In staying with the theme of Low-Spend January I stumbled upon Erin Chase’s site for $5 Dinners. Well, this is just what I need to help lower my food bill this month and she just released her first cookbook. Click on over to her website and enter to win a giveaway for one of her… Continue reading $5 Dinners
This Floating Frame Tutorial looks like it would make a great gift. File these Christmas Gift Ideas for next year. This post on Calculating Quilt Measurements will help me immensely in the future. A perfect card to use up all those scraps. Scroll down and look at those amazingly adorable Strawberry Santas. Since we move… Continue reading Sunday Links
Every year Ali Edwards labels her year with a word. One word. A word she plans to live out. She gives meaning to her word. She lives her word. She becomes her word. That is such an inspiring thought. GROWTH – It didn’t take me long to decide on my word for 2010. It will… Continue reading Growth
Sounds like an unattainable feat so maybe we’ll call it Low-Spend January. I am currently reading “Not Buying It” by Judith Levine and am so motivated by her cost-cutting efforts in an attempt to tackle American consumerism. This, coupled with a disaster-relief-size pantry of food that needs used before the sell-by dates expire and a… Continue reading No-Spend January
I just bought the supplies to make one of these – DIY Lazy Susan Craft Station. I need a girl bad to make this adorable tutu t-shirt. Next time I get some cute books for a little one’s birthday I’ll be sure to use these vintage printable bookplates. This craft station is amazing. I think… Continue reading Sunday Links
60 Sweet salespeople the week before Christmas 61 IKEA 62 Black and white photos 63 Babysitting your friend’s kids and making Christmas crafts and graham cracker houses. 64 Mini Christmas trees 65 Cookie swaps 66 Chocolate and mint together. In anything 67 Candy Cane syrup 68 Getting Christmas cards from people you haven’t seen in… Continue reading 1000 Gifts
Just some quotes that continue to encourage and inspire me. * “To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to… Continue reading Words of Wisdom
39 Traveling home for the holidays 40 Cooking Thanksgiving dinner with family 41 Sitting down to enjoy that Thanksgiving dinner 42 Peanut Butter Brownie Torte – mmm mmm 43 My son eating his first turkey leg, well nibbling on the bone at least 44 Wishing my son a happy 1st birthday 45 Watching him bust… Continue reading 1000 Gifts
I missed last Sunday so here’s a double dose of what I’ve been clicking on this week. Enjoy! I know Tripp is a little young but I think I have to make one of these handprint trees with him this year. Thanks SmartBottom Enterprises. Julia Bettencourt always has adorable projects and this Gift Card Holder… Continue reading Sunday Links
Ingredients for a Taylor-style Thanksgiving 1 set of wonderful in-laws willing to house 8 family members for an extended weekend and host Thanksgiving dinner for 18 people 1 set of parents willing to fly Thanksgiving weekend to visit with their daughter and son-in-law, grandson, their in-laws, their son-in-law’s brother’s in-laws, and their in-law’s daughter and… Continue reading Thanksgiving – Taylor Style
Newlywed Nomads 