Avon Campaign 4

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 So new brochures started, and I have gone through and just highlighted some of the buys that I think are well worth looking at !!  $.99 for Avon's famous Totally Kissable Lipstick with any $10 purchase! Huge savings!!

Mascara's at $5.99 and $4.99.  You can't get that price for quality mascara anywhere!  The Super Extend Extreme has won awards and gives the look of lash extensions! I know that is my biggest concern,  I have like NO length on my natural eye lashes, but I am too challenged to put falsies on everyday!

Avon's Eye Liner....amazing stuff!  That is all there is to it!  And at 4 for $10, you can't pass that up!

My husband buys that Old Spice scented body wash for himself, until I showed him that Avon carries it too, now we get it from here and he hasn't complained, which tells me it is just as good if not better than anything you can buy in the store!  I recommend X-Series for the men, and it is only $3.99 right now, so it is definitely worth a try!

Skin So Soft at the LOWEST PRICE EVERRRR!!!  $1.69!! STOCK UP!!

Woo! THE MAKEOVER!

I am in love with my new blog layout!!  I sought the help of Sarah @ Fortune Favors to put this together for me, and I couldn't be happier with the turn out!  After a series of e-mails and little tweaks here and there, it was completed!  She did a great job, and the charge behind it seemed minimal to the amount of work she put into it!  I am way excited to get this blog to take off now!

Wake Me When 2013 is Over!

I am so ready for this year to change its tune!  A close family member has had some medical issues that have pursued since New Years Eve, and they have been struggling.  It always sucks to see someone you love suffer and not be able to help them out.  

Then my poor little doggy that we have had since I was 13 had to be put to sleep yesterday.  She was 14 years old, legs were giving out, cancer, eyesight was going.  In her final days, it was really sad to see her suffer so we all made the decision that this was the best thing for her.  What an incredibly hard decision to make.  I didn't go with to the Vet because of Brock and Jaxton, I didn't feel that was the place for them to be.  Going to my Mom and Dad's house will be difficult for awhile I think.  She lived a long life for a chocolate lab, so we are ever so grateful, and of course we know that she is no longer suffering and waiting at the Rainbow Bridge.  A friend of mine shared this with me to help ease that pain of losing a pet.  I am going to post it here in hopes that it can help anyone who may be going through the same thing.  

 

It's a nice way to look at things during a time of sadness.  She was a good dog, and I really hope she now can rest in peace.  

Pinteresting Wednesday!

Can I start off by saying....I LOVE GLITTER!  I just want to sprinkle it everywhere I go! LOL 

My craft for today was to glitter one of my house keys!  I found this craft through Pinterest, of course. The original post I found was here  Glitter Key.  The supplies consisted of rubbing alcohol, Mod Podge, Glitter and a clear acrylic sealer that happened to be made by Mod Podge as well.  

Before I officially started I took a quick cotton ball of rubbing alcohol to the key to clean it up a little bit so that way the Mod Podge held the best it could.

The next thing I did was use a paintbrush to coat the key in Mod Podge.  I've heard of making your own homemade Mod Podge, but never got around to it, plus I seem to have a never ending supply of the stuff! 

Next, I coated that bad girl in glitter.  I am in love with this glitter by the way.  It is such a fine glitter and it really sparkles!  I purchased it from Hobby Lobby for $3.99, it is called Poly Flake.  

I let it sit for an hour, then I sprayed the clear coat over it.  This stuff has a strong odor to it, so I don't recommend using it in a small area.  I did it on my kitchen table, where I am typing this now and I can still smell it. Turn a fan on to get that air circulating, and for your glitter project to dry faster!  I put a clear coat on it to protect it.  The glitter likes to fall off with use so this helps to prevent that from happening.  Otherwise, you will have glitter everywhere! If you don't have the clear acrylic, clear nail polish is a good substitute too! 

Then we have the final product!  Do you think my husband will let me do his?! ;)  With two boys, I do not get the chance to glitter everything, so it really is the little things that count!

Avon....Oh Avon.....

I think I am nuts trying to get started on a "work at home" business such as Avon, because it does take a lot of work....and patience.  I have a lot going on, but figured we need the income and I need to finish school.  SO I started it.  I have mixed feelings about it as I do not know where to begin!  I put the flyers out on the mailboxes in my neighborhood and will eventually push more at local businesses.  I feel awkwardly shy when it comes to doing stuff like that, but I have to keep saying it is for my kids. Haha :)  And being a "snow bird" area that I live in, this is the best time for me to try this out.  I am really hoping my website takes off and most of my orders go through there!  It would be amazing for this all to work out.  With a little help from friends and family I have hope!!  

 Look at the cute little Valentine's cookware they are offering for the holiday this year!!  Plus, it could totally be used year round!  Maybe your husband could even use it to make you a romantic heart shaped pancake breakfast! ;)

Use the code SNOWY at checkout for your free shipping offer right to your door!

Great sale on Skin So Soft!!!

With that being said, if you are ever in need of any Avon products visit my site!  Right now through the 15th it is FREE shipping on orders over $10.  You really can't beat that for some quality products at great prices!!  

Avon by Amanda

Jaxton's Winter "One"derland!

Jaxton recently celebrated his first birthday, so we thought we would play on the whole turning ONE, and being born in the winter months.  In Arizona.  Hahah.  So I created a winter wonderland, indoor style!

This is their invitation, the party was for my niece and my son who both were turning one within two weeks of each other, so we combined and I made this the best I could possibly do!  The back of the invite is neon colored card stock, in the middle is a photo of them within a few weeks of being born, and then a photo of them now.  I created the print layout and used vellum paper to print out and use as overlay!  

 

I created marshmallow snowmen.  All it takes is a cake pop type of stick, three marshmallow and some M&M's, held together by a little frosting! 

I used clear party punch cups to pour in some blue raspberry jellow and a sweedish fish.  Hobby Lobby carried snowman kits and I made them and then taped them onto the side of the cup.  The snowmen then held onto toothpicks with a string attached to make it look like they were fishing for the sweedish fish!

To create a cute display for centerpieces, I bought glittered floral arrangements and dollar store vases and made a great display.  It could be used year round at that!  I found mini ornaments at Target in their dollar section to use as a filler and the rest is history!

Snowmen were made out of powdered sugar donuts!  I took a food coloring pen and created the effect of a snowmen and put an orange Mike N Ike in the center to give the look of a nose. 

I bought cute little mini Christmas trees from Target that were colored to give a less Christmas look.  I took ModPodge and covered clothespins with it, then sprinkled glittered all over every one of them.  I also began my obsession with glitter right around this time! Haha.  I used those to clip on pictures from the first month to their twelfth month as a display for how they have grown.  They were set upon their gift table and made a great piece of conversation. 

What is a winter party without snow globes??  So we made snow globes with my nieces picture and my son's picture inside.  To make these, we bought jars from Hobby Lobby, added water, and a squirt of glycerin.  For the snow effect, we shaved a PVC pipe and added those shavings to the water.  The picture was laminated to make it water proof.  Then it was hot glued to the lid to create a stable environment of course.  A ribbon was added around the jar lid to give it a cute look and that was the end!

We made Rice Krispie treats to look like snowmen with brownie bite hats, licorice scarfs and a cinnamon heart nose.

The cupcakes were placed upon a stand decorated with garland that I stapled to the stand to create a festive look!

Snow flake sugar cookies were a must and even my oldest insisted on helping sprinkle on some blue sugar flakes!

I used Wilton's Mini Bear cake pan to make their smash cakes, and it worked out so amazing!  

Juice boxes were wrapped in white paper and made to look like snowmen by cutting out eyes, mouth and nose with construction paper.   Ribbon was glued around the box to look like a scarf!

Everything turned out so great!!  It was A LOT of hard work.  But it is so amazing to see everything come together and all your hard work pay off to create a great party.  It is always nice to put forth a great effort for your kids and this was definitely one of those times!

No Mommy, No Medicine!

And it begins, the fight for getting my child to take his medicine.  When he was under two, whenever I had to give Brock medicine I never had a problem.  Now the whole medicine giving has become such an issue!  I never knew he could run so fast or scream so loud!  I became desperate to giving him medicine, especially since the doctor prescribed antibiotics for a recent bronchitis infection!  I NEEDED to get him to take this, and he NEEDED to swallow 99% of it! After asking some fellow mom's, I found out about a cup called "Sippy Sure".  

 It looks totally legit.  I thought for sure I would conceal that medicine, nobody would know and Brock would be well on his way to great medication to feel better.  The benefit about this is, instead of just plain right mixing it with your child's medicine, you put it in the cup.  That way if they do not take to it, you still have the option to give it to them the good old fashioned way.  It's not blended in to where you cannot get it out anymore.  Definite advantage. 

I ordered the "Sippy Sure" cup off of Amazon.com for $8.99.  To me, the nine dollars I was spending was entirely worth my effort of getting this child to get the medicine to make him better.  The cup arrived and I was anxious to try it out.  We opened up the box, and he was excited that his new cup has "fishies" on it.  I thought for sure this was going to be a deal sealer.  When it came time to get his medicine, I poured his favorite drink in the cup, and his medicine in the cup designated for that.  He took one sip and said......."Yucky!".  The cup did not work as planned.  

This is a great idea for kids who just hate the idea of medicine.  For Brock, I think it goes a little further, and he just hates the taste!  No matter what I gave him it was still "Yucky".  My youngest is sick as well, but I lucked out with him as he takes his medicine no problems at all and sucks on that syringe until it is all gone!  This cup would be PERFECT in so many ways for the child who just hates the thought of getting medicine.  You could easily pull a fast one and get him to drink his juice as well as his medication in the same step.  Save a lot on your sanity instead of chasing your child around the house, or pinning them to floor explaining why you have to do this, as you get a medicine dropper in their mouth!  Great idea behind this product, and I am really sad that this did not work how I wanted it to this time.  I have hopes for next time with maybe a different flavor medicine!  Orange flavored medicine did not go well in many ways for Brock.