Quite awhile ago my husband and I decided that we would give ourselves as individuals a set amount of fun money each month. The idea being that we would each have a set amount of money we could do anything we wanted with and not feel guilty or like we have to ask the other person permission before making a purchase. This plan seems to be working quite well for us and I would suggest it to anyone who is attempting to follow a budget (which I also recommend and will talk about simple planning in a future post.) What I’ve found is that having fun money makes following a strict budget not quite as depressing. We are working on paying off debt so we don’t have a lot of extra and the little bit set aside for each of us makes this bearable.
This month with my fun money I decided to go crazy at the art store. I got oil pastels, soft pastels, and acrylic paint to play around with. As mentioned in an earlier post I’ve decided to start art journaling. Well, I’ve also started working on a calender (starting with October, my favorite month) and I did a chalk painting of a violin. I have to say that I never thought I would enjoy art quite as much as I seem to be enjoying it. I’ve always wanted to be artistic, but early interactions with middle school art teachers slightly squashed any confidence I had in myself to create. I am happy to say I think I am overcoming being shot down by the art teacher all those years ago. For those of you who are curious here’s a few pictures of the violin painting I did. Once I finish October I will also post a picture of that as well.
