I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Florenceem

katskorner wrote: »

Flo! You need to tell us next time! We were all worried! So there.

Sorry I thought I had told everyone - senior moment.

Florenceem

I have been at my DD's in Greenwich - eating her food - did no cooking or washing up. :j Too busy lengthening some curtains. :eek:

Florenceem

I left here on the 2.05 pm train - Friday 29 June afternoon. I got home at
lunchtime July 4 - so I stayed at youngest Daughter's for 5
nights in the end. Then eldest Daughter was booked to arrive - stayed with her sister for 3 nights.
ED had a 2 day conference in London. On Friday evening
- they met up with a cousin from Australia who is on a world
trip.
I am SO tired - I arrived in Dartford via Chatham at 4pm on the
Friday afternoon. YD met me on her way home from school.
Her apartment is lovely - you can watch the boats going up and down
the Thames. They are building more blocks so eventually her view will
be more restricted but she knew that when she bought the place.
On Saturday morning we went to Lewisham - the market there is mainly
fruit and vegetables - very good prices. We found the material shop
that was advertised on the Internet - it was very busy. YD wanted
silk to lengthen the curtains - she got a very good colour match to
the Laura Ashley raised pattern fabric she had as the original
curtains. I got some lace trim for cards.
In the afternoon we went for a walk along the Thames path and saw
The Cutty Sark. Then we went into Greenwich - there are some lovely
little shops and a big indoor market. The market is hand crafted goods
- pottery/leather/jewellery/some fabric goods. I persuaded YD to
start Christmas shopping. I bought some lovely French lace trim.
I started cutting the linings and interfacing for the silk in the
evening. Next morning when I started to cut the silk for the curtains
- realised it was too narrow! I turned it to use the width as the
length. So I didn't have enough for the last curtain - without joining
two pieces - YD didn't like this idea - one little bit! There
were four LA curtains - two are going in YD's bedroom and one
each in the other two bedrooms. Her window is wider than the
other two bedroom windows.
I worked on the curtains all day Sunday plus all day on Monday. On
Monday after school YD went back to Lewisham to get more silk -
they only had a metre - she needed 1 metre 40 cms. So I stitched
two pieces together after convincing her that once the curtains are
gathered up by the hanging tape - the seam can be hidden in the fabric
folds. YD found out that the silk was on special offer - at
£10.50 per metre - if they get more in it will be - £26 a metre!. So
if she wanted one piece on the last curtain - it will cost her + £36. I
have told her - if you don't like the curtain when it is up - I will
take it apart and redo it - somehow - I don't think that will happen.
On Tuesday I finished the curtains and 2 of the tie backs - I needed
more cotton and D rings to finish the other 2. YD is bringing her
school choir to Broadstairs soon so can collect them then. So I have
worked 36 hours sewing! I got more thanks for altering the curtains to
fit from YD's lodger than I did from her.
ED phoned yesterday - could I go and stay for a week while the
builders do her bathroom conversion - in late
August - early September - no I can't - I am away again.

Florenceem

I used three sausages from the freezer to make a Toad in the Hole - we had some for dinner - 2 days dinners - 4 portions are to go in the freezer. :eek:



We had roast potatoes, TITH, gravy, cabbage, mange tout & baby sweetcorn for dinner.

dasophster

Sounds like a lovely trip Flo! I dabble in a bit of sewing myself, hope they are happy with the curtains and don't make you redo them a lot of shop bought curtains are made from multiple pieces of fabric anyway xx

Florenceem

Florenceem is going away again on Thursday! :j
I am off to Doncaster with a craft friend for four days.
Ski again! :rotfl:

Florenceem

dasophster wrote: »

Sounds like a lovely trip Flo! I dabble in a bit of sewing myself, hope they are happy with the curtains and don't make you redo them a lot of shop bought curtains are made from multiple pieces of fabric anyway xx

I don't think DD will want them altered.
These are the ones in her bedroom.

These are the ones with a seam - you can't see it when the curtains are open.

recovering_spendaholic

Hi Everyone -

Ms_night_rider - glad you had a lovely Birthday week - sounds like you had a great time!!

Lip_stick hope you feel a bit better. You can get peanut butter M&M's on Amazon but they are quite expensive - but VERY nice!

Caz, soworried et al - I am so jealous of your bargains - I haven't had a good ys bargain for a while now.

Florenceem - sounds like you had a good time and they curtains look lovely!

Today we used up leftover hm pizza from last night (there is still loads left!) for lunch and for tea I made a pasta bake, but it wasn't too nice (pasta got overcooked and I didn't like the cheese) I bought the Cathedral City lighter cheese and used that and it wasn't very nice at all!! There was over half left and (don't tell Flo) I binned it as I knew no-one would eat it.

I just had to have two slices of toast as I was hungry!!

I need to go shopping ( had an NSD today) - tomorrow but am going to make a list and really try and stick to it. We do have alot of meals in the freezer still, but I do need fresh fruit and veg/salad and stuff like toilet paper and laundry gel.

I am going to make madras coleslaw tomorrow from a recipe in the paper today. It is the usual cabbage, carrot and onion, but you add in a handful of salted peanuts, raisins and sliced apple and make the dressing with mayo, salad cream, curry powder, lemon juice and mango chutney. It looked lovely - can't wait!!

dasophster

Florenceem wrote: »

I don't think DD will want them altered.
These are the ones in her bedroom.

These are the ones with a seam - you can't see it when the curtains are open.

Wow they look fab; much better than anything ready made! xx

Lynsey

Morning.

Florenceem - welcome back, sounds like you've been very busy.

Trying to keep spends low if possible this week and I have enough for breakfasts all week, bacon, porridge, pate on toast, hot cross buns etc.
I'll only really need fresh bits and bobs, but not too much.

Spends will be less next week as I'll be away from Tuesday until Friday - full board .......................... in hospital. lol
Then only 11 days left for the month when I come out, so this will be a cheap month and that's because I've temporarily stopped filling freezers - doesn't look like it though.
I've got several Groupons/Living Social offers to use up, so cheap nights out and that'll reduce the need to stock up - well that's the plan until the end of September (the summer might start in October). lol

After being frightened that my budget may not see me through the year, I think I've probably overdone being frugal over 6 months and my remaining budget is probably too much now - better being in control than panicking though.
I never expected my freezers to be as full, thought being frugal would reduce stock and you lot who do a lot of "whoopsying" will know, you can fill freezers for very little outlay.

Well done to all the bargains listed, lovely to see and lots of pennies saved ...................... or to spend on other things.

Coffee and toast this morning and bacon sandwich for hubby.

Off cleaning today ....................... we must save that deposit!!!!

Catch up later.

Lynsey