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Friday, January 20, 2017

Frugal Friday With Marsha -- Weekly Recap 1/20/17

Whew! It's been a good week. The days have flown by.

1. I had my annual doctor appointment. I am so thankful that my husband's work covers are health insurance. That is a HUGE savings. I am thankful that I earn online and I was able to pay my co-pay for the visit from my online earnings.

2. I still have yet to buy a Sunday paper for the coupons, but I have been using printable grocery coupons. I've mentioned the blog, Pinchin Paul, that I am following through twitter. I opened some of the posts that were for items that we use in our household, printed out the coupons, and actually gave those to my daughter to use.

3. I'm still working on establishing routines for my day, but still having trouble getting sidetracked--hence why I didn't get this blog post started until noon! It's not always a bad thing as I was doing some important things this morning getting some ads in rotation and such to hopefully improve my online earning, but I had other plans in my head for how my day was going to go.

4. I'm still reading The Six Dollar Family on my kindle app. I'm up to the chapter that includes recipes for health and beauty. That sounds interesting. I just might check those out too...and it could be some things to make for my daughters for their Christmas next year. I will have more on that later.

5. Not frugal related exactly, but something I just must share! My youngest daughter gave birth to my 11th grandchild Saturday, January 14th at 6:29 am. Amelia Isis Marie came in weighing 6 lb 2 oz and was 19 inches.
This is a picture that my daughter shared today on her facebook. I just love it and want to share it with my readers.

Until next week, I wish everyone a Frugal week ahead. I wonder what I might have to share with you next week.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

WIP Wednesday -- My 365

Before I write about my 365, I first want to show that I did a little work on the selvage toothbrush rug.
It's not as large as the picture perceives it to be :)

Now on to my 365. The other day Julie and Julia was on TV. It's a movie that I've been wanting to watch for some time now. Many of you know the movie and know that it's about Julie, who decides to do a 365 by making at least one recipe from the Julia Child Cookbook each day of the year, and blogging about it.
At one point in the movie her mother is chiding her over the phone on it being a silly idea. She tells her mom that doing anything for 365 days in a row is a good idea.
This reminded me of a book I reviewed called The Gnome Project. In this book the gal is felting a Gnome each day for 365 days. Doing something for 365 days sets a routine and then other routines will naturally follow.
You can find my original and full review here:

The Gnome Project by Jessica Peill-Meininghaus

As I wrote about last week, I have a very large yo-yo project for a special order to make. This has prompted me to make making 3 yo-yo's each day my 365 for the year. I have to get them made for the project, and I have other yo-yo projects in mind as well.

Of course I hope to have some days where I make more than 3, but 3 is a good number and what I must do to get the big project done in time.

I hadn't planned on showing the yo-yo's every week, but since I've made it my 365, I now will.

Do you have a 365? I'm linking up both The Gnome Project book and the Julie and Julia movie at the bottom of the post for those interested.

As far as my UFO's, I've gone ahead and just left yo-yo's for projects over putting down the specific projects for now.

UFO's:

Rectangle quilt

challenge wall hanging

Hexagon quilt

Emerald Island Fusique table runner

Five and Dime quilt

Brown half square triangle table runner

2 sets of doll blanket, pillows, bed and rug

Wall hanging for quilt guild

yo-yo's that need to be made into projects

black and white rail fence quilt

Arkansas Crossroads scrap quilt

T-shirt latchhook rug

Charming Stars quilt

Special crocheted prayer shawl

Fall Squares table topper

Crazy colored quilt with the five and dime blocks

Rainbow colored string quilt

St. Patricks yo-yo table topper/runner

Lexington quilt

I link up with the following blogs:

Esther's Blog

Soscrappy

Adiyday

Monday, January 26, 2015

All Business Monday--Establishing Routines

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I have a problem. That problem is establishing routines.

I really like to do my blog posts in the morning before I do anything else on the computer. This post is usually put up Monday morning, not later into Monday evening. However this was a Monday that I had to be out of the house early and gone for the day. So, here I am.

How can I establish any work routines when my activities are scattered?

Sunday mornings are always church.

Every Monday and Friday is one of my merchandising jobs--no set hours, just the days to do it.

Every Tuesday morning is Bible study.

Every Friday I clean our church.

1st Saturday of the month is Sampler at the quilt shop

2nd Monday of the month is quilt guild board meeting and quilt show meeting.

2nd Tuesday of the month is sewing club from 10-3 (I skip Bible study this day and go to the basement to sew)

2nd Friday is sit n' sew at the quilt shop from 6-10 pm

3rd Tuesday is ladies lunch from noon -2

3rd Wednesday is stitch group from 1-3

3rd Thursday evening is church council