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Weekly layout and meal plan 4/17-4/24

I’m insanely late with my meal plan and weekly layout, and frankly, I’m not super impressed with it or anything, lol.

I am pretty excited about the beef stew-I made a double batch and froze some, since I’m desperately trying to prep some freezer meals, especially for when we decide to start reintroducing foods, so that I don’t just go for convenience.

Ok seriously… how do people have these neat planners?? Their handwriting is perfect, they have nothing scratched out lol… I mean, I’m writing in mine on the go half the time, and it just looks so messy!! ??

My goal is to one day have a pretty Planner. ?

But here it is, and although it’s not exactly gorgeous, it’s pretty functional for me.

As you can see, my blog plan for the week is a bust already. ?

Baby steps. 

Ha!

Well, I’m hoping to get some more posts up, including more Whole30 recipes, since I got way behind on that! ?

Have a great rest of the week!

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Me & My Big Ideas Happy Planner Stamps!

Although I do love stickers, I was anxious to try the new stamps! I LOVE this style of stamp, that clings to an acrylic block…it’s easy to see placement, and they are so much easier to store as well. 

So let’s get started! I got set up with a wet Norwex body cloth, and a dry window cloth, instead of my usual baby wipes, in an effort to be less wasteful. ? (you can purchase environmentally-friendly products like these at www.NotYourMamasRags.com 

This is what they look like, if you’re not familiar with how these work:

You place it on an acrylic block such as this one (it clings like a window cling)

Ink, and stamp!

Yay! 

I do like using the body cloth to clean the stamps afterward, but I might try. Regular envirocloth next time. 
I tried the lines next:

These would be rather convenient, I think!

Here are a couple of the layouts in which I used the stamps:

Overall, they’re pretty nice, but they do take a lot of effort, and there is still the everlasting problem with using stamps: smearing ink everywhere. ?

One day I’ll discover a cure for this problem, but in the mean time, these do have some nice features. I definitely plan to use them more!