The madness has begun!!!:)

I just wanted to do a quick post this morning before I head out to my new home, the fireworks store. I work for my brother during this time, he runs several fireworks stores here in Ohio. Some of his stores are open year round some just a few weeks before the 4th. The madness has begun, and I wanted to tell my fellow bloggin friends the lack of posts there will be in these next few weeks, as 12-14 hour days of work will consume ALL my time, and still maintain running 2 teenagers to open gyms, and practices for volleyball, and basketball, plus my son is working too, so my schedule is pure crazziness. Should make for some interesting weeks..lol...uggg.. Well I hope to have some interesting stories to share, customers usually make for some interesting stories..:)I will miss the bloggin though, as I miss reading all my favorite blogs, but I hope to catch up for a few minutes late in the evening. Well, off I go. Have a great day my bloggin friends.......

Winner of Swiffer Sweeper starter kit and $15 TARGET gift card!!

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Congratulations you are the winner of the Target $15 gift card, and a brand new Swiffer Sweeper starter kit, please send me all your information at rdnetting@msn.com and I'll get your goodies out to you:)

Don't forget I will be participating in the Christmas in July giveaway, and I have decided to give away a Target gift card for $25 and some great things to go with it, instead of a $50 gift card, I want to stick with the theme of Christmas in July so I will have a $25 gift card instead of $50 and some other goodies, so please check back for that. And don't forget for the month of August my birthday is the 13th that every week in August I will be giving away my favorite things, from, gift card to my favorite store, to household, and beauty items. It will be my favorite things, like Oprah's favorite things just don't exspect any 200 dollar pajamas to be given away:) Thanks for stopping by and PLEASE FOLLOW ALONG great things to come....Congrats to my giveaway winner:)

Any HELP for my small drabby checkerboard kitchen:(

I was watching HGTV the other night, and looking at houses,being redone, or getting a free contractor to make over their house, and well I got a lil envious and I realized I really shouldn't feel this way, but I did and we are suppose to be happy with what we have. I know I should be happy with my drabby checkerboard kitchen..well...uggg!!!The checkerboard floor, and tile. I love looking at other peoples homes here in blog world, people really do have beautiful kitchens and beautiful homes. I love seeing transformations of kitchens, so many gorgeous ones at that. Well, I wish I could wave a magic wand and make mine redone!! I probebly am not the only stay at home mom who love to have a redo in her kitchen but I often laugh at some of the redos here on blogs because the beginning of there kitchen before the redo is just as nice, I just wish mine looked like some of the before pictures on some of these ppls blog pictures..lol.. Well anyways like my hubby said some of these ppls house payments are $700-1500 a month or more, and our house payment is only $429 and will be paid off in a few years, so I can't complain..of course its small, but I bet alot are in debt up to their eyeballs just to have a fancy kitchen, or a house to WOW everyone!! I thought long and hard and realized material things are not gonna go with you when you leave this earth, God does not care about what house you live in, or a kitchen redo, and you know what...I SNAPPED right out of my envious stage....Be happy with what you have, and happy for what others have, and do not be envious of others, so that I will keep in mind when I see all that I would love to have. I thank you so much for stopping by, and follow along. I LOVE to have you. Don't forget to enter my TARGET gift card and swiffer giveaway. Now, to a few pictures of my kitchen:)I doubt you will be envious at ALL!!..lol....

My made over chair:)

I recently was given a chair by a relative, and I LOVE it I seen the potential, I fell in love with the legs of the chair. I had never seen anything like the legs on this chair. Well it was sanded down and 2 coats of black paint( which I got from the free quart giveaway through the Glidden paint giveaway) were applied. I found this beautiful material at Jo Ann fabrics for 5.99 a yard and only needed 3/4 a yard to cover the ugly brown vinyl cover that was on it. I also just bought some plain white muslin to put down first on the seat cushion before placing the material on. Total cost of materil was around 5.00 the muslin was really cheap:)I used the white muslin so that you will not see anything coming through just by placing the printed material on I used the white first. I LOVE how it turned out:) I placed my new pillow cover I won from BEI FIORA facebook fan giveaway on my chair. It is done, and I LOVE it:)Here are the picture. Thanks for stopping by, hope you will follow along, and send a friend my way. DON'T FORGET TO SIGN UP FOR MY GIVEAWAY ON MY SIDE BAR CLICK ON THE TARGET LOGO:)

Bloggin Prizes:)

I get all giddy and SUPER excited when I see I have won a prize from some of my favorite blogs. I just wanted to share with my bloggin friends some of the recent giveaways I have won:) In the pictures below you will see I have won over the last few weeks,a Pampered Chef rectangular baker, 3 BEAUTIFUL bags/purse those were won form blogs during the SEW MAMA giveaways:) I have won Kung Fu Panda dvd with a toy and box of cereal. My propel zero gift set came from a win on Carolina Couponer. I also won 2 BEAUTIFUL pillow covers from Delinda's Creations, and I won BEI FIORI 100 facebook fans giveaway thich was I could pick anything from her shop. I choose the beautiful white pillow case. Wait till you see the beautiful chair that I redone share that tomorrow AND HOW PRETTY MY WHITE PILLOW LOOKS ON IT:) DON'T FORGET TO SIGN UP FOR MY TARGET+SURPRISE GIVEAWAY LOOK FOR ON MY SIDE BAR AND SIGN UP:)
Thanks for stopping by please follow along. I LOVE having you, and send a friend my way:)

My first attempt at making posie pillow cases:)

Ok, Ok, they are almost complete I have not added the buttons yet, I am not sure if that is what I want to do, still on the fence. You may remember me talkin about these pillow cases in past post, that I was almost done, they were taking a lot longer than I ever thought, it was one of my first attempts to try something sewing wise on my own. NOTE its hard to see some of the posies because Like on the pink case You can see the white posies but not the pink ones they are on there too, but NOTE to self don't use left over material in same color as pillow cover for posies:( I did same with cream colored ones the pink posies show up well but the other posies are left over of same material as what the pillowcases were made of. O' Well they are something I am very proud of, it has taken forever, and I was about to give up, and then Roys grandma help me some to the posies were taking me forever, because I have never made before:) The pinning on the posies I finallly got done, and with the help of grandma could properly place them and stitch on. There are flaws in them, my sewing is not the best, and using a sewing machine to make the covers was a funny sight, as the last time I used a sewing machine was 7th grade Home Ec class:) Well, here they are finished, just need to decide if I want to add buttons, which I think I am gonna try to find some pearlized looking buttons. Well thanks for stopping by, DON'T FORGET TO SIGN UP FOR MY GIVEAWAY. A TARGET GIFT CARD, AND SWIFFER SWEEPER STATER KIT. LOOK FOR THE POST OR CLICK ON MY SIDE BAR IT WILL TAKE YOU STRAIGHT TO MY POST TO SIGN UP:)Have a great day my blogging friends:)

TARGET gift card giveaway and Surprise item!! SIGN UP HERE!!!CLOSED!!!!

Hello, today is the day:) The start of a brand new giveaway for ya all!!! I am giving away a $15 dollar TARGET gift card plus one of my favorite items, I LOVE.. a brand new swiffer sweeper starter kit(bought by me, not provided by swiffer)It is one of my favorite items I use around the house:) I want to tell you about 2 things quickly then to the sign up for the giveaway. I will be doing the Christmas In July blog hop giveaway coming up at the end of JULY. I will be giving away a $50 gift card to TARGET so please remember that and come back and sign up for that. Also my BIRTHDAY is in August and every week in AUGUST I will be giving away an item or items for my BIRTHDAY month, I like to call it Michelle's favorite things:) It should be a fun giveaway, and lots of GREAT prizes sponsored by me, from gift cards to houseware to beauty items. It will be a GREAT giveaway:) Now on to the giveaway:)

Target Giveaway
1. Mandatory entry- Be a follower of my blog At Home With Michelle, if you are already a follower leave a comment that you are:) (1 entry)

2. Follow me on twitter at mnmomof2inohio (1 entry)

3. Post about this giveaway on the side bar of your blog (2 entries)

That's it!! Now come back on Monday, June 20th to see if you are the winner. Good Luck!! US entries ONLY!!! THANK YOU!!:)

Thought I would share my recent buy from my favorite store TARGET this cute rug, LOVE IT!!!

Giveaway Time:)

I will be having another giveaway starting this Monday for a $15 dollar Target Gift Card again and a SURPRISE item to go with it, be sure to come back on Monday and sign up:)I was going to do a Hobby Lobby, but I know there are TARGET stores everywhere and I want to give away another Target gift card:)I will also have a surprise to go with the gift card. Don't forget to check out Christmas In July event at the end of July where I will be giving away a $50 gift card:) WOW!! That will be a huge giveaway:) I also have so much to share with you this week so hurry back tomorrow for the launch of my giveaway:)

Past winners of my Target and POTTERYBARN gift card giveaways comments:)

Hi,
Thank you so much. It arrived today, and I can't wait to spend it :) I read your blog regularly, and will definitely be entering the drawings again. I wasn't sure if you had a policy about entering again after winning once, so I've steered clear just in case. But now that I know I can, I certainly will.
I will be sure to direct my family & friends your way as well.
Thanks,
Molly- Just A Little Creativity


Belinda from Life With My Boys won!! She came back to share what she won she wrote- Just wanted to drop by and let you know I got my gift card :) I have been needing some new tennis shoes for a while now but with 5 kids and a tight budget, I've put it off. I was so excited to find some shoes on clearance for $13 so not only was I able to get new shoes but I got some new socks as well! Thank you again so much!!

Something grandma made:)

I shared last week about the garden angel that my husbands grandmother made me, well she is 80 years old, and amazes me at the things she makes. I wanted to share with you the seat cushions she made for me, all hand crochet, and she is still a making even at her age. No offence grandma Marion:) The cushions are reversable, and twon different colors, they are a lil small for my chairs but I LOVE them, and there wasn't NO WAY I was gonna say they were to small. They fit almost to the size. Her hands do bother her so she doesn't do as much as she use too:( I just wanted to share the seat cushions with you. I have some bears she made from my husbands army uniforn, and the underpart of my wedding dress(so it didn't ruin my wedding dress) She made from the uniform he wore on our wedding day and the under silk of my wedding dress, they are the cutest bears:)all made from our wedding day attire. We have been married 17 years next week June 11th. She has also made a large raggedy ann doll, several other items, I would like to do post on all the items she has made through the weeks here on my blog. I know you will love seeing them:)As always thanks for stopping by and be sure to send a friend:)