Monthly Archives: February 2010

Thrifty Thursday: Good Trades

Here’s a quickie this week.  I know I’ve mentioned FreeCycle.org and Craigslist before, plenty of times.  But here are a couple more swapping sites to add to your thrifty lists:

TradeAFavor.com

and

SwapThing.com

Trade a Favor is a Facebook application.  Just add it to your Facebook page, list what favors you are willing to trade for (services, skills, items, etc.) and find a match.  This is a high-tech version of bartering people! 

Swap Thing is very similar.  Sign up is free through the site, and you can trade your things for someone elses things (or services), and you can use cash to offset the differences if your services is more or less valuable than theirs.

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A little book love –

 

Just thought I’d share!  Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Thrifty Thursday: Be Mine, Valentine!

Looking for the perfect V-day gift?  Consider getting your Sweetheart a certificate for a massage or spa day instead of roses and chocolate.   Roses are marked up nearly 30% or more around the 14th, but spas often offer a 20-30% discount for first time customers.  Can’t skip the flowers?  Go for my favorite… tulips!

Need a great vintage card?  Click the valentine to the right to get FREE vintage valentines you can print yourself. 

Do you like to spend a nice night out to dinner?  If you can put off your celebration for one week, you can hit up Denver.org and see all the amazing meal deals for $52.80 per couple during Denver’s Restaurant week!  This is one of my faves (and I shared this tip last year too), since our anniversary always falls in this week… the 22nd!   Spend some time on the site and you’ll find hotel and B&B deals, and much more.

xoxo

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Birth Blog

Well – here’s part one of my new business:  the blog.  It will eventually be a part of my main website, but I’ve hired someone to build that for me and it’s not done yet.  But I can do the blog part myself, so this is what I have so far – more to come, as time allows!

http://sweetsprouts.wordpress.com

Expect to see changes in the next few weeks, especially when it gets connected to my main site.  But feel free to check out what I have so far.  Also, don’t be surprised to see a few repeat posts now and again… some things (like quiche and birth in commercials) are just too good not to share. 

Thanks for hanging in there with me!

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Wordless Wednesday: The Final Countdown

It gets mailed in Monday… wish me luck!

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Please stick with me….

…pretty please!?!?

OK, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve REALLY been having a tough time keeping up with my blog lately.  So what have I been doing?  Well, mostly between parenting and checking Facebook, I’ve been studying to get my CBE test complete, finishing a few sewing projects (coffee cozies, a blanket for H, another mei tai), getting a location and dates set up for my futures classes, picking my business name and buying a domain, working on my site content, starting a fan page on FB, and setting up a birth-focused blog (no, I’m not leaving this one, just going to have two!).  So mostly birth stuff, I guess.

I’ve been going in and out of feeling completely overwhelmed and totally excited.  Sometimes I just can’t wait and other times I think I must be crazy.  But I am close, oh so close, to being done.  Really. Truly.  I know I’ve been saying that.  But really.  Nearly there.

There was a local article about birth today on 9news.com.  Water birth at University hospital.  So nice to see positive media for this kind of thing…..  More Expectant Moms Choosing Water Birth at Local Hospital

Look for some changes to this here bloggy soon, as well as my new site announcement coming up.  In the mean time, I scheduled a few Thrifty Thursday tips and such to keep you around, if you’re still checking after this long hiatus I’ve had.  Missed you all.

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