Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that I regularly have ideas above my station as far as domesticity is concerned. So you can imagine how excited my Domestic Goddess side got when I saw this during a recent browse of the Emma Bridgewater catalogue:This gravy jug is quite clearly exactly what I need to turn our Sunday Dinners into a sophisticated dining experience.... However, when I pointed out to Mr Frugal how much we needed this gravy boat, he had the cheek to laugh at me! Apparently, apart from the fact that one of our rather clumsy children would probably drop and … [Read more...]
Santa Letters….
I hope you enjoyed the personalised videos from Santa, we showed ours to the kids last night and they were absolutely fascinated - Miss Frugal is definitely a believer again (for now). Today's Magical Christmas post is all about sending your children a letter from Santa. I always do this as I love to see their faces when the postman brings them a letter of their own. Here's a few different ways to send a special Santa letter to your child: You could get your child to write to Santa at - Santa/Father Christmas, Santa’s Grotto, Reindeerland, SAN TA1. This is the Royal Mail's … [Read more...]
Oh Christmas Tree….
After sucessfully managing to persuade Mr Frugal to venture up into our loft to get all our Christmassy things, we've just spent a lovely afternoon decorating the house....Here's our tree and some of our favourite decorations.All the special cards the kids have made over the years for us.These are the wind up toys we've got in our Christmas crackers the last few years - we've started a new tradition where every year after Christmas dinner we have a family wind up toy race. I'm on the look out for some different ones for this year so if anyone sees them, let me know. In the … [Read more...]
A Magical Christmas Starts Here….
This is absolutely my favourite time of year, I love everything about Christmas and I spend a lot of time in the build up to the big day trying to make things as special as I can for the kids. We have a lot of special family traditions at Christmas that I'll share with you over the next few weeks but one of the most magical things that we do for the kids each year is make a video from Santa to each of them.I'm sure there are plenty of sites you can use to do this but we use the Portable North Pole site as it's FREE, easy to use and the results are fantastic. You can make video's for … [Read more...]
A Spot of Shopping and a Funny Conversation….
This is possibly the funniest conversation I've ever had....Master Frugal: Is God's real name Wayne? Me: No, I don't think so darling. Why would you think that? Master Frugal: Because there's a Wayne in the manger so I just thought that was his name!Priceless! When you've stopped laughing, I want to tell you that the lovely people at Next have launched a briliant bloggers 12 days of Christmas campaign which incorporates some beautiful images they've designed. I love Christmas shopping at Next, we give all the woman in our family presents from there. This is what I'll … [Read more...]
Desperate times call for desperate measures….
It's being snowing all day and I'm slowly going mad.... So far we've made our own little story books, we've watched the Christmas film Elf, we've watched way too many episodes of Phineas and Ferb, played on the X Box, baked a multi coloured cake and had a family snowball fight. Just when I thought I had nothing else left to keep the kids entertained, I found a packet of maltesers....Now I know you're all dying to know how you can entertain your children for over an hour with just a packet of Maltesers so without further ado, I'd like to welcome to the Frugal Family Maltesers … [Read more...]
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