My first purse ever!

When I first started crocheting, I made granny squares like a mad woman!!   I loved the ease and verstility (is that even a word?) of them.  AND the best part was that even if I had a terribly busy day, there was always time to crank out a granny!!

Eventually, my granny squares graduated into a different shape, granny HEXAGONS!!  Of course, my addiction was newly fueled and I just made as many cotton, colorful granny hexagons as I possibly could.... Within 10 days, I ended up with about 24 granny hexes!

After stalking reading a certain spectacular crochet blog: ( Futuregirl!!)  I ran into this BEAUTY of a bag!!  I was obsessed!  AND I was oh so excited that I already had the granny hexes to make it :-)  I quickly stitched them all together and....


TA DA!!

It was so beautiful, so majestic, and my first ever crochet project that I finished, needless to say I was super proud.  

Let's take another look at it, shall we?

And one more!!

With all of its loveliness, I couldn't think of anyone better than my mom to give it to :-)

Now I'm thinking I need to make more of these!!  I bought the cotton this week so it's coming!!  Next time though, I'm going to try to stick to a more defined color palette: some neutrals with a couple bright colors to POP....Maybe I'll start it next week, this week I'm working on a celtic knot hat for the boyfriend!  Let's see how that comes out first... stay tuned...

Anyone else make a sick nasty granny project?

Buy 1 Get 3 Free Ulta Online Sale!

I doubt this will last more than a day but they still have some great stuff left!  Check it out!  And FREE SHIPPING over $25 wahooooo!!

Go Crazy....go ahead

Tidy Cats Deal, 20lbs for $1.00!!

Who's got a kitty?  Not I, but maybe you do?
There's a sweet little deal at Walgreens going on, check it out!!

 $1.00 for 20lbs of Tidy Cats Litter at Walgreens (Deal is valid until 11/19)

They cost $2.50 a bag 

- You get $2 Walgreens Store Credit when you buy 2 bags 

- Use 2 "$1.00 off any size of Purina Tidy Cats" coupons from 9/11 Newspaper (Redplum Coupon Insert)

Final Price: Pay $3.00 cash but get $2.00 back in Walgreens Register Rewards (Store Credit)

NOTE: You can only do ONE DEAL of $2 Registrar Rewards (2 bags of litter) PER TRANSACTION.  So don't buy 10 in 1 transaction, do 5 transactions.  Also, you can't use the Walgreens store credit on more Tidy Cats Litter.

** GREAT TO DONATE TO THE SHELTER!!** If we all spent $1.00, we could help the kitties :-)  

ONE DAY ONLY- Joann's 11cents shipping offer!

Today (11/11/11) Joann Fabrics is celebrating Veteran's day by having an 11cents shipping day!!  You can apply the code:  to any order $11 or more.  I have never seen shipping this cheap and I know they have a lot of stuff online that they don't carry in stores so if there's something you have been wanting to get online, I would do it now!

AND there's also an ONLINE ONLY 10% off your entire purchase code!! Use: EVT317

AND one more!!  There's also a 50% off any regular price item ONLINE ONLY code: FPH315

TODAY'S the ONLY day that all 3 of these are valid so pick one and get shopping!!


Note:  Joann's only allows ONE promo code per order :-(

New Publix Pet Club Coupons!

Here are the new pet coupons for Publix!! They are good from Nov.10th to Dec. 7th 2011
Enjoy :-)

Great deal on Tupperware

Over the years, we have slowly gathered up a bunch of tupperware, crappy tupperware that is.  There's a bunch that are stained, slightly broken, and others that just spill all the time.  We also learned not too long ago just how harmful BPA in plastic is for us and how microwaving plastics also hurts us.  This is why we're slowly trying to transition to buying glass and BPA free tupperware to use for food.  The glass is great to take lunch to work bc I can microwave it in the glass tupperware and not worry about putting harmful chemicals in my body.

Thank goodness there's a deal for tupperware today!!  Plum District has a $50 voucher to LockNLock for only $23.  It gets better though!!  Sign up through HERE and I can gift you $5 credit to Plum District!  AND on top of that, use the code: "fabulous" to get an extra 10% off your order!! (exp 2/14/12)

With both promotions, you get a $50 voucher for only $16.20!!

Already have a Plum District account?  HERE is the direct link to the deal.

They even have containers for pets, kids, glass with seals, normal glass, BPA free plastics, water bottles and a lot of other stuff.  Their prices are also pretty good, much cheaper than what you would find it for in the store for sure.  They also have stuff for baby food for all the moms out there!

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Making Labels for Homemade Crafts

I love making new projects, especially for gifts...  I mean what am I going to do with 10 pillows? But I also want to make sure that I add a little personal touch so that my homemade goodie can always be linked back to me wherever in the world it may be!

I got my sewing machine, Brother SQ9000 last Christmas and it is AWESOME!  It has this monogramming feature that I hadn't tried out until this week.  It has all the letters in the english alphabet as well as some foreign accented characters!! It was super easy to program the letters into the sewing machine and once that was done all I had to do was put the pedal to the carpet and VOILA!! Awesome little personalized nametag on my finished pillow.

Yes, yes, I know my name's actually a bit crooked on there but hey! it was my first time using it and I guess my head was tilted a bit when I started the machine..... yea that sounds good we'll go with that...
Honestly, I feel like it adds a little more flair being crooked and all so I can't say I'm disappointed.

The thread I used was part of this set that I bought on EBay from this little store in INDIA!!!  The colors in the set are AMAZING and shiny as you can see in this picture. The thread I used for the lettering is a mixture of pinks with white in it all swirled, all gorgeous looking.  To stitch the tag on, I used the blue thread which was a variety of blues and white in it too.  I used a purple non-stretchy fabric for the tag so that the letter wouldn't crinkle or risk the thread of the lettering to get torn from being stretched.  I also made sure to make the tag a bit bigger than I wanted so that I could fold over the edges of the tag and make it a nice finished edge and avoiding the future fraying that may happen from use.