April 9, 2012
February 9, 2012
Love In All Forms
We are joining Laurie
in sharing what Love means
In the comments please tell us
(or feel free to leave a link to a post)
How are you feeling or expressing LOVE this Valentine’s Day?
If you are interested in winning some great prizes or even some cash
to help pay for your Valentine’s expenses
(or are you still paying for the previous holidays?)
visit my announcement blog
to view many chances to win year long.
Note: Also coming up are at least two Music events.
(We love music!)
January 17, 2012
Are You Getting Ready To Par–Tay?
The ever delightful Laurie invites you over
for Valentine’s Day
(a few days early)
Write up your post featuring anything about LOVE and join in.
To view other announcements and events including giveaways, reading challenges, crafty parties, more Valentines parties, and other things I know you’ll want to learn about
please visit my announcement blog at
January 8, 2012
Snapshots Of Savings
It is the time of year where I am sharing computer time once again so this post will be very brief.
I shared with you the only after Christmas trip I made to Goodwill to take advantage of the 15% off Customer Appreciation coupon.
Have you heard that now Goodwill has a new savings program in place – a loyalty type program where you build points as you spend? What a time for me to cut back on my visits!
Here are a few snapshots of things I picked up after the holidays at 75% off, before the additional 15% discount was applied. Each of these items had been marked 49 cents (which is generally the lowest our GW will go – the exceptions being the $1.00 Target items sell for a quarter.) Even the Dollar Tree items which we all KNOW sold for a dollar originally are marked at least 99 cents if not higher. Preaching to the choir…..
vintage bells
vintage style sled
vintage mini angels
Oh and of course now I can not get photos to work as I wish. Sorry.
These are things that I hope to use in crafty endeavors this year.
I will be back to do another post shortly.
Linking up today with:
This week has flown past, I missed REDnesday!
January 2, 2012
Announcing A New Weekly Link Party
Our creative and thrifty (and generous) pal Van from
has begun 2012 with a fresh and ambitious outlook.
She is encouraging us all to share our goals once a week with a Sunday link party which will help us to remain focused and allow us to encourage and cheer on each other.
Let’s all contribute to making her new link up a success.
I would also love to hear what is working best for you in reaching your goals when you post.
Still suffering from the deadly head cold virus here (and lack of oxygen that comes with it) so posting mainly blog announcements and giveaway chances and party hops and reading and crafting challenges on my other blog.
If you have something you wish for me to promote, please give me a little advance notice.
My email address is found on my About Me page or you can find me on FaceBook as Laura DogsMom or Google Plus as LJ DogsMom. On Etsy and Pinterest I have the screen name Bestlectic.
Does anyone have links to how best to use G+ and Pinterest?
My goals for 2012 include learning how to use those sites to a better advantage with a minimum of time involved. A goal I am working on (continuously) is to organize my home and work space so I can more easily sell off the excess. I have already read 2 books in 2012! Now to let them go and move on.
I went out once only after Christmas to take advantage of the 75% off Christmas items at a local Goodwill Store and the customer appreciation 15% coupon. I will show you the goodies as soon as I can breathe again.
I will add the names of the parties I am linking up to as soon as I see who is up and running.
I fear I have been away a looooooong time!
I want to add a few words here about another new linky party good for those of us wishing to show off our collections.
Some Good Stuff at Some Good Times blog will be a weekly link up to show off your collections.
Sunday:
Monday
Tuesday
