StoreHouseWife - My High Chair Makeover was entered in round two of The Creative Blogger’s Got Talent contest and came in 7th out of 20—giving me a place in the next round! I’ll be posting the full tutorial this coming week! But here is a sneak peek!
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Pampers Coupons!
I don’t see a wealth of Pampers coupons floating around. They’re harder to come by than Huggies. I’d go grab these. After you’ve printed once, don’t forget to hit “Back” so you can print a second time!
- $1.50 off ONE Pampers Cruisers or Baby Dry Diapers
- $1.50 off ONE Pampers Swaddlers Diapers
- $0.75 off ONE Pampers Wipes 60 ct or larger
and here’s a Palmolive just for fun!
$0.50 off ON (1) BOTTLE OF ANY PALMOLIVE
Print Coupons Before Month End!
Here’s some coupon links I like. Hurry over and print before their gone! The month is ending soon!
- 25% OFF PAINTS & STAINS, 15% OFF PAINTING SUPPLIES at Sherwin-Williams
- Save 80¢ ON FOUR when you buy FOUR any flavor Hamburger Helper®, Tuna Helper® OR Chicken Helper® Home Cooked Skillet Meals
- SAVE $1.00 off Dial® for Men Speed Foam Body Wash (Redeemable at Walmart)
- SAVE 40¢ ON TWO when you buy any TWO Pillsbury® Sweet Rolls OR Grands!® Sweet Rolls
- $3.00 OFF When Harry Met Sally on Blu-ray™ $3.00 OFF Moulin Rouge on Blu-ray™
Also, check out the sidebar “Recommended Coupons” for some good baby ones!
Our coupon stash I built up when I was pregnant is slowly dwindling. I’ll be needing to get with the program again! Hope these help you! Happy Friday night!
Special Day
Thanks to Jesus, my husband and Thirty-One, my daughter and I were able to spend the day at the zoo. Don’t know what’d I do if I had to have a real person job but I sure am thankful I don’t!
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design- $59.80
This is my favorite deal– of the century. I’ve been wanting Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign for such a long time now for Storehouse Graphics and for use here on StoreHouseWife. The software could work wonders for me and possibly generate a lot more income in a hurry but as you probably know if you clicked on this post, its dangerously expensive! The package that would be useful for me retails for $1,299. HA! Not happening—-there’s a BUT however.
If you are a student or an educator you can purchase the software for 80% off! That gives us a price of $299 for the Student and Teacher edition. Not bad. Definately doable. Still, not in my budget right now! Enter coupon code SAVE80EDU. Suddenly another 80% is wiped out, bringing the CS5.5 Design Standard Student and Teacher Edition (what I need) to a whopping $59.80! If you’re just in the market for Photoshop you can grab that for $39.80!
Interestingly enough, just this morning I was just thinking about how I could grab Photoshop. I had decided it would be a while and was ok with that. God delights in the details of our lives does he not?
If you need a different Creative Suite or Adobe option (that is available in the student/teacher version) the code will work for that as well. The Master Suite (sounds important) can be swiped up for only $179! At checkout, information regarding your student or teacher status will be requested. My husband is still a student so we’ll be using his student ID to confirm that. Also, it should be noted that the coupon code expires 3/3.
I hope this deal puts Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign on some of your computers like it will mine!
I am currently on HOLD with Adobe customer service as I went back today to grab this deal (because it was advertised as available until March 3rd). So far in my online chat, they have told me there was an error with the promotional code and there is nothing they can do for me. I am frustrated as their website not only advertised the code but also advertised the expiration date. This is false advertising. I do plan to see the situation remedied to best of my ability. That may include the BBB.
(Thanks, Saving With Shellie)
Wednesday Encouragement- Link Up #3
Rewarded Stewardship
This week’s encouragement is from my friend, Julie and it’s one of my favorites! It will probably make you cry—especially if financial strain is weighing on your heart. Enjoy!
September 2011When my husband and I got married almost 4 years ago, he had just recently bought a truck that he took a loan out for. Coming from a family where my dad was of the thought “always pay cash for a vehicle”, the idea of a car loan wasn’t something I was too excited about, but it was what it was and at least we had a vehicle for him. $335 was what we were paying every month and when we were both working full time, that wasn’t a huge deal…we had the funds to make the payment. However, jump ahead 2 years and I am pregnant with our first child and really want to be able to stay home with her. This car payment was now going to be a stretch. We made it work and pinched our finances for the first year but it was very, very (VERY) tight. There were many months where we didn’t know how we’d pay the bills. But God was faithful. We both knew that me staying home with our daughter was what He wanted us to do and because of that we knew God would provide the money somehow…which he did.Jumping ahead to June of 2011, I had been talking with a friend from my hometown and she was telling me how her and her husband were planning to sell their one vehicle and try to make it with only one car for their family. I talked to my husband about it and we decided that financially that would put us in a much better position and we’d be making a smarter move to be better stewards of our money. We posted my husbands truck on Craigslist and it was sold within a day. It was a very hard decision for my husband as that was his“man” car and now we only had our Honda CRV. I was pregnant with our second child and due in December but we knew that God was going to provide. We started praying for him to provide us with a vehicle for a good price; something that would just get Pete to and from work – something simple.This past September we were back home (Chicago) visiting our family and my dad had called me previously and said that one of his friends had a family who needed a van driven back to Wichita for them so they were going to pay to fly us home and then if we would be able to drive the van back to Wichita. We agreed and didn’t think anything of it. We planned to pick the van up on a Friday morning and drive it home Saturday. My parents, husband, daughter and myself drove to this family’s house to get the van. We pull in the driveway and there was a silver Honda Odyssey sitting there. We got excited knowing that our drive home was going to be a comfortable one (that was also the car that I had dreamed about having when I had a family!). We get out of the car and the couple comes out and after greetings they hand us a card with the address of where we were to take the van to in Wichita. Pete opens the card and just stands there. It was our address. I look at the card and immediately start crying. They were giving us the van. As in they bought it for us! Completely free!! I was absolutely stunned and didn’t have any words to say. The tears just kept flowing. God had taken care of us in a way that I never would have ever imagined. He knew our needs and met them over and above. Wow. Not only did they buy us a van, the man handed us $200 cash to pay for gas on the way home and they gave us $500 to help cover the cost of additional insurance for the year. Wow.As we loaded our daughter’s car seat into our new mini van and we got in and pulled out of the driveway, we both had no words. Not only would this new car fit our growing family, but now we once again had two vehicles and wouldn’t have to deal with the hassle of driving each other back and forth to work.I can honestly say I’ve known some pretty generous people, but that gift we received that day absolutely blew me away. Talk about a picture of God’s generosity. This couple didn’t even know us! My dad told us later that he had told his men’s Bible study that he was proud of us for selling our truck and that he thought that while it was a hard decision, it was the right one and that God was going to provide for our needs. One of the men in the study told his wife and they together felt God prompting them to buy us this mini van. I’m still blown away even as I write this. God blessed us more abundantly than we could ever have imagined. We were faithful and wanted to be good stewards of what he had given us and because of that He provided 1,000 times over. What an incredible blessing and an amazing God we serve!!!
If that doesn’t testify to God’s faithfulness, I don’t know what does!
Welcome, Friends!
So glad your here! Whether you’re here to link up or just to be encouraged I know you’ll leave blessed! Here are some party guidelines::
- If you can, link back to this post using a text link or the button below (copy/paste coding) and let your readers know you’re linked up here!
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- Please, only link up direct links to your testimonies so party goers can find them easily.
- Please, do not link to giveaways or anything you are selling.
- Make sure your links bring glory to the King of Kings—Jesus Christ. I reserve the right to remove any links I feel do not do so.
- Try to visit one other blog and leave them some affirmation/thanks in their comments.
That’s it! Link away. I’m so excited to read your stories!
Have a story to tell but don’t have a blog? Email me at monica@storehousewife!
2 Vistaprint Deals to Choose From
LivingSocial has another great deal for Vistaprint. And there’s so many reasons to love Vistaprint! Right now you can snag a deal for $10 to get $50 worth of stuff. Now, there’s a lot of things you can get for “free”. (I personally think the “free” thing is dumb because you pay the difference in the shipping! BUT it’s still a lot less than you can find anywhere else.) Because there is so much you can get for free. I buy these deals so I can get some of their more expensive items that do not go for “free”. In my personal business, I’ve used them for postcards, banners and yard signs. The other great thing is there is an option to upload your own design if you don’t like anything they’ve got. Here’s a photo of the banner I got with a previous LivingSocial deal to use for my business at vendor events:
If you’re in direct sales or you own your own business, this deal is worth your time! Head over now and grab the LivingSocial deal for $50 worth of product for $10 at Vistaprint!
New to LivingSocial? You can sign up here!
The second Vistaprint deal you can grab to day is for 6 free photo products. While this deal won’t work for business supplies, you can grab them for upcoming Mother’s and Father’s day. Here’s the lowdown:
6 Free Products to showcase your most important photographs! We pay for Printing, you pay for Shipping! Display your favorite pictures on 6 FREE custom printed products. Great for gifts or to keep for yourself. Cherish photos year round with a free calendar, or warm up in the winter with a hot drink in a personalized mug.
Shipping Starting Prices:
Calendar- $5.67
T-Shirt- $4.86
Magnet- $4.52
Mouse Pad- $4.41
Mug- $5.67
Photo Book- $5.83
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Craftsy Block of the Month Club!
Craftsy is a great site! If you know how to sew a straight line, you can quilt! Right now, you can join for free and learn a new block each month! I wish I would have found this when I was starting my first quilt! Check out Craftsy’s blurb about the program:
Learn fun quilting techniques, make new friends and create a one-of-a-kind quilt with the FREE Craftsy Block of the Month! Each month, Amy Gibson will guide you through a specific quilting technique – half- and quarter-square triangles, appliqué, string quilting, paper piecing and more. Then she’ll teach you two nifty 12-inch blocks using what you’ve learned. Some are brand-new designs, others fresh twists on traditional favorites. Along the way, you’ll make 20 blocks from fat quarters, then assemble them into a throw-sized quilt.
Use Amy’s selected fat quarters, Westminster Fabrics’ contemporary FreeSpirit Boho, or choose favorites from your stash. It’s a great class for experienced quilters, but jump right in if you have basic sewing skills and feel ready to tackle your first quilt!
Enroll free any time during the year and get instant access to all the lessons you’ve missed. As with all Craftsy courses, you can take the class at your own pace and your access never expires. Plus you get a great online community to share ideas with, and Amy at the ready to answer questions and help you along. We’d offer our 100 percent money-back guarantee, but we don’t have to, because it’s FREE!
Let me know if you give it a try! Your blocks could be featured!
LivingSocial- 20pg, 8×11 Picaboo Photo Book for $10!
The longer they’re around the more I love LivingSocial. Today we used a past deal for Knolla’s Pizza and were able to get more food than we could handle for the $15 we spend up front. As far as dining out goes, I’m tempted to never do it again with out a deal of some sort! Collective Bargaining Sites really are a great way to maintain a budget.
Here’s a great LivingSocial national deal that ends tonight for a Picaboo photo book!
They say a good book is like a good friend: It’ll make you laugh, cry, and you can always pick up where you left off. But what if that book is customized, filled with photos of friends and family, and costs just $10? Today’s deal from Picaboo is your new BFF: Pay $10 and receive a 20-page 8.5×11 Classic Custom hardcover photo book(a $40 value), or pay $20 for an 11×14 version (a $60 value). Start by choosing from a variety of professionally designed themes — such as wedding, travel, or baby — then drag and drop your photos and captions anywhere on the page. Choose from a wide variety of beautiful backgrounds, page layouts, and fonts to make your pages truly unique, then finish with a customized cover in a variety of designs and colors. It’s the best friend money can buy — for less than half the price.
Head over and grab this deal for a LivingSocial Picaboo 8×11 Hardcover Photo Book for $10!
New to LivingSocial? You can sign up here to receive email updates for you city’s deals!
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I Made It!
Thanks to everyone who voted for me in the “Every Creative Blogger’s Got Talent Auditions“! Due to you taking the time to go vote for my DIY Ceiling Fan Makeover project, I’ve made it to the next round, and I must tell you—I’ve got some awesome ideas to compete with in the coming weeks. I can’t wait to show them to you. I’m enjoying getting more invested in the “blogosphere”, as I call it. Be sure to stay tuned to see how I fare—I believe the next rounds are up to judges’ voting so we’ll see where we end up. Thanks again for your help!
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