I wanted to try and do something different for this weeks Gallery but as usual I left it too late to do anything impressive or clever. After a quick play on Picassa trying to black and whitify (I know, not a word) some of my favourite pictures I gave up and went to ask Mr Frugal for his thoughts on what I could take a photo of that would represent the theme of black and white. His response was that he didn't care what I did as long as it didn't involve Newcastle United! As a Boro fan he is obliged to hate anything to do with Newcastle United - it's the law apparently ;-) So in honour … [Read more...]
The Gallery – Not Just any Lizard….
When I saw that the theme for this weeks Gallery was RED, I planned to get Miss Frugal all dressed up in the cute red devil outfit that the lovely ladies at Tescos sent her but then today, Master Frugal came home from school with this Lizard. It's not just any lizard, it's a very special lizard. They're only given out to little boys who get all of their spellings right in the weekly spelling test at school! Yeay....Only a couple of weeks ago I was really worried because he just had no interest in learning and seemed a bit behind his friends so I asked all my wonderful Twitter … [Read more...]
The Gallery – My Favourite Picture….
I've always been a bit photo obsessed, I think it's the idea of capturing a moment forever that I love so much. So to ask me to choose my favourite one is just plain cruel, however, it had to be done as that's the theme for this week's Gallery.I have literally thousands of photo's and my favourite changes constantly but my current favourite is this one:A picture of the beautiful sky we could see from our house last week.... I took it using my Canon EOS 1000D on the night portrait setting - one of these days I'll venture out into the big bad world of the manual settings ;-)If you … [Read more...]
The Gallery – Food
The theme for this week's Gallery is right up my street and even allows for a shameless plug of the new Frugalicious Food website that myself and Jen from TheMadhouse have set up. We've both got loads of delicious, frugal food recipes and ideas to share with you so we decided to set up the new website. We'd love it if you had chance to pop over and follow us, you can even follow us on Twitter - @frugalicious_ ;-) Now, back to the photos.... For starters, we have our adult rated Gingerbread MenOur main course is diet busting Chocolate Brownie And for desert, our party version … [Read more...]
One day in August….
I love the theme for this week's Gallery - One day in August. The day is Sunday 29th August, which is the day that three bloggers set out on their journey to Bangledesh to see the work that Save the Children are doing out there and to raise awareness of the Press For Change campaign. I've just been over to the Save the children website to get some facts and figures to include in my post as I wanted to do my but to raise awareness and I am shocked by the figures that are being quoted. Apparently in the time it takes to read this, a mother-to-be will needlessly die. By the time you are … [Read more...]
The Gallery – Playtime (as chosen by a 7 year old)….
I love this weeks Gallery theme - Playtime. I could have spent all day going through my photos trying to choose just a few of my favourites to share with you but I thought that I would ask Miss Frugal to choose the pictures for me today and I'm quite surprised by some of the ones that she picked.So from a seven year old's point of view, our definition of playtime is a bit of cooking, a picnic, a game of crazy golf, some theme park rides and a soak in the paddling pool - oh I wish I was that age again! … [Read more...]
