Red, White, and Budget friendly...

Did you see these cute dishtowels at the Dollar Tree?!?!?! Mine had matching place mats too!!!!!

I couldn't resist doing something with them. So, I sewed around the edges and voila:

Isn't that the cutest little pillow EVER?!?!?!? They are gonna look so cute strewn around my outdoor furniture for all those 4th of July cookouts and gatherings. And they're only $1.00 a PIECE! Woooooooooooo hooooooooooo!

Gettin' Crafty on Hump Day....

Last week was my BIGGEST link party to date with 26 links, so lets try to top that shall we?!?!?

And the most popular link last week with 60 hits was Amanda @ The Hand Me Down House with her ingenious outdoor lighting. I am SOOOOO doing this at my house...I'm currently scouting out garage sales for wide mouth jars....

Its that time folks, so lets do this!

Please leave a comment if you link up, and visit some of the other links and spread some comment love there too :)

Lets par-tay!

I have plenty of help with demo...

I apologize for my recent disappearance...this demo is kicking my butt!!!!! So, this past weekend, I got geared up, and decided to tackle my bubble gum bathroom:

I quickly decided it was a lot of work. I then called for back-up.
And all was fine and dandy until more back-up showed up to help. Tons and tons of THESE:

These are earwigs...and they are VERY prominent in my area. They are DISGUSTING!!!!!!!! And in my basement they fall out of the ceilings onto your head if you push too hard on the paneling. YUCK!!!!!!!!!!! Now, let me explain, that I'm not living in some nasty house...they are just out in FULL FORCE this year and everyone is having trouble with them. I hate them, no seriously...HATTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE them! But...I'm trying to stick with a bright side mentality, so the bright side is that while these are prominent in my area...there are many places that have 8-legged insects running wild. So.....I'll take an earwig over a spider ANY day! ;)

GIVEAWAY at Thrifty Decor chick!!!!!

Thrifty Decor Chick is having an AWESOME giveaway for a silhouette craft cutter...go check it out!!!!!!!!!!

Gettin' Crafty on Hump Day....

Hey folks, its that time again. Time to get crafty on hump day and link up those projects!!!!!! Last week we had a great turn out! And the most visited link from the party was the intervention post at Blue artichoke interiors....

Check out her fabric, don't ya just LOVE IT?!?!?!?!?

Lets PARTY! Please leave a comment if you link up...and visit some of the other links to leave them some comment love too :)

My froggy nursery....

Well, since I'm still remodeling the new place, I thought I'd continue with my old house photos.

We did a frog theme for my sons nursery and I just LOVED it.....it turned out exactly how I wanted it, and I miss that room so much! We used painters tape for the stripes, and then I got a frog stamp that I used along the border.

I got the table & chair from IKEA, super duper cheap. And then I found the pillow at Penneys outlet on clearance for $1.99!!!!!!!!!!!

Oooooh oooh, PICK ME, PICK MEEEEEEEEEEEE....

Everyone, guess WHAT?!?!??! I was selected to be one of the 8 contestants on Win, Lose, or Blog!!!!

What is Win, Lose, or Blog? Well...its a collaboration of bloggers coming together to lose weight and get healthier! Each season lasts 8 weeks, and there are 8 contestants in each one. They had over 50 applications for the first season, so you can imagine how ECSTATIC I was when I found out I was chosen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, how does this work...well, they will be setting up a blog for me to share my journey, and I hope you all will follow along with me. I will have to post my weight EVERY week which is a scary scary SCARRRRRRRYYYYYYYYY (and kind of scary) thing for me, but hopefully, it will be good motivation. And the bright side is, even if you all are laughing at me, I won't know, cuz in blog land, I can't see you laughing :)

I suppose I should tell you a little about my story huh? As a child, I went through a couple "fat phases" but for the most part I was relatively thin. Then, when I turned 20 years old, I started gaining weight out of no where, like crazy. I had some other odd symptoms so I went to see my doctor. I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (in 2000), and in 18 months I gained approximately 100 pounds (doing NOTHING different than I had been doing I might add!) I was FURIOUS to say the least! Since then, (1 DECADE later!!) weight loss has been a major struggle for me. Usually, no matter how hard I work, it doesn't seem to want to move. And sometimes I just don't wanna work lol. But, I'm hoping the added accountability of having my readers and all the followers of this new blog to help me move forward! See...after my surgery I found out that on top of the obstacles we already were aware of to getting pregnant...turns out one of my tubes is completely blocked. So...the dr. says that anything I lose will increase my odds of conceiving, and I really really really want another baby. I can't begin to describe the disappointment I feel every single month when I see that single line on the pregnancy test. Not fair!

I'm good at "making over" other things...but not so much myself. Maybe its time for my own personal DIY ;)

Anyway, will you take this journey with me?!?!?! I hope so! Its a long road, and I need all the support I can get! :)

Check out the blog where I'll be tracking my progress HERE