I am sneaking a post in during my "blogging vaca" to share a discount at Vosges Haut-Chocolat as you can still sneak in your order in time for Mother's Day. Vosges is a new sponsor on In This Instance and they have a sweet little discount that I thought you may be interested in for any gifts you may have to give during May.

Vosgues chocolate goodies are such a special, yummy indulgance that I personally find them to be a quite lovely gift.  Such superb quality wrapped in a lux little purple hatbox... They have a pretty little collection of Mother's Day chocolate gifts.

Or maybe one of these incredible looking, indulgant little mini-cakes will help make mother's day special...

You can receive 10% off an order of $60 or more until May 28th using the promo code 294WB1.  Final shipping schedules for Mother's Day are:

- Ground shipping will be Monday 4th
- 2 day will be Wednesday 6th and
- Next day Thursday 7th

Enjoy!

I am going to take a little vacation from blogging for a while... I may write a post or two here and there but am hoping to find a little breathing room so I can re-center. 

Hope you are all enjoying your spring!

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I love Earth Day and its mission but gone are the days where I could participate by having my teachers coordinate the trash pick up day or by writing an essay on recycling for my homework... It is part of my to do list for this year to add in more earth friendly practices and I haven't done a great job of that (I just mailed out baby shower invites complete with a backing and envelope liners!).  This year for Earth Day the hubby and I are going to spend a little time thinking through what earth friendly lifestyle changes we can make and actually stick with as the consistency is what I see as being key.  There are loads of articles out there on this topic... Real Simple has a nice one as does iVillage.

Whatever your plans for today are I hope they include something earth friendly!

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What an incredibly busy weekend!  I have been multi-tasking up a storm and have finally made some progress on the continually growing list of projects.  My first priority right now {personal project wise} is my sister's upcoming baby shower.  I had the invitation comps done a long time ago but finalized and printed them this weekend and ordered the fabric for the pennant banner.  I love how multi-tasking on projects completely takes over our apartment...

So while I hate to be a person that says this... I am not ready for it to be Monday at all!  Can we have a second Sunday this week please?   This week I have a nice little special discount for the brides that I can't wait to share, then another shoe round up, and I hope to find some time to take photos of the baby shower invites to share as well.  Happy Monday!

After this busy couple of weeks and past weekends, I am looking foward to a relaxing, restful weekend complete with some quality couple time.  And of course I will be catching up and commenting on blogs (that is my version of the Sunday paper).  Hope you have a lovely weekend!

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It is rare that I talk about my work on this blog.  I occassionally do on twitter but I am pretty sure that beyond saying that I am a project manager I have never talked about any of my projects.  Well, today one of my projects launched and I think it is such a cool site and great resource that I want to share with you all...

I know that those who read or stumble upon my blog are savvy and smart individuals who get that saving money on day to day purchases is so smart it is sexy. I mean really, why not utilize a discount that is being offered for a store that you were going to buy from anyways? But I also know you are all incredibly busy and clipping coupons out of the newspaper is just not something that can fit into the limited free time. CouponCabin.com takes on all the collection of coupons and organizes them for you so they are literally a click away when you are shopping. It takes seconds and can really pay off in terms of savings.

And the stores they are receiving coupons for are those that you are most likely already shopping at: JCrew, Target, Zappos, Bluefly, Sephora, etc.  For the crafty readers there are coupons for Fabric.com and JoAnns.  For the brides there are coupons for VistaPrint and many apparel sites.  It is definitely a site worth as why not save a little money for purchase you are already planning to make and use that money toward a date night!