Shopping

I have been shopping a lot lately. In fact, most of it took place during my medical leave. No, I was not out burning up the town while I should have been at home recovering. I did a bunch of Ebaying, picked up some when my mom helped me get groceries at Walmart one day, and I got a few things another day after mom took me to the doctor for a check up and we ran into Belk for a few minutes. The rest of it I did at JCPenney on MLK Day (my last day before returning to work) and this weekend at Fashion Apparel and at Walmart. I am so excited to be ahead on some of my seasonal shopping for the girls. Below are some of Emma's birthday things for her Tinkerbell-theme party. The personalized Tinkerbell shirt is going to be a night shirt that she will get for her birthday. She wore the Tinkerbell costume today for a photo session for her photo party invitation that I am working on. She was so beautiful. I put her hair up in a bun just like Tinkerbell. Luckily the weather was warm enough today to take them outside. I am dying to share some of the pictures, but I am going to make myself wait until closer to her party.
My SIL Samantha is going to applique an "E" on the white shirt below with the Tinkerbell fabric I found at Walmart. She will wear this at her birthday party. I picked up a white shirt for Anna Kate too and hope Samantha will applique her an "A" with Camp Rock fabric for her birthday party. Walmart has the Camp Rock fabric. I don't know why I didn't get some of it today since that is the theme she has chosen, but I will get it next week. The purple and green shirts and plaid fabric are for Easter. I am hoping Samantha will work her magic on these too. She did a fabulous job on the two shirts she did for our nephew Philip's birthday recently. I believe she learned this wonderful craft from her SIL Melanie who made the snowman applique shirts for my girls. I am so lucky to have such a talented SIL. (Okay, Samantha, have I buttered you up enough? Ha!)

I am so excited about the two dresses below. These are my girls' Easter dresses. White is an unusual color for me. I usually love bright colors on my girls, but there is a story behind the white. The smaller dress was Anna Kate's five years ago. It is a smocked Will Beth dress that came from Fashion Apparel. She wore it for Emma's first Easter. I choose white back then because Emma wore Anna Kate's white baby Bible dedication dress for that Easter. Fast forward five years. Since I knew Emma would be wearing the white smocked dress this year, I wanted to find a white dress for Anna Kate. I won a bid for one on Ebay. When it hadn't arrived after two weeks, we contacted the seller and found out that the dress was so longer sellable since it had an ink stain on it. They refunded our money, and I was so disappointed to not get the dress. All this happened Thursday. Fashion Apparel opened for the season on Friday. I found Anna Kate's dress, which also is a Will Beth made out of the same kind of fabric and with some of the same details as Emma's. And it cost less than the one on Ebay. Isn't it neat how God works out small details? Okay, I am open to photo ideas for these dresses. Since the dresses are kind of formal looking, I feel like I will need something a little more formal for the pictures. Ideas, please?

I didn't stop with Easter, her are Valentines shirts, Fourth of July outfits, and big sister/little sister t-shirts. I can't begin to tell you what kind of bargins I have gotten on all these clothes. For example, the Fourth of July shirt that is Emma's has a slight pull under one of the rhinestone details. I pointed this out at the check out yesterday at Fashion Apparel and she came down half price before taking the normal 60% off this Zoodles outfit. The pull is so slight that an iron on patch on the underneath is all it neads. The big sister/little sister t-shirts I also got at Fashion Apparel yesterday. Anna Kate's had a small stain on it, so I pointed this out at check out, and she just gave it to me. I have already washed it, and it came out.

I always try to do the girls Christmas clothes shopping for the next year right after Christmas. Despite my surgery, this year was no exception. Below are their Christmas pajamas and two Christmas shirts each. Cheap, cheap, cheap -- unbelievable prices.

Below are their Christmas dresses. Emma's was Anna Kate's five years ago, and I recently picked up Anna Kate's at Belk on clearance for cheap. Sorry to be so long on this post, but I just had to share. I love me some bargains!