Thursday's pircture perfect deal...

The picture...

We have a section of yard that is all wild flowers and one of the first to open was the beautiful Wall Flowers.  I love the bright orange color in the spring and snapped this after a light rain.

The deal...

For those of you with youngsters or grandchildren this is an amazing deal from Eversave.  You can get an 11 piece Sesame Street book set geared towards children ages 2 to 6.  These are designed to help them learn numbers, colors, shapes and letters.  The books are usually $54.89, but they are marked down 51% for the next four days making them only $27.00 with free shipping.

Hope you are all having a fantastic week!

C.Q.

Tastefully Tuesday...

I know, its Tastefully Tuesday, but I have something fun to share, which after yesterday will make me smile.  Don't worry, nothing tragic yesterday, just a good reminder lesson in manners.  In a nutshell, if you call on Friday to make an appointment to look at a house on Monday afternoon, don't put an offer in on a DIFFERENT house on Saturday then call on the said Monday to cancel the showing.  We spent all weekend cleaning instead of having a nice Easter. I wasn't in a really great mood yesterday, but on the bright side we have a nice clean house where you can eat off the floors if you want.

So here is the part to share, Bernie over at One Mixed Bag and I were chatting one night about awards and how fun they are to get but that they are a bit of work and we giggled that it would be fun to get one that required the recipient do nothing in particular, totally their choice, then it hit us, well gosh, why can't we make that happen?  So here is it folks, the No Hoops Award.  We are giving it to the blogs we read a lot, and in my case some I read but don't comment on a lot because I have been so busy.  When you get your award you MUST do what ever you feel like, you could sing a little diddy, whistle a little tune, dance the happy dance or nothing at all, its your choice.  You can pass it along or just post it on your blog, or you can ignore it, anything goes.

So here are the blogs I would like to give this award to, in no particular order (OK you caught me, they are alphabetical), and if your new here today feel free to grab the award and pass it on to someone or just keep it for yourself.

A Long Way From Texas (She makes me want to move to Ireland... most days)
10 Steps to Finding Your Happy Place (and staying there) (I do try but some days its hard, she helps)
Bags Books and Bon Jovi (Even the name is great)
Cat Chat (I know she is an award free blog space but I wanted her to know I was thinking of her and Cody)
Cat Thoughts (Who's reading is making me sooooo jelous!)
Dogs, Cats and Other Crap I Talk About (One of the best advocates I know for animal rights)
Egg and Twig (Who is causing me to drool almost everyday I read her posts!)
Facing 50 with Humor (I am right on her heels!)
Housecat Confidential (Fin is a great author, and I can't wait for the next book!)
Its a Keeper (Another blog trying to keep my weight up, they even weed out the bad recipes!)
Kat Happy Haven (Because she works harder than anyone I know to take care of injured critters)
Life with Dogs (Who doesn't need a little unconditional love?)
Meet Virgina Designs (Fashionista extraordinaire and fun to read!)
Never Growing Old (Best blog hop host-er ever!)
Photographing New Zealand (I love seeing places I have never been in beautiful pictures)
Shibley Smiles (Great coupons and blog hops!)
Simply Beautiful Veg. (I love reading the adventures of College life and a new appartment from such a nice lady)
The Thrift Shop Romantic (She makes me want to go looking for treasure!)

Have a great Tuesday everyone!!!

C.Q.

Lets Pump Up Michele's Twitter Followers!

Good Morning! Michele is feeling a bit under the weather this morning. I though we could do something to make her feel better when she is up and running again.

I want to surprise Michele and see if we can get her some more Twitter followers today. If you are a regular reader to her blog, you know she has a ton of great information. She really researches her stuff. She doesn't just slap a blog post up, as I have been known to do. Michele really looks hard for the best deals and rebates for her readers.

She has worked hard to get even more followers. For the longest time it was 13 of people reading. Now she has expanded her horizons and has a ton more people following. I know it makes it a lot more fun for her.

Michele has not offered a giveaway on her blog yet. I bet if we get her Twitter followers up, I might be able to talk her into doing one. Who knows what kinds of treasures she has laying around her house. Something fun and good I'm sure.

If you are not following her on Twitter yet, just click her button and start. If you have friends you think might enjoy her posts, pimp her Twitter button to them. I think it would be fun to see how many Twitter followers we can get her in one day.

I'm curious, what is your favorite part of Living on Less? Which day do you look forward to? What was the best deal or rebate that you were able to take advantage of? I think that would make her smile, knowing that people actually take advantage of her deals.






P.S. Thank you all for your great suggestions about what type of hop we can host. It turns out that Java will be continuing doing Meet Me on Monday. That was a nice surprise to get in our email this morning. We will keep your suggestions if we decide to do a hop on another day.