Target Dollar Spot

I found a few of the new holiday dollar spot items a few others so I just wanted to drop in and show you all what I got. I am sorry about not posting as I'm getting swamped with finals and projects. Thanks for understanding.

If you are familiar with the Halloween washi tapes that were shaped like spiders and skulls then this exactly the same. But instead of being glittery skulls and spiders this one in particular is a green foiled Christmas tree cut out.

I found these three super cute Christmas themed sticker books. If you can't find the Rudolph sticker book check the kids section of the dollar spot. That is where I found mine. The other two sticker books I found just this past weekend.

Last things I found were these sticky flags. Super excited about finding the Christmas themed ones because they were literally the last ones that were way at the bottom and furthest from the front. I would like to think that I scored because I don't normally get lucky and find any of the holiday items. What did you find at your target. Leave a comment so I can try and hunt them down too.

Target Deal

Coupon Alert to all you coupon ladies! I was at target today and picked up a goodie. I could have gotten a better deal but sadly I forgot to print an extra coupon so I didn't get the best deal but I wanted to tell you guys about it.

Gain flings and I believe Tide pods in the 35 count are on sale for $9.99. If you buy 2 you get a $5 gift card. If you use Targets Cartwheel App there's a 5% off offer. I printed off a $2.00 off Gain flings 23 count or larger from FreeFlys. I had a $3.00 off one Gain flings or Tide pods 42 count or larger that I left in my car. I was supposed to print another $2.00 off coupon from freeflys before I went to the store but forgot. Since I live 45 minutes away from Target, I obviously was not going to be able to get another coupon. I guess I wasn't meant to get the best deal. That is why I felt I had to inform you all.

Scenario 1:
Buy two Gain flings or Tide pods 35 count. $9.99 x 2 = $19.98
Use 2 $2.00 off coupons from Freeflys. ($2.00 x 2 = $4.00)
$19.98 - $4.00 = $15.98
Get back a $5 gift card
$15.98 - $5.00 = 10.98

The scenario isn't even including the 5% off offer from the cartwheel app.

Plan with me + Target Haul

I've been going crazy as of late. So I'm sorry I haven't been posting as much as I normally do. I should be getting back to normal soon. Only four more weeks until finals!

Anyways...I thought since I have been MIA for longer than a week I thought I should still show you my planner for last week + this weeks plan.

PLAN WITH ME!

Last weeks was pretty plain. I didn't really have time to play with it much so there's not much to it. But if you look closely on Wednesday I put my sticker on the bottom third up side down...

This week I planned it pretty plain too. Definitely has a Thanksgiving vibe though. Went with leaves to get that Autumn feeling. I also stuck to a lot of orange. Colors that remind of fall.

 TARGET HAUL

 All my goodies I purchased a few weeks back. Gotta love clearance and the dollar spot. Even though it is no longer called "the dollar spot" it's okay. We all still know it as the dollar spot.

 I got this set at the dollar spot for $3. You get the usual stickers, page flags, and recently they've been adding these small little magnetic bookmarks or whatever you want to call them.

 I got the set of pens for either $1 or $3. I'm not sure anymore since it's been a while. I really like the blue and gold gel pens but the light blue one is actually like a lime green color. I can barely even see what I'm writing when I'm writing. Even afterwards I still feel like I can't read it.

 I also picked up these super adorable sticky flags. I love penguins if you didn't know so I HAD to pick these up no matter what. I don't think I found any of the big sticky notes but when I do...I think I might just pick the all up.

The last thing I picked up because they were super cute were these set of 4 glass magnets. They were on clearance with all the Halloween items. They were originally $1 each but I got them for .30 cents each. The magnets aren't that great but they are just going on my fridge to hold up my kids drawings from school.

My next post may be a drag, just FYI. I'm having a horrible experience with a company and debating if I should post it on here if the matter ever gets resolved. Anyways, thank you for stopping by.

Planner 10/17-10/23

This weeks plan with me theme I made a little cooler since my themes as of late have been a lot warmer in color. I went with a blue with gold here and there. Very simple.

Basically everything is the same as last week it's just different pictures and washi. But they are all from the same places.

Sorry for the late post though. It was parent/teacher conference today.

FOOD: Best Home Made Pizza EVER!

It was pizza day today at our house. So I thought I'd blog about it. Even though I was actually planning to blog about our pizza day.

Everything was made from scratch except for the sausage, pepperoni and mozzarella cheese. Those I kind of cheated on and just bought them from the store. I though I'd blog about the most wonderful pizza dough that I've ever made. I actually got the recipe from Crouton Crackerjacks if you wanted to give his recipe a try. The video is linked above so by all means check him out!

The recipe calls for:
2 T sugar
3/4 cup warm water
1 t active dry yeast
1 t salt
1 T olive oil
2 cups all purpose flour

This is how my yeast ended up looking like. I took a photo too soon but your yeast should foam up pretty good after 10 or so mins.

We live in Arkansas and it's starting to cool down a lot so I couldn't throw my dough in my car like I normally do and let it rise that way. So today I preheated my oven to the lowest it could go and then turned the oven off and let the dough sit in the oven. It came out perfectly fine. I threw on some pizza sauce I made then topped it off with cheese, pepperoni, sausage, green and red bell peppers, and some mushrooms. Obviously you can top your pizza with whatever you want but this is what he had.

We also made a stuffed crust pizza with the same pizza dough. My kids love it! We've been using this recipe for about a good 6 months or so now. We still enjoy it. It may be a little bit more time consuming but I feel like I save just a tad bit of money making it at home. I can make two pizzas for about the same price of one pizza if I were to buy it. Plus the little ones love to help.

Planner 10/10-10/16

I've never done this on my blog before but I thought I'd let you guys in on how busy my little life is. =)

Ever since I started going back to school I kept forgetting to do homework here and there so I started using a planner again. Last year a had a big bulky one I purchased from Walmart. Then at the beginning of this year I purchased a At First Glance planner from Target. Which was pretty expensive and to me was not worth the money. Then right before classes started this semester I started looking for other planners on youtube. And that's when I found this! The Happy Planner.

I purchased the 2017 seasonal Happy Planner from Michael's August 6th or 7th because that's when our state was having our tax holiday.

The pictures that fill up 1/3 of the daily blocks are mainly googled photos.This helps cut down on purchases from etsy stores. I just bought sticker paper from Michael's, printed on them, then cut them out by hand. I could of purchased a sticker cutter but to me it wasn't worth the money since I don't really use my planner or plan outside of the school year or sell on etsy.

My washi tapes are from two main places. Michaels and the Target dollar spot. As for the decorative stickers some are google print outs and Target dollar spot sticker books. The arrows, reminders, and such are from the Happy Planner sticker books.

The pens I usually use for my planner are the PaperMate Flair pens that come in assorted colors. I occasionally use the Sharpie permanent marker with the ultra fine point too.

Next post I'm thinking of doing a late foodie post. So if you're foodie person check out my next blog. Which by the way, may or may not be Thursday. I'm trying to get into blogging again but being a full time student, mom, and farmer is actually hard if you believe it or not.

Anyway, thank you for dropping in and reading my plain and boring posts!

Mini Target/Michaels Haul

This past Friday I went and ended up picking up a few things. I intended to go to Target and pick up the super adorable candy dishes that I was seeing all over youtube. And yes, youtube made me buy it. On a serious note I found them all. If I'm correct there was 5 but I only picked up 4. They were $3 each if you were wondering.

 Jack-o-lantern candy dish

 Cat candy dish

 Ghost candy dish

Cauldron candy dish

The last one that I found but didn't purchase was the mummy candy dish which looked similar to the cauldron dish. The cauldron to me is the only one I can see myself using year round. I ended up passing on the mummy because I felt like eventually (after Halloween) I'm going to be putting away the other three. In my head it made sense not to get them all.

After Target I made a quick voyage to Michaels (three stores down). I saw a few youtubers picking Autumn/Spring and gold/silver foil type paper pads so I wanted to check them out. Sadly I couldn't find the gold/silver paper pads that I saw on youtube. There were gold/silver paper pads but not the ones I saw or anything that caught my eyes. So I kind of passed on those. The ones I did get were more Spring colors but with Autumn patterns.

I bought 4 paper pads for $5.99 each. I also took advantage of Michael's 25% off of your entire purchase. So I basically ended up getting all 4 of the paper pads for less than the full price of 1 of them. Can you say STEAL!

 Craft Smith Southern Charm

Craft Smith Honeydew

This paper pad had a few gold foiled pages but I didn't take any photos. Sorry. It kept flashing back and I couldn't get a good photo of the foiled. Please forgive me.

Recollections Fall at the Park

 I mainly bought this for the fox page but I didn't notice until I got home to further inspect it that there was only 1 page. This paper pad book is kind of weird in the sense that there were multiples of 1 page and others there were only 1 or 2. I'm not so sure since I think this is my first Recollections paper pad.

Craft Smith Fall Embossed

The embossing on the pages is the main reason I bought this paper pad. I intend to turn some of these pages into my planner cover. Whenever I get the free time to.

That is all I picked up. Hope to see you in my next post.

MIA

Sorry, I'm MIA again. Classes started and it has been crazy with all day classes, 2 kids, and a farm. Thank you for understanding my crazy filled life. I will try to get to posting as soon as I can again!

Sonia Kashuk Knock Out Beauty Smokey Eye Brush Set

I purchased the Sonia Kashuk knock out beauty smokey eye brush set at Target a few weeks back. I pulled the brushes out of the box and then forgot about them so here we go. The main reason why I wanted this set in the first place was because I wanted to purchase the precision pencil brush which is about $13 or $14 dollars on its own. This set was on clearance for $13.98 so to me this set was a better deal. This set came with 6 brushes. The large eye shadow brush, angled crease brush, blending brush, angled liner brush, small eye shadow brush and the precision pencil brush.

If you want to purchase this set I do believe it is still available online. The best part is that it's cheaper now. The last time I checked it was $9.98 on Target while I purchased mine for $13.98. You get a better deal.

All the brushes feel super soft. If I read correctly these brushes are made with goat hair. So if you don't like animal products DO NOT BUY. Funny thing about this set is that angled liner brush in my set has a white hair. I didn't see it until I brought it home. Washed it just in case but I have not fully and completely put these brushes to the test. Feel free to stick around to see how I feel about them once I use them a few more times.

Wet N Wild Brushes

Last week some time I finally had the chance to go to the bigger Dollar Tree store in my area. I mainly went to look for party supplies for my kids birthday party but I happened to walk into the beauty section. Anyway, I found a few of the Wet n Wild brushes that I've been hearing on youtube so I decided to pick up the ones I thought I'd use the most.

I picked up the Smokey Liner Brush and the Crease Brush. I feel like these are the types of brushes that I have a lot of but I always need more of. Mainly because I'm too lazy to clean my brush. However, as of late I've been kind of busy so I haven't really had the chance to put on makeup. Maybe in the near future I'll be posting an eye look or a full face or something along those lines.

I haven't used either one but they feel super soft. I ran them over my eye to see how they felt and they weren't prickly or anything. I do have high hopes for these two. I believe I bought both of them for a $1 each. Not sure because we all know I lose my receipts before I ever even make it home.

Sorry I didn't take more or better photos of the brushes but I'll give you guys a teaser for a possible next few posts...

ZzzQuil

A few weeks back I got a box from Influenster and in it was a small purple box. It was ZzzQuil.  It's supposed to be a nighttime sleep aid that is non-habit forming. I only received two pills so I don't know how I'm supposed to test that out. However, the one time I did need it it did the job. I've always had sleep problems so this did the job for when I needed it.

I'm not sure if this is readily available just yet but when it is I do have a $2 coupon that I intend to use. I'm the type of person who even though I have sleep problems I tend to let myself fall asleep on my own rather than taking something to aid in my sleep. Unless I have something important to do the next day.

TIP: For those suffering from some kind of insomnia a nice cup of warm herbal tea always helps me.

Michaels Haul

I went to Michaels last week! Yay me!

I was watching a few youtube videos and noticed that people were getting some nice deals so I took it upon myself to go check them out. I think I missed a big sale but I don't really shop at Michaels so it doesn't really bother me. And I'm actually waiting for the tax holiday weekend in about a week so I can get the planner stuff I wanted. Which is actually another reason why I went. I wanted to see what my Michaels had in stock. But that's for another day...hopefully soon.

I purchased 4 scrapbook type paper pads from Michaels and I'm pretty happy with them. I also got a pretty decent deal on all them too so I'm pretty proud of myself. They're all normally priced at $19.99 but I got them for either $5.00 or $5.99 a piece. Not entirely sure since I've already lost my receipt.

Paper Pads Haul!

 

Recollections: Playing with food

A few of my favorite pages

Pink Paislee: Memorandum

 Craft Smith: Melon Patch

 Crate Paper: Hello Love

 

 I know people tend to use these for scrap-booking but I think I'm going to be using them for my planner. I see all these etsy sticker hauls and I seriously think is overrated. I'd rather just cut up some paper to fit, add a little adhesive dot roller and I'm done. Cheaper and I get exactly what I want.

TEASER ALERT: My next post might just be a food post.