Showing posts with label bargain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bargain. Show all posts

Monday, December 23, 2013

Last Minute Christmas Crafts

     This Christmas season we were severely slacking on getting everything done on time, so like many of you all this week was cram packed full of last minute ideas and for me... crafts

This is what we came up with, a little help from pinterest on the snow globe and the mason jar with hot chocolate.



Mason Jar Hot Chocolate:
-Mason Jar
-Fabric
-Stamp
-Stamp pad
-Scissors
-Your favorite Chocolate
-Marsh mellows
-Peppermint candy
-Ribbon
We used Stephen's hot cocoa from Costco because there is a lot 
in the can,it was decently priced and it tastes so good!

Layer: hot cocoa, marsh mellows, and then peppermints

Cut Fabric into squares, put them on top of the flat piece of 
the lid, then seal them in with the screw part of the lid

Stamp the top with your favorite stamp. I chose Santa, 
Oh holy night, and star stamps



Snow Globe:
-Mason jar
-Super glue
-Cute toy
-Glitter
-Gift card
-Water

 Super glue toy to the flat part of the lid. We chose a 
Christmas looking rubber ducky. Super glue the gift
card onto the toy. Pinterest says use hot glue, but we
found out that it falls off fast. Super glue works
wonders!

Fill mason jar up with water and add as much glitters
as you see fit. We chose to do A LOT! Seal it tight
and enjoy.



This was a fun craft for my husband and I. We were sturggling with where to put all of our stockings so he thought of the clever idea to use a coat rack and have out stockings dangling from the top. What my husband did was cut wire hangers and twist them so they have a hook at the top and the hook from the hanger at the bottom ("S" formation). He did that 5x for the 5 stockings. We took $1 store garlin, and $1 store ribbon and twisted it around the poles, then we added our clearance red and green lights around the polls and that was it. The coat rack had a shelf on it so we added presents on the rack as well.



 Finished project :) turned out fantastic!


We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas,

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

My bargain style


I was on Pinterest the other night and I was looking up clothing ideas when I realized that alot of the clothing on there I had in my closet. Not to say that I have the most amazing style but I think I have pretty good taste in clothes. I also notices the brand names... I hardly ever paid full price for any of my clothes. I like to shop at the sale racks at Rue 21, JC Pennys, Target, TJ Maxx, Ross...etc. So for those of you thrifty people, I have some examples of my style. They are pretty close to the expensive clothes so I thought just because you, like me, shop at thrifty places, doesn't mean you cant look good or that you don't have style. I am in the middle of packing so all my accessories are in boxes everywhere so I just chose to focus on the clothes

I got this dress and cover: Rue 21 on clearance

 The cover up: Pac sun on clearance last winter
black tank top and necklace: Target
Dress pants: Bells Outlet
 
 Shirt: JCpennys on clearance
Jeans: Pac sun BOGO free
 
 Shirt and shorts: JCPennys, clearance
 
 
 Whole outfit: Rue 21
Shoes: Converse, Target
 
 Blazer: Rue 21 clearance
Shirt: target
Pants: Pac sun BOGO free
Shoes: traffic clearance
Clutch: Clearance on the Royal caribbean cruise $10 sale
 
 Whole outfit: Rue 21, including watch
 
 Top shoe: Target
 

Sweater: Goodwill
Shirt: Rue 21
Pants: Ross
Boots: some random shoe place in FL on sale
 
 
 
 
I know that they aren't exactly like the brand names, but they are pretty close and the concept is down. Now you can feel confident rockin' the clearance section of your favorite store, and know that just because you cant or wont pay $100 for a pair of jeans, doesn't mean your not gonna find a cute pair that looks just like them :) good luck bargain shopping all :)
 
Until next time,
 
 

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