Heidi

Hi! I'm the owner of TheBusyNothings.com. I've been married to my college sweetheart Ben for 10 years and I'm passionate about my 2 little boys- one of whom has special needs. I love being real about my life and struggles and seek to understand God and chase his beauty. I enjoy cooking healthy/gluten-free, fashion from thrift stores and exercise to keep my sanity. I work from home, freelance writing and social media consulting with bloggers and small businesses. I am slowly figuring out how to balance family life and work. I love connecting with people, contact me at TheBusyNothings@gmail.com

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Hi, I'm Sarea, contributor at the TheBusyNothings.com. I home-school my three kids, dabble in photography, quilt, know how to change the oil in my car and love baseball #GoNaturals. I volunteer at the local Arts Center. I am an instructor of Life-guarding/CPR/First Aid with the local Red Cross. I like finding new music. I have a love for records and have quite a collection, but currently no way to play them. I have a fetish for office supplies, I am a great listener, love roller coasters, I am WAY behind in scrapbooking and can't wait till my oldest turns 18 so we can skydive together for the first time! Follow Sarea below!

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Hi, I'm Sherry, a writer for at the TheBusyNothings.com. I am passionate about helping people with disabilities learn life skills and am fortunate enough to be able to do it full time! I love doing Wordless Wednesdays, capturing life at the Camp I work at as well as sharing bits of my life. I work a lot and come and post when I can!

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Currently living "The Rockies Life" in Fort Collins, CO but a southern girl at heart! In love and married almost 5 years. No kids yet...just a few furry friends. I am a Social Worker who spends most of her days in jails, foster and group homes, connecting with and advocating for at risk kids. I love eating healthy but indulge way too often in my favorites -wine and cheese. I love spending time outdoors hiking, biking and just adventure-ing!!

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I'm 23. I'm married to the best guy in town. I enjoy sunsets and long walks to the fridge. The gracious owner of The Busy Nothings, Heidi, has asked me to be a regular contributor on her blog, and I am so happy to be a part of such an amazing group! Bear with me as I grow into this 'writing' business. For now, you'll get a little laughter, a little wit, and a whole lot of heart from me.

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A Fine Dime: Hipster Style (guest post)

Published January 27, 2012 | By Heidi
Meet Sherry from Sherry K Letters!
Many people truly have their own style and wear what they love and what they feel comfortable in and I also determine many things I wear by these desires as well.  I am, however, beginning to learn that while many people work hard to have their own mind in their style and do not allow anything or anyone to influence how they dress, the cold hard truth is that I am just not one of those people.  I am beginning to see and embrace the reality that I am incredibly influenced in how I am dressing by who I am surrounded by.
I recently moved to Kansas City and the community I am surrounded by the most fits into the following look on most days… and they score very high on this scale: (I totally have the tattoo, 2 actually)
That’s right… I am surrounded by v-necks, flannel shirts and skinny jeans.  I had a handful of very hipster dressing influences in my life when I lived in North West Arkansas as well but I was not surrounded by nearly as many as I am currently in my life. While thinking about composing this post I began thinking about what my current favorite outfit is and I suddenly noticed how hipster this outfit truly is.  I began to look and I saw how my hangers and dresser drawers are slowly filling with vintage looking shirts, v-necks and that my jeans are equally balanced between regular boot cut jeans and skinny jeans.
My look…
My favorite outfit as of this moment in time cost me a total of  74.00.  I work fairly hard at looking trendy and doing that in a very thrifty way.  I rarely pay more than 10.00 for a top and try to pay no more than 30.00 for jeans and often through sales and deals I actually typically end up paying no more than 20.00 for jeans.  I often do buy in branded stores on sale and when I am able to find good items, I buy at thrift stores. I also tend to inherit clothes from others often.  There is one thing, however, that I do not mind paying a decent amount for…Shoes… it’s just the truth, shoes are always worth it.  This outfit is no different in my common habits of shopping.
The cardigan:  Old Navy- 8.00 (clearance)
The top : Old Navy- 6.00 (clearance)
The Tank: OP Brand Wal-Mart- 3.00 (after summer clearance)
Skinny Jeans: Old navy – 15.00 (after Christmas jean sale)
Charcoal Toms Shoes: Masons- 40.00
Paint On Toms: 2.00
Earrings: Home made clay tea pot earrings made by one of my roommates
Now, I am a girl, in light of this fact the likelihood of my favorite outfit changing next week is very high but for now this is what I am loving.   I know that I am looking more and more like my surroundings but I am incredibly okay with beginning to shift my look into something new, it is always an adventure in the land of fashion and style and I truly love the journey.
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A Fine Dime: Belting Baggy Dresses

Published January 9, 2012 | By Heidi

I am a collector of other people’s hand-me-downs, thrift store scraps and garage sale discards.

This dress was featured in my original post at NWA Motherloade but I never really said where I got the stuff so I decided to revisit this picture. I love grey!  This dress was off a rack at a Goodwill in Boulder, CO. I think that I’ve said this before, but anytime you travel, visit the local Goodwill and thrift stores! It was not the prettiest dress but I imagined it with a belt and decided that it would work well. Now it’s one of my favorite go-to outfits when I don’t have time to plan.

 

-grey dress, $6, Goodwill, Old Navy dress.

-white sweater, $7 Target clearance rack.

-white belt, $3, Plato’s Closet.

-necklace, $1, estate sale

-boots, $60, sale at Warren’s. My Christmas present last year!

(not shown, grey fishnets, $2, Rue 21 clearance bin OR re-purposed smart wool ski socks)

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