This Cost Plus World Market Black Friday Deals & Giveaways post is sponsored by Cost Plus World Market. You all know I'm a huge Cost Plus World Market fan. They are a regular go-to for me when it comes to holiday food and drink & easy entertaining finds. I even bought a new dining room table from them this past week, just in time for the holidays! With Black Friday only a few days away, I (of course) have my eye on what they will be offering. I know I'm not the only one who wants … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Save Money on Holiday Meals
Planning a holiday meal, but money is tight this year? We're sharing 10 Ways To Save Money on Holiday Meals. By planning ahead, thinking creatively, and taking different approach to the usual, these ideas can help stretch your grocery budget. … [Read more...]
My 10 Favorite Gift Ideas for the Home Cook
Just in time for Christmas, I'm sharing my 10 favorite gift ideas for the home cook -- items that I use most often in my own kitchen. … [Read more...]
Earn Bonus Box Tops for Education for Schools
This post brought to you by Kimberly-Clark. All opinions are 100% mine. It's back-to-school time and if you are like most parent of school-age children, that means you've been busy buying lots of school supplies. What if I told you that your back-to-school purchases could help your child's' school earn an extra $20,000 this year? It's true! With Box Tops for Education, every BTFE registered schools can earn $20,000, per year, to use towards items such as computers, library books, and art … [Read more...]
Afternoon Tea with Sears and Kmart at Blogalicious 2012
As many of you know, last weekend, I attended my first ever blogging conference: Blogalicious in Las Vegas, NV! It was an amazing event and I have a full recap (plus swag giveaway) coming very soon, but I wanted to share one of my favorite events during Blogalicious: the Afternoon Tea with ShopYourWay, Sears, and Kmart. As we arrived, each guest was given the ShopYourWay gift bag you see above. I took a peek inside and saw an iPad case (they were giving away TWO iPads during the Afternoon … [Read more...]
Our New Gas Grill: Char-Broil TRU Infrared
Last week I shared with you that we had went to Sears to look for a new grill, as part of the free photography class I am taking sponsored by Sears Grilling. We did lots of comparisons and walked away fairly certain about the one we would buy. … [Read more...]
Shopping for a New Grill at Sears
I'm into my second week of my Sears Grilling Photography class and as promised, I'm sharing all of my assignments right here on my blog. This week, we learned more about the path-to-purchase process. The main focus of our class this week was about taking photos that tell my shopping story effectively -- also know as my "path-to-purchase" process. My family and I will be buying a new grill at Sears soon, so I headed to our local Sears to take photos of my process. I thought it would be fun to … [Read more...]
My Movie Dilemma: What Would You Do?
Seeing a movie in a movie theater has become a rare event for my husband and I. It didn't always used to be that way. As a kid, went to the drive-in all the time. As I became a teenager, I started going to the movies more and more. In the early years of our marriage, David worked at a movie theater and we got unlimited free movies. Even after he stopped working there, we would go fairly often. But in the last several years, our movie theater trips have dwindled. … [Read more...]
TCBY Frozen Yogurt Switch
WinCo Foods Grocery Store coming to Las Vegas!
Yes, I get excited about things like grocery stores opening. And if there was one grocery store I wanted to have open in Las Vegas, it's WinCo Foods. A couple years ago, while living in Virginia, I was talking to my sister-in-law (who lives where I used to live) on the phone and I asked her where she does most of her grocery shopping at. She said that she usually shopped at Winco. Huh? What's a WinCo? There was no WinCo's in our town before I left and I had never heard of them. She told me a … [Read more...]
