Salvation Army Thursday Finds Stoneware Crock

Well I hope everyone had a wonderful day.It was such a great day for me the sun was shining after a little snow storm.Cold but felt great.Woke up early and was so ready for the day.
Hubby asked if I would like to go down town yes we live in such a small area we have uptown and downtown in all it is about 10 miles either way.Very spread out.
Well we went to the Goodwill and I found a very good sturdy cross stitch frame not one of those flimsy ones.
I about a week ago decided to make a sampler from my own idea and so I have been free handing and by that holding the fabric in my hand with no frame.So today's find was great it was a dollar.
Well we left there and went over to the Salvation Army they are about one block apart so I was okay since we are down this way what will it hurt.

Went in looking at some fabric and some nic nacs and my hubby comes over and says what about this.I was yes that is something I love stoneware.It has a blue star on front with the number 6 in the center.I just love it.I know nothing about its worth.We paid $10.00 for it and I just love it.Sorry for the bad picture
Can you believe Friday is just around the corner.I hope everyone has such a wonderful night.May God keep you in his arms.Until next time Judy

It Has Been Sometime but I am back

It has been sometime since I have posted on my blog.I have had some major family issues I had to take care of which needed my full attention.Things have gotten back to normal and my family is doing so much better.
So I know the last post was about organizing and I was and have organized my coupon binder.
The binder I was using I got from the Goodwill it was just a regular binder no pockets I bought it for 0.50 cents just starting out with the binder method for my coupons so I figured 50 cents not bad.
So after Christmas I was looking at my coupon binder just trying to figure how I can organize it any better.
I went through and pulled all the expired coupons got a little behind due to the holidays.
I went to Walmart and bought some really cheap dividers I mean cheap I think 5 for 85 cents I only bought 2 packs.So I am putting it all back together and I think this looks so so much better.

So the day after I get my binder all set up hubby and I stop into our local Goodwill and I buy this binder cause it has a zipper closer and a arm strap and dividers.I just love it it is called a Case it.I paid $3.00 Sorry for the bad bad pictures but the second one is to show the price. I thought not bad.It has a place for everything.I just love it.Until next time stay warm Judy

What do you do between Christmas and New Years ?

I am so glad you stopped by today.I hope you had a wonderful Christmas our family was so blessed to spend time together and celebrate Christmas together.
I do have a funny story to tell this year our Christmas was wonderful our family was able to be together and celebrate Jesus birth.Our daughter who live away was able to come home.
Her boyfriend came down on Christmas to spend Christmas with us.It was a wonderful day.We opened present spent time with family and friends,played game,and watched football.It was a fun filled day.
We got a call from m y sister Tammy late Christmas day letting us know we were expecting a major blizzard we knew nothing about it.She said 8 to 12".I was so hoping she was wrong.
We went to bed all was great in our slumber,I woke at 3:30 looked out the window and saw no snow I was yes big sister is wrong.Went back to bed until 6:30 and at this time I was wakened by our daughter who made the track home to a scream.
I went down stairs with her she was scared the Christmas Tree fell down crash boom and a very large bang.
I for a moment was not for sure what I was looking at.But as soon as my eyes focused I knew.
All the ornaments that I have collected for over 28 years are now broken.
I went back upstairs I got my robe and slippers cause I knew glass was everywhere.So DD her boyfriend my DH and myself started picking up the mess.Out of all this mess only 3 ornament were broken.
So this Christmas I took my tree down day after Christma.I have never done that before.Could not figure why it feel.I just hope this never happens again.

Now back to my question what do you do between Christmas and New Years.I know alot of people are on vacation,spending time with family for the entire week.Just different things.
For me it has always been organizing things in my house that I let go.
Today I organized my desk no pictures but my gosh it was a mess.I started about 6:30 am this mourning and finished about 10:00.
And then I looked at my coupon binder and this was a true mess

In this are full coupons pages never been cut ,expired coupons.It is just a mess.So I decided it was time to fix this mess.

Before Christmas no I would say before Thanksgiving I was doing so well using coupons with the sell paper to save a lot of money.And I need to start this again and live by it.I had a small pantry that did help with the Holidays which came in handy.
This is in progress of being organized major work in progress I will pot pictures of the finished binder.
All through this year I will be posting my food budget what I bought,what I spent and what I saved.
I am not a coupon Queen,I do not spend hours of my week clipping and trying to find the best deal I do have a web site I do love which is http://www.afullcup.com/ I thinks this site is a super place.If you do Rite Aid ,Walgeens or what ever..I am just a regular person trying to do the best with what I have.Making major mistakes and mishaps and sometimes making a score.I hope you like what you read.If you don't that's okay also.