You Simply Must Visit This Site
Toni, Joy and Kate of “3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days” fame have teamed up for a new blog, Happy To Be At Home. The site is awesome - lots of links to recipes, craft, simple living, homeschooling and (best of all, I think!) a Downloads section. Check out their Blogging Mom’s Planner! Love it! Go and pay them a visit and welcome them into their new home!
Cheers,
Lizzie
Lizzie’s Link Love ~ March 11
Mornin’ to you all!
I haven’t done Lizzie’s Link Love for, um… (*counts on fingers*) - let’s just say a few weeks. I’ve been saving up my links though, so let’s launch straight into it.
Limes & Lycopene
How have I missed this one? I just discovered it this morning. Written by a Sydney nutritionist and filled with all sorts of great information, this one went immediately into my feed reader and I’ll be reading the archives well into the afternoon I suspect. No schmalcy weight loss/nutrition ‘fluff’ - this is straight down the line, no high-brow, completely realistic information. Finally! I particularly liked Kathryn’s What Actually Is Five Serves? post.
The Dollar Stretcher Community
Most of us are familiar with the Dollar Stretcher website, right? Well did you know they have a forum section? I didn’t! If you love the site and love being a part of frugal forums, this is a great site.
The Story Of Stuff with Annie Leonard
Some of you may have seen this already. It’s a neat little flash presentation on the ‘consumption’ industry, but rather than giving us something as dry as a cracker, it’s actually really well done. The Piglets loved it - and it would be perfect for older schoolkids as well, especially if you have concerns about simplicity and sustainability.
Unasked-For Advice To New Writers About Money
I love this. Think you can make money from your writing? Be prepared to be shocked - those who actually bring in a half-decent salary are rare. In the meantime, you’d better get savvy about your finances (side note: every single time I hear or use the word ’savvy’ I now have a picture of Johnny Depp, ala Capt Jack Sparrow, pop into my head - “We savvy?” - and now you will too, LOL)
And finally, I leave you with this. No doubt it’s done the rounds, but it cracks me up every time.
Cheers,
Lizzie
Lizzie’s Link Love ~ February 12
Good morning Bloggityville!Lots of awesomeness this week. Let’s get stuck into it, in no particular order.
Cindy’s Porch ~ If you haven’t yet discovered this site, you simply must. Must, I tell you! It has parallels to Flylady but concentrates on home finances, saving money, emergency funds and so on. You can sign up for emails, similar to Flylady, but instead of 15 or 20 daily reminders you might get one email every day or two. Always financially relevant (Sidenote: I believe Cindy used to work with Flylady several years ago but branched out on her own - you’ll notice several similarities, including frequent acronym use, LOL)
A Strong Man With Deep Convictions ~ by Mrs Julie Fink from Living By Grace. What a beautiful and devoted description! And I stumbled across it at just the right moment, too.
MapMyRun ~ I think this was posted on another site and I just followed the link. It’s worth revisiting it though. Though aimed at runners, walkers like me will find something useful here too. Members of the public can map out run routes, submit them and then folks like me down here in Australia (or anywhere else for that matter), can type in something like ‘New York’ and a big long list of different routes pops up on screen. Isn’t that cool? I found one near me (won’t post that one though). You can also view these in Google Earth, keep fitness logs - even info on shoe mileage. Okay, so I’m no runner, but I thought this was neat for the bird’s eye view of any number of fictional walking tracks I could set up. I could ‘walk’ a three mile track in the Mall in Washington DC right from the comfort of my local neighborhood :P Of course, I haven’t a clue what the mall in DC actually looks like, but hey, I could be walking it!
A Job Chart That Actually Works ~ MeckMom is a gal after my own heart. I love her charts and organising ideas! This one is especially ingenius. If you haven’t yet discovered this site, spend time browsing the archives. I ? MeckMom :P
MomsMenu ~ a family cooking recipe database and tips/articles archive. Real food. Not, you know, braised artichoke hearts in a balsamic-glazed truffle sauce. Blech. Unless you like that kind of food. In which case, power to you. Me? Not so much. I need all the family-friendly recipes my hard drive will hold.
And to finish:
This is just plain weird. Or sad. Or sick. I can’t decide which. Kind of falls into this category for me. Which in turn reminds me of the whole Angelina Jolie/vial of blood thing. Shudder.
Cheers,
Lizzie
Lizzie’s Link Love ~ January 29
Good morning internet lovelies!
Okay, I am fibbing just a smidgeon. As I’m writing this, it is Monday evening my time and I’m waiting (im)patiently for Shannon to post the Mr Linky for the Bloggy Carnival. Darn international time zones! You guys might be waking up fresh and reaching for the coffee as you log on to post your links, but I’m in a mad dash to ready the Lizzie’s Home household for the beginning of the new school year tomorrow. And by the time many of you read this, I’ll be packing the newly haircutted kids off to school. And collapsing in a heap because it’s very, very likely that I won’t be going to sleep until very late tonight. Purely my own fault of course. And maybe Shannon’s, just a teeny bit - I worked out the Mr Linky will be up around 12:30 am my time. I could wait until tomorrow morning to link up but the probability of me still being up and completing #412 on a long list of school readiness-related tasks is high regardless :P I kind of want to be quick off the mark because ten minutes after Shannon goes live with the post there’ll be about 632 links already and there’s only so many giveaway posts readers will want to read through.
And is it weird that this bothers me?
Yes. Yes it is.
Okay, so since I’m sitting down and taking my last sip of hot tea before having to get up and bake (because I couldn’t be organised enough to do that this afternoon, no sirree…), I thought I’d get a head start (for a change) on Lizzie’s Link Love. Not many this week. Everyone will be too busy signing up for giveaways anyway. Probably a bumper edition next week to make up for it. You know, when Bloggityville has calmed down again.
Amanda of Free To Live, my new bloggy BFF (and very accomodating and willing guinea pig) wrote a great post on perfection this week, or more specifically, why the pursuit of it is irrational. I interviewed Amanda last week as part of My Last Ever Assignment (a portfolio of autism pieces) and then wrote a little piece about her story. Zane’s Story is currently in the hands of my lecturers and I’m currently awaiting the results. In the end I was literally still writing two minutes before walking out the door to post it, that’s how close I came to my deadline. Amanda has given me permission to post it in some form here on Lizzie’s Home but as I didn’t have the chance to swing it by Amanda before submitting it, that will come first (once I have my results - don’t want to jinx it!). I have a new level of respect for my fellow ‘autism sister’ after peeking into her life :)
I have no doubt most of you read Scribbit, so you’ve probably already come across her post today about the Quiet Family, but I have to link to this for the stragglers. I love this idea! I only wish I’d thought of it when my kids were young enough to need it!
When trying to add four and subtract twelve to the power of 5 to figure out when (in my time) Shannon was going live with the Bloggy Giveaways Mr Linky, I came across this nifty site for calculating the time differences between two points on the globe. I’ll use this all the time - when most of your readers and fellow bloggers are American/Canadian, it kind of becomes necessary, LOL.
And the final link should appeal to the geek within - it certainly placated mine :) I found a nifty application called Crawler Notes. Crawler has a few different products, but this one appealed to me because I’m always on the computer and always jotting down various reminders on slips of paper which get lost. If you click on ‘take a tour’ in the above link, it will give you a basic demo. I haven’t yet worked out the Crawler Organizer thing yet (where it opens up in a browser window as opposed to something you steer from your desktop) as I’m happy just to potter around putting sticky notes up on my desktop - but others might find it useful. When I downloaded it I was not required to sign up for their email account but you could run into a prompt for that so here’s another source: Download.com. I usually more inclined to download apps from sites such as this one anyway - you can’t be too careful. Crawler Notes is freeware, with no ads. Here’s an example of how I have mine set up at the moment:
Now you can set it to load up when you computer boots, but for some reason mine needs to be manually opened from the Start menu. You can ‘hide’ all the notes when you don’t need to look at them and then ’show all notes’ when you do. If you want to write yourself a new note, you click on that little yellow pad you see down in the bottom right hand corner and then ‘new note’. New notes open up yellow but you can set the new notes to open up with different default settings (make the new ones pink, or blue, or with a different font, or….) I left mine yellow and then there’s a little spanner image at the top of each one where you can manually change the colours of individual notes.
So that’s what I did. Cause I’m crazy (geeky) like that. Blue is ‘don’t forget’, yellow is ‘daily to do lists’, green is ‘additional household tasks’, purple is ‘blog related stuff’ and red was ’school related’. The sight of so many neat little cyber sticky notes is enough to warm the cockles of my heart. Or you know, remind me of all the things I haven’t yet done. Either way.
And so with that happy thought, I’m off to go and complete some of my red notes.
Because I suspect having the Piglets turn up to school without their lunches on the first day might be pushing it a bit.
That’s a ’second week’ mistake.
(I’m setting this to auto-post on Tuesday morning my time (Monday evening US time). By the time this post actually pops up, I’ll be neck-deep in sleepy, almost-school-ready children. Oh, the things I’ll be able to get done now that school has returned!)
Cheers,
Lizzie
Lizzie’s Link Love ~ January 22
Gosh, I’m on a roll. I’m absolutely certain I won’t be able to sustain this level of posting (two or three posts per day) once school starts again next week. Until then, store up your Lizzie-o-Rama because I can’t guarantee I’ll be this forthcoming in February!It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a Link Love post too, so here it is. Enjoy.
Want to know how to do cool things like ©, ®, Â, µ, ƒ, £, æ, †, É, c, ?, ?, ? and ?? (Oh, that was so much fun, LOL) Then check out these links to ALT Code ‘cheat sheets’. There’s this one and this one. Use the number pad on the right hand side of your keyboard.
Wanna drool your way through a home tour? Check out HGTV’s Dream Home 2008. Last year’s, the Colorado ski lodge - oh my word, how I longed to pack up my family and you know, get a green card, then move over there and somehow become a US citizen just so I could enter that competition, LOL. I must have taken the online tour three times! I don’t get HGTV where I am (though our pay TV (cable) stations might - we don’t have pay TV at home though) so I only get to drool onto my keyboard and not onto the floor in front of the TV :) Must admit, I like last year’s home better. Apart from that fact that I don’t, you know, ski, every single other thing about that home was exactly as I’d have it if I had a bajillion bucks and was building my own. Every single thing! Swoon.
SAHMmy Says put out a list of 100 Tips To Clean And Organize Your Home earlier this month. My kids particularly need to take to heart numbers 8, 16 and 67, while I need to concentrate on number 29 (ahem!) and number 41. Good stuff.
Aussie Bloggers Forum and Aussie Bloggers Blog. Go check them out, even if you aren’t Aussie - I’ve already asked about eleventy-four really dumb questions and they’ve all be answered. And so darn quickly, too! What do you blogging admin people do for fun? LOL.
I’m also going to re-recommend dropping into Frugal Abundance site, the Frugal Abundance Blog and the new version of Hillbilly Housewife. Love these sites.
That’s it for this week - have some clickety fun!
Cheers,
Lizzie
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