Giving warms the heart

If you're like me, you want to give and give and give some more around Christmas. I give till I get myself in trouble. I like to shop anyway, and then I continue to see things that "remind me" of this person or that... I have to let them know that I was thinking about them, right?!

Well to keep myself out of trouble, in more than one way, I stay at home one weekend in December and bake & make candies. My munchkins and I have a blast, create memories, & mama spends less dough. {pun intended}

Creating these treats helps me to give baskets to people that I love and think about without breaking the bank. On this occasion, however, I found myself without enough actual baskets to pack in. So here was my innovative solution! Remember the boxes that cuties come in? Yes! I wrapped that sucker in some gift wrap and viola! Instant Christmas basket!

Yes to this dress?

Here  is a sneek peak of my new dress that I did actually buy, and did not walk away from. I would like to say that I generally will not buy horizontal stripes… do to watching entirely too many “What Not to Wear” episodes. I spotted this one in the window, and luckily had my husband with me to give his opinion.

I say lucky, because my husband will give his honest opinion, sometimes he regrets it. I am truly appreciative that he still does, despite the wrath he receives from time to time. He approved of this one, and chose it above another that I had already bought. So I said yes to the dress.

Opinions? What do you think?

Everyone have a nice Easter?

I realize I have been away for a few days, but I promise I have good reason! It was Easter and my birthday all in one day…

I made this cute little basket for “my” Easter present. Target dollar spot is where I snagged the basket, but what I want to talk about is how everything is edible. The suckers are so sweet, pun intended, and the bunny? Lindt dark chocolate (holy yumm), and the grass is imported from Germany, it is edible too! It’s not delicious, but not bad either, just eh.

So I know I am a little on the Easter post, but what you think? Cute huh?!

In love with…

OLD NAVY!

Do you see all of this stuff below?!

I don’t really consider myself a extreme couponer, like on TLC or anything, but…

Do you see all of this stuff below?!

(Tinkerbell long sleeve, tennis shoes, cord skirt, hoodie cardi, fluttersleeve knit sweater tunic, dressy mary-jane shoes, & kerropi short sleeve T) Wait there is more…

For me… (Black floppy hat, off-white dress short sleeve, coral dressy tank, twill black & white pants, long sleeve black ruffle top, & off white long open cardi)…

All of this combined total of 41$

<3 love.