buy nothing new year

a few posts back i was telling you dearies about the possibility that our family would be undertaking dottie angels *challenge of the utmost kind* and as of july 1st we are!

summer shoes are ordered, as are bike parts, a train set and beeswax crayons for emma, new towels, a few extra sheepskins for winter coziness (you really have to think ahead...365 days of no new things!), and some books and cds i've been meaning to order.

and although it felt funny to place such a large order...it's really not much if those are the ONLY new things we buy for a year!

and so it begins...

...wish us luck!

a thrift forage.

this morning it was still cloudy and we were still a bit stuffy but we really needed to get out of the house a bit! we decided to start out early since that is when we are feeling our best, all well rested and fed you see.
em and i made our way to our new favorite thrift store and really scored some books. when i brought them home to add to the growing collection, i realized i have a whole shelf of entirely thrifted books. in fact make that a shelf and a half!
which made me sit back and think a on an idea i'm thinking of taking up:
dottie angel's amazing and inspiring: challenge of the utmost kind, in which everything you buy over the next 365 days is either handmade or second hand.
i'm starting to think it *is* doable. and might be just the thing i need around here!
also of note:
we found another book in one of em's favorite series about the pig olivia. hooray! and only 99 cents AND those lovely glasses pictured above. nothing, i say nothing has the feel of vintage glasses! so sturdy and smooth! and what a treat after loosing 2 of my fave vintage glasses over the last year...