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Budget Cake Decorating for Non-Artists

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | February 2nd, 2009 | Category: Kitchen Tips | No Comments »

With all the ready-made tubes of colored decorating icing and gel available in the grocery store’s birthday cakes section, you’d think it would be fast and easy to decorate a birthday cake yourself. But what happens if you can’t draw? It may be a great intention to make a frugal birthday or baby shower cake [...]

Happy Sweetest Day October 18th

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | October 18th, 2008 | Category: Other Holidays | No Comments »

Ever a fan of frugal holidays, we want to remind you that today is Sweetest Day. Let your loved ones know how much sweeter they make your life!

Go Green and Save on Shipping with Popcorn

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | October 6th, 2008 | Category: Kitchen Tips | No Comments »

Use Popcorn to Save on Shipping and Save the Planet The holidays are fast approaching and many of us will be packing up boxes of presents to mail out to loved ones. Shipping materials can be expensive to purchase and usually are made of plastics that aren’t the friendliest on the environment. There are many [...]

Save Money and Paper with Kids’ Gift Tags

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | July 10th, 2008 | Category: Frugal Living | No Comments »

Say Goodbye to Cards and Hello to Gift Tags! Large families mean a lot of birthdays, and a lot of birthdays mean a lot of parties to attend. Parties mean presents and cards. A card to each person, and sometimes even a card on each gift for the same person, adds up to a lot [...]

Happy Easter!

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | March 23rd, 2008 | Category: Easter | No Comments »

See everyone tomorrow! thanks to Plebius for the cool glitter text and MorgueFile for the photo

Frugal Easter Baskets

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | March 21st, 2008 | Category: Easter | No Comments »

Here is how I made 2 cute Easter baskets for my kids while keeping the costs down (hurray Walmart for the supplies; some of you who have Walgreens and CVS may do better finding your deals there). The supplies: · Easter grass x 2 bags = $2.00 · Plastic Easter eggs 48pk =$1.68 · 2 [...]

Free Pictures with the Easter Bunny at Walmart

By Danelle Ice - Home Ever After | March 20th, 2008 | Category: Easter | No Comments »

Head to Walmart this weekend to get your free photos of your kids with the Easter Bunny. They print the photos while you shop and have them waiting for you on the counter of the photo department. If you want more than one copy, you can take it right over to their photo printing kiosk [...]