Highly recommend!

I was contact through CSN.com to do a review on any item in any of their 200+ online stores. Anyone else seen these sites?!
They are awesome.

They have everything.

Not kidding.

THey have a site JUST for bunkbeds!

It is amazing.

So I was having a hard time figuring out what to use my $60 gc for it.

But as I was looking around my home, thinking of something I really wanted to get, I found this on their site:

LOVED IT

So I had to get it. I needed something new on my walls in my new home.

It arrived a few days ago and I ripped open the box...which, by the way, was heavily protected by LOTS of foam sandwiched in the box so as to not break during shipping..well done ;)
*sigh*

I love it. It looks awesome on my wall.
It is made out of a lighter wood, so it is not too heavy to hang up. The style is wonderful.

I highly recommend checking out CSN.com. They constantly are having sales and discounts and free shipping all the time.

Tell them I sent you too...maybe I can do another review ;)

Revamping some clothes

So let me just set up a bit of a background for you, paint a picture, as you will of our past year.

We have had no money.

Like seriously, having 3 kids, husband being a student plus small income...

My monthly budget was $20.

I kid you not.

So this past May, my side of the family did some family pictures.

And to get ready for those, I wanted something cute and unified as a family.

Yet the problem was again, we had no money. More details of the story here on my family blog.

So after thinking of what I was going to do, and after scouring the many wonderful craft blogs, I had some ideas.

Could I make something myself?

I think I am too chicken to make something from scratch that would actually look good.

But I could dismantle some old ones and refashion them!

It was worth a try :)

So my first victim?

This grey pregnancy dress that I found at DI. I don't think it is actually a pregnancy dress. It is a size 16. Anyways it was perfect at the time. This was last Septmenber.

And who knows when the next time I will get pregnant so I tossed into the DI bin.

And please ignore my swollen self!

So what I basically did was use some scissors and cut right down the middle.

then i trimmed the bottom in an "a-line" fashion.

I don't know if that makes sense but the back part hits the bottom of my butt and the front parts are angled down from there.

In my family pictures, I used a piece of lace and tied that around my waist to help it keep still.

I was pleased with the results! It has given me a new eye to old things.

I also whipped up that headband i have on too. I used some scraps and did a basting stitch down one side then gathered. I hot glued it into a flower and put a bling in the middle. Hot-glued it on some felt and then on a headband.

Can you tell I am proud of this?!
I am!!

Hopefully soon

I am so lame these days. But I do have a good excuse really. I just finished to WA

I am dying to do/make something but it's just not logical right now.

My house looks like a explosion site and I expected that. I've moved enough times to not set too high of expectations on myself.

Otherwise, I would feel pretty crappy right now!

But in my down time, I look through other blogs, most of them are just awesome. And through my searchings, I have found this website, CSN.com. Have you heard of it?

They have things from Dining room furniture to wall decor & bed sheets. THey are awesome and have everything you will need.

We are currently looking for bunk beds for my girls so I decided to see whta they got. They have a exclusive shopping site JUST for bunkbeds...I mean, they have over 200+ websites!!

You can find anything! We also need a rug...

Anyways, thought I would let you know about it because it's pretty cool!

And hopefully soon, the moving madness will be over and I can start doing fun decor stuff for my house!