♥♥ MSE Organised For Christmas 2009 ♥♥

mum2one

If anyone is popping into Boots have a look at the sale unit, I got some brilliant bargains (some for me, couple for xmas)

Mens Boantic Body Moisture Cream, reduced to £1.12, got the last 3 and they were 3 for 2

Simple fake tan - £1.09

(thats one more xmas present sorted - dd has now decided that WE MUST!! buy for the entertainment team on the site we stay in Devon, going 4 times this yr), luckly theres only 6 of them!!, 2 I know from b4, but the new ones were friendly,

Boots no 7? foundation, reduced to 75p, the one came up at £10.93, (luckly the other had reduced sticker) - there mine

5 x 7 photo frame fridge magnet 49p - xmas

mini photo frame note books reduced to 36p

Next time I'm in Boots first stop reduced rack.

Emptied my car boot (actually dad did), and forget that brought some odds and sods for xmas prezzies

Bargain got body butter and matching body scrub 49p each, so with bit of wrap there look posh xx

sarahf191979

Having a busy week again, still not got my file organised and not done any shopping yet ARRGGG!!! but not stopped. Will have to get on with the file today as I managed to sort printer out and Sky have eventually sorted the broadband out so no more fighting over the Dongal (Yippee).


Had lots of sunshine here yesterday so got the pool out for the kids (and the Dog LOL....she decided the boys were having fun and wanted to join in) had a BBQ for tea and a mess about in the garden.

Gotta wait in for the 4th cooker to be delivered today, hopefully they will be able to fit this one... its driving me up the wall all this now, then if I have time will go into town and do a bit of shopping and see if I can find any bargins.

RightO... hope you all have a nice day

Sarah
x

smilelols

As requested here's the receipe for 'an old fashioned chocolate cake'

- 75g/3 oz cocoa powder (you can use drinking choc but will be less chocolately but still tastes yum!)
- 175g/6oz softened butter
- 275g/10oz caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 275g/10oz plain flour (sieved) with 1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda and 1/2 tsp baking powder

For the filling -
-25g/1ox melted butter
- 15g/1/2 oz cocoa
- 125g/4oz icing sugar
- 2 tbsp milk

2 x lined 20cm/8in round cake tin (you can double the quanties to make a bigger cake!)

1) preheat the oven to gas mark 4 (180C or 170 in a fan oven). Stir 300ml or 1/2 pint of boiling water into cocoa powder, set aside and leave to cool.
2) In a bowl, whisk butter and sugar till light and fluffy and then whisk in the eggs gradually. Fold in the flour mixture, and then stir in the cocoa mixture, gradually till smooth. Pour into tins and cook for 30 mins (put a skewer into the cake and if it comes out clean its cooked). Leavr cakes to cool for 5 mins before removing from tins and cooling on a wire rack.
3) to make the filling. Stir the butter into the cocoa powder then beat in the icing sugar and milk till smoth. When cakes are cool spread the filling over one cake and top with the other.

Now for the ultimate chocolate covering. melt a large block of cooking (milk) chocolate. Add a large dolup of cream and mix throughly. and then spread all over the cake!!

scattymam1

mum2one you're doing really well with your pressies.

Bought one more purse last night on ebay to add to the pile.

Had an in laws birthday the other day - so I got a bunch of sweet williams from asda for 1.50 and a thorntons cake for 2.85 and gave her a pashmina which was an unwanted gift - so a cheap gift there...

right so QUESTION OF THE DAY:
when you order something from Boots do you have to go to the kiosk to redeem your points within the first two weeks after delivery or two weeks after your delivery!!?? the e-mail I got was a bit unclear...

Updated my gifts notebook and have printed out some sheets of the grand plan from 'Organized' and am going to christmassify the file I'm putting them in...decided to start the grand plan on Aug 1st and a couple of the weeks I have to do two weeks worth of stuff but then I'll be all done before baby comes. Yeay. Have my scan next week - boy or girl!!!??? will let you all know xxx
Am doing lots of cleaning and decluttering now also so when I start the grand plan it won't take long to do each day, then I'll just do a quick sweep of the living room and kitchen a couple of weeks before christmas or when we put the tree up and bobs your uncle we'll be ready for a 'lovely lazy' christmas (and not too many sleepless nights I hope

mum2one

Mystery shopping

Hence the title (I'm digressing), basically I'm attempting a degree course :eek:, on business course, the just of it is, I'm after some information from mystery shopping (I do it myself but wanted someone elses perspective)

If anyone who mystery shops, would be willing to share some inforation, why you mystery shop,
what motivates to you to mystery shop
do you find you need to work for more than oine company

if you could reply by Pm, all answers will be used within context of report for open uni, just be extracting the odd sentance, and no names will be mentioned.

Thankyou to anyoe in advance x

chocolate.orange_2

mum2one wrote: »

Mystery shopping

Hence the title (I'm digressing), basically I'm attempting a degree course :eek:, on business course, the just of it is, I'm after some information from mystery shopping (I do it myself but wanted someone elses perspective)

If anyone who mystery shops, would be willing to share some inforation, why you mystery shop,
what motivates to you to mystery shop
do you find you need to work for more than oine company

if you could reply by Pm, all answers will be used within context of report for open uni, just be extracting the odd sentance, and no names will be mentioned.

Thankyou to anyoe in advance x

I have sent you a PM xx

Let me know if i can help you any more

FreebieRocker

Thanks smilelols Looks great!

mhagster

miss chocolate orange:with your nose free stamps do you resist your urges or do you actually give them ickle nostrils????

chocolate.orange_2

mhagster wrote: »

miss chocolate orange:with your nose free stamps do you resist your urges or do you actually give them ickle nostrils????

I tried once Mhagster :rotfl: but they just didnt look right :rotfl:

Its strange i really didnt like Magnolia stamps at all ....they grew on me Now after seeing padingtondoo post about other stamps with no noses... I had to get some of those too

Furrypig was giggling at me developing a like for noseless stamps and thinking they should all have noses,thats how my signature came about

paddingtondoo

I'm still not a fan of noseless stamps but they are great for colouring in and seem to fit most card styles - I have resisted buying any just some stamped images to play with

That's why I post links so you lot can spend on my behalf - virtual friends doing my virtual spending - perfect