The Beautiful Thrifty Life

Every year our church has a Fall Festival, which is basically just a fun get-together with costumes, games, food, and a Trunk-or-Treat at th...

It seems the more kids you have, the harder it is to get out of the house on a real date! I knew that my husband and I would have that prob...

Last week Starlet turned 5 and so we planned a fun party for her and 5 of her best friends (and her brother). Of course, she wanted a princ...

Since I pretty much fell off the face of the blogosphere last year, I thought I'd share some photos from our "Halloween Feast of 2...

It's hard to believe that my little fairy princess turned ONE on Thursday! It was enough to make me want to blog. ;-) Well, the party d...

Hey guys, this is a good one! Time to plan all those fun summer dates with your sweetie, or give yourself a night off from cooking and take ...

Well, since we were in a "rockin'" mode anyway this week, I thought, why not bring some rock fun into Father's Day? So I ...

I know, I know- on Monday I said this would be a three part series, but I decided to combine the reuse-recycle part because 1) I didn'...

Image from bestuff.co m There have been times in my life when I've been an avid library user and other times when I have lacked the lib...

One of my hubby's favorite treats is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, so today I left him some tucked into the pocket of his work shirt ...

The crayon isn't a fixture. It's just for scale. Welcome to my secret room. I decorated it myself using my home decorating magazine...

Starlet and her guests enjoying some party pizza! Welcome to the third installment of my Rockin' Kids' Parties series (FINALLY!)! ...

Okay, first let me apologize for totally skipping out on Makeover Monday today. I have a sick hubby and sick son, so there was...