Thursday, December 29, 2011

Stitched House Ornament Swap

THIS SWAP IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO THOSE WHO HAVE SIGNED UP.
I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE OUR LITTLE VILLAGE OF WORKS!

I'm in the mood to learn something new:D
Look at these adorable little house ornaments!

Kim from Retro Mama has put an awesome tutorial together. Thanks Kim!


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Would you like to stitch one and post it to someone and have someone stitch one for you?
If you are interested in swapping, please leave a comment and e-mail.
This will be an INTERNATIONAL swap so please don't participate if you are not willing to post overseas.
Postal due date will be 01 March 2012.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

{Project: Food Budget} Week 13



I'm excited to join Emily Levenson's {Project: Food Budget} this week.
I'm feeding 6 - 3 big hungry mouths, and 3 small hungry mouths on a grocery store budget of $300 per week.
This must include food and non-food grocery items. I plan to track my spending under - meat / fruit & veg / non-nutritious foods / general grocery / non-food - as suggested by Jodi at Lightening. These headings make sense to me, especially the treats or 'non-nutritious' - I don't know how much our budget suffers atm because of them...
In fact, I don't really have a good grasp of our food budget other than we have a tendency to overspend...that and I drink way too much Pepsi Max:(
My plan is to create a series of weekly menus, each with there own shopping lists and costings. A lot of work now will hopefully mean less work in the future as I will cycle through the various weeklies as the seasons suit.

So to this weeks menu: (I'll be back later to post the shopping list)

Monday - Chilli con Carne with rice, tomato and avocado
Tuesday - Bean Burgers
Wednesday - Albondigas soup with mushrooms and carrot
Thursday - Chicken with Red Salad
Friday - Italian Vegetarian Patties with salad
Saturday - Zucchini Slice
Sunday - leftovers:D

Food spend thus far is $160. That's all dinners and most lunch / breakfast supplies.
The kids are on holidays...I'm undecided if that makes it more or less expensive!
I'm hoping with the incidental bread / milk / fruit purchases that I can achieve a food total of not more than $200.
I'll be pretty happy with that:)
Here are the other bloggers taking the project on:


Participating blogs:

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Teacher Gifts

It has become my job in my crafty school mum circle to come up with the next teacher gift each year. They have to be cheap, cute and unique - enter my bestie, Pinterest.
Two lovely and helpful bloggers unknowingly came to my rescue and here is the result.
What is it? Well it's pump soap, personalized soap. Just what every teacher needs!




You can find the inspired posts here and here.