These Women's Roxen Pants from Arc'teryx are perfect for climbing as well as the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Created from a linen and cotton mix they are super comfortable, lightweight pants with a wide set, flattering knit waistband and relaxed fit.
The articulated knees and gusseted crotch ensure complete freedom of movement when climbing, while the elasticated drawcord at the hem stops the bottom of the trousers riding up or getting in the way when you might be at a difficult angle. The two hand pockets at the front and the two patch pockets at the back can store handy essentials or keep your hands warm in between routes.
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1. To make the dukkah, toast the sesame seeds, cumin and coriander in a small frying pan until fragrant. Place into a small bowl with the chopped almonds and mix to combine.
Mrs. Micah recently posted about her budget busters and so I’m tagging myself for this meme. What are my five budget busters?
This comes at a time where my budget has already been busted and exploded for the month. So it is well timed.
I think this is the biggest problem with my budget. YNAB has helped me plan ahead in a lot of areas, but in other areas, I completely neglect to think about what I might need to spend before I make that month’s budget. For example, I have been setting aside money for my car insurance payment for the past two months. I have planned ahead so that the bill won’t make a huge dent in my monthly budget. But on the other hand, this month, I only budgeted $50 for dining out. At the beginning of the month, I knew that I had two dinners planned with friends. I live in D.C. The odds of me being able to go out to two nice-ish dinners and spending under $25 each time, including tip, is very small. Very very small. I should have budgeted more in that area.
Sometimes, I look at the month, and I think “Oh, I can get by without spending more than $10 this month on household items.” Never mind that I typically spend closer to $15-$20 each month in this category (it’s a broad category for me). And inevitably, I end up spending more than I planned to.
I don’t just mean buying from a store like Sam’s Club or Costco (Costco has better customer services and better tire installation). I mean that I have a habit of stocking up on things. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. Especially if I’m buying something on sale. One of my personal vices, for example, is that I have a can of Coke Zero every afternoon. It’s a sweet, calorie free treat that calms my cravings for a snack and keeps me going. It’s a vice I’m not willing to give up. So I go through a 12 pack of Coke Zero in a little less than 2 weeks. Today, I counted that I still had 7 cans left, so I didn’t need any, but I decided to check the price anyway when I went to the store. 12 packs were on sale for $2.29 under their normal price. Not a bad deal! So I picked up two. Nevermind that I didn’t need them. Yes, it was a good price, and I saved nearly as much as I would spend on a single 12 pack, but in terms of the budget, that was money that shouldn’t have been spent. I do this when things aren’t on sale as well. I notice that I’m out of frozen broccoli, so when I go to the store, I pick up two bags rather than one. I go through it in spurts, so I might use both bags this month, I might not. Could I have just bought one bag? Yes. (And note that I pass the grocery store on my walk home from the metro, so the idea of an “extra trip” just means a few minutes, no driving needed.)
So I notice that I’ve blown my restaurant budget for the month. But hey, there’s $15 left in my household budget! So I’ll just reduce my household budget for the month and then add the $15 to my restaurant budget! Perfect! Until a week later when I realize that I’m out of laundry detergent and really do need to wash clothes sometime this month. Whoops.
Groceries are a hard category for me. This also falls into my buying in bulk and my failure to plan ahead categories. Food is the hardest area for me to budget. I try to eat healthy and also eat frugally. I will never buy ramen noodles, even though they’re cheap. They’re not healthy. I spend a good amount of money on fresh fruits and vegetables, and prices on both have increased in recent weeks. I am hoping the return of my local farmer’s market will help that. But if my grocery budget is gone for the month and I realize that there are three days left and I don’t have the proper makings of a well rounded meal, well, I’m going to hit the store and buy what I need. My health and my diet are more important to me than keeping my budget. I think what I need to do is budget more for groceries every month, what with the rising cost of food. The goal will be to end the month with money leftover in the budget, but that’s much better than busting the budget all together.
I’m not going to tag anyone for this meme either, but feel free to post your own budget busters! I’d love to see what others think!
#2 is KEY! i think that’s where a lot of us go wrong. how on earth can we succeed if we don’t set ourselves up properly?
The Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund will provide more than $95,000 for regional Western Australian arts projects; this funding is managed in Western Australia by Country Arts WA.
Six arts projects will be delivered in regional and very remote Western Australian locations in the Kimberley, South-West, Great Southern and Pilbara regions of WA. These include four individual projects supporting artists to develop works in virtual reality, photography and sculpture, and develop international audiences; and two community-based projects providing opportunities for artists and communities to develop skills, broaden audiences and celebrate cultural networks.
Future Dreaming, by Sutu, is one of six regional WA arts projects that will receive funding. Pictured: Maverick Eaton. Picture courtesy of Stuart Campbell.
Philippa Maughan, Country Arts WA’s Investment Director, says that the injection of funding will provide valuable opportunities for artists in regional and remote communities to develop their artistic practice and build cultural networks that stretch from within the artists’ communities, out across the world.
“From Stuart Campbell bringing young people’s dreams to life with virtual reality to Christopher Young’s exploration of people’s end-of-life experiences, and Alana Hunt’s exhibition that will voyage from Kununurra to New York, there has been an upsurge of individual artists looking to share their skills, knowledge and contribute to the upskilling of their community through beautiful art projects. It is wonderful to see regional communities continuing to place a high value on the arts and the impact it can have on their community’s development and vitality.”
The applications are selected by a panel of arts and culture community leaders, Chair of the Regional Arts Fund WA Panel Sonya Dye says, “There were a record number of applications this round making it even more competitive and many deserving projects were unable to be funded this time. The hard work of all applicants and their ongoing commitment to their arts practice is to be commended and congratulations are extended to those successful applications which met the criteria to a very high degree. The ever increasing number of high quality applications is demanding of the panel so I would like to thank my panel colleagues for their ongoing commitment”.
The Regional Arts Fund is one way the Australian Government supports regional artists and arts organisations to develop their artistic practice and produce works and experiences to benefit their local communities. The Regional Arts Fund is administered on behalf of the Australian Government by Regional Arts Australia and its member organisations which includes Country Arts WA.
Country Arts WA offers a variety of funding programs to support regional arts projects across Western Australia. For more information, visit www.countryartswa.asn.au or call regional freecall 1800 811 883.
The Project Fund is now accepting applications for projects which begin after 1 January 2019. Applications close 17 August. Apply now at www.countryartswa.asn.au/projectfund.
The participatory memorial Cups of nun chai is an award winning body of work by Kununurra artist Alana Hunt that emerged from the summer of 2010 when over 118 people died in pro-freedom protests in Kashmir. Through shared cups of tea, personal conversations, public media intervention and memory the work explores some of the most challenging areas of contemporary life. Alana will travel to Centre for Stories (Perth) to hold an artist presentation before travelling to New York to hold her first solo exhibition and a series of artist presentations at leading American universities Brown, Parsons, and Tufts. For an early career artist working remotely at the intersection of socially engaged art and the social sciences this opportunity can have a lasting impact on her practice.
This project will look at end-of-life cultural experiences, how people respond to such experience and the environments and institutions they encounter. These experiences are universal and this work has the capacity to extend dialogue, within the arts as well as in connection to larger social issues. Christopher will develop a body of people-less photographic work in regional locations utilising spaces such as hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, funeral homes, churches and garage sales. Christopher’s work will pose the question “How does the confronting nature of these spaces affect the creation of images within them and the subsequent interpretative experience?”.
A virtual reality documentary that brings to life the future dreams of three young Aboriginal Australians. Directed by Western Australian virtual reality artist Sutu (aka Stuart Campbell), Future Dreaming will transform interviews about the daily lives and dreams for the future held by these young people into virtual reality paintings that will animate in time with the subject’s audio narration and original score. The project will develop Sutu’s virtual reality art and youth mentoring skills in an exciting new format of digital art and storytelling.
Carbonature is the culmination of 5 years development by Bridgetown sculptor Kim Perrier, resulting in two new sculptural styles that use charcoal and forest timber to depict the human form. Kim will deliver workshops within the local community to create one large scale collection of Carbonature sculptures as a co-operative and collaborative project. Community members will be trained in the artform and will create their own work of thirty permanent life size sculptures, a ‘tribal gathering’, under Kim’s guidance.
The Big QC will bring Denmark’s community together to explore the 25-year history of the ‘Brave New Works Festival’ and extrapolate its future. Stories will be informed by a series of community interviews, an extensive archive of video, photographic and written material and community arts workshops resulting in musical compositions, theatrical snippets, contemporary dance, written and spoken word. This material will be brought together and presented as three multi-art form performances; The Big QC.
The highly talented and experienced ‘Pitts Family Circus’ will provide a four-week residency with Theatre Kimberley to work with local trainers and emerging circus performers of the Sandfly Circus to develop a wide range of circus skills. This project will provide an opportunity for young people in the Kimberley region to train with some of the best solo and duo circus performers in Australia.