Getting to Know You: Amazingly Awkward Amy

Hello Everyone! I’m Amy from Amazingly Awkward Amy and I get to guest blog here at Blissful and Domestic on my Birthday!!!!!!Today I am 24 years young but sometimes I feel 12 and sometimes I feel 40. I’ve been happily married for one year to a man who loves me more than I can possibly say. He just finished building me our first house with his blood, sweat and a few of my tears. 

I love weddings, dancing, the color pink, acting a fool, Target, H&M, family, green peppers, and a little dog named Rosie. Rosie is the apple of my eye (maybe that’s because we don’t have any babies yet.)

Marisa Lynch from New Dress A Day gave me the courage and the push to learn how to sew. Once my godmother graciously taught me how to sew I was pretty much unstoppable. All I do is thrift. I couldn’t even tell you the last time I went to a regular department store. Probably somewhere to buy underwear because thrift stores don’t have the greatest selection of undergarments. (Kidding)

Before sewing I had no fashion sense at all but after I started thrifting I realized my potential. I just have my own style. Upcycling has given me the courage to wear colors and outfits I had never considered wearing before and for that I am thankful.

I have always hated shopping because things just aren’t made for me. I loathe department stores and the snoty people who work there, the rude other shoppers, and waiting in line to buy things that don’t fit me at all. I wouldn’t call my size a stick and I sure the hell wouldn’t call myself chunky, I like the word voluptuous. My hero’s in life include Elvira mistress of the dark, Dolly Parton, and Christina Hendricks. Real women with real curves. Well I wouldn’t really call Dolly Parton real. She’s so full of plastic when she dies she won’t be able to be cremated because she would just melt. But you get the idea.

Please come visit me at my Awkward blog and check out other fabulous stuff I’ve done. I just started blogging and sewing so please be gentle. Come grow with me and my blog.

Thanks!

Amazingly Awkward Amy

Blissful & Domestic Halloween Roundup

As I start in on my Month of Halloween fun, I wanted to do a round up of all the Halloween projects we have done over the past few years. Here is my round up Blissful and Domestic style. 

It is no real order. 

Random links of course...

Enjoy!

Last Year, Halloween was on a Sunday, so my littles got themed outfits for church. and we had a themed dinner at my parents.

Pinterest Fun: Halloween Style

So I know I am way behind the times. I am just now figuring Pinterest out. I have heard about it for a while and just recently I decided to take the leap into the pinning it world. Well let me tell you I love it! I loved being able to look up all the fun Halloween crafts and foods that are out there. I can check out what my friends like, what my family likes, it pretty much rocks. Here is a little glimpse of all the Halloween fun I have found so far tonight....

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So yeah Pinterest pretty much is on my fav list right now. A one stop, craft inspiring place. Love you Pinterest!


To see all my pins so far click HERE

{Halloween Book List}

As promised my second post for today. Awesome I know!

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I have a secret to share with you today.......Are you ready?.........Ok here we go........I am a HUGE book nerd. I know it, my kids know it, my whole family knows it, and you know what......I am so dang proud of it! I am a proud book nerd Mama, with a determination to breed little red headed book nerds as well.

Because of that I love to do countdowns to the holidays through books. There are just too many fun books out there, I know my littles and I need to read. Here is our book list from last year. All the books came from the library. I just went online and requested them, which is precisely what I am doing this year. Some books on the list are the same and some are new. I am going to print out our list, so we can cross off the books we read as we go throughout the month. We will be reading in school, at bedtimes, and all the in between. Did I mention I am book nerd? Yep can't get enough. Well lets see what we will be reading this month:

1. Too Many Pumpkins, Linda White

2. The Biggest Pumpkin Ever, Steven Kroll

3. In the Haunted House, Eve Bunting

4. Room on the Broom, Julie Donaldson

5. The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything, Linda Williams

6. Where's my Mummy by Carolyn Crimi

7. Phenus and Pherb Haunted Tractor Ride 

8. Clifford's First Halloween by Norman Bridwell

9. Clifford's Halloween by Norman Bridwell 

10. The Big Pumpkin, Erica Silverman

11. The Pumpkin Patch Parable by Liz Curtis higgs

12. Humbug Witch, Lorna Balian

13. Fancy Nancy Halloween or bust by Jane O'Connor

14. Five Little Pumpkins, Iris Van Rynbach

15. Pumpkin Time! by Kathleen weidner

16. It’s Halloween!, Jack Prelutsky

17.  Dora's Halloween Surprise

18. I Spy Spooky Night by Jean Marzollo

19. The Bumpy Little Pumpkin, Margery Cuyler

20. Halloween Night, Arden Druce

21. Skeleton Hiccups, Margery Cuyler

22. The Ugly Pumpkin, Dave Horowitz 

23. Vampire Boy's Goodnight by Lisa Brown

24. A Very Brave Witch by Allison McGhee

25.  Corduroy's best Halloween ever!

26. Little Goblins Ten by Pamela Jane

27. Six Creepy Sheep by Judith Ross Enderie

28. Halloween Goodnight by Dough Cushman

29. The Best Halloween Hunt Ever by John Speirs

30.Vunce Upon a Time by J. Otto Seibold

31. The Halloween Kid by Rhode Montijo

And there you have it. All the wonderful Halloween stories my littles and I will be enjoying this month. I am looking forward to snuggles on the couch, little red headed giggles, and maybe even a fun scare or too. Oh how I love Halloween and celebrating it with your little makes it 100 times happier!

On a random side note:
how cute is this cat?
It is not mine, but the picture is from Hotdog photography.
I just loved this pic too much, not to share:>

See you tomorrow for more Halloween fun.
Ley's keep this party going!
Wahoo!

Halloween Countdown 2011

Happy October Blissful and Domestic Readers! Are you ready to countdown to Halloween with your family? I know I am! Since this is the first of October, I thought I should share the countdown list I will be doing with my littles this month. We did this last year and had so much fun. We knew we wanted to do it again. I am planning to blog about the things we do. This whole month is a month of Halloween themed posts. It is a Halloween Party all Month Long! I can't wait! If you have a project on your blog you would like me to spotlight, send me a link. I hope you guys are excited for a fun month, I know I am. Here is our Halloween countdown. Hope you join in on the fun too!

1) Fall kick off dinner and movie night
2) Make Ghostly Milk Jugs
3) Make a Halloween Crafts
4)  Begin Boo! Gram
5) Play the Skeleton Scavenger Hunt
6) Do a Halloween Craft
7) Decorate Mini Pumpkins
8) Read Spooky Books by Flashlight and eat smores
9) Play Halloween freeze dance
10) Make Nutter Butter Ghosts
11) Play the Mummy Toilet Paper Game
12) Make Oreo Spiders
13) Play Pin the Face on the Pumpkin
14) Make Halloween Playdough
15) Make Glowing Ghosts
16) Make Halloween Pajama pants

17) Decorate Halloween Sugar Cookies
18) Visit a Pumpkin Patch or a Kid-Friendly Haunted House
19) Make Pumpkin Pancakes with Black Syrup (for breakfast)
20) Make Chocolate Covered Oreo's in Halloween mold
21) Make a Halloween clay craft
22) Decorate Scarecrow masks
23) Make Haunted Houses
24) Read The Pumpkin Patch Parable and watch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
25) Make Halloween Shirts
26) Play Find the Ghost (like playing hot and cold in primary)
27) Halloween Movie Night
28) Throw a cousin Halloween Party
29) Carve Pumpkins
30) Go Trunk-or-Treating
31) Special Halloween Dinner/Activity haven't decided the details yet.

Happy October! This month is going to rock!

Come back later today for a Halloween Countdown through books.
It is Fantastic!

It's Coming....

Did you hear? Tomorrow is October 1. Want to know what that means? A Whole month of Halloween fun here on Blissful and Domestic. I am so excited for this month. I have been planning for the past few weeks and it is exciting to see it all coming together now. I have awesome recipes, crafts, activities, round ups, features, service ideas, fun with the littles, and of course guest bloggers! We will have bloggers from Sew Woodsy, Six Sister's Stuff, Artsy Girl Connection, Blooming Homestead, The Kurtz Corner, The Little Giggler, to name a few. There will be about 18 guest bloggers in all. This is going to be a month full of Halloween fun! So come back here tomorrow for my countdown to Halloween and our kick off to a month long Halloween Party. It is going to rock your socks!!

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Hello lovelies! It is time to Party.
I even created a fun new button for the occasion.
Lets have fun and share ideas with one another.

Here are the rules:

Follow Blissful and Domestic

(Grab a button or add a link.)
Link up YOUR recipes, crafts, ideas, projects or fun posts to share.
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Link up to your post, not your main blog.
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and HAVE FUN!

Home School: Apples

 

Here are a few activities we did, when our theme was Apples. I had pictures, but I am having trouble getting them off my phone. Here is the post without them.

We did this 100 apples stamping activity.

We also did this stamping worksheet to help with our skip counting by 5's.

We did the Roll and Color math worksheet. I had Bubba do addition problems to get those answers, so it would be harder for him.

while I worked on some things with Bubba Miss Priss did this color by number worksheet. She loves color by number.

We tried our hand at making crock-pot apple-sauce. Yum!!

For Science this week, we learned about the scientific method, science safety, and then also about the life cycle of an apple tree. We used these cards to help us.

Math Games This Week

We love playing games to learn. It is such a great way to get them excited about learning something new. I do this especially in math, since it is one of my bubba's least favorite subjects. We like to use UNO. It is a great way to learn number recognition, not to mention how to be a good sport.

We also love to fish for numbers. I use these for everything. They use them to show me answers to addition problems. Working with showing numbers, recognizing them, doing mulitples. These were the greatest thing I have probably made. They cost less than two dollars to make, and we are going on our sceond year of using them in school.



 Here are just a few of the things we are doing to help us with Math. I will be sure to post more when we play new games in Math. I hope you are all having a fabulous week learning with your littles:>

-Danielle

Mexicana Breakfast

So I know I do not have an ounce of Hispanic blood in my body. I am basically as white and milky pale as they come. In fact in high school my Spanish teacher told me I was too white. I couldn't speak the language, even if my life depended on it. I can't roll my tongue, which made for some crazy and interesting Spanish convos in class. So I took my c+ and gave up the dream of ever being able to understand those spicy looking soap operas.

Now that you know my background on the whole Mexicana thing, I have a quick recipe to share.

I make this whenever I am short on time for dinner. Everyone loves it, which makes it a great go to meal.

Here is what you do:

Mix about 8 eggs in a cup and season with lawrys seasoning salt(my fav!). Pour into a hot greased frying pan. Cook eggs until done. Add about 1 cup of cheddar cheese and 1 1/2 cups of green salsa. Mix and heat all the way through. Serve on warm tortillas with sour cream.


These will be a crowd pleaser for any Mexican breakfast/dinner.

Enjoy!


 

Need help meal planning? Check out my free  Weekly Menu Plans. 
and my Let's Eat Section I also have great posts to help your family save money!

Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half
Freezing Your Milk
Living on $14,000 a year
How Does She Q and A
Breakfast and Lunch: Meal Planning and Saving Tips 
Fresh Produce All Month Long 
 Save Money at Costco
Menu Planning: Pantry Staples List
Weekly Menu Plans + Printable Shopping Lists  -Danielle

Halloween Applique Shirt

Today I am over at Bowdabra sharing how I made this fabulous Halloween Appliqué  shirt for my little Miss. I also made a hair bow to match! Check it out!