❈Sac Thrift Chick❈

It's the most wonderful time of the year -- Halloween! For 2016, our outside Halloween decor covers more ground, literally. Over the summer, my front lawn got a DIY drought tolerance makeover; we ripped out much of the grass and replaced it with bark. The new drought-friendly bark allowed us to turn the entire yard into a cemetery; two cemeteries to be exact. Take a tour of a haunted Halloween decor. I did a twist on my popular Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington garage . He's feeling a little red this year. I used Duck Tape and poster board (99 Cent Store FTW) that I had on hand. I plan on leaving him up through Christmas. Our pet sematary is a nod to the Ramones and Stephen King, naturally.  The flying Halloween monster is always a hit with the trick-or-treaters. The pet sematary is across from the larger, human cemetery. 

Did your blog on blogspot.com stop accepting updates to the template? Has it been driving you insane? Have you tried the help board, read different blogs and watched YouTube for help? If so, I was you. Months ago, I decided to change the format of my blog to the Dynamic Views template. I changed the template, no problem. But then I wanted to customize it. And after making my customizations (such as increasing the blog's font size) and clicking "Apply to Blog" nothing would happen. So I decided to change to a different blogger template -- the other formats allow you to run more ads, anyway -- and again, I'd click "Apply to Blog" and nada. I read all of the tips. -- One blog suggested turning on the mobile template. Of course mine was already on. -- A second blog offered directions on how to get your blog back to the factory settings, so to speak, but I couldn't get *any* changes to take within the Blogger system. --Another blog said to go into ...

There's a reason our nicknames are Lauraroni & Aaroncheese; we're the cheesiest. I laugh at my husband's cheesy jokes. I coax my husband into indulging in cheesy, sappy movies with me. And I like cheesy gifts. This is why I've held onto my collection of fabric, bendable flowers gifted from my husband. It all started when we were first dating in the summer of 2004. We went thrifting and Aaron found a fabric flower. Naturally, he bought it for me. He said it was the first flower he'd ever bought a girl. I loved it.That silly little flower made 20-year-old me smile. On a later thrifting trip, another flower was found. And so began the tradition of Aaron buying me fabric flowers.