New Camera and Giveaway Winner

I am happy to share with you all that I joined the Canon family and got my very first DSLR camera!!  I am so excited!  I purchased a Canon Rebel and I think it is SO user friendly I am in LOVE!  I have been taking pictures and playing around with it ALL DAY LONG! I can't wait to share my pictures with you all.

I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!  I have the winner of the Group Giveaway...

Congrats to 

Debonair BanditMar 26, 2012 10:56 PM

I left a comment on all gloriouses blog!

Please email me at evannesimplyfab@gmail.com to claim all of your amazing items!

Fabulous Friday Finds - COUPONS

Just a reminder that today is the LAST day to enter this amazing giveaway:

You can win free ad space for three amazing blogs, a ring, and fun flower hair clips.  Go here and leave a comment for each site visited to enter!

Now do I have some special deals to share with you all!  I have found some great coupons for this weekend!  

Fabulous Find #1:

SHOES

Inspired by my recent journey to Payless, they have a coupon out now that is good for 20% off your purchase!  If I would have had this coupon I would have saved some BUCKS!  Oh well, just because I missed out doesn't mean you all have to!  Go get yourselves some fabulous wedges like I did.

coupon here

 

If you don't have a Payless near by, here is another great shoe deal for Famous Footwear.  Receive 15% off your purchase!

coupon here

They have some CUTE shoes!  I want these both!

Hot Kiss Women's Coral Shoes

Eastland Women's Sunset Lt. Blue/Gray/Taupe

Fabulous Find #2:

OLD NAVY

I just LOVE Old Navy!  They can be hit or miss at times, but recently they have been REALLY keeping up with other stores and knocking them out of the water with pricing.  Here is a coupon that will help - $10 off $50 purchase!  

Find the coupon here.

You can get some of these fabulous trendy items!

Fabulous Find #3:

THE LIMITED

I don't regularly shop at The Limited, but they do have some might cute clothes.  I especially like to go there for business clothes.  They have a coupon for $15 off EVERY $50 you spend!! Not just on the first $50, but every $50 you spend you get $15 off...what a great deal!  See it here!

There are some FABulous deals here!  

Have a great weekend and get to shopping!!

Shoe Therapy

Starting Tuesday, I have not had such a fantastic week.  

1. Tuesday over lunch I went to the dentist.  My teeth are great...gums looking good (except in the back 4 corners where my gum levels are a little high)...but then, I get some not so great news.

I got my FIRST cavity!!!

UGH I was devastated...my first cavity in 25 years!! 

In all fairness, they told me it was VERY small and it happened where there is an in cave in my tooth which means food can easily build up down in there.  However, this didn't make me feel any better.  

So today, I have a filling scheduled at 1.  Thank goodness they have advanced from the silver fillings to have white fillings so it is not noticeable.  Thank you technology!

2. A few weeks ago I went for my regular gynecologist appointment and everything was fine.  They take a swab and send it in to the lab to get results.  Now on my LAST YEARS appointment, my lab results came back abnormal (I had atypical cells) so I had to come back in for a colposcopy where they take a small sample of tissue from your cervix to make sure it wasn't anything serious...which it wasn't.

I was a little nervous this time around seeing as my results came back abnormal last year.  I was crossing my fingers that whatever abnormal cells I had cleared up....but that wasn't the case.  I called in yesterday and they told me they had just gotten in my results and there was a low abnormality in my cells...UGH!  

They explained it was a slightly different abnormality than last time, which I am not sure what that means, but they won't know more until I got back in, AGAIN, for a colposcopy.  

And let me tell you...these things HURT!  They tell you to take Advil an hour before to help reduce the pain.  Afterwards you are expected to feel pain and cramping.  

Not very fun!

So needless to say, I feel like my body is falling apart...AHH!

But I am not letting it get to me and I know that it could be A LOT worse!  

To get my spirits up, I went out on lunch yesterday for some retail therapy.  

Shoe therapy that is!

It is all about the spring time wedges:

When you get some bad news, shopping always seems to help!

Hope your having a good week!  

I have a feeling mine is going to get better once the weekend arrives!

Spring is here which means...

I am excited that warm weather is here and Spring has sprung!  The birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, it is staying light out longer which means I get to enjoy some of this beautiful weather after work, and kids are out playing in the neighborhoods.  

Here are some of my favorite spring time activities that I am VERY much looking forward to doing this season:

Camping

Riding our awesome toys in the wonderful springtime weather

Toby loves swimming in the river ... but every now and again he needs a rest in the chair

 YUMMY!! Love grilling out!

STL CARDINALS!! Can't wait for their home opener in less than 2 weeks!

There is so much to look forward to as the weather starts to get warmer and the flowers start to bloom.  

I can't wait!!!

What do you look forward to most during the Spring Season?

DIY Boyfriend Jeans

March Sponsor Giveaway going on now through Friday:

Enter HERE

On my last Fabulous Friday Finds I mentioned that I wanted some boyfriend jeans.  I think they are super cute - at least they look that way in all the pictures in magazines - and I want to give them a go.

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I have a pair of jeans that I bleached a couple of months ago and haven't really worn them since.  They were a bit baggy at the waist and too long in the length.

I found these jeans at Target on sale for $7 so I got them:

long and baggy right?

They were already a very light blue color, so I decided to bleach to try out bleaching and turn them into white jeans:

Here is how they came out after 45 minutes in the bleach with periodical stirring:

It is hard to tell in this picture but they are lighter.  

They were still SUPER baggy and real long, so I decided to take them in a bit and hem the length to this:

Still a bit baggy, but the length is much better.

After my obsession with boyfriend jeans kept coming up in my mind, I thought that these would be the PERFECT pair of jeans to try them out on.  I had already used them in a project so if they didn't come out quite right I would be "ok" with that since I wasn't too partial to them anyways.

I pulled out the jeans and got my tools ready to go to work:

scissors, exact-o knife, sand paper

I cute a couple holes in the jeans using the exact-o knife.  Casey even helped with this project because he got to "tear up" my clothes...who wouldn't love that!

  

I ran the edge of the scissors (open sharp edge) over the holes to make them fray a bit more.  Then I took the sandpaper and went over the holes along with the pockets of the jeans.

Next I cut the length to shorten them a bit more:

Then I rolled the bottom up twice to product a cropped jean look:

Now I have my very own pair of boyfriend jeans!

These were really easy to create and saved me a lot of money compared to buying a new pair in store for $30-$40.

I wore these out over the weekend and they were SUPER comfortable!! 

I think I have found my spring go to jean my friends!

Guest Posting Here Today

Hope you all are enjoying all of the giveaways happening recently!  I just put up the March Sponsor Giveaway so make sure to enter here!

I am guest posting over here today with the lovely Brooke from Covered In Grace.
Head on over to see my delicious Nacho Recipe!

The winner of the Agate Stone Ring Giveaway from the weekend is 

SUE

SueMar 23, 2012 01:09 PM

I tweeted about your giveaway :) 

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Please email me at evannesimplyfab@gmail.com to claim your prize! 

March Sponsors Giveaway

I hope you all have enjoyed getting to meet some of my fabulous sponsors over the past couple of weeks!  They are all truly amazing!!

Now they have a special treat for you all...

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This fabulous momma of 5ohbaby and wife of 5ohhubby has a wonderful blog that continues to grow and grow everyday.  She is generously giving one lucky reader a free medium ad space!

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Lisa from All Glorious within is giving away one of these fabulous flowers from her shop (winners choice).  She is also currently running a GREAT opportunity for other bloggers to meet one another through Spring Fling Swap.  You will be paired with another blogger at random and send each other goodies for the summer...how fun!  Check out more information here.

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This beautiful square turquoise ring is one of many fabulous antique inspired pieces of jewelry found in Angel's Etsy Shop.  This turquoise stone is set on an antique brass finish fully adjustable band.






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Meghan from The Struggling Cyster has offered 2 months of ad space on her blog!  She is an amazing young women who is hilarious and she can make some WICKED GOOD peanut butter cookies (see here).

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Brooke from Covered in Grace has some GREAT items here.  Not only can you win 1 YEAR of ad space on her fabulous blog, but also some of these cute hair pins and bag accessories!  Mix and match these accessories in your hair or on bags to add a special pop!

One winner will receive ALL of these fabulous items!

To enter:
follow me on facebook, twitter, or leave a comment for each of these lovely ladies sites you visit.

The giveaway will close end of day Friday March 30th.

Good Luck!