Articles by Emily
Giveaway Tools Only Linky 11/3/2012
Welcome to the Just Giveaway Tools Linky! This is a weekly giveaway link up for giveaways run using the giveaway tools widget. If you love entering GT giveaways, you can come here as a convenient spot to find GT giveaways to enter. The giveaway tools widget looks like this:
Make sure that if you add a giveaway to this linky, it’s a giveaway tools widget. If you’re a blogger who uses GT on your giveaways you can use this list to promote your giveaways and get more entries! Come back each Read more [...]
HGG: Minnesota Workwear TJ345 Dickies Sanded Duck Hooded Jacket Review
Here in Michigan we have cold winters with lots of snow. We figured out a long time ago that the best type of winter coat are duck coats. Nothing else compares to their warmth but they also tend to be really durable, lasting for years even for people who are really rough on their jackets. My dad always buys duck jackets and wears them outside while cutting wood for his wood stove, taking care of his small farm & doing other yard work and his last for several years.
Minnesota Workwear is Read more [...]
Kmart’s Family and Friends sale
When we lived in Battle Creek, Kmart was one of my favorite place to shop for deals because it was the only place in town that would double coupons. They often have special days where they double coupons up to $1.00 so coupons valued at $1.00 become $2.00 off which can mean HUGE savings! Another way that Kmart makes for a great place to save is their store brand coupons. They regularly have flyers that have Kmart coupons that aren't put out by the manufacturer of the brand but instead Kmart. These Read more [...]
HGG: Seagate Backup Plus Review
With the quality of digital cameras increasing so quickly, the size of the photo files that we save to our computers are growing as well. I would hate to guess how many photos I take on a monthly basis and save to my computer - tons! Most of you are parents meaning you probably take way more than me, even. If your computers internal storage isn't very large, you can run out of space to keep storing more photos.
Ryan is great with computers and regularly fixes ours when I break them. However, I've Read more [...]
Something I’ve always Wanted To Do & 52 shades of blue-ish
For as far back as I can remember, I've always been a hesitator, a second-guesser, a "why take the risk-er". In many ways, I think it's a positive quality. It keeps me from making choices that I'd later regret or getting myself into situations that I want to back out of. However, it can also hold me back from doing things that I really should do just for fun.
For example, starting around age 13 I realized I liked the appearance of lots of earrings on a persons ear - 2 or 3 on the lobe and Read more [...]
