Blue Ribbon Fair: Freebie and coupons-site

Blue Ribbon Fair: Freebie and coupons-site: Today while looking at pins of blog sites, I found a great site which led to me already getting to free songs from amazon. A lot of great st...

Creativity in saving money site shared.

Purses of Kolor.

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There must be purses like this in our budgets. Just slightly tweaked.

A favorite saying of mine is: I can dream can I not?

Too pretty to do nothing but sit on the shelf.

Looks like there is too much beauty to explore on here.

These are just one type of many really colorful purses on this site.

For Autumn

Beautiful and fun site to just play on and window shop.  

Have been finding beautiful purses in multitudes of color on the internet. These run about $2,000.00. I am in love with these colored hand bags. Would like one of each.Unfortunately these are not "my budget" friendly priced so I am hoping to find some more in my price range. But to splurge, how lovely of a line in bright colors. The bottom one is more purple than any in the line of the prior ones I added .

Makeover Washer and dryer.

From drab white and puke yellow to blue and gold.

I always wanted those machines you see in the catalog, but having not the means and more priorities to swing it was not an option.

Along came Pinterest and someone bold enough to repaint her drab washer and drier. So I pinned her blog article on it. She used a brush. since I since my nick name could be "Updo quickly even if it is not perfection since it is you that must live with it." I had blue high end spray paint, so instead of brush painting, I cheaply painted white paint (for base) then did the drier one layer at a time and let dry between by a couple days. I was out ,of the blue can by then, so when I was at Walmart I tried to get some more blue of the same cast, but Murphy's Law-" None of that color there." So as my nickname, mentioned above- I had to improvise- I chose 3 cans I thought would magnify and compliment the blue. At home I decided on gold since it was metal paint also.It did only take 2 coats without a primer.

Dryer

No they aren't perfect, but I am in love with the color and makes me happy to do the wash. My oldest daughter also is impressed. What a simple way to polish your laundry with a new updated look. Yes, I wanted a matching blue set, but my forte is improvising.

Washer

Leave the house take the Pool.

I am not into modern homes. I like old vintage homes.I would take on though if it was given to me. I have to admit some modern homes architecture is fascinating. And gotta love the pools. How about they get the house and I get the pool.

stranded in a bookstore with a bible, an MP3 and a missing person poster.: Books, books and more books.

stranded in a bookstore with a bible, an MP3 and a missing person poster.: Books, books and more books.: If you love-like me,  to look at libraries or different ways books are arranged,  I have the site for you. The name of this site is not...

Wonderful and creative photos taken on one site with all kinds of diversified manners of book displays, libraries, book shops and more . If you love, books you will adore these.

Cereal box File Boxes

Get out of My head Please   http://www.getouttamyheadplease.com/2011/08/cereal-box-to-paper-file-box/#

 Click on The link above to the original blog I followed to make my own files, daughter doing the legwork.

Today my daughter,with my guidance made file boxes out of cereal boxes. I had needed them to put papers in to be in order with need to do immediately , etc. I have been misplacing papers in a bad way. Now these will not win a beauty contest, but I had the supplies on hand and they will work for my needs. I can write on their backsides:

Will write with markers here as soon as I decide what each file will be used for.

My daughter here made special paper to cover the files with. We also used old paper the kids had made by decorating and had been sitting around for years:  

Part way done here:

We went sort of backwards here and have mercy, my camera is not the best. I cannot figure out the complicated ones.

1. To make these you need empty larger cereal boxes which you cut front and back corner to corner.
2. To cut- of course -good scissors. My daughter had to rest and continue, since her hands hurt her.
3. Papers to modge podge for decoration .As stated I wanted to use stuff I had been hanging onto that my kids did way back and my daughter wanted to stamp some new ones. You could use much nicer papers than I did. I just wanted to have a place to put the papers piling up.
4. Modge  Podge I made my own and works so well. Much cheaper. The directions are here.:http://sunnyslifeinrehab.blogspot.com/2010/08/homemade-decoupage-medium.html
5. She suggests decorating yogurt cups on the blog to make for the front of the files. I have them pictured, but decided to skip that part since I could not see what I would do with the cups on the front. She is using them for a different purpose.
6. I did not have a foam paint brush so I used my regular larger items brush. Foam would have been nicer I think. I am, a use what is cheap and already possess person.

• Cut the boxes as already instructed. I had my daughter cut corner to corner for her ease. You might want to make them wider.
• Wrap the cut boxes. You can do with strips. I just flushed the paper on the edge to box and cut end or glued them inside like a package.
• You may want to put a towel down for the next part. Modge Podge  the boxes side . Place you paper to cover . cover the whole outside box.
• Let dry for about an hour.
• Sweep over the paper on your files to seal your them and slightly gloss.
• Dry. After drying you can do the inside. Since mine will be stuffed with renegade papers, I did not do that bit.
• Take pictures. lol

Blue Ribbon Fair: For the Nursery- Frame and Crayons, With a Splash ...

Blue Ribbon Fair: For the Nursery- Frame and Crayons, With a Splash ...: A great gift for a new baby that is thrifty. Needed : 8x10 photo frames or any size you like. Glue gun and sticks. Crayons. Craft paint. ...

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