Looking for a Delicous and Oh So Very Cute treat? Hurry over to the nearest Cookies By Design to get your FREE Flip Flop Cookie! How cute are those! Yum!
(Thanks Mojo Savings!)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
FREE Nexxus Samples
Monday, July 19, 2010
HELP NATALIE! Benefit Concert
If you're going to be in the Ogden, Utah area on Friday August 6th, please try to attend this fabulous concert for a great cause. Natalie Jolley is a darling girl suffering from Ewings Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. American Idol Finalist Brooke White will be performing at this concert, and for only $10 (All proceeds go to Natalie) you will see this amazing conert and be able to help Natalie. To find out more about Natalie's story visit her blog at SweetandSassyasNatty.blogspot.com.
Big Birthday Bug Bash!
I have been so busy the last couple of weeks planning and putting on a birthday party for my kiddos! It has been so much work but so much fun! Want to see what we did? Here's my invitations to the Big Birthday Bug Bash! The grass hopper on top rocks back and forth on the brad and the caterpiller crawls across the front of the invitation! I think they made the party look fun because we had all but one kid show up! 20 kids came to the party and it was a blast!
The Food:
Ice Cubes: I bought Nerds because I thought they look kind of like little colorful bugs. I made blue Kool-Aid but only added half the amount of water to give the ice cubes better color and stronger flavor. After about an hour in the freezer I pulled them out while they were slushy and stuck the nerds in the now half frozen ice cubes with toothpicks. Then back in the freezer until complete frozen. I then served them in sprite to make the sprite turn blue.
The Crackers: These are my favorite! I loved how they turned out! I spread cream cheese on Ritz crackers and then cut cherry tomatoes into quarters, used olive slices for heads and chives for antenaes, and frosting for dots. The kids didn't eat these very well but I loved how they looked!
The Cakes: My Mom is so amazing. This party could not have happened without all of her help and hard work. She bought this cute little baking tin that made bees, butterflies, and lady bugs. She made these for the kids and even frosted them all. They were a big hit with the kids!
The Plates: Here's the plates each kid got. My Mom made jello flowers and pipe cleaners for the stems and leaves. Such a cute idea. Then a bug cake on each and a lady bug cracker. Then a gummy bug too! My little boy wouldn't eat his gummy, he thought they looked too real and too gross! I bought grass hopper ice cream but it just didn't look so cute on the plates. But a note for next time: even if it doesn't look cute, little kids expect ice cream at birthday parties.
The Center Peices and Treats: I made these little cups with some stamps I had. The "Bugs and Kisses!" cups are filled with Hershey's Kisses and the "Worm Wishes on Your Bug Day!" cups are filled with gummy worms. I decorated the table with little bug erasers.
The Tables and Crafts:
The Tables: Before the kids arrived I set up their spots. Each kid's spot had a bag I decorated with their names on them so they would have something to take home all of their goodies! Plus it's hard for little kids to see some kids getting presents and they don't get any. This way they all felt like they got presents!
The clear plastic cups had a little growing insect capsul in them so that they could grow their own bug, they each got a crazy bandz bug, a lady bug that they put their own spots on, a bug jar and magnifying glass to decorate, 10 cut peices of black paper to make a spider head band with googly eyes, buid-a-bug fruit snacks, and plenty of bug erasers.
The Games:
The Pinata: I over filled this pinata because I knew there would be at least 20 kids coming and I wanted them to all get lots of candy, so I bought 2 of the big backs of candy to fill it. Not so smart though because it broke after only about 5 kids got to hit it! It was just too heavy!
The Leaf Walk: Instead of a Cake Walk we pretended the kids were bugs and did a Leaf Walk! I used my cricut to cut out leaves and stamps to decorate the leaves. Each kid won and when they won they got to choose a toy bug.
Find a Bug: I didn't realize my picture didn't turn out very well of this game, but it was still fun. I made name tags for each kid and then about 10 feet of yarn ied to a finger puppet bug. The kids were little so it was my version of a bug hunt, where they found their name then they followed the string to their bug.
Here's a couple of the cute little finger puppet bugs at the end of the yarn!
Heres' the kid-made bug jars, magnifying glasses, and the dots on the lady bugs. We made the lady bugs out of red felt, a black pom pom for the head, googly eyes, black pipe cleaner for antenae, and filled them with rice. We cut out sticky black felt with a hole punch so that the kids could make their lady bugs each unique.
We had such a fun party! A HUGE Thank you to all of my friends and family who helped me with everything for it! There is no way I could have done it on my own!
Update to Sara Lee Toy Story Promotion
I was extremely frustrated when I saw that Sara Lee had discontinued their Toy Story promotion. I had saved up and specifically bought Sara Lee bread to collect 5 UPC's to get my son the Buzz Lightyear light up lunch box. I sent away for it about a month ago and when I saw that they were out of stock I thought that would be the end of it for me. I was really upset every time I went to the grocery store and saw shelves loaded with their bread packaged in Toy Story promotion bags.
But today I feel a little better because I received this post card in the mail today that read:
"Dear Participant,
Thank you for your recent participation in the Sara Lee Soft & Smooth Mealtime Is Fun Offer!
Due to the immense popularity of this offer, distribution of all available Toy Story merchandise was depleted in record time. We value you as a customer so we are going to provide you with an alternative Toy Story tin lunchbox of comparable value instead.
Please expect your Toy Story lunchbox to arrive around early to mid-September. If you have any questions surrounding this alternative lunchbox tin, please feel free to reach out to our consumer affairs department at 1-800-323-7117 and they can answer your questions or help with any concerns you may have.
We sincerely appreciate your understanding and patience, and hope you will stay tuned for our next exciting promotion!
Sincerely,
Sara Lee Fresh Bakery"
Well, I was really impressed that they are still going to honor this. I thought I was out of luck but am so thrilled to find out that at least all the trouble I went through to get the lunch box will at least be for something!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Children's Place $2.99 Sale + Extra 20% Off!
The Children's Place has their summer collection starting at only $2.99 right now! Plus use this coupon to save an additional 20% off your entire purchase through July 18th. If you're shopping online at ChildrensPlace.com use coupon code JULY2010A to save 20% on a purchase of $50 or more.
FREE Axe Body Spray Sample - Sams Club Members Only
If you're a Sams Club Member head on FREE sample of Axe body spray.
FREE Bikini Bra
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Jeans Buy 1 Get 1 50% Off at Gymboree + Gymbucks
Gymboree has their jeans on sale Buy 1 Get 1 50% off! If you have Gym Bucks, make sure you redeem them before July 25th! Pair them up with some jeans and you'll get a killer deal!
FREE Thai Cashew Chicken at Panda Express! 7/14 Only!
Do you love Panda Express as much as I do? Today Only, July 14th, head on over to Panda Express with this coupon to get FRE Thai Cashew Chicken! No purchase necessary!
Are you having that for lunch or dinner?
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Save 20% On Tickets to Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Visa Signature Card Holders
Are you going to see Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice? It comes out tomorrow and if you're a VISA Signature Card holder you can go to Fandango.com/VisaSignature and get 20% off a purchase of $25 or more to the show! When I looked closer it looks like you may be able to use it for other shows too, so if you're going to the movies, it wouldn't hurt to try!
Monday, July 12, 2010
25 Photo Cards - FREE
See Here is offering 25 FREE Photo Cards with envelopes when you use coupon code cards-36 now through July 17th.
Have you used See Here before? Try them out! I love them! I ordered my Christmas cards through them when they had a similiar promotion last November. You will have to pay shipping on this, but still a fabulous deal!
$10 Off A $10 Purchase at Famous Footwear Today Only!
*HURRY!* Today only you can save $10 on a $10 purchase at Famous Footwear by using this coupon.
(Thanks Bargain Divas!)
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
FREE 1500 Miles = FREE Magazines!
I heard about this deal a couple days ago but wanted to find out a little more about it before I posted it. I did it and it worked great for me! So here's the deal: US Airways has a frequent flyer plan called Dividend Miles. Now through July 31st when you sign up (must be a new account) here and use coupon code NM15 you will receive 1500 miles absolutely FREE! You can use those miles to get FREE magazines here. I let my husband get his 56 issues of Sport Illustrated instead of getting my 52 issues of Entertainment Weekly. Still slightly regretting that. ;)
(Thanks Freebie Blogger!)
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