the zoo, or wherever else I want to go. I don't go out to bars or clubs or anything.. fun...

However, this year even though I have absolutely nothing planned.. I do have a list of things that I want for my birthday, and this rarely ever happens.. I NEVER know what I want!!

First of all, I'm getting another cat. We're going to go to the shelters in the area and try to find the purrfect match. I defiantly want an older/adult cat, one who has been at the shelter for quite some time. I am SUPER excited about this.

There is a Tim Magraw, Luke Bryan and The Band Perry concert at the end of this month that I REALLY want to go to. I didn't get tickets yet as I want to keep checking Craigs List to see if anybody has anything better than Lawn seats come up, if not I will get them off line.. or maybe have my mom get them for me.
There is another concert that I want to go to but its not until September.. but I think those concert tickets would be a good idea, thats less out of pocket money for me to have to spend.. or she can give me money to put towards them.. either way.



We only have 3 more months until Florida too, This is am very excited about. I am still not a fan of roller coasters, but I just can't wait to be away from here and just be able to relax, wake up and not have to go to work. What would be awesome would be being able to find a job while down there and NOT coming back to PA. HAA! I really don't want to *live* in Florida though, WAY too hot for me. But it would defiantly be nice to not have to come home... i'd just have my mom pack up our stuff .. and animals.. and bring or fly them all down to us hahahaha. (hey, a girl can dream right?!?!)


I need to get projects finished up too. I have a ton of little odds and ends projects that I really want to do, as well as re-doing the entry table.. It feels weird doing it since its something my dad made, but it would SO nice when it was done!





Ok, thats enough from me for now.. I will hopefully have some posts soon with my recent thrifts/finds and projects!

Weekend of shopping and yard sales

My day of shopping:


Bath and Body works: total $25.
I actually returned a few things, and ended up getting a few items that aren't pictured (too lazy to take another picture) I got the Pink Warm & Sweet spray (which is AWESOME.. I need to get the lotion now too.) a lip gloss and two other travel sized things that i needed in place of the things i got that I really didn't like.

CVS: Total $19, got $6 in ECBs.. I didnt get some of what I went for, i need to check my other store then get a rain check if they are out. I could've done WAY better with this but I just wanted to get everything done and did it all in one trans. Plus I got the Jergens which I wasn't really planning on getting.
Rite Aid/Walgreens
RA: $4oop have $3+UPR left over and got a $3 off $15!.. to only spend $4 total on 4 things of Axe spray is amazing to me.. Hubby goes through it like crazy too so whenever I get a chance to stock up i'll take it!
WAGS: $6.61oop got $3RR back.. was only $4.61 but I had to get something else to use my $.99 RR so I grabbed some beef jerky since it was on sale anyway.. $2 for a bag of jerky isnt bad at all either!



My weekend yard sale treasures... I was very very disappointed this weekend. The community yard sale that I've gone to for the last 3 years, and look forward to after each one and count the days until the next one was such a dud. There just weren't as many families participating this year and I got a late start.. I wanted to be there at 7 but got there around 930 and missed out on a few things that i wanted. I just wasn't in the groove. Theres even a book sale that I was so pumped for, its always been the best book sale i go to all year and this year was just a huge let down. I didnt get ANYthing from there.

I got these mugs and a book from one lady. I have MORE than enough coffee mugs and we dont drink enough coffee for them. But I loved them and HAD to have them. They come in a nice storage box too! and i got a book that I dont have pictured.

2 christmas village pieces for $1 ea.

I also got a fish tank with everything included for $6. The one that I really wanted was sold by the time I got there. and I found another cute little one with awesome rocks, but no lid for $3, I told myself that id go back for it and if it was there i'd buy it but when I went back of course it was gone. But thats ok the one i have just needs cleaned up a bit and it will be perfect! I might spray paint the lid too, its purple and Id rather have it black.

FREE cat tree and advice on coffee table

So last night on my way home from work at 1:30AM I passed one of the houses down the road from me and out by their garbage was a huge cat tree. I stopped, turned around, did another drive-by. I was going to just grab it while I was out already but I went home to tell the hubby about it first since I didn't wanna just suprise him with this one.
So at 2am I went back out on a mission to snatch this bad boy up. Its SUPER heavy, still in really good condition, there are only two spots on it that are scratched up in the upper corner..
I vacuumed it good, snipped off all the straggling pieces that were ripped up and its good as new!

Hubby said Lucy would never EVER go on it, she was hissing at it at first, but then I caught her sleeping in there so I grabbed the camera. As soon as I walked over to take her picture she got up and jumped down like she didn't want me to catch her in there actually enjoying it.
I can't wait for her to realize there are more levels to it! And I am really hoping to get another cat this month. A local shelter is having free adoptions for the month of June and i've been wanting another kitty and my birthday is in July... Perfect present? YES sir! :)




*I just saw her getting back inside the house as I typed this. Im so glad shes enjoying it.
Now I just need to find the perfect place for it.. Id like to sit it in front of a window.. maybe in the computer room... for now its in the hallway haha.




Now.. on to my "project" that im not sure if we'll do or not...
We.. well.. hubby.. bought this table when we moved into our first apartment even though I have a perfectly AWESOME coffee table that my dad made at my moms house. He just didn't care for it as his 'living room coffee table" he wanted something more modern. (that coffee table will be coming back once we move again though.)
So he went to Levin's and bought a couch/coffee table/end table and rug. I was very proud of him since he did it all on his own, however i wasnt too fond of the table and end table (they are matching, i just didnt get a pic of the end table). I do like it, but black just gets so dusty and shows EVERYthing so easily, and im sorry but I refuse to dust every single day. nope nope nope.
I saw some pictures of the wood top with painted bottom tables. I plan on doing our entry wooden table that way, doing a dark stain top with a lighter bottom (not white, hubby HATES white *insert eye roll here*)
I brought it up to him about doing the coffee table that way also. Much to my suprise he agreed with me and said thats an AWESOME idea. He checked the table to see what it was actually made from, we should be able to do the stained top with light bottom, worse case scenario we mess it all up and ill just get the coffee table from my moms to replace it for now, or we;ll repaint it if its not too badly damaged.
However. This table has those two glass insert pieces (i tried to take the best pictures that I could of them) I dont know if wood and those pieces would actually look GOOD together. We were thinking that it wouldnt. It looks good because its on a black table.
So question... Would it actually look decent with a dark wood top? If not, any suggestions on what I could maybe either replace them with? or some other way to redo the table. Remember, no white because he hates white for whatever reason.
The glass sits in a little carved out insert in the table so we could maybe make something to sit in there.. or maybe even cover the glass up with something somehow.. maybe fabric? i didnt even think of that until just now.. but then again we do sit drinks and stuff on there, I bet the fabric would get dirty and stain.


any suggestions/opinions are welcome for this project!!!