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My Christmas Wishlist
I fear that there is no way I’ll be getting the number one item on my Christmas wishlist, but here it is:
1. A Janome MS5027LE Sewing Machine.
It is everything I’m after- easy to buy new feet (I want a ΒΌ inch foot and a darning foot), You can bring the feed dogs up and down, it has the up and down in the one place thing to secure the end, and a top facing bobbin place.
In fact, the only thing on my list that this machine doesn’t do is having an extendable bench, but I can live with that!
Other things on my list are:
3. Fallen In Love dress from Modcloth (I’d love it in a NAVY though!)
5. An elephant button by Buttons By Lou Lou
Of course, over my with wishlist page there are other goodies I really, really, really want like a new pasta maker and Nigella Lawson’s “Kitchen” cookbook
This is part of Challenge 63 on Blog This.
Tags: blogthis, challenge, Christmas, sewing maching, wishlist
The Everyday Creative
Well, better late then never! I totally meant to post this yesterday, but out internet wasn’t working. Today it’s decided it would like to work, which is good, but annoying. Annoying because Dad spent time today getting stuff ready to fix it this afternoon, and then we we came home it was working fine… a bit embarassing.
Anyway, this week I’ve been on track with my creative endeavours. It’s ranged from drawing to cooking to sewing. I nice variety.
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The everyday creative is a challenge I set myself in February 2010 to do something creative every single day. The purpose is to stimulate my creativity, do something with my creativity, appreciate the gifts God has given me, and use them in my everyday life.
June Challenge Update
ACHIEVEMENTS:
So I’m half way through the June Challenge that I started this month. I’m really, really happy with how it’s all going. We’ve only eaten out twice this month, and both times we spent our spending money- none of our savings. In totally I think we’ve spent about $20 on takeaway.
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STRUGGLES:
The hardest thing for me has being going without my diet coke! And the fact that we keep seeing really nice resturaunts that we want to go to! We’re holding out till July though!
GOAL PROGRESS:
One of the goals of this challenge was to pay off our only credit card. It was $3500, and we used it to pay for our European holiday we’re going on in October. Two weeks in and we’ve paid it all off, which is FANTASTIC news for us. This has really spured us on to keep going too! We did up a budget of all the ‘extras’ we want to do on our tour, and extra expenses, as well as spending money, and have made a new goal. We want $6000 to take away with us to cover everything, and have a stack of spending money (this holday just keeps getting more and more expensive! I will let you know a bit more about what we’re doing later…).
THINGS THAT HAVE HELPED:
Because we’ve made this commitment to not eating out, we’ve decided that we don’t even have the option to eat out. Having this mindset has been EXTREMEMLY helpful, because there have been quite a few nights when I was not up to cooking dinner and it would have been easier to just eat take-out. If we don’t have time to cook dinner, then we’ve decided that we’re better off going without dinner at all. We haven’t had to do this yet, but we have had a few nights of an egg on toast, or a toasted sandwhich eaten on our way out the door!
Cup-a-soups have been our lunch time saviours. We have a bit of a stash in my draw at work, so any days when we would have normally had takeaway for lunch we have had those!
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If you’re doing the June Challenge with me, how it’s going so far for you??
Tags: challenge, holiday, junechallenge, saving
