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Prime Purchases: Best of 2025

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I only ordered 3 ornaments, some laundry detergent, and toothpaste in November so I thought for today's Prime Purchases post I'd share some of the favorite things I've bought this year.  These metal bookmarks are just beautiful! I love them.   I bought this blue jar and set it near the kitchen sink to hold our dishwasher detergent and it makes me smile each and every time I see it.     I bought this bedding set for my bed and I love the material. It has held up really well through several washings already too.    I love this scarf ; admittedly mostly because of the color pattern but it's nice and warm too!   These earrings are so pretty. I like the colors of the balls and they feel really well made.    I bought this dress for Christmas and while I've only tried it one and not actually have worn it yet, I can already tell it's going to be a favorite of mine.    I love these sneakers so much I ended up buying them in ...
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Throwback Tuesdays: Pequot Museum Field Trip

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* Originally shared November 20, 2013*    We went on a field trip today to the Mashentucket Pequot Museum .  I have never been there, nor had any of my kids and I thought it was the perfect field trip to take right before Thanksgiving. Our trip was made even better since my sister and her boys joined us plus I had a Groupon that saved us all money.  We learned SO much! We got to learn about the ice age, glacier, and extinct animals.  We saw the tools native American's used, food they ate, replicas of their houses and villages.  It was amazing!  We had such a great time.  The museum has wonderful interactive TV's that drew the kids in.  There were movies to watch. Walking through the village they give you what look like old flip cell phones and you can listen to stories about the village, the people in it and the jobs they do. My boys were dreading this field trip and they had such a good time.  I love when we can make history less...
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Talking About it Tuesdays #98

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Sorry for those of you that popped in early to last week's link up. InLinkz itself was down for a decent portion of the day so no link parties were working-- including mine! And there wasn't a darn thing I could do about it. I am grateful for those of you that checked back and/or linked up later in the day.  In fact by the time I sat down to read through all the posts on Thursday afternoon we already had 105 blog posts linked up! Not too bad for not having the link working most of the day.       If you live in the United States and are celebrating Thanksgiving this week I wish your family a very happy holiday. I'm doing all the last minute things today to get as prepped as possible.    Some randomly generated features for you to enjoy:   Review: Raising the Perfectly Imperfectly Child by Stray Thoughts    Sandals Royal Bahamian East Bay Honeymoon Oceanview Club Level Room Room Review by Shorelines Journeys Travel LLC    How to...
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Cards and Scrapbook Pages I Made in November 2025

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 I've been hard at work making Christmas cards; typically I pick one or two designs and make them all pretty much the same but I have so many images (both stamps and Digital stamps), patterned paper, and cardstock that I decided to make them all just a bit different this year. It's been fun!         I spent one whole afternoon working with my hot foil system again and managed to blend two colors of foil onto one image/card. I also feel like I may have finally perfected the JOY letters that I was struggling with so much last month.  can you see the green turning to silver?    I've finished up our Glacier NP trip too and am all caught up on my scrapbooking as well (well, as far as photos I've had developed anyway-- I will eventually order and scrapbook the 21 Pilots concert).   page 2 of the double page spread close up of the words; I layered 4 colors together Linking up with:  
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