The Thrifty Gifty Girls 2009 (Organised & Money Neutral for All Occasions) #3

rainmac

RustyFlange wrote: »

Thankyou for the link I think I did send you the link in an email to grassroots a while back? ... glad it wasn't just me who failed the pizza hut exam :rotfl:

I was horrified that I failed and didn't go back to try again, stupid really as I lurve Pizza Hut :rolleyes:

You did send me the grassroots link before, it's just taken me a while to sign up

chocolate.orange_2

I havent had time to squeeeze ive been blogging

I might just have a little squeeze tonight though ;O) Rainmac i have renamed friday 'Rocky road day' lol I wrote your receipe down to get with my shopping on Thursday

hayley11

Ladies, don't feel bad about failing the pizza hut test, I passed it and did a few assignments for them, then they decided I had to take the test again and I flippin failed it!!:rotfl: I was so gutted because I love pizza hut too!!

Had a bad day today, I have no idea what goes on in my tiny little brain but some days I wake up and I just cannot feel happy or see the good in anything I'm kind of snapping out of it a little bit now but still feel like I could just get back in bed and cry (which is what i've done most of the day )

We're going out for tea tonight, to Franky and Benny's, it's my belated birthday meal and i've been saying all day i'm not going but I am going to make myself because it'll probably make me feel a lot better

I have a confession to make, i've been reading all about the squeezey thing and haven't had a single clue what you've all be going on about :rotfl: So I've just googled it and I know what you're talking about now! Kind of! Just watched a demo on quickutz.com I want one!! I probably don't need one though because I don't craft anywhere near as much as you do but I still want one

Well I better go get ready

Skiergirl

I've had 8 pages to catch upon so apologies if I haven't mentioned you

Glad you all enjoyed the NEC, maybe one day I'll get there, I loved looking at the blogs though

Shelley - so sorry to hear about your dog

Rusty - hope your legs are feeling better now

Aurora - take care of yourself, sorry you're having a rough time. Hope your appointment went ok today
mum2one - well done on your mark :j

scatty - gorgeous scrapbook page

goochie - good luck with the job hunting

hayley - sorry you're feeling down today, hope you have a lovely meal and it'll be thrifty cos its 25% off on a monday:D

I've made one card for mil for mothers day today and have started one for my mum so I'm feeling like I've acheived something :j

Skiergirl

I forgot to ask - can anyone who does panelbase remember how long it takes to get their first survey ?. I signed up with them, pinecone and lightspeed around the same time and have had surveys from the other two but not panelbase Thanks

sylphraven

Evening ladies :hello:
Had a lovely day out in the sun today, my friend turned up out the blue this morning (she lives 3 hour drive away now so rarely see her) to see if I was in & wanted going out somewhere. We ended up in Shrewsbury, I love the mixture of new & old architecture there. Picked up a Dr Who shaker maker, 1/2 price which has been put up for christmas, & treated myself to an oriental paper/vellums pack - was originally £18.94 on qvc, reduced to £11.43 for the store, & then reduced again to.....wait for it......£1.99!!!!!!!
Also picked up a bag of 5 chipboard letter sticker packs, & another with 20 packs of rub in words & letters - all from the qvc clearance shop, they've got 25% off craft items at the moment. I MUSNT buy any more craft stuff for a bit.

Then went to Asda & did a big shop so I only have to go up once more this week for a few fresh items, hoping it'll stop me buying a few sweets, lol.

You girls have got me hankering after some dies now, but I'm trying to hold off to save up for a cricut or similar.

orchid-96

Hi everyone, :j I have been reading all the posts over the last few days, but havn't managed to post so sorry that this is a quick one..

Just wanted to say Shelley, sending hugs for you, your dog is absolutely gorgeous, don't know what to say other than don't bottle up any feelings, just go with how you feel..(that goes for all of you who are feeling a bit low at the moment, we need the lows to appreciate the highs I guess)

Goochie, sorry to hear about your job loss, I am sure you will be an asset to any future employer - after all you are thrifty and gifty!

have read all the blogs about the NEC, sounds like you all had a blast and thanks PLM and Syphraven for showing us your stash

Gotta go, dh is hurrying me up as he wants to put 24 on, we are on season 5 episode around 13 now, think this one so far is my fave..

Catch you all soon, oh and on the thrifty gifty subject I got a cheque in the post today for £35 from TalkTalk as I had taken a cashback deal with them when I signed up for their homephone line, had totally forgotten about it, so thats going straight into my [STRIKE]craft stash [/STRIKE]gift fund..

x

paddingtondoo

Phew! Have just caught up with all the posts from over the weekend and today - I hate having to go in to work I miss too much :rotfl:.

Was very busy [strike]hiding[/strike] crafting over the weekend. OH, DD and even the cat were very clingy and I felt a bit suffocated .

I had 3 weeks ironing to do so sent them out to the garden with a list of jobs and they were back in 40mins - apparently the water was too cold to clean the pump in the pond :rotfl: so they insisted on turning off create and craft which I was watching to snaffle ideas .

I put some pics on my blog thanks for the inspiration rainmac

Forgotten who it was who posted about die cutter thingys I have a cuttlebug which cuts their dies, sizzix (not the bigz) and quickutz and embosses as well and I love it - dies are a bit of an investment though

paddingtondoo

Forgot to mention got this Hannah Montana jigsaw from the poundshop today

scattymam1

skier girl I had three surveys from panelbase within my first few weeks - it all depends on your profile. Example I do well on ipsos and lightspeed, and rainmac does well on valued opinions who I never get any surveys from. Try loads of different ones - you'll soon see which ones are doing you best.