Free Shutterfly Photo Book Offer

our diaper of choice for little alice is pampers, so i keep all the codes so we can get "free" stuff.  because i'm signed up with them, every now and again i get diaper offers and updates on promotions they are putting out, but this is the first time i've been offered a freebie.

sadly,  i don't have a shutterfly account, so i don't think i'll be able to take advantage of this offer, but i thought i'd share with anyone who might subscribe to them = ) walgreens ran a similar offer, and the photobook we got came out really cute! below is the email:

Your little pirate or princess looks so cute dressed up for Halloween. It’s a treat you’ll want to share with everyone.

Capture every boo-tiful memory with a free 7x9 soft cover photo book * from Shutterfly. Just add your pictures and we’ll create a keepsake 20-page 7x9 photo book for you in minutes. (A $15.99 gift)*

Promo code: GT58-CKN6-5413-VRX875

Offer ends December 6, 2010

i don't know if this is a code just for me, or if it's a generic code, but feel free to use it!  if you do use it, let me know how it turns out ; )

sling freebie

okay, so since my newest 'hobby', if you will, is reading random blogs (i find these by clicking the "next blog" link at the top), i am finding amazing photographic inspiration, cool craft ideas, and now freebies!

i never really used the moby wrap that i bought when we had alice, because it was so crazy complicated!  so i wanted a new 'body' carrier for the next baby, and when i found this post, i thought "yay!"

i went to this site today, found one that i liked, and sure enough, they really only do charge shipping (and $5 if you get the 'gift set').  granted shipping is $12, but that's a quarter of the listed price, and knowing that i'd have to pay it to get one at full price anyhow, makes it worth it = )

SevenSlings.com has a brand new promotion going where you get 100% off any of their baby slings when you use promo code "milkbands".

This promotion will allow you only one purchase per transaction so please take your time to get the right size and pattern for you! This offer will expire without notice -so don’t delay! These fitted slings are safe for infants to toddlers 35lbs and under!
Go to http://www.sevenslings.com/ , click on “Shop Now”, and select the correct size sling or gift set you would like (be sure to visit the sizing page for instructions on how to select the right size sling for you). Once you have selected the sling or gift set you would like, enter "milkbands" into the promo code box and click “Apply Code”. This will bring your product total from $39.00 to $0 for a pouch sling or from $44.00 to only $5 for a 3-piece gift set - all you are required to pay is the shipping & processing! 

Sincerely,
Jenny Pierce
Owner
MilkBands.com


*You may have heard about the Infantino™ “bag sling” recall. The recalled Infantino™ slings are not the same type of baby sling found at sevenslings.com. The recalled slings were “bag slings” and were similar to an elastic closure purse where the baby sits closer to your thighs than your chest. Seven Slings are fitted, non-adjustable “pouch slings” and hold your baby right up close to you on your chest where you can see and kiss your child. There has not been a recall associated with “pouch style slings”.

happy shopping = ) i'll try to update when i get this and let ya'll know if it's any good ; )

before modern medicine

so, before modern medicine the gender of the baby was decided via old wives tales, grandma's premonitions and other completely reliable methods.  while reading a random blog (yes i do that when bored)  i stumbled across this link:

http://www.thebump.com/calculators/ChineseGenderChart.aspx

it is a chinese gender chart.  i figured it be fun to see what they predict, before i get an 'official' modern medicine prediction.  it claims 90% accuracy, so i guess we'll see come november 5th if we are planning to have a little girl, or if we're in the 10% error range ; )

my new addiction

i've been a long time patron & advocate of thrift store shopping, i'll go any time the offer is put on the table and take along anyone interested in coming.  but recently (for about the last 3 weeks) i've found that i'm waking up early on saturday morning (about 45 minutes later than my normal wake up time) to go to community garage sales.

it started of course with our own neighborhood having a garage sale (i just had one in july, so i wasn't prepared for another one), so instead i walked around the neighborhood and hit about 15 garage sales.  all for under $25!  i had to come home, not because i was out of cash, but because i physically  could not carry any more! now, i could have gone back out, but it was getting later and most of the "big items" were gone.

the next weekend we went up to the ren faire, but this week, at about 6:55 i woke up without assistance from alice or an alarm so i got up, researched some nearby garage sales, got alice ready (to stay home with daddy) and headed out.

my first stop was the one furthest from our house, and it was part of a community garage sale.  i went to about 15 or so garage sales again.  the first stop i hit three sales, and found my best deals at the third stop.

i bought a $3 car rug for my nephew coyt:

i was going to buy 5 of the wooden puzzles for $1 each, they threw in the extra two (the trucks, the one with missing pieces) and the puzzle organizer (← about $30 online) for free = ):

and my favorite buy of the day, my 2 new cupcake holders for $3 each.  i was only going to purchase one of them, but i find so often that i have 'non-buyers' remorse, when i pass up a good deal because i don't think i'll ever use it, and then i think of 20 ways i could have used it when i get home (and when you're talking about garage sales, there's no going back).  so i bought them both = ):

my next stop was also fairly productive, i bought lots of cheap little things (clothes, a Christmas basket, and baby clothes) but my favorite buy was the container of craft items for 50¢ there were balloons, streamers, lots of curling ribbon, i only kept  a few items, but feel i most certainly got my 50¢ worth. = ):

the last stop was the least fruitful, i bought 2 more pieces to the baby fence sarah bought us for $3, 2 serving platters for 25¢ each, but the best buy was another Christmas dress for alice, for just $1.  it was clean, adorable, and the right size (all for $1).  so now she's up to 3, i think, i'll be sure to take her picture in all of them = ):

i also bought a card holder, with all the holidays on the horizon, i thought it would be a clean way to 'display' our holiday cards.  it was also only 25¢:

so, as long as my body gets up early, i'll find another community garage sale, and snag as many deals as i can!

pizza hut's pasta

so, apparently i'm a day late blogging (megan and ivonne both posted yesterday), but this story is in retrospect anyhow, so any day will do = )

tonight when i came home, alice and i checked the mail (she opens the mailbox and i take out the mail), and we had received a domino's advertisement (among others) which made me think about dinner.  i'm not a fan of having pizza for dinner, just because it leaves me hungry, and i have trouble finding a suitable vegetable with which to pair it.  so instead we opted for pizza hut's chicken alfredo pasta.

i didn't make a side of veggies, because i was a bum, but i did have some grapes beforehand ; )

now looking back: when i had finally come to terms with my morning sickness last month, billy and i were going to order the pasta dish.  billy came out and said, "you pick, any of them sound good to me,"  so i chose lasagna. as soon as i said it billy came back with "except that one!" = )  now, i'm not usually a fan of lasagna, but since i had just recaptured my appetite, billy gave in and we had lasagna.  he admitted that he really didn't want the lasagna, but he was  banking on my picking either of the other two options.

so now, when i ask him if he wants pasta, he always makes sure to make his opinion known = )