I walked past my daughter's bedroom this afternoon and saw this....She's sat on her bed with her teddies practicing how to put make up on by watching Youtube tutorials. Lately, she seems to be in such a hurry to grow up and I just want to slow it down a little bit but I'm not sure how to do that, if at all! Take the make up issue for example, she's not allowed to wear it outside the house (although she'd like to) but I do let her spend some of her pocket money on buying daft bits and bobs (have you seen the Superdrug clearance sections - she got loads of bargains there for between 10p … [Read more...]
Ten quick crafts for the school holidays….
My crafting skills leave a lot to be desired but as the mother of an eight year old boy who loves to get his hands dirty and his ten year old system who loves to make pretty things I've had to find crafting activities that even I can manage ;-)Seeing as it's the school holidays for a lot of us, I thought I'd share tenof my favourite easy crafts and activities with you.... Make a Family treeRecycle your crayonsMake your own mini bookMake a bookmark our of sweet wrappersMake a photo collageMake some story cardsMake your own board gameMake a pop up monster … [Read more...]
No room at the inn….
Warning - Ranty post including over use of exclamation marks....What's the last thing you want after a four hour journey on your own with two children who are cold, tired and grumpy?To arrive at the hotel you've booked to be told that the hotel has been massively overbooked and there are no rooms available for you!This is what happened to me earlier in the week when we arrived at our hotel in London. And not just us, there were at least six other families scattered about the reception area in varying stages of annoyance/desperation when we got there - more by the time we got … [Read more...]
Listography – Five things that are better than One Direction….
As you might know, I love a good list but when I saw that the lovely Kate from Kate takes 5 wants us name five things that are better than One Direction for this weeks Listography I wasn't sure that I could seeing as I'm such a huge fan ;-)After a lot of thought, I did manage to come up with five things though but before I share them with you, here's Miss Frugal's top five things that are better than One Direction....Olly Murs Animals Make up Parties My iPod touchAnd here's Master Frugal's top five things....WWE 13 Xbox 360 game Playing with my friends Cuddling … [Read more...]
If Carlsberg did weeks….
This last week has been amazing - one of the most fun weeks we've had in a long time.We started last Thursday night with a last minute trip to the Circus thanks to a much reduced opening night price. There's no way we would have gone usually as it would have cost £40 on a normal night even with the half price vouchers they were giving out in town! None of us have ever been to a circus before and it was completely different to what we were expecting. The juggler dropped his balls (oops)almost as much as he caught them, the tightrope walker looked completely terrified and the Miss Frugal … [Read more...]
Would you fake an insurance claim….
It's OK, I don't really expect anyone to come right out and admit that they would make a fake insurance claim but I just wanted to put the question out there.My reason for asking is that, as you might know, two weeks ago I was hit by a truck when I was driving home from work. I walked away with no injuries thankfully although my car is looking like it's a write off due to the amount of damage done and obviously I'm going to claim on my car insurance policy for that. I'm also going to try and claim my train costs as we were going away that weekend so we had to get the train as the car was … [Read more...]
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