Since I had to drive to Federal Way (which is about 45 minutes away from my house) to meet her, I decided to stop at Southcenter on the way home. Southcenter has really boomed and has a lot of new stores- all the typical strip mall, big box stuff. I found a gift card to Kohl's from a promotion they had last year at work so I decided to stop there an look around. I've only been to Kohl's once before and that was in New Mexico, so I wasn't sure what they'd have. Their selection of maternity clothes was really frumpy so I decided to check out their dinnerware section. Side note: Koa and I are definitely planning on upgrading our dishes when we move. We are using the same ones I bought when I got my first apartment and they are looking really beat up and just kinda lame. Anyways, I really want a square set, but their selection wasn't that great and even with a sale a four-piece set of plates was about $50. Akk. Not worth it.
So I moved on to the home wears and found some cute stuff all of which was either on super clearance or marked down quite a bit. So I got two handtowels for our guest bathroom (I'm kicking myself now for being a cheap skate and not getting matching bath towels too), four placemats for fall and some potporri for the candle vase on our dining room table (the picture is taken on our kitchen counter because the table was cluttered!). So I had a $25 gift card so everything came to around $29, so I only ended up paying about $4 for everything...LOVE IT! Here are a couple pics:
I had to stop at Micheal's...I but way too much stuff their that I never get around to executing...but I really want to crochet a baby layette so I bought some cotton yarn (on sale for 2/$4) and a book with some really cute patterns. I guess this means I need to get on the stick and finish the afghan I've been working on! If I just commit like two or three solid afternoons it will be done! Hopefully I'll have a picture soon...it's turning out pretty nice for my first one!
I also went to Old Navy to check out their maternity stuff but it was a total crap shoot. They seriously had like one rack of clothes and they were all ugly. I think that I just need to go to a larger Old Navy. So I went to Target and got a pair of pants for work that have the stretchy panel in them so I need to hem those today and I also got a Bella Band...something that I've anxiously been waiting to get. Since most of my pants still fit, this is a device that allows you to keep your pants unbuttoned for a little more room, but hides the fact their unbuttoned under the thick elastic material. I think it will be well worth the $15. If I can wait just a little longer to buy maternity clothes, it will pay for itself. Even the pants from Target were $25...so I think it's going to be kind of expensive. If I didn't have to work, I'd live in my sogood pants and tanks!
It's getting late already...our home-group is in charge of cleanup up before and after at church today so we need to be there at 9:30 instead of 10 today, so I need to get in the shower and put my face on! Hopefully I'll get to see Brianne's baby today- Koa's seen her twice and I'm jealous!
We're going grocery shopping after. (we've been going to all three stores to save money so we'll see if we can do it for $80 today!) I want to make a couple things today and freeze them and also work on the aforementioned afghan so we'll see!
