Remember a few weeks ago when you voted on which DIY project you wanted TenList, the home improvement experts, to make a video of next? Well, your wish is my command. Really, your wish is TenList's command. Drum roll please ...
The "Shoe Chandelier" project was the winner!
Daniel, the TenList DIY guy, has put together an easy DIY video tutorial on how to make a shoe chandelier for your closet. It's a very inexpensive and cool way to give your shoes a home.
After you watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments: How would you make this project better?Will you attempt this at home?
If you do make your own shoe chandelier, tweet a picture of it to me @thebargainblond and @TenList10 using the hash tag #shoechandy! Happy DIY-ing.
Do you like TenList on Facebook? They frequently give away hundreds in gift cards away to their Facebook fans!
And while we're at it, do you like The Bargain Blonde on Facebook? I can't say the same about the giftcards, but I can promise you with some pretty awesome status updates. Bam.
Last Wednesday, the $75 Visa Gift Card Giveaway that TenList hosted on The Bargain Blonde closed! I went out of town Thursday, came back Friday and then went to Ft. Worth Sunday. Life has been so hectic lately, but today I'm finally able to blog again and announce the winner! Congratulations to #259, Katelyn ...
And TenList is so awesome that they upped the card to $100 just because. Enjoy Katelyn!
Like I mentioned above, I went out of town twice this weekend and both times were for Stella and Dot parties!
Thursday I went to visit my Aunt who lives about 2 hours west of Dallas in a small town and while there, I had a party with blogger Amy from Tales of Small Town Girl. She was the tiniest, cutest, sweetest little thing ever! Here are a few pics from my time in the country.
Yummy! My Aunt made veggie omlette, turkey sausage and low carb toast for breakfast. Love me some home cookin!
Saw this sign while antiquing and I'm seriously regretting not buying it for my desk at work.
The most delicious Club Cobb Salad ever! Sorry, I'm not sorry but I did eat all that cheese.
I drove back to Dallas Friday evening and stayed in that night. This Bargain Blonde was tired. Saturday morning I took Reese to gymnastics, then Bear to the dog park, took a nap and then went over to my bestie Courtney's new house for grilling, pool time and a puppy play date.
Bear taking a dip in the pool
Red wine and fresh watermelon!
Bear is OBSESSED with the water and he swims laps. It is the cutest thing ever.
Sunday I headed out west to Ft. Worth for another Stella and Dot party blogger Mrs. Lia Joy from life is aMAYESing hosted for moi! She had the cutest spread, baked a fabulous cake and even had homemade Sangria for us!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cake (not on the nutrition plan, but so worth the cals)
The bevys!
The food!
If you follow me on Instagram/Twitter, then you've most likely seen me posting pictures about the Tone It Up nutrition plan. I started the Tone It Up fitness/nutrition program last week and many of you have asked me to share it with you and post recipes to some of the healthy foods I've cooked. I will be blogging all about it tomorrow, so stay tuned!! If you have any fitness/nutrition related questions about Tone It Up or want to know what Tone It Up even is, leave me your question in the comments of this post!
Happy Monday! Make it a good one! XOXO
p.s. Huge thank you to both Amy and Lia Joy for hosting Stella & Dot parties for me! We have a fabulous hostess rewards program if any of you readers are from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I'd love to throw a show with y'all and get you hundreds in free Stella and Dot. Juste-mail me!
Happy Hump Day! I've got some exciting things for y'all today, but first i need to give you some background information. Just stick with me because it's ALLLLL going to make sense in the end. I promise.
Now, you might be wondering, "what is TenList and why do I care?"
Well friends, you know sites like apartmentlocators.com that help you locate an apartment? Ten List is exactly like that but they put you in touch with contractors. Maybe you're redoing your bathroom, or your kitchen, installing hardwood floors, etc and you need a reputable contractor .... bam, TenList to the rescue. Or straight from the horse's mouth aka TenList's Web Site ....
"TenList was formed to provide one stop shopping for your local contractor needs. When you are looking for a fair and respected local contractor that you can trust, you can find it here. We spend a lot of time and energy (and money!) reviewing the advertisers that appear on the site so you don't have to."
.And now for the "why you should care part" ...
When I was working with TenList to come up with giveaway ideas, I explained that my readers LOVE a good DIY to help save money, so their DIY guru Daniel (homeboy in the video) put together this DIY Flat Iron Holder Tutorial just for you bargainistas!
He's pretty hysterical and makes a lot of other DIY videos so I recommend checking them out. He made me LOL IRL and that doesn't happen often. Here is Daniel's "DIY for the ladies" ....
To thank you for watching and to spread the word about TenList, they are giving one of my readers a $75 Visa Gift Card to spend however you'd like!
Perhaps you have a home improvement project you've wanted to get started but didn't have the funds or maybe now you want to make a wall hanger for your very own flat iron holder.
Use the giveaway app below to enter! You have until next Wednesday, June 20 at midnight EST to enter.
p.s.TenList is also giving away $500 in gift cards via their facebook page this week in honor of Father's Day. To be eligible, you must "like", share or comment on a TenList facebook post this week.
