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Choose to Thrive

A place to share my Rock-What-Ya-Got approach to living and crafting without spending a dime.

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Make Your Own FREE 4th of July Pillows from scraps and Easter bunnies!

  So … summer. It’s time to actually spruce up the ‘ol front porch for the 4th. Turns out, though, I’m fresh out of décor for the 4th of July or porches in general. And as usual, my budget is zero dollars and zero cents. That means I’m left with whatever I can make out of my classy […Read More]

Make Your Own Mass Rad Graduation, Birthday or Celebration Balloons

Graduation. End of the year. It’s almost here. Time for teacher appreciation gifts, commencement bouquets and graduation parties. ** Cue dollar store décor–that blessedly cheap haven of all things seasonal.** Well, seasonal and completely generic. Or not …. I figured if I only had a few bucks to throw towards celebrating I might as well […Read More]

Bee Mine Valentine’s Day Printable & Free Silhouette File

Have you seen this super cute Valentine’s Day printable designed by Aly over at Entire Eventful? Love, love the chalk board goodness. Well Aly asked a few of us bloggers to put our own spin on her fun design—a sort of “One Printable, Five Ways” type of thing. And because I’m a Silhouette nerd, I had all kinds of fun […Read More]

Super Duper Cheap Back To School Clothes

Happy Back To School! For the first time in eleven long years, all six of my kiddos are in school—five in elementary and one in preschool! (Please pause for Party Rock Anthem) That means that I now have dedicated time to get back to spending some quality time over here at Thrive while my kids have a blast […Read More]

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I’m Nike — that’s “Neeka” — a SAHM of six kids, age ten and under determined to THRIVE in spite of a layoff, bad economy and our household budget being slashed by half. I refuse to accept that creativity must be a casualty of financial hardship.

I created THRIVE to share my Rock-What-Ya-Got approach to living and crafting without spending a dime. No money. No shopping. No problem.

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