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Gooseberry Patch is offering free downloads of the chapters of their cookbook Circle of Friends (see pic below).

• Click the link which takes you to the page.
• Click on your selected chapter which takes you to a new page with the link to download the chapter.

Enjoy!

Thanks MoneySaving Mom

 

Now you can upload your photos for free. Receive 10 Free Valentine’s day Notecards from Vistaprint and cut them into 3′s to make 30 Valentine’s Day Cards!

 

Right now (as in 1/16/2012 8pm pacific time) you can get Organized Simplicity as a Kindle book on Amazon for free. I’m all about organizing books so this is nice. These deals come and they go so act now.

Even if you don’t have a Kindle you can read Kindle books on various devices. I read them on my Mac.

Kindle for Your Machine

Thank you Simplified Saving

 

psst…Enter my giveaway going on now for ListPlanIt

It’s Anti-Procrastination Tuesday time. Time to get a hold of whatever task you need to tackle and tackle it! Just fight through and get it done.

For me it’s making a big ol’ menu plan. Not weekly, but monthly. We don’t eat out anymore due to food allergies (And if you stop eating out you’ll notice that eating out just isn’t the same if you try and do it again. The food doesn’t taste as good as homemade. You become more sensitive to any additives, etc.) so we really vary our dinner menus.

I’m also not one to stick to one source for recipe ideas. These are my main go to sources for meal ideas and recipes.

• Taste of Home (number one right now) (link to last night’s dinner)
• Saving Dinner (number two right now)
• America’s Test Kitchen (to ge the cooking method down right)
• The Web  (for that recipe I just can’t find).

When I’m being smart I put it all in my recipe software, Shop’NCook (Which I’m opening now because I forgot to add tonight’s dinner to it) because I can make a nice menu plan and keep track of how my family is eating. Then at the end of a month I have a whole month of good menu ideas and I don’t have to start from scratch again each week. Although that is sometimes fun it’s nicer, more efficient, money savvy, and a just a good idea to have a month to look at.

This is where I fail.  I’m severely delinquent in adding recipes to the software. Breakfast and dinner. One of my lingering projects has been to keep an accurate account of what we are eating. There are certain recipes we really like to revisit and if I would just keep track it would be a lot easier.

So my anti-procrastination is to add last night’s’ dinner to my software, make a note in my-to-do list to to do this each night. Make a print out in february.

This includes breakfast.

 

By the way click the button on top and Visit Amy at New Nostalgia for some great Anti-procrastination link ups.

 

 

Suzanne is hosting a ”honey of a giveaway”during the blog tour for The Keeper! During 1/3-1/17 you can enter to win an iPad2 from Suzanne and connect with her on January 17th at The Keeper Facebook Party!

During the giveaway one Grand Prize winner will receive a Prize Pack valued at $600:

• A brand new 16 KB iPad 2 with Wi-Fi
• A $25 gift certificate to iTunes
• A copy of The Keeper

But wait there’s more! Just click one of the icons below to enter, then on 1/17 join Suzanne for The Keeper Facebook Party! During the party Suzanne will announce the winner of the “Honey” of an iPad Giveaway and host a fun book chat and give away some fun “honey” inspired prizes – It’ll be ‘sweet”!

RSVP early and tell your friends!

Don’t miss a moment of the fun. RSVP today and tell your friends via FACEBOOK or TWITTER and increase your chances of winning. Hope to see you on the 17th!

I like printables as much as the next person. So many, so little time. And then I have the nerve to go and create my own. Well while I’m deep in creating mode for the new updated Vintage Home Planner I want to point you in the direction of some lovely creatives around the internet to help you get things together in 2012.

1. A Free 2012 Declutter & Organize Calendar from My Simpler Life

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New Years Paper Doll from Tricia Rennea (thanks Tip Junkie)

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January Checklist to help you capture memories for your scrapbook

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January 2012 Get Organized checklist from Creative Organizing

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This lovely Weekly Cleaning Checklist from Evelyn Kate Designs is sure to keep your home neat and tidy.

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Got some new resolutions to keep track of. This handy form from Nest Candy can help you out.

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Clean Mama has a host of pretty printables to keep your home in tip top shape.

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Planning Chore Charts from Posh Little. Includes menu planning charts too. (Thank you DealWiseMommy)

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Free BIG Homeschool Planner from The Osborne’s

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Free Menu Planner from Bold Turquoise

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Free Baby Tooth Chart from Turtle Soup. This one was so cute I had to add it. (Thanks MomsByHeart)

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2012 Goals Printable from Kiki Creates.

 

Well, what are you waiting for? Get downloading and get organized!

 

Happy New Year!

 

Check out this free Nativity Printable from Marloes de Vries, a designer and illustrator from the Netherlands. So cute!

 

Thank you Amy at NewNostalgia!

 Download a free printable of Victorian paper dolls from a vintage issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book. Courtesy of Victoriana Magazine.

A great winter break activity for the little lady in your life.Victorian paper dolls

Perfect! You know when you just find something that answers a question you’ve had for a while?  Well this blog post is an answer to my question, how to keep Sweet Peanut attentive during church.

We’ve always gone to a Family Integrated Church (didn’t know that there was a name for it). Where our children attend the main service also. Sunday School for the children and the adults is before the main service and then we all attend service as a family.

I’ve done different things throughout the years to keep her attention and facilitate the learning process but none seemed to be quite right. From writing the names of the books of the Bible, to coloring a picture of what was being taught, to finding the scriptures in the Bible as they were called out in service. Either her attention was on the coloring or writing or she had a hard time keeping up with trying to find the scripture (this was shortly after she started to learn to read).

Just by happenstance this morning I landed upon this post about Listening Pages on Amy’s blog Raising Arrows. This is a wonderful idea and I shared it with my husband who agrees also. So we’ll be testing these out over the next few weeks to see if this works for our family.

Read the full post to find the links for all three types of pages. There are pages for regular service, Christmas, and non-readers.

 

 

 

 

Ann Voskamp from A Holy Experience has designed this beautiful perpetual calendar, A Year of Graces, to keep track of the special things going on in your life. There are special quotes from the blog on each month. And also a free app card to give to a friend.