I'm hooked!

I'm having a garage sale next week. Actually, a lot of people on our street are having a garage sale next week. (**If you are local, you'll want to make sure and stop by!**) And we do things a little differently here in my neck of the woods. The garages sales here start on Tuesday afternoons (usually 2-7 pm) to allow those who work to stop by and then resume on Wednesday mornings (usually 8am -12pm). It's a little crazy, but it works for us!

So I have been preparing, and currently my living room looks like this!

And it's driving me CRAZY!

As I have been going through things, there were some things that I wanted to sell, but didn't want "garage sale" prices for! So I listed those things on Craigslist. Never in a million years did I think I would sell the stuff so quickly! I was totally amazed. I guess I didn't realize that people checked Craigslist as often as they do. But it worked for me, and now I'm a little addicted!

The process is way easier than eBay. You can still post pictures of the item and then you don't have to worry one bit about the shipping. That is the part of eBay that I hate the most. With Craigslist, the people have to come and pick it up!

Andy keeps joking that about coming home to an empty house someday....he better be careful, or I might find some biking equipment to sell. **wink**

So what about you, have you sold or bought anything off Craigslist?

Just of few of my projects!

Can I just tell you how much I ♥LOVE♥ my new Silhouette SD machine! It is so awesome! I've been labeling and creating like a crazy woman!

Here are just a few of my projects!

the "Welcome" sign on my front door!
(please excuse the yucky fingerprints....darn kids!)

this fun cup is for my water! This is to test to see how well my vinyl stays on!
(sometimes it's not so bad to be the guinea pig!)

this cute little buckets are for Teacher Appreciation week coming up in May!
(if you my kids teacher and reading this blog right now, please act surprised!)

AND...how adorable is this?! This was just a little "thank you" gift to my girlfriend for keeping my boy one morning while I went to get these cute buckets at Target! Oh, and it's always a good thing to keep the neighbor with the swimming pool in her back yard happy! **wink**

Swagbucks!

Okay, I know I've said this before, but you just have to check out Swagbucks.

I have earned over $200 in Amazon gift cards just for searching for the things I would be searching for anyway!

Isn't that just CRAZY!

Maybe you are already signed up for Swagbucks but don't really know what to do. Here is my recommendation.

*Download the Swagbucks tool bar and use the search engine for everything...even your everyday favorites like Facebook and Etsy. Every time you type something in the search box you have the possibility to win. I seem to win the most when I am searching. So use that tool bar search tool for EVERYTHING!

*Each day when you login, you can win a Swagbuck just for having the tool bar. You can also win by going to the home page and doing the Daily Poll, just by voting you get a swagbuck. Then do NOSO, skip thru the ads and at the end type in the words for two more swagbucks. They also have a section called Trusted Surveys, just by going there you get a Swagbuck! This is an easy way to learn big bucks if you qualify.

*Check out the Swagbucks Facebook page...This is a great way to keep informed of whats going on.

*I am also signed up to have an email sent to me from SwagBuck Tricks. This site will email you when there is a code out. There are usually "codes" a few times a day to help you earn more Swagbucks. Basically it's just a copy/paste deal. If you get it great...if not...no big deal!

*Then get people to sign up under you....when THEY win from searching YOU win too!

Now please understand that my $200 in Amazon gift cards has NOT happened overnight. I have been doing this Swagbuck thing a little over a year now! And, if you are not into Amazon gift cards, there many other gift card/prize options available. The $5 Amazon gift card is the best deal available that I have found.

This is a great way to start saving for Christmas now! I used a huge portion of my Swagbucks to purchase Christmas gifts last year! It was awesome!

I watch a lot of you guys play all these crazy "games" on Facebook...so why not play a little game on Swagbucks and get a real reward....free money!

Sign up here!

Let me know if you sign up....I'll try to keep you updated on how and what to do!

Oh, and I'd love to hear from anyone out there who can confirm that they too LOVE Swagbucks....and any tips you might have to share with us too!