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I just got finished with the new Paint, Bake, & Create design on the blog! Head on over to check out all my wonderful handmade goodies! In case you've never visited my blog before I make everything from hairbows{headbands too!}, name canvas', hairbow holders, ribbon chandeliers, diaper cakes, princess hairbows, tutus, cupcake hairbows, and so much more! Plus, you can grab my cute button! Keep me in mind for baby shower or wedding gifts!

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new hairbow & a big smile!

I would like to introduce to you my newest creation, the cupcake hairbow.

I have seen these around online for about a year or so, but I never got around to making one, well, HELLO- I finally made one! A sweet cupcake hairbow for a sweet girl! :) She was too busy playing for me to get a smile from her!

This stage with Maggie Claire is so fun right now. She is seriously so happy all the time! {Well, most of the time!} She is getting to the point where she smiles at everyone who talks to her, and it really is so fun. She is really getting good at her jumperoo right now- she has her mouth wide open laughing as she does it everytime. It really is priceless!

Here are 2 pictures I took of her on Thursday in her cute outfit she wore. We went to sisterhood {my womens bible study group} and then had a quick lunch with Mike at Wendys.

What she's wearing: pink dress from The Children's Place, white w/ polka dots tights from Target, flower- made my me, headband from Princess of Tides!

So cute!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend- we sure are! :)

hairbows for Maddie

If you didn't see my tweet or fb post last night, I wanted to share with everyone about sweet baby Maddie who went to see Jesus last week unexpectedly. You can visit her mom's blog over here and leave her lots of loving. Maddie was born exactly one week after I had Maggie Claire. Such a sad story, hold your babies & give them extra lovin' tonight.

Maddie's mommy requested on her blog to wear hairbows in honor of Maddie today. Since her and MC are both "M" names, Maggie Claire wore her monogrammed "M" hairbow in honor of Maddie today. Maddie is rejoicing with the angels now!

"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"

Philippians 4:4

an update of my BUSY life right now.

This week has been SUPER busy!

I had my first paper due in one of my classes, my first quiz, and I have a paper due tomorrow too... {that I haven't even started on}. It's totally OBVIOUS that I have SENIORITIS! Let's just say I have 89 days until I am a college graduate. {i just can't even believe it}.

I've been selling some bows from my blog store {www.paintbakeandcreate.blogspot.com}

We had 5th quarter{after the Friday night football games} at the church. It went REALLY well, we had a lot of students come after the wando, PCA, and Coastal Christian games. We didn't even get out of the church until 12:45am. Did I mention with about 40 wando football players there, it smelled like a locker room? {gross}

The next morning I was super crazy because I went yard sale shopping with my friends April and Sarah. After not going to sleep until 2am, waking up at 7 wasn't that easy, but TOTALLY worth it! I got just a few things which did include a couple of halloween decorations, and it was fun. Later on that day we planned a girls pedicure day with April, Sarah, Brittany, and myself. It was Sarah's first time getting a pedicure.... I couldn't believe that she had never had one!

But... The most exciting thing that happened this week was Harris Teeter was having TRIPLE COUPONS this week. In preparation, I just had to change my couponing system to the binder system. My friend Carissa {www.carissagraham.com} made one earlier this week, and even though I've been really wanting to transfer all my coupons to a binder, she really inspired me to do it. I borrowed my mom's label maker to create some NEAT & pretty labels for the different sections. I paid right at $10 for the binder, 16 dividers, and 35 pages of the clear 9 pocket coupon holder pages {found in the baseball card section at Walmart}. I labeled my 16 sections as followed: Cereal, Breakfast/Yogurt, Meats, Canned/Boxed goods, Frozen, Refrigerated, Desserts/Baking Goods, Snacks, Other Foods, Laundry/Dishes{soaps}, Drugs, Paper Goods/Household Items, Cleaning, Hygiene, Cosmetics, Store Coupons.

Did I mention that My Coupon binder is PINK?

It's totally Cute! It seemed A LOT easier to shop with the binder too, because you can see all of the coupons. Before, I just had a check file{you can see it in the picture above}. I get all of my coupon news/information through {www.southernsavers.com}

My Harris Teeter trip went REALLY well. I spent $30 and saved $45 and we are well stocked with groceries for at least good 2 weeks. I also went to Publix this week and did coupons, I think I spent $38 and I don't remember how much I saved. But I was really upset that Publix wouldn't take my CVS $5 off $25 purchase. What a bummer. I'm going to try and call and talk to the manager about it this week, because they normally take all competitors coupons.

Oh, When I was in Harris Teeter I did see a lady stare EXTRA long at me with my COUPON BINDER. I thought that was pretty funny. I guess you don't see too many people shopping with a very Large three ring binder filled with coupons. I've only seen one lady shopping at Publix with a the binder system, hers was a HUGE zip up black three ring binder with pink ribbon tied all over it. She was REAL serious.

I also have to say that I LOVE doing my grocery shopping with my amazing husband. He is my human calculator, and he helps me with the whole check-out process because my eyes are glued to the screen as I watch everything ring up right and make sure all of my coupons are being scanned the right way. At harris teeter he also was great because I needed to exchange an item{I grabbed the wrong package of chicken that wasn't B1G1Free} and I needed one more can of frosting for my coupon to work and be tripled. I hate it when I need something, and I can't just leave all my items on the grocery belt while I go get it!!! Mike helps me so much at the grocery store and I LOVE IT! Thanks Mike! :)