play dough, for real

Yesterday, I felt like super mom. Made dinner in the crock pot, swept floors, played with baby, made homemade play dough. Today? Let's just roll with it and let it be what it is!

I used this recipe for play dough, and found it to be good. I didn't have quite enough cream of tartar, but it still turned out well! Smooth, soft, squishy, and almost exactly like the brand name stuff. It does have a bit of a salty, grainy texture, but that didn't bother me. Also, if it gets wet, the food coloring starts to bleed onto hands. But I can live with that! It also made A LOT of play dough - I split it into fourths and put away 3/4 of the dough in separate containers for another day.

Joshua loved it!

this thrifty weekend

This weekend, I was able to spend a couple days with my parents, and it just happened to be the weekend that my little hometown has their annual garage sale day. Sweet! I walked around town for a couple hours, and scored a bunch of great stuff, all for under $15 (that's all I had in my wallet!)

• a pretty vintage fitted sheet for a double-size bed - $1
  
• a red Pyrex mixing bowl - $3
  
• two mini muffin pans at 50 cents each - one for me, one for my sister-in-law. She also found a great new pair of Teva sandals for just $20.
  
• an antique glass knife - great for cutting tomatoes, and $4
  
• two larger Pyrex yellow square bowls - $2.50
• a vintage Christmas tablecloth - free! from my aunt
  
• a vintage white-on-white tablecloth with lilies of the valley on it - free, from my aunt
  
• a vintage white-on-white tablecloth with polka dots - free, from my mom
• a metal canister with roses on it - 50 cents. This now holds my tea bags that formerly had no home.
  

All this was very happy, especially since I carried it around town in my cute new packable polka dot reusable bag that I got the last time I went thrifting. Hooray!

Later in the day, my mom, sister-in-law, and I went shopping in a nearby city, where there's a great store called Clothes Mentor. I found absolutely no clothes for me this time, but I did get two pairs of Clark's shoes, at only $12 and $14 a pair! Sweet! One pair is the perfect shade of brown, for which I've been searching for a long time now. The other is black, and will work so well for choir this coming year. Hooray!! Thus ended the fabulously thrifty weekend.