Back in November of 2009, my sister started telling me about coupons. I’d tried clipping them in our super-tight money days, but never saved too much. It turns out, that’s because I didn’t know what I was doing! Clipping coupons is much more than cutting the ones out of the paper and expecting to save [...]

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Whew. Sorry about that horrible break I took. You know how life speeds up and days fly by in a blur and before you know it 2 weeks have gone by? Totally didn’t happen to me. But I did have a faulty sewing machine, a sick baby that basically stopped sleeping (we did spend 3 [...]

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I’ve been horribly absent this week. I have a good excuse, too! Well, actually, I have several. For starters, I’ve had one unhappy baby. I took Chloe off her reflux medicine prematurely and boy have I been paying for it!! I had 4 or so days of extremely unhappy baby before I decided to put [...]

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It’s funny how the world works. I have a friend who asked me for a baby gift a year ago. She was giving it to a friend of hers (who I don’t know) for the baby she was about to have. A year later, she asked me for a First Birthday shirt for the same [...]

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Well, there could only be one winner. But I wanted to share how I made the bag so everyone can make their own! The finished size of this cosmetic bag is 9″ long, 5″ tall and 5″ wide. You need: -Fabric. I used 2 fat quarters and cut them to 14″ by 21″. You don’t [...]

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