A Creative Craft

My fiance and I recently decided we would have an assortment of Jello shots at our wedding to replace some favored mixed drinks (margaritas, lemon drop martinis, appletinis and strawberry daiquiris to be exact)

I started researching unique ways to display them and came up with tons of cupcake stands. Next thing I knew I was shoulders deep in DIY cupcake stands like the one found here. Well my creative juices started flowing and here is what I came up with...

 Here is my 3 tiered Jello shot display stand. I went for a more simplistic look so that the Jello shots would really be the stars in this piece.

Our colors are red, black and white/silver so this stand worked perfectly for us (not to mention it will be able to hold all 125 shots)

*you could also use this idea to make your own super creative cupcake stand*

Here is a picture of the support bases of each stand.

The DIY

The diy for this stand is pretty simple.

First I picked out 3 different sized plates.

 (you could of course do this with as little as 2 plates or as many as you can imagine)

Then I took 2 decorative candle stick holders and glued the top and bottom to the top of the larger plate and the bottom of the medium sized plate and so on.

I would say that this is not a dishwasher safe craft but be my guest to attempt it.

This creative craft cost me a total of $12.69 (including tax) and about 2 sticks of hot glue.

The best part? I found every piece of this idea at my local Goodwill.

Walgreens 4/1Shopping Plans

6 Luster Weekend White @ $4.99

-Earn $4.00RR (Wed-Sat Only)

-$0.75/1 MFC from 3/18 SS 

 

4 Glade Air Fresheners @ $1.99ea (BOGO sale Wed-Sat)

-$2/2 MFC found here

 

2 Chinet Plates @ $1.50ea (Wed-Sat)
-$1/1 MFC found here

2 Dozen Eggs @ $1.00ea
-$0.55/2 found here

2 Tuff Paper Towels @ $0.69
-with in ad coupon

2 Easter Pencils @ $0.15ea

Transaction 1

1 Luster white @ $4.24

2 dozen Eggs @ $1.45

-use $5.00 RR from last week-

OOP: $0.69

EARN: $4.00RR

Transaction 2

1 Luster white @ $4.24

2 Glade @ $0.00

-use $3.00 RR from last week-

OOP: $1.24

EARN: $4.00RR

 

Transaction 3

1 Luster white @ $4.24

2 Glade @ $0.00

-use $3.00 RR from last week-

OOP: $1.24

EARN: $4.00RR

 

Transaction 4

1 Luster white @ $4.24

2 Chinet @ $2.00

-use $5.00 RR from last week-

OOP: $1.24

EARN: $4.00RR

 

Transaction 5

1 Luster white @ $4.24

1 Tuff Paper Towels @ $0.69

1 Easter Pencil @ $0.15ea

-use $5.00 RR from last week-

OOP: $0.08

EARN: $4.00RR

 

Transaction 6

1 Luster white @ $4.24

1 Tuff Paper Towels @ $0.69

1 Easter Pencil @ $0.15ea

-use $5.00 RR from last week-

OOP: $0.08

EARN: $4.00RR

 

 

 

Total OOP: $6.01 + tax

Merchandise Value: $40.60

Earn: $24.00 RR

(calculated only by the RR I will have when leaving Walgreens) 

 

 

I'd call it a good week :)

CVS $40 Challenge Plans [Week 2]

 

Here is my Sunday shopping plan.

(1) Complete Multi Purpose Solution 12oz @ $8.99

-Earn $8.99 ECB

(1) Depend Silhouette 3ct @ $3.99

--use $2/1mfc found here

-Earn $2.00 ECB

(2) Oral-B Cross Action Toothbrush @ $4.99

-Use (2) $2/1 from 4/1 P&G

-Earn $2.00 ECB each

Since the goal is to stretch our gift cards as far as we can I will be breaking this up into several transactions to spend the least amount on my gift card. Transactions as follows:

Transaction 1

(1) Depends @ $1.99

 *use $2.00 ECB from last week*

OOP: $0.00 + tax

Earn: $2.00 ECB

 

Transaction 2

(2) Oral-B Toothbrush @ $5.98

 *use $2.00 ECB from Transaction 1*

OOP: $3.98 + tax

Earn: $4.00 ECB

Transaction 3

(1) Complete Multi Purpose @ $8.99

*use $4.00 ECB from Transaction 2*

OOP: $4.99 + tax

Earn: $8.99 ECB 

 

 

So my plan is to get $22.96 worth of product for $8.97 OOP and I'll end with $8.99 ECB to roll onto next weeks purchases.

 

 

McCormick Easter Egg Hunt!!! High Value Freebie!

 

Right Now McCormick is host an Easter Egg hunt. All you have to do to find this high value $1.50/1 Bricks coupon is search the recipe collections. Youll see a screen like the one above just click the egg

And youll be prompted with a screen like this to print your coupons!

If you cant get one today make sure to keep checking back daily!!!

-stefanie-

CVS $40 Shopping Haul [Week 1]

Today my CVS trip went better than expected! When I scanned my ECB card at the red machine a $0.25 coupon printed for the Mars candies! I already had the $1 off coupon making it a $1 money maker so this just brought me to a $1.25 money maker!!! Unfortunately they didnt have any of the 7oz Gold Emblem Jelly Beans in stock so I didnt get those. Well, here is the transaction break down.

(4) Mars Eater Bunny Singles 1.1oz @ 2/$1

-used 2 $1/2mfc and 1 $0.25/2 store coupon

Charged: $1.78 (including tax)

Earned: $2.00 ECB

Remaining Balance: $40.22

(2) Colgate 360 Toothbrush 1ct @ $2.99ea

-Used 2 $1/1 from 3/11 SS

Charged: $2.40 (including tax. Used $2 ECB from T1)

Earned: $4.00 ECB

Remaining Balance: $37.82

(2) Colgate Optic White Toothpaste 4oz @ $3.99ea

-Use 2 $1/1 from 3/11 SS

Charged: $2.54 (including tax. Used $4 ECB from T2)

Earned: $2.00 ECB

Remaining Balance: $35.28

Today I saved $19.13 (as determined by my receipt)

Total OOP $6.72

Remaining Spending Power: $41.82 (Including the $2ECB I made for taking a CVS advisory panel survey)

*if you havent signed up for the CVS Twitter Party make sure to do so for a freebie! Details here*

If you are participating in the $40 Challenge make sure to post your haul below! We would love to see how you did!!!

Walgreens Haul 3/25/11

 

 Walgreens 3/25 Money Maker

I had a great trip today at Walgreens! Everything went over flawlessly. For those of you who didn't see my trip plans I posted about yesterday here is a break down of my trip and end results.

Transaction 1

2 Got2B @ $0.00

-using 2 $3/1 mfc

OOP: $0.00

EARN: $5.00RR

TOTAL SAVINGS: $5.99

Transaction 2

2 U Kotex @ $5.00

-using 2 $1/1 mfc

1 Nice! Foil @ $0.79

-in ad coupon

OOP: $1.79 (using $4RR from last week)

EARN: $3.00

TOTAL SAVINGS: $11.38

 

 

Transaction 3

2 Got2B @ $0.00

-using 2 $3/1 mfc

OOP: $0.00

EARN: $5.00RR

TOTAL SAVINGS: $5.99

 

 

Transaction 4

2 U Kotex @ $5.00

-using 2 $1/1 mfc

1 Nice! Foil @ $0.79

-in ad coupon

OOP: $1.79 (using $4RR from last week)

EARN: $3.00

TOTAL SAVINGS: $11.38

 

 

Transaction 5

2 Got2B @ $0.00

-using 2 $3/1 mfc

OOP: $0.00

EARN: $5.00RR

TOTAL SAVINGS: $5.99

Transaction 6

2 U Kotex @ $5.00

-using 2 $1/1 mfc

1 Nice! Foil @ $0.79

-in ad coupon

OOP: $1.79 (using $5RR from Transaction 1)

EARN: $3.00

TOTAL SAVINGS: $12.38

Transaction 7

2 Got2B @ $0.00

-using 2 $3/1 mfc

4 Milano Cookies @ $1.00ea

-using 4 $0.50/1 mfc 

OOP: $2.00 

EARN: $5.00RR

TOTAL SAVINGS: $7.99

Total OOP for the entire trip: $7.37 (plus $8 in RR from previous week)

Finishing the trip with: $24.00RR

So in total I made: $8.63 AND brought home $67.25 in products!!!!!!!

-stefanie-