3 Funnies For Friday--Cat style

**Don't forget to enter the $50 Over da Crib giveaway**


Just a couple cat funnies for you to enjoy today!



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*All from my funny pinterest board, which is acting up at the moment.  Will add original sources later. . .when pinterest/internet gets its head out of its butt.

Giveaway: Over Da Crib Modern Art-$50 Gift Card!

I have an awesome giveaway for you guys today!  If you have kids or grandkids or nieces and nephews, you gotta check out over DA crib.  You could win a $50 gift card to that store!


The artist, Sandra Steedle, creates all sorts of unique pieces of artwork for you put over the crib (get it?) or anywhere in your child's room or playroom!  


Sandra has a degree in Fine Arts and makes colorful creations for your kids' rooms.  Jungle animals, flowers, graphic styles, ABC's, cars, airplanes, and princesses are among the many designs she offers.

Personally, if we ever have girls, I am getting these:

  
    tree painting                                flower print

But then this modern graphic style appeals to me too.

                                               Girl Modern Print




You could get the city print for a boy or a girl:


Isn't this airplane adorable?


What are people saying about their Over Da Crib pieces of art?  Here are a few feedback pieces:
"I absolutely love them. They look so good in our black, gray and red nursery!"
"Wonderful print and excellent shipping time."
"Fabulous paintings!  Unique, original, and so adorable!"

Sandra is giving one lucky winner a FIFTY DOLLAR GIFT CARD to use in her shop!  


Mandatory Entry:
You have to do this to enter
Visit over DA crib and leave a comment telling which item(s) you would spend your $50 gift card on!


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  car print

Boring fine print: 
Giveaway ends Thursday, April 19th at 12noon EST.
Open to U.S. and International Residents 18 yrs old and older.
No change will be given on the gift card (if you spend $45, you don't get $5 cash back)
Winner will have 48 hrs to claim their prize

7 Things We Don't Buy

Inspired by a post of Money Saving Mom's, I thought I'd share how we save money with 7 things we don't buy.

1. Monthly Cell Phone Plans
   We have pay-as-you-go type phones.  We rarely call or text but are glad to have phones for traveling or for emergencies. We spend probably $100 a year, max, on these.  Compared to $80/month for ONE iphone, this is an $860 savings.  *We do have an ipod that my husband bought and it has some games on it. I'm not completely living under a rock.  I have played Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja. :-)
2. High-end, new, kids clothes
   The kids usually get new clothes from the Grandparents at birthday and Christmas.  When we buy clothes for the kids, 95% of the time, they are second-hand.  I get them from a local resale group or yardsales.  Oh how I love yardsales!  I've scored great name brand stuff at sales too!
3. Newspaper Subscription
   I like to get a Sunday paper occasionally for the ads and coupons, but we just swing by a gas station and buy one.  In my area, I have not found a good enough subscription deal for it to be worth that monthly fee.
4. Tanning
   The doctors say tanning beds are  a big no-no, so in the name of living longer, I abstain.  Plus it saves money!  I go a few times a year for the spray on fake tan, it works well enough and isn't damaging to my body.  Because I have never been tanning, I don't know what this saves us for the year.  Hundred bucks?
5. Gym memberships
   A local place is going to offer Zumba classes.  Have you ever tried it?  I'm thinking of giving it a whirl, looks fun!  It would just be a per class fee.  We haven't joined the local gym.  I have a thing against paying money in exchange for being humiliated in public (apparently I make an exception for Zumba)!
6. Lavish holiday giftsWe do a couple birthday gifts, and at Christmas last year the kids got four gifts ("Something you want, something you need, something to wear, and something to read"). 
7. Name brand tortilla chips
   Kroger brand all the way!  A dollar a bag.  That is at least a 50% savings from the name brand.  

At Money Saving Mom people were commenting that they don't buy paper towels, bread, home phone service, etc.  What are some things that you don't buy?


*come by next Monday for 7 things we DO buy!

Happy Easter!

Matthew 28:6 "He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay."


John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life."





I guess youtube gives me the code to embed the video but then won't actually let it play here.  You can click through though, it is Casting Crowns singing "Oh Glorious Day"...one of my favorites and certainly appropriate for today!

Sleep Sweetly Giveaway WINNER

Winner Winner!

Random.org helped me pick a number and the winner of our giveaway from Sleep Sweetly is......  #37, "The Knapps"

An email is on its way.  Congrats!

A big thank you to Lizz from Sleep Sweetly for sponsoring the giveaway and sharing her handmade baby items with us!  

The 1 Thing You Are Doing That Makes Me Leave Your Blog

As a blog reader, I'm pretty tolerant really.  

But there is one thing that turns me off from a blog SO fast.

Do you want to know what it is?  Maybe it is the same thing that makes you click away?

When I click over to a blog and am greeted with:

• a popup that wants me to email subscribe.  You have to physically X out of the pop up box to see the blog.  When I really like a blog, I will look around and find a way to subscribe.  A pop up as my very first taste of your blog?  I'm probably not going to subscribe now. I'll X out of it, read the post I was there to read and be on my merry way.
  OR
• the scrolly thing along one side of your blog with all your facebook/pinterest/twitter links on it.  I scroll down, it scrolls down.  I scroll to read more, it moves too and it ends up covering up part of your text or photos.  Drives. me. batty.

Is it just me or are either of those things super annoying?  I know the blog title said "1 thing" but they are so similar I count them as the same category.

Other blog pet peeves that you think are worse than this?

3 Ingredient Punch

You know me, your resident lazy cook.  I love stuff with FEW ingredients and this recipe fits the bill!

When my husband was recently in charge of buying juice for our little guy, he didn't get apple juice like I usually do.  He got Juicy Juice Fruit Punch (still 100% juice, just a blend).  It was really good.

With the little guy's 2nd birthday coming up, I was in need of a recipe for punch....nothing too "red" that will stain all of our teeth (yeah, you know what I'm talking about!), nothing with 30 ingredients, and something that we'd actually allow the birthday boy to drink.

I found this recipe on the Juicy Juice website.

Mix together:
1 bottle Juicy Juice Fruit Punch
1 can lemonade concentrate (slightly thawed)
2 cans Sprite or 7-Up.


Chill.

That is it!  We tried it and it is really good!  Sweet, but not too sweet.  Bubbly with the soda, but not too bubbly.  I'll be making a double or triple batch of it for the birthday party next month!  If you try it, let me know how you like it!


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