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Feb 22
General
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Febusave-How much have you saved?

Hard to believe that the end of February is nearly upon us, and the end of our Febusave journey.

To date an over 8800 women have signed up and pledged to save money during February, an amazing result!

I pledged to give up a few things, coffee, snacks and buying lunch and takeaway. These also seemed to be most popular with everyone else.

Lunch and takeaway in general were a big killer for us in more ways than one.  Not only have we saved over $600, we have both lost 5kgs!

We also ran a competition recent to win some Smarty Pig vouchers, to enter you had to share you best savings tips. Some fantastic tips have been shared..so check them out.

Some other great bloggers who have been sharing their journey Rainbowtatt, Liz and Jarrod, Little Lioness and Beautiful you by Julie

You can follow some of the fabulous posts by other bloggers with the #febusave hash tag on twitter.

And don’t forget, if you have registered for febusave,  at the end of February simply complete the online entry form at the Febusave site and answer “what was your secret to achieving your FebuSave goal?” in 50 words or less and you could win $5000!

So to those of you who have taken part, how did you do? How much have you saved, have you formed new long lasting habits that will see you saving for months to come?

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Feb 16
Nomnom
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Pancake Day

pancakeIt’s Pancake Day….Shrove Tuesday or something.

All I know is, it’s an excuse to eat Pancakes for dinner!

This is my favourite Pancake recipe, for Buttermilk pancakes, they are THE best aren’t they.

Up until about 6mths ago we were making crap pancakes from a bottle..OMG so many years wasted!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 2 tbs sugar
  • Butter or oil for cooking
  • Sift all your dry bits. Make a well in the centre. Stir in all your wet bits until just combined.

Surely you all know how to make pancakes and don’t need any further instructions.

My FAV way to eat them is with caramel/dulche de leche.

You can make your own, if you are game by boiling cans of condensed milk in a big saucepan for about 3hrs. Make sure the cans always remain fully covered. Or you can by it already done, Top ‘n’ Fill, you’ll find in near the cake mixes.

So, how do you have your pancakes?

(Photo by steffanyszphotography)

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Feb 16
Home Sweet Home
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Zombies ate my brain!

Are you like me… and feel like that most days. Or maybe you know someone in the office who you are sure isn’t all there.

zombiecup

Karin Lorenc has a range of fun stonewear pottery. The zombies ate my brain comes in a few different styles, as well as some other geeky designs.

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Feb 12
Blogging
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How to setup feedburner to tweet new posts

I have tried most wordpress twitter plugins. They seem to work great for awhile and then all of a sudden just stop. Very frustrating.

But if you use Feedburner for your RSS feed there is now a super easy and reliable way to have your new blog posts automatically sent to twitter.

One you have logged into your Feedburner account, go to the Publicise tab, and then select the Socialise option from the side menu.

feedburner

Then just fill in your details for which twitter account you want the posts published to. You will be redirected to twitter to authorise feedburner to publish to your account. Click activate at the bottom and you are done. Any new posts will go to twitter automatically, its usually quite quick within about 5mins of being published.

If you have some old services tweeting your posts and are unsure how to stop them. You can block their access to your account by going to the connections tab in your twitter settings. In here you can revoking access to the services which you do not wish to access your account.

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