Whirlwind In A Mama's Head

I recently came across a few online stores on facebook that sells Batik  and with Rp. 35.000 - Rp. 65.000 price tag per piece (US $3.50 - $6.50), who can resist but order a bunch! My online purchases arrived a few days later and I was so excited! Sadly, I only had time to start doing anything other than washing them a week later (today!!). Wohoooo! First up on my list is a skirt for Miss Kiki. She looooves twirly skirts (what little girl doesn't?). Even I still like to frock twirly skirts sometime! I followed this tutorial for a Tutu Skirt from Little Pink Monster , written by Jessica from Happy Together . Then from there, I found Jessica's tutorial for a head band and made my second item of the day from the same fabric. Check this out!

Since Miss Kiki turned 4, we've decided to start teaching her a little bit of money management. I read that it's good to start at an early age so they will be well prepared when they are older. Totally makes sense. It's smart to be financially smart amongst other smarts ;) I first heard about this a couple of years back when Jessica from Intellidance blogged about what she did with her daughter. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find the post to link back :( I recently came across this site on Pinterest called Money As You Grow with great tips on how to teach money management to children from different age group. We want to start with teaching her the value of money. That we need money to buy things, that a lot of things have a money value attached to them, that you get money by working, and to differentiate between her wants and her needs. Following Jessica's idea, we started her on a 'jar plan'. We have three glass jars for her, one for saving, one...