Arizona Mama

I started thinking about my son’s first birthday party months ago and was able to get my husband to agree to The Very Hungry Caterpillar as a theme. (To get my husband to love used to the idea I started off with getting my baby the book at Valentine’s Day.) This idea isn’t terribly original, [...]

Shopping for a bikini is not easy, because one piece of the bikini is $14 on sale! I hate to break it to you people, but $14 for two tiny triangles and string is not worth it. Not to mention you still have to buy bottoms. At a fabric store when it’s not on sale [...]

I love fried food, and when I discovered I could make it myself I was so excited to do more! It started with my great-grandmother giving me a restaurant knock -off cook book called Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur. I didn’t care for most of the recipes but they did have some famous [...]

Whenever you go someplace and have a suitcase, it is likely that 431 other people have the same exact suitcase as you. There were/are issues with people stealing suitcases and the ones that are stolen are the ones that look the same as everyone else’s. (See AZ Republic: Suitcase Theft) I hate when I had [...]

I saw this cute pillow case bed for kids on Pinterest awhile back. We recently adopted a dog and wanted to make a dog bed for him, and to do it for cheap. Lucky for us, I remembered this pin and thought that two pillows would be enough, and you can find pillows on sale [...]

Did you see my Coke Can Bracelets? My soda can necklace idea came from that idea, so take a look and then come back here! The idea is simple, cut out your shape and fold over the edges with pliers. Push them flat so that they can’t catch or tear on anything. Punch a hole [...]

With a scooting baby, we knew we wanted to do a little bit of baby-proofing. We want to try to just teach him to stay out of stuff, but there are some things that we wanted done around the house to go with it. One thing was that our entertainment center didn’t have any doors. [...]

I found a picture of a Coke can bracelet and a few other brand soda can bracelets on Pinterest. You can check out the original post here. I created a version of my own, I don’t think that the original picture was something that was handmade or very cheap to make. My version is! Tools [...]

I used to work at a sub shop, it was my favorite job.  I think I could eat it everyday and not be sick of it, even after eating it a ton with those pregnancy cravings! Now I’m too cheap and it’s too far away, so I try to make my own delicious sandwiches instead. [...]

We collect those smashed/souvenir pennies from different tourist attractions. (They’re usually the cheapest souvenir there!) I always meant to scrapbook them, but the only scrapbooking I have been doing lately are the digital scrapbooks and the pennies don’t fit well in there. I saw a lot of specimen art around the blog world last year [...]