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If you read my other blog, you know I love finding FREE magazine subscriptions. This morning I found that Mercury Magazines is currently giving away FREE 1 year subscriptions to Woman’s Day Magazine. I just signed up and wanted to give you all the heads up so you can request yours too!
Hurry before the offer is pulled!
Dr Seuss happens to be one of my FAVORITE children’s authors. I have LOVED Dr Seuss books since I was a child and still enjoy reading the books to my children. Last night I read the book “Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
In addition to all the fun books by Dr Seuss, I love his quotes. Here is my favorite….
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
This quote is so true. I remember when I was young caring too much about what others thought. I have learned throughout the years to be myself. If people don’t like you for who you are, then you don’t need them in your life anyways
If you want the Dr Seuss books for your children, Amazon has the box set Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Book Collection (Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, Fox in Socks)
I was playing around with my iPhone the other day taking pictures. I have this cool app installed on my phone called Instagram that allows you to take a picture, apply a filter and share! I took a bunch of photos of my son while he was walking around. I thought this one looked pretty cool.
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Last summer I picked up my daughter Hailey from the airport. She arrived off the plane with a cute yellow and black flower pen for me that was made out of duct tape that her friend in Texas had made. I had seen these flowers before but never thought about making them myself. This past Christmas Hailey gave me another cute pen made out of duct tape that her friend had made. Now this pen was even cuter than the first one I received. This one was red, black and a cute cheetah print. This was the first time I had seen cheetah print duct tape.
Since I am a crafty mom I have been wanting to find out for myself how to make these duct tape flower pens. My daughter Hailey is 11, so I am thinking her friend is around the same age. If an 11 year old can make such a cute little flower pen, why can this crafty mom? I went online and found so many videos about making things with duct tape it got me wanting to get crafty. So I went out looking for duct tape. I first went to Home Depot. They had a couple colors and only had them in big rolls. Luckily Walmart was next door because this is what I found there…..
Can you say duct tape? This is duct tape from the Duck Brand. I was totally amazed at how many different colors and patterns there was and this happens to be in the paint/hardware isle at Walmart. At this point, I really wanted to lean how to make duct tape flower pens with all the options. I was frugal though and bought just 2 rolls to practice with. I wanted to make sure it was fun before I splurge on a bunch of rolls. So I come home and watch this video a couple times to make sure I know what I am doing.
This duct tape flower is not perfect but it was my first one. I have now taught my daughter Ariyona how to make them and she is addicted. We have also bought a few more colors including pink and peace sign pattern duck tape. Did you know you can make duct tape purses, wallets, flip flops and even PROM DRESSES?
Have you made anything with duct tape? Please share….
At the end of last year I was involved in two different auto accidents that were NOT my fault. I haven’t even settled the claims with those yet and my car that I have only owned a few months just got HIT last night. We were visiting a friend last night and on the way home I wanted an ice cream from this awesome place called Fosters Freeze. We don’t have one of these in my city so when I see one, I always want to stop. I first hesitated to go there last night because last year I was getting off a freeway exit for another Fosters Freeze visit (that we never made it to) for my daughter on our way to Hollywood and got rear-ended coming off the exit. I told my husband, if we go to Fosters, I will probably get hit by a car and I almost didn’t go. My husband said I was silly and to go ahead and go to Fosters. I pull in the parking lot, park and go in.
I am waiting for my food when my husband comes in yelling to come outside, some idiot just backed in my Cadillac. At first I thought it was a really bad joke, but after a few seconds I could tell he was not joking. He was sitting in the car when it happened and was NOT a happy at all. The nice people at Fosters call the police department, but when they arrived they said it was private property and they cannot take a report. I was MAD at this point because having a report makings things so much easier with the insurance companies.
Ugh, now to file another claim today with my insurance for another non-fault accident (third one in seven months).
