Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2017

Yes you are right At home - crotchet is a musical term!

Afternoon all,

Doris has hit in Cornwall - really windy and lots of rain and then moments of bright sunshine! Bonkers!

You know what I said about getting a stash of monies and then, fustratingly it all goes on an essential ??????

well DS1 +GF have had to go back to Northampton as the place which said they could store their stuff for free changed their minds! (sigh) So that was £240 for both of them to travel up + £120 for man with van for 3 hours + money for storage unit (which they had saved!) Its buffer money gone again but at least (so long as they keep up payments for unit) their stuff is safe now - thank goodness a friend is storing their furniture so that makes it a smaller storage unit!

To be fair they say they will pay me back but at the moment I cant see when!

Make do: DS1 + GF are not sure when they will be back so im in an unusual conundrum - meal plan is up the swannee - and I have so much fresh food in to eat that I am not sure what to eat up first!!! Does anyone know if potato bakes, once frozen come out again OK? If so I can do one of them as potatoes are starting to look as if they are gonna go green soon!
Mend: my dear friend is comming over on Monday and for Christmas she gave me one of those lovely photo calendars with her doggie in (I often dog sit for her and I love the dear little woof). however, I had not put it up, because, where I wanted it to go it is a granite wall and you need special pins to put hooks in there. Anyway the MM&M spirit hit! I had a length of ribbon from a specialist chocolate that was given me, I threaded this through the hole in the calendar and the made a long loop and hung the calendar on the same hook as my kitchen clock (hook already in house when i moved in) but, because of the length of the ribbon - the calendar is below the clock - and very good it looks too! my friend will be pleased to see her gift in use!
Minimise: Packaging - someone gave me some hyacinths to plant - they came from L!dil with their own little china bowl etc - so have finally planted them this week and chucked into the recycling the packaging... :j (I know its a bit late but i think they will still grow!)
Am now off to tackle the box of paperwork I promised myself that I would get rid of this week!!
Rainbow - the salt paste and baking soda does work (hangs head in shame) my oven really does need doing but ..... oh look there's another raindrop - how unusual.... :rotfl:

Hmm - I've taken on a challenge on the minimising front - couldn't resist a large bag of vintage saris at the market this morning, which was a bit of a bargain. I thought there were probably 9 or 10, but there were 17 in all... that's a LOT of fabric; about 102 yards in all! Some were perfectly OK and are already on my stall; others need a bit of attention to be presentable, but some are beyond use "as is" and are already in the process of being dismantled. The trims alone are very usable/saleable and much of the fabric is salvageable & can be sold or used in DD2's dance costumes. I will need to keep on top of this though; the last thing we need is acres of vintage fabric, however lovely, spilling out all over our living space!

Good morning chums I had a good day yesterday I minimised a packet of carrots into two litres of carrot and coriander soup.Then freezer dived for dinner last night and found a bacon wrapped chicken breast, and a bag of cauliflower and mashed potatoes .These I added to a dozen brussel sprouts that were languishing at the back of the fridge .Very tasty as I had also found a small slice of garlic flavoured yarg in the freezer which I defrosted and crumbled over the veg the a quick blast in the m'wave to melt it just before eating ,delicious .I think I had bought the yarg around December and stuck in at the bottom of the freezer out of the way.I know it was y/s from dobbies and only cost me 45p and there is enough left to go into tomorrows lunch salad
I also peeled and cooked five past their best eating apples and make a thick gloopy custard to go on top So used them up rather then bin them.
Mended a couple of hooks in the kitchen that had come loose from the wall just banged a raw-plug in then screwed the hooks back in sorted
So quite a productive day yesterday .

Hi, I don't know if this is the right thread but.....

My step-daughter has asked me to crochet a mermaid blanket for my 7 yr old granddaughter.

Does anyone know the cheapest place to get soft chunky wool from? I will need about 600g of it.

Thanks