February Happenings

Oh where does the time go?  Ryan turned TWENTY years old on the 7th of February.  Sure is hard to believe he's no longer a teenager!  He even SHAVED OFF HIS BEARD (see Christmas pictures)!

This is Ryan's girlfriend, Amy - She made his birthday extra special with a trip downtown to the Shedd Aquarium.  He enjoyed some Sushi along with some 

special gifts and a surprise breakfast!

This year for Valentine's Day I wanted to use my We R Memory Makers paper punches and scoring board.  So I made these lip balm holder Valentine's for the third graders.

These gift bags were made out of scrapbook card stock (as were the lip balm holders).  They turned out so cute!  The double sided card stock is fun to work with!

I've been wanting to make wreaths out of the paper drinking straws.  I've seen them all over pinterest and wanted to change the decoration on our front door.  When I found gray and blue straws at Target I decided it was time to create. 

I added the pewter "S" ornament and it looks so nice on the front door.

I liked it so much I decided to make one for our bedroom wall.  Instead of putting the ornament in the center I glued a mirror. (It's hard to take a picture because of the reflection - the first one is a photoshopped version, without a reflection!

This is my Dyson 15 - the ball.  I inherited from my aunt and LOVE how well a Dyson vacuum works.  It's over 10 years old and still works, but I knew it was getting time for a new one.

I was at Meijer and they were just resetting their Dyson displays to make room for the newer models and I immediately grabbed this Dyson 65 Animal Complete -  when they marked it down 50% off!!! It is an awesome vacuum and even though I had vacuumed the day before with my "older" model it still managed to fill up the container! So I guess it was time for a new one! 

Enjoying a four day weekend before heading back to school for PARCC testing!  Counting the days until Spring Break!!!!

Gym Shoe OVERLOAD!

No one would believe this - the amount of gym shoes I've purchased over the past month is mind boggling!!! I've come into MANY deals on Skecher shoes lately!  Between Meijer, the Time for Me Catalog, and DSW I don't think I'll need to buy another pair of gym shoes EVER!  - ha, or at least not until next week!

In order to keep track of my "inventory" I'm posting pictures here, so I don't duplicate my purchases!

In addition to my gym shoe deals - I've found some deals on boots too!

and I couldn't pass on this PINK purse!

Now I need to find space for all my "deals"!!!!!