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July Sweet Stuff
July 28, 2009
(see <a href ="http://www.outsideways.com/Bald-Peak-Trail-Pleasant-Mountain/">ADVENTUREinPROGRESS</a> for our recent mountain blueberry picking experience)
Mama Speak
- Make your own cloth pads from Keeper of the Home. I wrote a post about my experience switching to these.
- That Nicola is one talented thrifty seamstress, posting a tutorial about sewing a girl's dress out of man's button-up shirt. If she wasn't so busy being a mom I think she could get a little business going. Maybe she will anyway??
Homeschool
- Recycled craft jars from Playful Learning.
- Pressing Memories from the Garden, simple flower pressing tutorial.
- Making stamps has been on my list of "crafts-to-with-the-kids" for ages. Of course, SouleMama makes it look just so beautiful.
Urban Homestead
- We use the envelope system for budgeting (super easy and it works!) but our envelopes aren't near this pretty.
- Keeper of the Home shares how to freeze blueberries. I totally lucked out and got a wicked good deal, through a buying club, on already frozen organic Maine wild blueberries but I'll do this next month when we pick high bush berries.
- The Winter Harvest Handbook, reviewed at GardenDesk. I see this book by Eliot Coleman, popping up everywhere. I dream of some year gardening and harvesting year round. If this Mainer can do it then technically I suppose I can too.
Neighborhood
- So cool to know that we aren't the only family who love camping and backpacking in the outdoors. Earthy Crunchy wrote one, two, three posts about their summer adventure with their 3 kiddos. Yeehaw for hiking and sleeping in the outdoors.
Gallery
- Extension tubes a great way to take closer photos with your dslr. I hope to own a set of these someday...
- Tips for photographing bubbles, quite a bit more spectacular than my own bubble post.
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kyndale on July 29, 2009, 11:46 p.m.
Thank you Renee for the link love too! I am honored. Several of your links I have been really loving. I saw the envelope system post!! I am also really loving the stamps too. I was thinking I should get down to the art store and get supplies to make some homemade holiday presents. Holiday cards maybe? Thank you again Renee :) XO Kyndale
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nicola on July 29, 2009, 2:50 a.m.
thank you for the link love, again! and thank you for all these links! i am with you on the soule mama stamping. i already saved the link for my next link list. (do you do these for you or others? i ask, because i do mine for me, as a way of bookmarking interesting things for later!) and i am in agreement on earthy crunchy's posts. instead of an increase in backpacking (with kids), we have done less, and i hate that. one thing at a time, we are working our way back towards being more balanced. in the meantime, we still soak up the outdoors in other ways! nicola http://whichname.blogspot.com
nicola's last blog post... happy birthday, dad! (and babble on blogging)
renee on July 29, 2009, 5:44 p.m.
Nicola, I make these lists for myself and others. These are posts that I find inspiring or useful and I want to revisit them and if they're here I know how to find them again. Also, I figure if I liked them someone else might also.
I never backpacked before having kids and still haven't really, except for our winter trek to a cabin, with our gear on our backs. Next month will be our first real backpacking experience. Damien backpacked with friends before we were married.