Decorative File Folders…Someone Owes Me An Apology

January 25, 2010 by

So I STUMBLED upon these darlings while doing my normal troll through Francesca’s.  Apparently there is a cute, funky and completely awesome way to store ugly papers on your desk.  WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME????

The pics shown are the three that I scooped up (50 cents each!!!!) and I couldn’t be more tickled looking @ my desk sporting these things.  My desk smiles back.  Links to tons of these beauts.

  1. Emma Designer File Folders
  2. Sophie Designer Folders
  3. Hootie File Folders
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Smooth As A Baby’s Butt

January 11, 2010 by

My little munchkin has had some eczema outbreaks during this TEXAS COLD SNAP ’09/’10.  So I thought I’d share with you what we are doing to FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT the eczema!!

  1. Boudreaux’s Baby Kisses Infant & Kids Lip and Cheek Moisturizer-If you haven’t heard of Boudreaux’s Butt Paste for diaper rash then you are missing out!  That stuff works and so does this!  But this stuff is for your little one’s lips and cheeks.
  2. Aquaphor Baby Healing Ointment-For all over, this stuff is thick and we’ve used this head to toe, especially now when the cold wind is a whippin’.  The bonus with this stuff is that after you’ve slathered the kiddo, you can rub this into your cuticles for a little mini mani!
  3. method baby Squeaky Green Body Lotion-We use this mainly for our little guy’s legs and knocks those dry spots out pretty quick.
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The Ring

January 7, 2010 by

Did I make you think of that chick crawling out of the tv from the movie The Ring?  hahaha! Nah I just want to talk about every day rings.  Do you have a ring you where every. single. day. Besides your wedding ring for you married ladies.  Tell me what yours is…I’m still on the hunt for the perfect one.

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  1. Elsa Peretti Wave Ring, Tiffany & Co.
  2. Silver Rope Ring, Pandora
  3. Diamond Kissed Stack Rings, Sundance
  4. Celebrity Style Pave Tri-Color Rolling Ring, Amazon
  5. Fond Embrace Ring, Sundance
  6. Tiffany Bubbles Ring, Tiffany & Co.
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Vested

January 7, 2010 by

I, like many of you, have a very casual working dresscode. My office is also sub-zero temps on most occasions. I don’t wanna wear my coat all day because my arms feel all contained, wraps just fall off, and sometimes my cardi just doesn’t cut it.  I’ve found a solution… a cute vest!

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  1. Target, Mossimo Juniors Hooded Plaid Flannel Vest
  2. Target, Merona Reversable Puffer Vest
  3. Target, Merona Reversable Puffer Vest
  4. Gap, Women’s Puffer Vest
  5. Amazon, Levis Womens Puffer Vest
  6. Amazon, Mossimo Puffer Vest with Faux Fur Trim
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So Fresh and So Clean, Clean

January 6, 2010 by

So, it’s no secret to those who know me that I’m a clean FREAK!!! (Seriously, I sometimes have anxiety about it.) Here are my top cleaning products of the moment.

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  1. Clorox Toilet Wand, Amazon: No more icky toilet brushes sitting in your bathroom. Once you’re finished cleaning the bowl, simply flush it!
  2. Clorox Anywhere Hard Surface, Amazon: I use this for almost everything. Any little spill or splatter out comes the Clorox spray.
  3. Sprayway Glass Cleaner, Amazon: The BEST glass cleaner ever. I have seriously gone from store to store before looking for this stuff. Luckily, Wal-Mart usually has it.  This glass cleaner never leaves streaks!
  4. Goo Gone, Amazon: This is a recent love of mine and I’ll tell you why. I had the interior of my house re-painted in September and, much to my dismay, the painters accidentally got paint on my CARPET! So, after I discovered this I called my painters to, of course, complain and they told me not to do anything to it. The next morning they came over with Goo Gone and got it out in less than a minute: no stain, no wet spot, no smear, no nothing. So I went out and bought me some of this miracle product and have successfully used it over and over again to get hard-to-clean gunk or mud or smudge off of almost everything.
  5. Dirt Devil KURV Hand Vac, Target: Just a handy little gadget to have around so you don’t always have to lug out the big vac…
  6. Scrubbing Bubbles, Amazon: Standard bathroom cleaner, not too many miracles, other than it just melts the dirt away!
  7. Swifter Max, Amazon: I honestly believe that since the Swifter Max is double the size of the regular Swifter, I get finished mopping soooo much faster…this has not been proven, but I think it makes sense…
  8. Cascade 2 in 1 Action Packs, Amazon: Another time saver…no more putting Jet Dry or any other rinsing agent in your dishwasher!

***Any of these products can be purchased at  your ordinary grocery or cleaning store.

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New Year’s Resolutions: AK Edition

December 31, 2009 by

I never make New Year’s Resolutions. Ever.  But I thought, you know, we are going into this year a little different than any year before and I thought, why not.  I think it’ll be fun to look back and see if I could pull any of this off in a year.  So here goes:

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  1. Try and take a walk with the kiddo every day if weather allows.
  2. Learn to sew, like for real with my new Christmas gift.  My ultimate goal:  a baby clothes memory quilt.
  3. Implement some sort of regularly occurring date night that went to shit when we had our bouncing baby boy.
  4. Get back into going to more movies SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY!  My mom and I used to go to a movie every Sunday pre-bebe and pre-2009.  I need my theater watching experience por favor.
  5. Organize!  Organize the junk drawer in the kitchen, organize the closets in the extra bedroom and finally organize my closet (trying on clothes and seeing what actually fits and doesn’t). (and just FYI that’s not my closet, you don’t want to see it)
  6. Read more and when I say more, like maybe a whole book.  Magazines don’t count.  Google Reader doesn’t count.  I may even go so far as to go for 10 books in 2010.
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Year In Review: Music

December 30, 2009 by

I’m an avid iTunes-er (I just made up a word, oh yes I did).  So I thought I’d take a walk down memory lane from the year 2009 and share with you what I feel have been my-top-listened-to songs via the iPod.  Yes it will be heavily COUNTRY–cut me some slack..I live in Texas, I grew up with parents that listened to country, and I’m a sucker for a story telling song. I also like me some pop every now and then because like I’ve said in other posts, we like to dance around here.  Do we dance well? No.

  1. Lee Ann Womack, Solitary Thinkin’-I love a blues-y Lee Ann Womack and my son smiles when this song comes on.
  2. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now-This song just got stuck in my head when I heard it, that’s when I know I need to buy it.
  3. Kelly Clarkson, My Life Would Suck Without You-This one’s for you J.Wo!
  4. Miranda Lambert, The House that Built Me-LOVE her voice in this song, LOVE the story.  Miranda kills it on this one.
  5. Lady Gaga, Just Dance-This is thanks to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, can’t stop jamming.
  6. Willie Nelson, I’m Alive-I know Kenny Chesney has his own version of this but I think it changes meaning when Willie sings it.  Gotta love Willie Nelson.
  7. Kenny Chesney, Way Down Here-Sad and hopeful song, I’ve listened to it a million times.
  8. Dierks Bentley, Pray-I love me a slow Dierks Bentley song.  Really great song.
  9. Taylor Swift, Love Story-Man-o-man I wasn’t really a Taylor Swift fan and then I heard this about eleventy billion times and I started liking it and then next thing you know I bought the son of a gun.
  10. Miley Cyrus, Party in the U.S.A.-my son dances to this, alot.  So does his mama.  So does Der.
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Very Merry White Christmas!

December 30, 2009 by

For those of you who live anywhere near Central Texas, you probably experienced near blizzard conditions on Christmas Eve and a perfectly white Christmas Day, as did we! It was my first white Christmas EVER, and one that I’ll never forget. Here are a few of the goodies my husband and I picked up along the way…

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  1. Lb Brewing Company Beer and T-Shirt: My mom got this for my husband and I thought it was a GREAT idea. She is from Kansas and stumbled upon this brewery on one of her excursions. His gift included this t-shirt and a gallon of their honey wheat beer…soooo good!
  2. TomTom Navigation System, Amazon: So, I guess my husband thinks I get lost a lot…?
  3. Restoration Hardware Gift Card: I LOVE this store!
  4. Vera Wang Perfume, Amazon: One smell and you’ll fall in love…
  5. Leupold Rifle Scope, Buy.com: This was my present to my husband, with help from my Dad, and he was excited/impressed!
  6. Chartreuse Fiestaware, MegaChina.com: I collect Fiestaware dishes and when I receive a hard to find, retired, color, it makes me smile.
  7. Old World Christmas Ornaments, oldworldchristmas.com: I also collect Old World Christmas ornaments and my Mom ALWAYS comes through with getting me new and interesting ornaments…I couldn’t believe she found an Old World sushi roll!!!
  8. LG Front-load Washer and Dryer, Sears: So, Santa may have come a couple weeks early with this one,  but that doesn’t mean my husband didn’t remind me a bagillion times what he got me for Christmas…

I hope everyone had Happy Holidays and have a great New Year!

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Year In Review: How We Survived a Full Year of Baby

December 29, 2009 by

These items have helped my husband and I survive this year.  So I guess this is a Year in Review/Survival Guide.  These items have helped us through months 3 through 14 of bouncing baby boy.  I know all kiddos are different but maybe one of these items may help you make it out alive.

  1. Dex Baby Sound Sleeper, Amazon-Womb setting on mid volume anytime, anywhere combined with #7 will induce slumber like no other combo.  It may or may not induce slumber minus #7 in mama & dad, just saying.
  2. Sophie the Giraffe Teether, Amazon-This little dude is called George in our casa.  George is excellent for all things teething.  As our little one has gotten older different parts of George work better–currently he’s working on George’s leg.
  3. Itzbeen Baby Care Timer, Amazon-Months 1-3 this was the BOMB for tracking feedings and sleeping and everything.  Months 4 and beyond we’ve mainly used this gem for tracking any sort of medicine or Tylenol when he’s teething.
  4. Night Night Baby Sleeper, Hanna Andersson-These PJs are awesome.
  5. Animal Ears Hat, The June Bride Etsy Shop-I’ve posted on these before.  We currently have a navy, orange, turquoise, and brown we have been rotating this winter.  They are super cute, stay on and my little munchin doesn’t rip them off his head.
  6. Bright Starts Around We Go Activity Center, Amazon-This thing is sort of an exersaucer-ish type of thing except the baby can actually move from one activity to another.  The seat can come off and can be used as an activity table.  At 14 months we are still going strong with the piano part of this thing sans the seat–what can I say, we like to dance around here.
  7. Soothie Pacifier, Amazon-This was the only pacifier my son would take.  And I think my husband and I high fived each other for days when in the middle of the night we’d watch our son on the video monitor find it on his own and put himself back to sleep.
  8. Baby Bjorn Babysitter Balance, Amazon-We used a different bouncer very early on, but this one has been great from about 5 months til present.  I think we are getting to our weight limit on it, but we still use this in the mornings when preparing breakfast and needed to keep the speed demon in place.  He still hasn’t figured out how to get out of it, he just happily bounces!
  9. Nuby Sippy Cups, Amazon-THE sippy cup.  We have searched high and low for a sippy cup that my son will drink out of and this seems to be the big winner!
  10. Nesting Blocks, Amazon-I ordered some nesting blocks like this before the little bebe was born.  BEST. PURCHASE. EVER.  Our little dude still loves to play with these and he never tires of them.

Oh and if all other toys FAIL?  Give em one of these…talk about endless fun, endless fascination.  I don’t get it.

year in review-baby part 2

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BAM! Gifted*

December 28, 2009 by

I thought I would share with all of you some of the presents my little family procured on Jesus’ Birthday.  I’ll let you guess who got what.  We are all absolutely in love with our presents but only one of us (my son, Jack) goes and kisses their present (the monkey) multiple times a day.

  1. Little Tykes Smart Trike, Amazon
  2. Silly Monkey, My Pillow Pets
  3. Rick Bayless’ Mexican Everyday, Amazon
  4. Apple Gift Card, Apple.com
  5. Brother Sewing Machine, Amazon

What did yall get?

*That’s a little modified “The Office” humor for my husband because I like to make him laugh

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