hoot hoot

usually our owls pour salt n peppa:
it's turning up cupcakes here at mckendree. it's wedding season, and we are often the bakers. it's a delicious process.


rach whipped up the owls (they are our fav birds here at mcK) with chocolate cup cake base, pipped on their fur with chocolate frosting, added opened oreos with resse pieces for eyes and noses. A-dorable!

thriftiness is the mother of all invention

so there are a few things we are good at here at mckendree...saving money may quite possibly be our finest. 

some recent things we have done to help in this not-so-great recession:

• selling clothing and household items to our local consignment shop. we'll let you know how much we make.
• we like to do street drive bys. tonight we found a large, awesome, like-new carpet from our neighbors. it will adorn our cement basement floors: no more cold feet for our basement dweller!
• we have begun to fall in love with shoppers grocery store. they now do double and triple coupons. tonight, yes tonight, rach and sus saved a combined $42 off their groceries just in clipped coupons. pretty darn good.

how you doin' saving?