Memorygirls - The Matrix Re-inspired

InaPickle

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Also came across some lavendar oil whilst tidying today - I think I may convert some of the Approved Food Olive oil into "castille" soap this week (I can call it DS1's science experiment for the week ) Luxury soap at real bargain prices.

You make castille soap as well?! Or is that just the olive oil + lavender oil recipe? If you have a proper one, please pass it over here as I'm going organic once I've used up all existing stash. It'll take a fair while, though! :rotfl:

InaPickle

Memory_Girl wrote: »

I remember Martin going back and doing the intro to that thread - I think it was used in one of the Weekly Newsletters. Wee bit scarey;) I bet you any money I run into him at some point when I am back at work - that would be a touch embarrrassing considering some of the things we have chatted about on this thread :rotfl:

ClootiesMum wrote: »

Cherisong - I didn't realise that either - Martin is a fan MG - go you..... although thinking back to some of the conversations we've had .......:o

Ladies, Martin is a Big Boy who married a girl and as a result has probably overheard a few conversations between Mrs Martin and her friends after a few bottles of wine that make anything that we could say on t'interweb (well, not quite anything, but anything we would put up for public consumption!) seem tame by comparison.

The Mentors, however, seem like a much tamer kettle of fish...shall I get out my Very Rude French to give the French mentor a bit of a shock if he happens to pass by?! :rotfl:

Kittikins

Pickle - I have a wonderful dictionary of slang French I bought when I was doing my A levels, happy to share the 34 words, if memory serves me right, for ........ amongst other things!!! of course I only used it for research purposes, rarely for conversational ones, lol

Craftyscholar

Wow MG your garden is really coming on well:T
Claire - hope today goes smoothly - did he say why he thought "just messing with you" was a good idea?

Oh well, back to frog chewing - I start off OK then the brain cell runs out of energy and ideas (yup, I'm writing an assignment again)

susan946

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Go Me:j

Now I need to figure out something swish to do for a window treatment - the room has a Velux and I refuse to pay for a blind, so I'm thinking a curtain pole over the top of the Velux and one underneath so that the curtain falls behind the lower pole (does that even make sense???)............... would be so much easier if I could draw you guys a picture:)

MG

Does the Velux hinge in the middle? If so you would have to think about whether you need the window open from time to time. If so there would be a problem if the curtain is attached to the wall above and below the frame. You would need to attach to the frame but then if the window is wide open the curtain wouldn't give you privacy or block out the light very effectively. If the window is hinged at the top then there is no problem.

We have inherited a plastic, centrally hinged, velux - high enough that privacy isn't an issue (except from overflying spy planes!!) but light is. The velux is too high for anyone to reach up to draw the curtains without a ladder. I haven't yet worked out how to cope with this.

Any ideas very welcome.

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

listen to me........it's official......I have become my mother :rotfl:

You and me both, girl!!!!!! Trouble is I even look like my mother!! I look in the mirror and she peers out at me!!!!!!! :eek::eek: Help :eek::eek:

Sue

Cheery_Daff

Morning all,

Pickle, I make soap using these instructions, but I use the recipe from this post (which only has olive oil and coconut oil, not the palm oil). Actually quite simple once you stop worrying about the caustic soda!

Look at me all up in time to have a cuppa before I leave the house! :T Must remember not to dally too long and make myself late :rotfl:

Tescodealqueen

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

I made rhubarb crumble last night MG - mmmmmmm

(((((((claire)))))))

MG - we've got two veluxes (??) - two cup hooks at the top and bottom of the window (screwed into the wall), and a bit of dowling through the top and bottom of a square of fabric, - sits over the cup hooks at the top, and the bottom bit has two little eye things screwed into the dowling, which hook over the cup hook

That might be more confusing than I intended! :rotfl:

The larger blind is actually screwed onto the wall cos cup hooks wouldn't hold it.

Mind you, we just do a fairly botch job of rolling them up and slotting them back onto the hooks, you might want something more professional

I think I know what you mean. We have a small velux window in the loft and have used an old fashioned curtain wire attached to the top and bottom of the frame to maintain the tension, with mini curtains slotted at each end, each with their own little tie backs which close with poppers. When the curtains are closed it looks just like a blind and when open a bit like the windows in the hut in Calamity Jane. It only takes as much material as the size of the window so quite cost effective.

OliveOyl_2

Thanks for the recipes Cheery (but :mad:to introducing me to another distracting Blog :rotfl:)

I've got to keep at it today, so I'm using the 15 minute system - don't let me hang around here too long DS2 is married now, but hasn't left his room. I need it for guests on Wednesday.....

There's 20+ years of sentimental toot that I've been asking him to sort since he left home 5 years ago, morally I feel free to bin stuff, but emotionally I can't do it to him..........

crickett1234

Good morning Matrix!

Had just the best weekend. Hubby and I talked and talked and talked and found out some interesting things. We need to discuss stuff in more detail, but it is looking like relationship counselling might not be needed after all. We are doing it ourselves! I have told him, it might get more official at some stage if we need it to, but at the moment... it is going very well.

Have a lot of work to do today, so am going to get on with it. Frog chomping all the way today ladies!

HAve a great one!

Memory_Girl

Soap is one of those scarey things that ends up being really simple once you have done it the first time - I like finding "Frugal Challenges", it makes my heart soar.

I can make soap, and creams, cleaning products. I can knit a jersey - and socks (this one scared me for years). I can cook, I can bake (cakes and bread). I can sew (from a simple repair to a ballgown). And this year, we are attempting to grow a garden..................... but everything I have taught myself how to do I have done little by little.

My "best" castille recipe contains goat milk and is truly luxurious - can be used as a body, face and hair soap. It makes me feel like I am in a special spa and reminds me of holidays in the South of France. I would make this soap as Christmas gifts - but it hurts me to part with them they are so special to me.

I bake cakes because I can make them better than the supermarkets, knit socks because they make DS1 feel reallly special and cosy and make castille soap - because I am too darn clued up to spend £3.50 on a teeny bar at the farmers market :rotfl:

Just because we are on a tap-water budget doesn't mean we can't have some "chapagne moments" to our day:D


What else do you guys do that are "everyday luxuries"?????

MG