Since the annual Hot Air Balloon Festival is coming up, I thought I would share our experience from last year. Unfortunately the weather doesn’t look great this year, but hopefully some of the activities will still happen!
All tagged Randomness
I'm Back!
Well I never went away, but I have been busy, and blogging has been on the low priority list for me. Between school, extracurriculars, and my Etsy shop, I just have not had the time I would like to write all about our lives and all the things going on in it.
Pink Glitter Designs Highlight - Valentine's Exchange
I have started releasing digital Valentine’s Day Classroom Exchange cards in my Etsy shop this week! I have plenty more that I plan to release in the next few weeks, but I started out with more general ones that can be used with any treat or item that you want to pair with it. There are 6 different options. Each option comes with 6 designs. You can see them below. Click here to start shopping! Oh, and don’t forget the exclusive discount code to my blog readers - PGP15DISCOUNT!
Thanksgiving 2023
For Thanksgiving this year, we stayed home and celebrated with my side of the family. Brad was lucky enough to come home from his work trip just for the week of Thanksgiving. His hours were all messed up, but it was really nice having him here to celebrate. Since he was home for only a short period of time, I hosted my family. We had lots of fun, and we enjoyed the time with the family!
Pumpkin Patch 2023
Brad was lucky enough to make it to our Pumpkin Patch visit this year! He has missed the last few years, and he literally left for two months a few weeks after this. We had a lot of fun this year. And each year does get easier since Melody is getting older and can do more things by herself and has the freedom to do so. We go to Lyons Pumpkin Patch, and they also seem to also add things every year. And the weather was perfect this year too! And peep the picture of Melody on her first visit to the pumpkin patch! She has grown SOOOOO much!
Life Lately
The last two and a half months have been busy, hectic, and full on chaos. Brad was actually out of town for two months himself. So for a good part of time, it was just Melody and me. We have been in full on survival mode. But I wanted to share some of our life lately. I still plan to go into all the details of all the things later too!
August 2023 Fun
August was a full and fun month filled with lots of milestones too.
Brad is 40!
We celebrated Brad turning 40 back in August! We celebrated him over a few weeks, but this post is all about his special day!
July 2023 Fun
Hello! Should I reintroduce myself? Ha. Well August was fun but crazy and blogging was not high on my to do list. Here we are almost a month later, and I am finally updating you on all the fun we had in July! A lot has happened, and I can’t wait to share it all. But let’s talk about July. It was our last month of summer before school started. School started back so soon it felt like! Summer just flew by. But we had lots of fun, and we made the most of what time we had left before Melody went back to school!
June 2023 Fun
Summer is already half way over for us, and it has really been a fast one. I tried not to plan too much this summer, yet we still feel like we are going nonstop. My hopes are the last couple of weeks of July will be calm and full of establishing routines and relaxing. But you can check out all we did in June below!
2023 Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo
We attended the 2023 Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo back in April. We didn’t plan out things as much as we have in the past when it comes to our outfits. We also only attended Friday of the Expo vs the whole weekend or just Saturday. It was a lot of fun and much more calm on Friday night vs daytime on the weekend. All of the vendors were already setup too. The only major thing we missed was the mass crowd of cosplayers. There still was some cosplayers throughout the Expo though.
May 2023 Fun
You have heard it before. You probably even live it. But May is truly the new December. ALL. THE. THINGS. But we always have fun, even through all of the stress.
Pink Glitter Designs Special Discount
I wanted to create a special discount code for all of my Pink Glitter Pumpkins readers. You can use the discount on anything in my Etsy shop! This discount is greater than ANY other discount I have ever offered for my shop too! You can click here, or you can go to my shop (pinkglitterdesigns.com) and use the code PGP15DISCOUNT.
Pink Glitter Designs Highlight - Mother's Day Items
I wanted to highlight another group of items in my Etsy Shop: ShopPinkGlitter. Today I wanted to share items you can get for Mother’s Day. Now as you hopefully know, Mother’s Day is only a few days away. So the main items I want to share are the two digital downloads I have for sale. I will also share the t-shirts, but they will not arrive by Mother’s Day. However, you could give them as a gift later too!
April 2023 Fun
Let’s see about April. Melody started soccer. We also celebrated Easter with family, church family, and friends. We attended many Easter Egg hunts. Melody lost another tooth. We went to see Disney on Ice with Emily’s group. Melody had a gymnastics “recital”, and we also went to the Huntsville Pop Culture Expo. Emily and I went out to celebrate her birthday. I got my newest Simplified planner in for next school year. We went to the theaters to watch Return of the Jedi. And we are in full birthday party planning mode!
Pink Glitter Designs Highlight - Teacher Items
Every so often, I am going to highlight some of the items currently for sale in my Etsy Shop: ShopPinkGlitter. With Teacher Appreciation Week being next week, and the end of the school year being right around the corner, I wanted to highlight some of my teacher gifts you can find.
Easter 2023
Easter was lots of fun this year. We were so excited to spend our first Easter with our new church family, and we had lots of activities leading up to the day.
March 2023 Fun
As my previous post explains, we have been pretty busy between Spring Break, Easter, starting a new company, and life in general. March was a really fun month though! Check out all the fun below.
My Etsy Shop - Pink Glitter Designs
Guys, I did it! I finally started an Etsy shop. It has kind of been a long time coming really. I make so many shirts, invites, and so much more that I knew at some point I wanted to bring all of that to other people. I bought my domain, Pink Glitter Designs, over a year ago. I was hoping to host it via Squarespace and not really deal with the Etsy fees and such. However, I did a lot of research on the pros and cons, and it just made sense to start up with Etsy and see how things go.
My Face Care Routine
A few months ago, my friend and I were talking about different products we use on our face. It likely stemmed from a conversation about our dermatologists. Well it dawned on me that I use quite a few products in my morning and night routine. So I thought I would share those with you. In no way are these products an ad, and they honestly may not even be the best products I could be using. But they don’t break out my face, and they seem to be working, ha.