Tuesdays Treasures {23} Vintage Novels

 Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures.  I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

There are so many wonderful books out there hiding on shelves so I invite you to blog about a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library and add your post in the comments section. 

This week ...

Today I discovered a new blog I would like to share with you ...

In Which I read Vintage Novels

This blog is hosted by Suzannah who in her words says:

Today we see an ever-widening gap between “Christian” and “secular” fiction. Yet for many years that distinction did not exist: Many if not most stories combined the high artistic excellence that today seems the realm of secular fiction with the high Christian standards that are becoming harder to find.
I believe that a steady diet of good stories is essential to teach, inspire, and refresh both young and old. I hope this blog will help you select great reading—great alternatives

So if you are wanting to know more about a particular vintage novel pop on over to Suzannah's pad and look up your author of choice or find someone new to read.

Blessings
Chareen

This post is linking to Learning All The Time Favourite Resources.

Homeschool Mothers Journal {9}

The Home school Mother’s Journal began as a single post on a Friday morning over at The Homeschool Chick, and turned into a link-up for homeschool mothers across the blog-O-sphere to share a piece of their journey with one another each week. The link party is open from Friday to Monday so join me in The Homeschool Journal and lets encourage one another on our homeschool journey.

In my life this week…

 
In our homeschool this week…

• Worked along side Dad and helped him to erect the car port in our driveway.  We learned all about safety with tools.
• Played with the iron filings and a magnet.
• Did swimming lessons every day at a holiday program.
• Started watching the Original Heidi series. Paul has just finished reading the unabridged trilogy to Sir N. Heidi, Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Children.
• Listened to our first audio book:  Charlotte's Web written and Performed by E.B. White. 

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

•  No pearls of wisdom this week :)

I am inspired by…

•  Erica over at Confessions of a Homeschooler and her Family Mission Statement.
• 10 Great ideas from Pinterest over at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers.

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…

• We went to the local outdoor pool where Sir N attended the Vic Swim week.  It was good to see him grow in his confidence.
• To the L family to celebrate a fourth birthday.
• We went to the zoo and went for a bus trip around the Safari area.   
• Looking forward to our ten year family reunion ...  

My favorite thing this week was…

• Discovering a Look-Alikes book I have spent the last 10 years searching for at the library!
• Watching Sir N play with a magnet and iron filings.

What’s working/not working for us…

• Waking up too late in the mornings.  I find that I am feeling frustrated as I am not able to complete the things I set out to do as I constantly feel behind!

Questions/thoughts I have…

• Years ago at a book sale I picked up two little books by Jim Arnosky.  I am really keen to get started on a Nature Notebook.  I ♥ his nature Notebooks and recently discovered that he has published the following book: Field Trips: Bug Hunting, Animal Tracking, Bird Watching and Shore Walking (Hardback) I wonder if I should invest in this book ?
• I am thinking about a word that can help be stay on track with my Goals for 2012. I am leaning towards: COMMITMENT without commitment I will never attain my goals.
• I want to make some water lemon rind jam and I have no idea where to buy slaked lime from in Australia.  Any ideas ??

Things I’m working on…

• Planning to get walking fit to do an 8 km fun walk to raise funds for the Royal Children's Hospital in February.
• Cover to Cover.  I am learning so much and am feeling so encouraged by His word.  It feels so good to be back in the word of God. Two of the things I enjoyed learning about this week are: The story of Melchizedek and Job and his framework for righteous living.
• A Label drop down Tutorial.
• Putting all the Christmas decorations away and finding better ways of storing / packing these items.  This year my favourite thing to use was cable ties.  They have helped keep my Christmas lights in order and the branches of my Christmas tree in neat orderly piles.
• Callanetics.  Boy do I sleep well after a session of this!

I’m reading…

•  About Josephs arrival over at Every Season. This blog post touched a soft spot in my heart.  
• Wheat Free and Gluten Free Recipes over at Paleo Bread Recipes.
• What's holding you back from Excellence over at Princess Warrior Lessons.
•  Putting your family first as a mom and Family Mission Statement over at the Better Mom.
• Mothering from the heart over at the Better Mom.
• Facebook by Linda over at Pillars of Pine. Linda makes some interesting points.
• Happy New Year by Erin over at Seven Little Australians and Counting. I enjoyed Erins focused simplicity.
• Fully Present in Every Moment by Susan over at Kerugma. I especially enjoyed the Amish Proverb: Enjoy Today, it wont come back.

I’m cooking…

• East African Chicken.  (Recipe to come)
• Kransky Potato Bake.

I’m grateful for…

•  A husband who is a handy man and saves us hundreds of dollars each year by fixing / building what ever needs to be done here at home.  This past week he erected a kit set car port and saved us over $1 000 on installation. 

A photo, video, link, or quote to share…  

"Wis­dom is the right use of knowl­edge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a know­ing fool. But to know how to use knowl­edge is to have wisdom." ― Charles H. Spur­geon

Blessings

This post is linking to:
Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers and The Homeschool Chick pop on over to read what other homeschool Moms are doing.

BLOG DIY - Label drop down box

When I first started blogging and using labels  I quickly realised that my list of labels would be longer than my posts on each page! I love using labels because they help me find my way around my posts. I have recently started a new blog and the label list has been growing so I took some screen shots of the process I used to convert my label list to a drop down list.

I found a very easy add in for blogger on Blogger Sentral.  Here is a photo tutorial of the process described on Bogger Sentral to convert your label list to a drop down list.

Tutorial

• Open your blog dash board
• Make sure you have the Label widget installed on your blog before you begin. (Do this through Layout / Add a widget. )
• Click on Template
• Click on Edit HTML (You are doing this to back up your blog template in case something goes wrong.)

• Click Proceed.

• Tick the Expand Widget Templates box 

• Click anywhere in the code and press Ctrl+A on your keyboard to highlight all (or use your mouse)

• Press Ctrl+c on your keyboard to copy all the code.

• Open Notepad and paste.  Now save and keep code.

Now you are ready to begin.

• Open a new tab on your internet browser 
• Go to Blogger Sentral : Create Drop Down Menu's for Labels
• Click on the get code button < >

• Highlight and copy the code.
• Return back to your blog HTML page.
• NB - Uncheck the Expand Widget Templates box 
• Scroll to the bottom of the Edit HTML box
  
• Look for the following code line    <b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'/>

• Replace that line of code with the code you have copied from Blogger Sentral by highlighting the line and clicking Ctrl + V on your keyboard OR  Right click paste after high lighting.

• Click Preview before saving to check that the code is working.

• Click Save.

• Well done.  You have now accomplished the following change and added more space in your right hand column.

Happy Blogging and enjoy your new space!

Blessings

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