Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
Author: Amber
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Tuesday loves to talk about when her birthday is. Anyone else have a child like this? I’m betting so. “When I’m five mama…” I told her she had to wait until winter, and she asked if that was after summer. No, I said, fall is first. How frustrating this was for her to understand! I had been thinking of doing some kind of chart for her after coming across a vintage illustration. When I said I would participate in the 100 days of Tombow I thought of this idea initially, but I thought it too boring.…
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I had some friends over that are dairy and gluten free. I needed to make them something with things I had on hand, since it was during my no spend September month. I asked another gluten free mama for ideas and she suggested this salad. It looked perfect for a last sunny day picnic in the backyard. So I got to work making it, glancing at my iPad for directions. Only somewhere along the line I clicked on something that took me to a completely different recipe, and I started integrating that with the other before…
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If you’ve been following along on our no spend (well really low spend) September you might be wondering how we did (if not you can catch up here and here). Well September is over and we outspent the $400 budget we gave ourselves by $12.49. All in all we’re calling the month a success for re-setting our spending and, more importantly, our goals and values. Since I last checked in we only spent money twice: Groceries $11.12 and I bought a month subscription to inLinkz so I could make those little lists at the end of…
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