Thanks to Nancy's Notions you can go here and download a free pattern to make a fall table runner. You can make a few simple changes if you do not have embroidery machine to make this a hand embroidered runner or a simple quilted runner if you don't want to do the hand embroidery.

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This is only good until 12pm tonight. Sorry about the late post, I am not myself today.

Today after Piano lessons the kids, my Mom and I all headed down to Ft. Wayne. Which is about 45-1 hr depending on where we go.
1st Stop:
I picked up this great chair from a fellow Freecycler. Note, if you haven't joined your local Freecycle group JOIN! Google search for the group near you, it is well worth it. I have been able to get rid of unused items we can no longer use and I have also been able to pick up a lot of great items that I can enjoy! Freecycle has been set up for people to recycle items so they will not be put into the landfill.

2nd Stop:
JC Penney, Spencer has been looking for shoes for quite some time now. I swear he is worse than a girl when it comes to shoes. He did find a pair,out of my price range of course, so Grandma kicked in the extra $. Grandma's/Mom's are great about that + she had a $10 off coupon which helped.

3rd Stop:
Target, where I picked up these Fiber One bars & Fiber One Pastries (AKA-Pop Tarts).
Target is running a promo this week buy 4 Fiber One products and get a $5 gift card.

So this is what I did:
Trans #1
(4) Pastries @ $1.79ea - (4).50/1 MQ = $5.16 + I got a $5 GC

Trans #2
(2) Pastries @ $1.79 - (2) .50/1 MQ = $1.29ea
(2) Fiber One Bars @ $2.39ea - (2) $1.35 IP = $1.04ea
(2) Kraft Easy Mac @ .77ea - BOGO IP = .77 BOGO Coupon no longer available, but this should be a link for $1/2 which will make them cheaper, let me know if it works for you. If not I will find one that does.
Total $5.50 pd with the GC from trans #1 .50 OOP + I got a $5 GC

4th Stop:
Kentucky Fired Chicken! So we met up with John after he got off work and used our FREE meal coupons. If you were fortunate enough to print these off then I think you will agree with me that this was a great meal! I reall, really liked this chicken. It also seemed to have more meat than their original recip crispy chicken, which I am also a big fan of.
I was very disappointed I forgot my camera, because I wanted to post a picture of the KFC. It was so packed, lots of people were using their coupons. The one we chose to go to was on Dupont @ Coldwater Crossing. I highly recommend them! They were so friendly and their service was very fast, even though they were packed. Plus it was clean, which is one of my pet peeves with restaurants.

If you know me then you know I LOVE FREE! I also love to do about any kind of sewing and crafting as well. So if I combine the two it is just that much better.
Recently I came across this great site called You Can Make This. This site has great freebies as well as some inexpensive e-patterns for purchase. Now they have a new You Can Make This Blog. The blog also offers free patterns and tutorials. Sign up to receive the newsletter and you'll receive some great projects as well as tips and tricks of the trade. They have also added a new sister site called You Can Quilt This .
Go check them out...even if you don't have time to sew or quilt right now you might be inspired for the future! Remember Christmas is always closer than you think.

I have been on the lookout for free vintage labels or images for a few months now. I actually came across this website on a Freebie site that I just found thanks to my Mom.
Well, here is the link to go and download your FREE Clip Art Source Book. The site offers a lot of other free clip art items, but if you download the book it will link you to all of them and you will have it all in it one handy spot. I hope you find it as useful as I have.

As many of you know right now at Walgreens the Mento's gum is 2/$2. I had a friend give me coupons for all this gum plus when I was there I found these Soliels marked down to $1.79! YEAH!!! Mom got a couple also. I also found these shark bites mints which were not free but cheap .25. So my total was $2.80, ($2.30 was tax!).

While were in Ft. Wayne we stopped by one of the Kroger's on Dupont to see if they carried this dog food, "Freshpet Select". I received a Catalina for it here in Angola, but they stopped carrying it. I kept it for the next time I was in Ft. Wayne. It was good for a Free product up to $3.99. Plus the T.P. was free so I tax for these items. Which was only .26!

Kroger is once again offering a FREE reusable bag for those that design a bag and submit it. It is very easy to do and then they will credit your card with .99 good towards the cost of a reusable bag. If you would like to get in on a free bag then go here and design yours.
Kroger bags are one of my favorite as far as reusable bags go, the next in line would be Walgreens and Meijer. Wal-Mart's bags in my opinion stink! They are very flimsy and have no support in the bottom. I have at least one from all of the places I shop and I try to use them every time I shop, however once in awhile they do get forgotten in the van or I drive the other car and forget to grab them. Reusable bags really do cut down on the number of bags you get. Especially if you shop as much as I do.

I found a great money maker at Meijer today totally by accident.
Buy (2) French's Classic Yellow Mustard which are on sale 5/$5 this week. Use the .50/ MQ coupon from 3/29 Inserts making these FREE, then you will get a Catalina for $1 ONYO.
For those of you new to couponing a Catalina is a coupon that prints off on the machine that sits right next to the register tape.
I really didn't need more mustard but I am a sucker for freebies. I will be donating these to the local Project help and making money doing it!

Go here for a FREE Bread cookbook. Only while supplies last. Compliments of Fleischmann's.
You can never have too many cookbooks and if you do, you can always give this with a gift basket as a housewarming gift or wedding gift.
(Edit: Helps when I give you the link)

Well, I made it into the Coldwater Walgreens and picked up more soap.
After the first transaction I realised I did not get the RR for the Blink. I then told the cashier(boy)that I wanted to return it and exchange it for the correct one so I could get my RR. Needless to say he was upset. He called the manager over and stopped her before she was at the register and told her I wanted to return it and get my coupon back. I was puzzled but just stood there. The manager said, "I can do the return but your not getting the coupon back." I said that's fine as long as I get the $2. She said, "Okay, just a minute." Then she went to talk with another manager. In the meantime I am thinking, BOY OH BOY! , what a hassle, what's the big deal. Then she came back and said, "Well, the Manager said if you use a coupon sometimes you will not get the RR." I just simply said, "that's not true because I just used a coupon on the other 3 items and I got the RR. I think it really is simply because I picked up the wrong one, because none of them are marked so I was unsure which on was on sale." She said, "Oh you just want to get a different one?" I replied "Yes, I didn't expect to get the coupon back, I just want to get the one for the sale." It was funny how much she changed her demeanor after she realised what I REALLY wanted.
I went through this story to help you new couponers realise that sometimes the employees at the store do not understand their own programs and sometimes you have to be patient to get good deals.
After getting the correct Blink, I only got an additional lotion for my second transaction. I was actually going to do more, but I was upset with the cashier, because he really didn't want to deal with me.
After breaking the Angola Walgreens store in I really have no patience to train a new store! LOL!!! It still was worth the hassle for the FREE soap.

Some people are reporting that the Cyrstal Clear Reach TB are giving $3 RR when you buy 3. This did not work for me, but they were still Free after coupons.

Wow!! I had a great trip to Walgreens tonight! Here is the picture of what I got(minus one bar of soap) and I didn't have any out of pocket! I did a total of five transactions and I had leftover from last months rebates so I used my gift card to pay. I still have over $5 left on it and will be getting $49 here in the next week so I am feeling pretty good about it. Also, I used $16 in RR's and accumulated $23 so I also gained on them.

It is a little too much to list but I will link some of the deals.

Go here to read about the Dove deal. John was out of soap so this was a great find! I think I am going to head to Coldwater to do this deal again because our Walgreens is out and they only have deodorants.

Go here to read about the Johnson's & Johnson's deal. This will be great for baby showers.

Go here to read about the Vaseline & Colgate deals.

The Gamer was a Rain check, but still giving RR's so I got them FREE plus $4 RR.

Gum was Free with MQ from 2 weeks ago, and the Turtles I bought simply because I bought a ton of coupons for the Christmas promo and then I did not get a chance to use them because someone bought all 40 boxes the store received! If people are going to do that I wish they would place an order with the Manager ahead of time. So it's an indulgence.

Sorry Christy it sounds as if you did not have a great trip...I hope you have better luck next time.

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