Dear lovely readers,By the time you read this, my laptop will have long since been turned off and I'll be having a peaceful family Christmas with my amazing family - that is as long as I remember where I've hidden all the presents and I don't burn Christmas dinner!There is one thing I want to do before I switch off for Christmas though, I want to say a huge Merry Christmas and thank you to all of you lovely readers who have shared 2016 with me.I'm not going to lie, it's been a difficult year with me being ill for a lot of the year but you've put up with my whinging and moaning and … [Read more...]
Christmas Eve in our house….
Christmas Eve marks the official start of Christmas in our house and I think I probably enjoy it more than Christmas Day itself if I'm honest. I know that sounds a bit odd so I thought I'd tell you a little bit about Christmas Eve in our house....Mr Frugal often has to work on Christmas Eve so it's usually just me and the kids until he gets home around 4pm and we normally have a leisurely morning with pancakes or waffles for breakfast and a snuggle on the settee watching a Christmas movie (normally Elf for the 99th time since the first of December).After we've watched a film, we'll … [Read more...]
Six quick ways to calm down a hyper child and 4 free printable bookmarks to colour in….
I've just been sitting down with my Kindle and a chai latte reflecting on how lovely and calm today has been!In years gone by, today has always been the worst day for the kids going into full on hyper excited mode but today, with the kids aged 11 and 14, I feel like we've turned a Christmas corner.Don't get me wrong, they're still excited and they still want to do Christmas things with me which is lovely but at the same time, they also have their own things that they want to be getting on with and I may have even seen one of them getting a bit of a head start on their homework while … [Read more...]
Five Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve done this week {23rd December 2016}….
1) The best Christmas present I got last year was my trusty soup maker which I've used at least twice a week since I had it. This year I thought I'd ask Mr Frugal for something else useful so I asked him for a breadmaker as I think that will come in really handy for making dough for pizza dough, doughballs and flatbreads which I've started making more since I've been off work. He went Christmas shopping for it the other day and texted me to tell me he'd found a half price bargain in a shop in our town that was closing down - it had been the display model but he said it was in great condition … [Read more...]
How to make a Christmas Book Paper Tree….
Every since the kids were born we've added to our Christmas book collection and every year, we've looked forward to getting the Christmas decorations down from the loft as soon as it gets to December so we could get the Christmas books out.Over the last few years, the excitement over the Christmas books as dwindled somewhat for the kids and for the last two or three years they've only picked them up to read briefly with my gorgeous little godson when he's popped in to see us. We had a long overdue sort out before Christmas last year though and although we kept a couple of books for toddler … [Read more...]
2 ingredient homemade mod podge (and a quick idea to make cute personalised glasses with it)….
For years I've heard crafters refer to the wonder substance that is mod podge but I never really got what it was other than some sort of amazing substance that sounded expensive and way about my crafting ability.But then a couple of months ago as the leaves were turning from green to beautiful reds and oranges I googled 'how to stick a leaf to a glass jar' with the vague idea of turning a jam jar into a pretty candle holder decorated with the leaves we'd collected.Mod podge was the solution apparently but I really didn't want to buy something that would only be used once if I could … [Read more...]
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