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The 15 BEST Dollar Store Finds

By: Dana Michele

dollar store finds gift bags

I’m very brand loyal and prefer to invest in quality yet there are some things I always buy at the dollar stores. Saving money is also very important to me as a single self-employed mom. My two favorite dollar stores are the 99 Cents Only Store and Dollar Tree. I visit one at about once […]

Favorite Silhouette Home Decor Projects

By: Dana Michele

Arizona Home sign

I LOVE DIYing and crafting and creating home decor projects for my home is the perfect combination of the two. They’re all pretty simple and inexpensive once you invested in a Silhouette. I have a Silhouette Cameo, an older model that I’ve had for over 5 years and it still works great. I am eyeing […]

Everyone Should Have an Important Documents Folder

By: Dana Michele

organizing your important documents

Birth certificates, car titles, passports…there’s a list of documents that everyone should have and know where they are. Schools or sports teams want to see your kid’s original birth certificate today! Or you have the chance for a last-minute trip but where is that passport? Need to evacuate? We never expect this to happen to us […]

15 Things to do to Prepare for the New Year

By: Dana Michele

Things to do to prepare for the new year

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024!! I’m not much of a New Year’s Resolutions fan. I prefer to use the new year as a time to reflect on the past year and plan and make goals for the new year. New Year’s resolutions are often broken or forgotten within weeks of the new year. Plans […]

What to do with Photo Christmas Cards When the Holidays are Over

By: Dana Michele

What to do with Christmas cards

I love receiving Christmas cards every holiday season, especially photo cards. We display them across our mantel clipped onto a banner. Once the holidays are over, it’s time to take down holiday cards. Most of the ones I receive are photo cards and I just can’t toss all those photos. I love looking back over […]

Sweet Shoppe Mom’s Best of 2017!

By: Dana Michele

Sweet Shoppe Mom Blog Best of 2017

Happy 2018!!! January 1st is a great day to reflect on the past and plan for the future. This has been an exciting blogging year for me and even more excited to see where 2018 takes me. Besides continuing to blog here at Sweet Shoppe Mom, I added a blog for Cocktails and Cactus which […]

2017 Best Nine – @sweetshoppemom on Instagram

By: Dana Michele

Sweet Shoppe Mom Best of Nine 2017

Happy 2018!!! January 1st is always a great day to take time to reflect on the past year and make plans for the future. Instagram continues to be my favorite social channel. This year @sweetshoppemom hit the major milestone of 10k followers and I’m so grateful for every single one of you for your support. I […]

Chinese Food, Our Holiday Tradition

By: Dana Michele

Potstickers and Tea

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, INC. and The Coca-Cola Company, all opinions are mine alone. #GrabSomeCheer #CollectiveBias What’s your Christmas Eve dinner? For years ours has been Chinese Food. We love it, its super simple to make and fun (don’t forget the fortune cookies!). With so much going on getting ready for […]

Christmas Holiday Home Tour

By: Dana Michele

Christmas home tour ornaments

Its that time of year again and one of my favorite for decorating the house. For Christmas, I go a little more out with the decorating throughout the house. Other holidays are limited to the mantel and table centerpiece but not Christmas – the tree (of course), outdoors, and little accents through the entire house. […]

Photos with Santa – HGTV’s Santa HQ at Chandler Fashion Center

By: Dana Michele

Santa photos and teens

Pictures with Santa. One of our favorite Christmas traditions. Never too old for Santa! I’m glad my son agrees. This year we headed to Chandler to . Santa has gone high tech – my son loved all the techie additions to the Santa experience. Photos are digital too so besides the printed photo we were […]

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Hi there and welcome to Sweet Shoppe Mom. My name is Dana and my son is Brendan, also known as B. Welcome to our blog where we chat about every day life with tweens and teens, midlife and perimenopause, and preparing for empty nest

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