Cooda's Corner

My favorite day to shop is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. You can find so many deals usually starting at 5 a.m. There are more deals on Black Friday than any other time of year! For example,cyber monday ads will give you a list of sites and their deals for that day. I can’t wait to shop through Joann.com on Black Friday because they will have some very good sales that day. You can get a new sewing machine, fabric, or scrapbooking items for cheap! They carry Donna Dewberry, Fiskars, and Sew Essentials items just to name a few. The fabric selection is tremendous and always have great prices.

Blackfriday.biz also has the ads for several other retailers including Walmart, Bestbuy, and Circuit City. You know they always have great sales on Black Friday. Last year Walmart had a portable DVD player for $50 but I missed it. They were already sold out when I got there. I know I can’t wait until the biggest shopping day of the year. I usually save my money and do all my Christmas shopping on that day because I save so much money. I found several Bratz, Spiderman, and Dora things last year through Black Friday deals. My kids were so excited when Christmas got here and they seen their things and I was excited too because I saved so much money!

Babies R Us will have good deals this year too. You can load up on diapers for dirt cheap the day after Thanksgiving. Toys R Us will have huge sales this year on toys as well. They always have the newest games and toys for low prices on Black Friday. In years past, they had Nintendo Wii games and lots of Nintendo DS items for great prices. What kid doesn’t want these games for Christmas? All of mine do!

My husbands family roots has always been important but we were not able to find any information past his grandfather. Well, by chance, we were looking at a genealogy message board and some very distant cousins were talking about the same line my husband is from. We have learned so much over the last few days from emailing a few people and researching using Ancestry.com on our own. We have spent a whole day in the local library trying to see what we could find. It has been so fun! Best part of it is today we are meeting a cousin of my husband. She has been researching the family for over 25 years and has so much information. We are super excited to meet her and find out more info! Oh gotta go.... we'll be late!

So my husband was hit by a transfer truck about a month ago and is in need of some auto body repair to fix the rear end of his truck. I have found a site that will find a local body shop for you that is certified and offers lifetime warranties on the repairs they do. Go check them out Collision Repair Experts . How great is that right?

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What was the purpose of the snooze button? In my eyes, it was an instrument given on alarm clocks to make us late. I mean really! "Here is an alarm clock that you can set to whatever time you want it to go off and wake you up BUT here is a little button you can press that will make it go off so you can go back to sleep." When you are sleeping, you really dont know what time it is if you are still half asleep and hitting that "snooze" button so you just keep hitting it thinking "okay that was only the second time so it's about 6:30 am" but in all actuality you have hit it about 8 times and you have to have the kids to school by 8 am so now they are going to be late! Great idea there clock makers!

Today.com will give you a free blog and pay you for one post per day plus they pay you per impression on your blog! How cool is that?? All you have to do is sign up, which is free and once accepted, start blogging. You can add widgets and all sorts of things to your blog as well as a blog roll, header tabs, and customized categories. I just got mine and can't wait to get started!! If you haven't signed up yet, click the box at the top left to join now. You can also write content for others to buy. You preview the offers and select what you want, write about it, if accepted you get paid! Come on... what are you waiting for? Free blog, blog about what you want to, and get paid? Doesn't get any better than that!!

My kids made the cutest little beach scene yesterday. According to them, they were camping. They were up on the hill in our yard and pulled out some old fire wood and made a square like a fire pit. Then they took a small table umbrella and staked it beside it. They came back and got a tent and of course put it up there too. They were using sticks like they were roasting marshmallows and all. It was so cute! You will be surprised at what a couple of 5 year olds can do. LOL

Being that we are huge Nintendo collectors, of course my son had to be Super Mario from Nintendo last year for Halloween. It took me a while to get the costume right and to find the hat I was looking for but we got it done. I finally found a hat similar to Mario's and cut it along the seems, then made copies of them from the scanner and made my pattern for the hat below. Hope you like!

It was hard to get him all in one pic so you could see it so here it is laying on the floor it all its glory....

I made this diaper bag for a girl that loves frogs. It has several pockets on the inside as well as elastic loops to hold bottles and sippy cups.


Inside
Matching changing pad. The inside material is a St. Jude's Childrens Hospital print that reminds me of Candy Land.

I made these two cute shirred dresses for their last day of school last year. They were so cute and the girls loved them.


And the matching flip flops to go right along.

As promised, I will be posting photos of things I have sewn/made. Here is a rag bag I made recently. Fun floral and hot pink polka dots all over.

So my kids are loving school. One of them became sick and was out the 3rd day of school but got back in the swing of things. The other two are now changing teachers. There were so many kindergartners this year they had to create a new class. She is a sweet girl who taught second grade last year. We will see how this goes.

Sorry I have been MIA lately. My husband's Grandmother had a massive stroke about a week ago. She was improving and even got to go home yesterday to the Assisted Living home she had grown to love so much. She was so much happier there. Her medicines were greatly reduced, she helped do the laundry, and helped take care of all of her friends who lived there as well. She had another stroke last night and was not able to pull through this one. She went Home to be with Him and her husband this evening. Ganna, as all my children called her, is no longer suffering or in the intense pain she had endured over the last week. She is in a much better place than all of us and is finally at rest. Please keep my family in your thoughts and prayers.

Well it's almost that time again... time for school. The kids are super excited and ready to go back and boy am I ready too! Hahaha... The kids going to school means a quiet (almost) house during the day again except for the two year old running around all day. The two middle kids start kindergarten this year (sobs) and it's depressing. It seems like yesterday they were born and here they are five years old and starting kindergarten. It is a sign that they are growing up. Before I know it, my youngest will be starting Pre K! Time flies so fast. It seemed like when I was growing up, time took forever but these days there aren't enough hours in a day. Here we are already in August and it seems like we were just celebrating Christmas in time to do it again. Oh well, off my rant. I am excited for my children. They are growing up and that's a part of life. We spent the weekend getting all of their school stuff and buying more clothes. Today they all got haircuts and are getting ready to go to the Open House to meet their teachers and all that good stuff. They have their backpacks ready to go so they can take all their things to school tonight instead of on Thursday. (what is with schools starting on a Thursday?)

Oh yeah, I will be getting more on here soon. I have been busy getting them ready for school but I have plenty to talk about :)

So I have been trying to find a new template for my blog and found one that I loved. I worked with it all day trying to upload it to no avail. Well, eventually I found a different one that I liked and guess what?! It wouldn't upload either. I finally got the original one to upload in a different browser so here it is.... Hope y'all like it as much as me!