Last year, I decided to go all sophisticated this year so I went out and bought a whole lot of new Christmas tree decorations. I didn't buy anything too flash or spend very much money but I was really pleased with my new red and gold themed Christmas tree. In fact, for a whole day, my tree looked (almost) like one of those trees you see in a magazine - all beautifully co-ordinated and perfect.But the problem was that I missed the homemade things that we'd made together over the years so after a day of tree perfection I ended up getting out all the old homemade decorations and adding them … [Read more...]
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Homemade oven baked S’mores….
Before I start, I know that anyone American will probably be horrified that I'm comparing these yummy delights to an actual S'more but in my defence, my children are always asking me if they can try a S'more and this is the closest I've managed. ;-)For those of you who aren't sure exactly what a S'more is, it's a traditional night time campfire treat popular in the USA, consisting of a roasted marshmallow and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker.As I am sadly lacking a campfire and can't find anything that even slightly resembles what a graham … [Read more...]
How to make homemade Skittles Vodka….
I first heard about homemade Skittles Vodka a few years ago now but I've never actually got around to making it until last week - probably because I was a bit dubious about it tasting as nice as people said it did and I didn't want to waste perfectly good vodka!I don't have as many photos of this as I really should have for a tutorial type post but that's because I took the photos on Mr Frugal's phone which he then wiped and did a factory re-set on without saving the photos. Clever or what?I do have a few though from Instagram so I'm going to make do with what I have and hope it's … [Read more...]
Homemade Jelly….
Have you ever tried making your own jelly? I'd never even thought about it really because jelly isn't exactly expensive and there's so many flavours to choose from so it seemed like a bit of a waste of time and energy making it. But when we were away in Wales last week, we saw some rather posh people being served a rather lovely looking afternoon tea which included some sort of clear jelly with fruit floating in it so we decided to have a go ourselves and yesterday we made Lemonade Jelly and Ginger Ale and Lime Jelly.It's ridiculously easy to make and the resulting … [Read more...]
My favourite way to spend a Sunday afternoon – Movies and homemade popcorn….
I love Sunday afternoons lazing on the settee with a bowl of homemade popcorn watching a film with the kids - even more so now that they're a little bit older and want to watch films that I actually have a chance of enjoying with them!Homemade popcorn tastes much nicer than the shop bought bags of it and you don't need anything special to make it with other than a pan with a lid. I did consider buying a popcorn maker at one point as they're not overly expensive and I imagine that they make the process even easier but to be fair, it's not difficult anyway so there's no point going out … [Read more...]
Homemade Christmas….
The run up to Christmas this year has been all about chilling out and spending time together, mainly because I've been ill but actually it's been quite refreshing. We've spent time with our friends and done lots of inside things together and I'm almost positive that our poor Christmas tree is probably going to collapse under the weight of all of our homemade decorations.Thanks to Marks and Spencers for sending us some lovely craft things and some presents for the kids - they were great at keeping them occupied and we had lots of fun making the paper chains and painting the tree … [Read more...]
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