Yard Sale Steals & Deals [8]

Welcome back to another edition of yard sale steals and deals!  :o)

For Little Bear:
Thomas take along mat
Bob the Builder dancing doll (one of those "Remind me why I bought this, again..." deals)
Megablocks bulldozer
Travel etch a sketch
Thomas All Aboard card game
When Bob Became a Builder video
Active minds wipe off learning board
Books:
- Driving Buddies
- Thomas and Percy and the Dragon
- Richard Scarry's Just for Fun
- Richard Scarry's Pop-up Colors
- Alphabet Theme-A-Saurus (coloring and activity book)
- Hug
Bugle Boy dress loafers
Stride Rite fisherman's sandals
4 Carter's pajama sets
Sonoma t-shirt
OshKosh t-shirt
2 OshKosh long sleeved t-shirts
Gymboree collared button down dress shirt
College t-shirt
OshKosh shorts
Sonoma corduroy pants
Children's Place chinos
Sonoma hoodie
OshKosh hoodie
Carter's one piece sleeveless short outfit

For me:
Ann Taylor Loft tank top
BCBG MaxAzria short sleeved shirt
2 Merona long sleeved shirts
Gap shorts
2 Gap skirts
Gap dress pants

Grand Total: $27.75

Wordless Wednesday - Memorial Day Weekend 2011

"Up High!"

This is how you do it.

Swimming!

Got you, Dad!

Mow!

If I leave my ear protectors on, then maybe I can ride on the tractor again...

Story time with the best Dad!

The Little Prince and his chariot.

3 Generations...

Yard Sale Steals & Deals [7]

Here ya go!

For Little Bear:
Tonka Wheel Pals triple track tower
Thomas wooden Sodor Fire Department
Golden Books Seek N Sound
Magnetic chalk/dry erase board
Tonka memory grame
Baby Einstein flashcards
Big facts flash cards
Sesame Street alphabet and number flashcards
Mickey colors and shapes flashcards
Wooden bear dress up box
Steel tec work center
2 Little People and a car
Books:
- Bob's Birthday
- The Truck Book
- Let's Go (magnetic book)
- Click Clack Quackity Quack
- McDuff and the Baby
- If I Were a Moose
- Picture That!  Bible Stories

For me:
3 garden flags
50 piece animal cookie cutters
Fresh keeper storage container for vegetables
American Eagle long sleeved shirt
American Eagle sweater
Fossil purse

For Guard:
Stack and store food storage bin
Woolrich dog bed cover

Grand Total: $22.35

Glycerin Soap - My First Attempt

I wanted to add something small to the gift that I was giving my mom for Mother's day (I know, Mother's day was several weeks ago, but I thought that you still might be interested) and I thought that some home-made soap would be perfect!  I have never tried making any soap before, so I figured that I would start with something easy.  I've seen a lot of posts on making glycerin soap and it looked pretty and easy, so I gave it a try.

Now it wasn't a total fail, but it wasn't a total success either.  Thus, I have titled this my first attempt!

The actual making of the soap was easy (just my type of craft!).  All it required was melting the glycerin in the microwave, adding any extras, stirring, pouring and chilling.  I was thrilled with the way that the scent turned out - I used a combination of orange zest and mint essential oil that resulted in a wonderful fresh scent.  I also liked the orange color that was created from the zest.  Unfortunately (even after all of my stirring) most of the zest ended up clumping together and floating to the top, rather than distributing throughout the soap (giving it a dirty look in my opinion).

Regardless, since it was a gift for my mother, made by me, she loved it.  I guess that love of homemade gifts from your kids never dies!

Fortunately I did only make one batch.  Hopefully next time, it will turn out a little better and I can give her some pretty soap next year!

Wordless Wednesday - The many faces of Little Bear {1}

Yard Sale Steals & Deals [6]

Check out this weeks loot!  :o)
This was a big weekend!  May is a huge yard sale month in our area and this weekend there were multiple community sales.  I ended up going on my usual Friday but then my mom came to visit so we went Saturday as well.  More sales mean more deals!

For Little Bear:
Carter's chenille knit blanket
2 pair OshKosh shorts
OshKosh fleece sweat suit
Carter's swimming trunks and matching t-shirt
Carter's zip up hoodie
Gap sweatshirt
Gap baseball cap
4 Carter's one pice short outfit
Carter's short sleeved one piece pant outfit
Carter's long sleeved one piece pant outfit
Carter's short overalls
Gymboree overalls
Gap shorts
2 Carter's sweatpants
3 pair of Carter's pajama sets
2 Carter's t-shirts
Carter's long sleeved t-shirt
Children's Place sweater
Gymboree rain coat
Gap pajama set
Children's Place t-shirt
Children's Place short overalls
Children's Place collared button down shirt
2 Gymboree flannel shirts
Gymboree sweater vest
Robeez treadz
Megablocks wagon filled with megablocks
Books:
- Are You My Mother?
- Baby's First Colors
- Baby's First Animals
- Bob's Busy Screwdriver
- Meet Scoop
- Meet Lofty
- My Big Train Book
- Digger Man
2 Tonka wheel pals
4 mini Tonka trucks
Stack n Surprise stacking cars
Playskool keys
John Deere tractor with sounds
Playskool wheel pals helicopter
Playskool large wheel pals firetruck with sounds
Leap Frog Fridge vehicle set
Playskool ball popper
Neurosmith jumbo music ball
Fisher Price Little People ramps around garage
2 Real Wheels VHS - There goes a Bulldozer and There goes a Dump Truck
The Toddler's Busy Book
The Baby Bible Storybook and carrying case
Leap Frog My First LeapPad
See N Say Story Maker
Aquadoodle Travel N Doodle
Tub foam shapes
Leap Frog Learning drum
Stuffed Barbie puppy with sounds
Aquadoodle mat
Cloud B sleep sheep
Amy Coe chenille knit blanket

Some of my personal favorites:

Gap sweatshirt - $.50, Gap hat - $.50

Carter's sweatshirt - $.50

OshKosh fleece sweatsuit - $2.50

Carter's swimming trunks and t-shirt - $2.00

For Papa Bear:
Docker's long sleeved collared button down
3 Stafford dress shirts
Nautica long sleeved collared button down

For me:
The Shipping News book
Boston Billows Nursing billow (well for me and Little Bear!)
Isaac Mizrahi cashmere turtleneck sweater

My mom's great find was a bag of vintage Fisher Price Little People for $.25.  Little Bear loves them more than the new ones!  He is always searching for the mail truck.

And my mother in law got Little Bear a maple wood child's table and chairs plus a toddler slide for $15 each.

My Grand Total: $66.80

Wow, that sounds like a lot (even to me!)!  But in reality, I would have spent waaay more if I bought everything new!

Wordless Wednesday - A flower for you!