New, New Thirfty Gifty for Christmas and All Ocassions 2011..Santas Challenge...

SugarSpun

Oooooooooooooh I love Ikea :j

Took Wee Beastie for lunch and the little monster fell asleep in the bus and slept through lunch, an extended walk around and most of my half-hour rummage through the bargains corner and only woke up when someone dropped a handful of metal drawer handles on the floor in front of her

Still though, I bought six shiny bottle bags for 98 cents. a doormat for 49 cents (what I went for), and a bright red cotton bedsheet and a denim sofa cushion cover for €1 each that I plan to make dresses for the baby out of :money: I also went through my socks yesterday and found a load of long socks I never wear because they dig in at the top so they are now in a Future Sock Monkey pile. I think my niece and VBF's little one will be receiving sock monkeys with their Christmas presents this year

When we left Ikea it was insane; complete snowpocalyse and I was starting to worry the buses wouldn't run and we'd be trapped there :eek: we got to the train station and the snow was coming down so hard I couldn't see the opposite platform! But Wee Beastie loves the snow so she's gone back out with DH to the bank and on the millions of other errands he's taking care of.

mary-op

Hello all :j
Had a good nights sleep (thats two on the trot :T) so felt much more positive about doing something today ...............made four cards -well two were sort of notelets for my sons so I've written to them to update them on whats going on............doesn't sound like much but to me it was.
Bitterly cold here today...........OH came in sniffing and sneezing..........said it feels like it might snow:eek:
Hope he's wrong there.

Cleaner coming tomorrow..........think I'll just get her to hoover round then clear out all the ''stuff'' in this little comp. room I'm in. Stuff just got shoved in here after Christmas and there it stayed.........some is charity shop stuff, the rest black bin bag. I'll feel better when thats done..........can't see the wood for the trees at the minute.

Keep busy all of you:)

cdsmiler

elysia2003 wrote: »

Claire - how do you get any proper work done, looking at blogs and on here half of the time? :rotfl:

Shhhhh. :rotfl:hehe

esmer wrote: »

OOOOOPS I forgot to publish DOH!

It now there I promise :rotfl:

You can subscribe to it, and it send you an email when I add stuff

Aha!! Yeay! Yummy, thank you! Subscribed!
Can I ask you (and other cake makers on here) about butter icing - it drives me around the bend to make! When you 'cream' and 'beat' do you use a power hand whisk?! I broke a wooden spoon over Christmas.... lol

SugarSpun - glad you got home safe in the snow!!!

mary-op - glad you had another good night!! Our front bedroom is a bit like that - still got the Xmas decs in there!! They NEED to go up the loft....

'Working' late tonight. Feeling productive though, which is all very well but everything I want to do is at home! Though saying that I have just listed something on ebay (for the first time in YEARS!! And back then I only did a handful of stuff!!) - bit of a shock to the system, but lets see how it goes! It's a stainless steel gas hob - boxed and new! Fingers crossed! Exciting....

I want to sell my wedding dress too, but I don't know the best place. Anyone had experience selling a wedding dress? Is ebay the best or do wedding dresses disappear in the piles of dresses being sold?? Was also thinking of Preloved but it's not a particular designer or anything, so not sure if it be the best place.... Any thoughts ladies?

Clare x

esmer

SugarSpun wrote: »

When we left Ikea it was insane; complete snowpocalyse and I was starting to worry the buses wouldn't run and we'd be trapped there :eek: we got to the train station and the snow was coming down so hard I couldn't see the opposite platform!

Just off a conference call to a guy in Secaucus, and he could not get to work cause of the snow, sounds bad!

mary-op wrote: »

Hello all :j
Had a good nights sleep (thats two on the trot :T) so felt much more positive

Thats GREAT, so glad you got some good sleep

cdsmiler wrote: »

Shhhhh. :rotfl:hehe

Can I ask you (and other cake makers on here) about butter icing - it drives me around the bend to make! When you 'cream' and 'beat' do you use a power hand whisk?! I broke a wooden spoon over Christmas.... lol

I want to sell my wedding dress too, but I don't know the best place. Anyone had experience selling a wedding dress?
Clare x

I use an electric whisk. Have used a spoon for just a little amount.

As for Wedding dresses, I tried to sell mine, no luck, ended up freecycling it, just to get it out the house. :T

kelda_shelton

You've just reminded me that i was planning to do that. !3 months on from the wedding I haven't done it yet! When i was looking for my wedding dress I perused Preloved.

http://www.preloved.co.uk/fuseaction-adverts.listadverts/sec-Home+and+Family/cat-Marriage/subcat-Wedding+Clothes+and+Bridal+Wear/5395f0ac.html

It looks quite good.

There's also this one but they charge you £10 to advertise.

http://www.bridetobride.co.uk/index.php?Page=select_package

Confetti also gves some advice..

http://www.confetti.co.uk/article/view/6993-8215-0-Should_you_buy_second_hand__Wedding_Dresses.do

including putting on their forum.
http://forums.confetti.co.uk/

cdsmiler wrote: »

Shhhhh. :rotfl:hehe

I want to sell my wedding dress too, but I don't know the best place. Anyone had experience selling a wedding dress? Is ebay the best or do wedding dresses disappear in the piles of dresses being sold?? Was also thinking of Preloved but it's not a particular designer or anything, so not sure if it be the best place.... Any thoughts ladies?

Clare x

Real_Toothfairy

Hi every1....Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts for my MIL. DH is taking it very badly.....there has already been a family argument!! To top it all of I went and got a bad chest infection and have ended up on antibiotics and steroids. DH wanted to take me to hospital cos he had never seen me so white and I was having probs breathing but I got an appointment with doctor instead!! God I feel like screaming but have nearly lost my voice so I cant.....I will have a proper look at challenge at some point, funeral is not till 8th of Feb. But not sure what I will get done!!

Much love to u all Lisi xxx

cdsmiler

kelda_shelton wrote: »

You've just reminded me that i was planning to do that. !3 months on from the wedding I haven't done it yet! When i was looking for my wedding dress I perused Preloved.

http://www.preloved.co.uk/fuseaction-adverts.listadverts/sec-Home+and+Family/cat-Marriage/subcat-Wedding+Clothes+and+Bridal+Wear/5395f0ac.html

It looks quite good.

There's also this one but they charge you £10 to advertise.

http://www.bridetobride.co.uk/index.php?Page=select_package

Confetti also gves some advice..

http://www.confetti.co.uk/article/view/6993-8215-0-Should_you_buy_second_hand__Wedding_Dresses.do

including putting on their forum.
http://forums.confetti.co.uk/

Thanks for this! WIll ahve a look through!

esmer - thanks for that! I'll try with a whisk! It's daft, but I have visions of icing sugar going everywhere!! lol

Lisi - Oh what a cr*ppy time to get a chest infection. Just remembger, this should be the lowest point and everything should be getting better soon. We're all here if you want a good moan. THinking of you!

Clare x

esmer

It does lol!

Trick is, whip up your butter, then put in your icing sugar and use a dirk until incorporated and then use the whisk again

cdsmiler

esmer wrote: »

It does lol!

Trick is, whip up your butter, then put in your icing sugar and use a dirk until incorporated and then use the whisk again

Beg pardon?? lol I'm assuming a dirk is those wavy attachments that they use for dough??

esmer

cdsmiler wrote: »

Beg pardon?? lol I'm assuming a dirk is those wavy attachments that they use for dough??

god damn autocorrect............ lol a FORK


I have been sitting here laughing my head off............