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What’s in your purse series week fifty three

by Allison on June 30, 2011 in Bags, Style · 4 comments

This week’s What’s in Your Purse Series purse is from Katrina.  Thank you!

If you want to submit your purse to the series take two photos of your purse {nice, clean non-blurry ones} one of the outside, one of the inside, along with a listing of the contents to allisonATpetitelefantDOTcom.  I’m almost out of purses so get moving, will you? –

coach purse

what's in your purse series

The top left corner to start:

  • This paisley book from Target has a magnetic hinge to keep a CD enclosed if I need, I use this book for any blogging ideas/crafts for blog that I may come up with.
  • My nude Rimmel fingernail polish that I blogged about recently. Love this stuff!
  • Emergency hair clip in clear (so that it will match any outfit)
  • Neutrogena hand lotion, seriously can not live without this stuff, it is the ONLY lotion that doesn’t feel gritty on my hands after a bit. It actually soaks into your skin.
  • Two lip glosses: top one is Victoria Secret for all the time use. Honestly I just love the smell/taste of Birthday Cake. I got it with my birthday money I get every year. Happy Birthday me, everyday!
  • Second one is Clinique, when I need to spruce up my lips a little if I am going somewhere fancylike in a hurry. It stays on your lips for a long time, it’s sticky-like-that.
  • One of those fancy-pants Sephora nail file/buffer. Love how shiny it makes your fingers.
  • Sunglasses. A must for me. Got these cuties at Kohl’s
  • My owl. This is my coin purse from Thirty-one purses, a fairly local purse lady (Columbus, Ohio) she started it out of her home. Inspirational!
  • My wallet, as you can see is jam packed full… Cards and Cards! In the coin part, I forgot to picture, is my key fob. Also a must have for blogging, when using more than one computer.
  • Checkbook with next bill in it to be paid…lame!
  • Bubblegum, mini kaleidoscope, and a McD’s toy for instant entertainment to get young ones outta my hair…
  • Coupon baggie with coupons that probably doesn’t belong in a Coach bag (hehe)
  • My birdie journal. This is by far the most important thing in my bag. Believe me when I say if my purse got stolen, this one be the thing that I would cry about most. This journal is with me at all times, because I jot things down at whim about my kiddos. I am not proud to say that I haven’t kept a baby book on my kids, but I have kept a journal about our daily lives, and this is the most recent one.
  • My camera. Self explanatory. I LOVE taking pictures.. I don’t claim to be a professional photographer though.

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Home » Family family_fitness » How to walk ten thousand steps a day

How to walk ten thousand steps a day

by Allison on June 28, 2011 in Family, family_fitness · 14 comments

Some time ago, someone from on high recommended walking ten thousand steps a day for optimal health and wealth.  Minus the wealth part.  When it was recommended, I was probably taking well over ten thousand steps a day so I sort of ignored it, as one does to advice that doesn’t apply, and went on my merry way.

And then I started a blog.

watch

I’ve become so sedentary over the last few years, tap, tap, tapping away on my computer, that my average daily steps are around, hold your breath, 3,000.  I know.  Shocking.

Walking around Europe snapped me right out of that, but I’ve had a hard time maintaining my daily walks here at home.  I drive the car to the park, to the grocery store, to the pool.  It’s downright shameful.  The obvious solution to the problem is to exercise every day, you know, like you’re supposed to.

pedometer

Yesterday was my first day wearing my new pedometer and I’ll tell you what, 10,000 really isn’t much but it was hard to come by.  I hit 10,013 at 10:00 pm.

In order for me, in my relatively sedentary lifestyle, to walk 10,000 steps during the day here’s what I had to do:

  • walk 2 miles in the morning
  • clean the house a little
  • go to the pool and swim for 3 hours
  • come home and feed the kids
  • do a few loads of laundry
  • walk up and down the stairs for no good reason other than to hit my goal
  • weed in the garden for an hour

And even after all that, I barely hit the goal.

I’ve got some work to do, clearly. So I’d like to know, are you in the range of 10,000 steps a day?  Are you closer to 30,000?  What do you do to fit all those steps in?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Home » Travel travel_tips » Roll your clothes to pack a suitcase

Roll your clothes to pack a suitcase

by Allison on June 24, 2011 in Travel, travel_tips · 12 comments

I took your advice on what to pack for Europe.  For the most part anyway, you know I had to rebel a little and wear comfortable shoes for all the walking.  But the number one tip I took from all of you was to pack light.

We did.

suit case

Each child had a carry on and a backpack, {the awesome luggage we bought at Costco} and that was it.  The backpack was full of things for the 25 hours of travel each way: a Nintendo DSi for each kid, bubble gum, a coloring book and sketch pad, colored pencils, Skullcandy headphones, fruit leather and almonds, granola bars, and in Charming’s case a handful of Hot Wheels cars.

I was counting on the fact that each kid would have a T.V. with Nick Jr. at their disposal, and I was right.  Hallelujah.

suitcase

Anyway, the only way I was able to pack a month’s worth of clothing into a carry-on for each kid was to roll their clothes as I packed them.

I can’t even tell you what a difference it made.

So: roll your clothes as you pack them, hope for mini T.V.’s across the Atlantic, give your children each a Benadryl, and you’re set.

{you didn’t hear about the Benadryl from me.  also, I’m not your mother or your doctor, so take my advice for what it is: free}

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What I wore Wednesday red dress

by Allison June 22, 2011Style
what I wore Wednesday

I’ve decided I’m cool posting a What I Wore Wednesday every once in a while on Wednesday, but that I’m not going to be super strict about it. Because I don’t like boundaries so much, and this is my blog, so I make the rules. This outfit is actually What I Wore Sunday, but that [...]

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Unique jewelry storage solution

by Allison June 21, 2011Home
collections

It’s no secret that I have a lot of jewelry.  Perhaps too much {is there such a thing?}.  I grab cheap baubles wherever I go and periodically add a nice piece or two along the way.  Basically, my jewelry cup runneth over. I’ve been storing most of my jewelry on top of my dresser in [...]

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Summer Solstice style 2011

by Allison June 20, 2011Style
tank top

You realize tomorrow is the  Summer Solstice, right?  The best day of the year because it’s all warm and sunshiny outside, the grass is green, the pools are filled, the drinks are cold. Ahh Summer, how I love thee. Regardless of your plans, you’ll need something summery to wear.  Something light, breezy, subtle and sexy.  [...]

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flea market in Warsaw

by Allison June 17, 2011Travel
vintage typewriter

Flea markets really don’t exist in Utah.  We have a plethora of enormous thrift stores {my favorites are Deseret Industries and Savers}, and we have crappy yard sales aplenty, but no flea markets.  So when we got to Warsaw and I read about this enormous flea market every Saturday and Sunday on the outskirts of [...]

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What’s in your purse series week fifty two

by Allison June 16, 2011Bags
purse

This week’s What’s in Your Purse Series purse is from Becca Wilcox.  She’s a case manager for foster kids, and yes, she rocks.  It was a gift from her husband for Christmas; Liz Claiborne from JcPenney.  Thanks Becca! –If you want to submit your purse to the series take two photos of your purse {nice, [...]

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European Summer fashion part 1

by Allison June 15, 2011Style
European Summer fashion

I had a really hard time asking people if I could take their photo in Europe.  It wasn’t just the language either.  I couldn’t read European body language!  And then I realized my superpower is reading people, but I was without my superpower in Europe, so the whole thing was off. Anyway, this girl was [...]

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