Flour sack pillows

I love these new flour sack pillows seen yesterday at a local decorating store.  I think they speak to my recent strong penchant for bright colors.  I especially like the shrimp one with the pink, brown, and orange.

Hidden Play Space

I found these images from Design Sponge via Oohdeedoh.   What a great idea for creating a hidden play space--using the area for the bottom bunk!  My kids' rooms are very small, so this idea may help me in the future.

Sand dollars

I am always interested in how people display things they collect.  A few weeks ago I saw this collection of sand dollars exhibited on a fireplace at someone's beach house.  What a great way to show something that you love and have worked hard at acquiring!

Another use for muffin pan

The other day I served my kids their snack using this muffin pan.  They loved the novelty of it and I think it is a great way to encourage them to eat a variety of healthy options!  By the way, I discovered a cheese that my kids just adore--it's an Irish cheddar called Dubliner.  I bought a huge block of it at Costco and divided it with my neighbor.  We devoured it in a week no problem.  It's a sharp cheese with little calcified bits in it and tastes great with apple slices!

Coupon organizing

In the past I have not been a big coupon cutter, but during the past two years I have realized how crazy it is not to be.  It's just money in your pocket.  One problem for me with coupons was figuring out how to organize them and keep them.  Once while in the grocery store aisle, I ran into a real coupon queen who gave me this idea--to store them in a binder using baseball card collector pages.  This works well for me because I can organize them by category and the plastic pages make it easy to see what's there.  Now, if I can just remember to take the folder with me!  One thing I've found is that before I go to the grocery store I will sit down and make a list and pick out the coupons that I will be able to use.  An easy quick way to to this is to make a list on a legal sized envelope and then put the coupons in it.  This has worked for me, but everyone needs to come up with a method that works.  And, by the way, Harris Teeter is having triple coupons this week!!  Happy shopping.

I love orange!

There's something so vigorous and cheery about the color orange.   I love the new displays they have in the front of GDC here in Mount Pleasant that showcase this color.

Cut flowers

I don't know why I had never thought about cutting pansies and putting them in a vase.  I guess I always thought that these flowers would do better in their container.  Last week I cut a few--they are really blooming like crazy now and they lasted in their little bud vase for over a week.  This is such an easy cheap way to have fresh cut flowers around the house.