Our beautiful recycled life: a patchworking income, green living, dfw adventure!

MatyMoo

Fab dress Starnac! Well done you :j So pleased you had a great time.

Twas very wet here this afternoon and Rodders was going mental barking, crying and whining as I wouldn't take him out at the usual time to meet his pals on the field. Luckily they all waited until the worst of it was over too so he didn't miss out.

Hope the stripy kidlets had a good trip, bit rough having to go straight back to school though

vl2588

Utterly amazing, and puts mine to shame! Well done

Hello all :wave:

Pippilongstocking

starnac wrote: »

Hey up all!

Popping in to say hello after being AWOL all weekend. Had a fantastic time though. Party was a success. Loads more people than I expected turned up! Then baby's baptism on Sunday also went well. Again more people than expected turned up and we had to find more chairs!

We were all shattered yesterday though.

Today I have managed to recover the dining room chairs while DH touched up the paint in the front room. I am terrified of staple guns as I think they are so dangerous. I was so careful making sure me hands were not in the way while I pressed the handle. Then I managed to forget to move my thumb and squeezed it in the handle ouch! But at least I didn't staple my hand to the chair :rotfl:

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How lovely for you and that dress

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Lol at being tired and then recovering chairs!

I'm so glad it was fun - the photos on FB looked ace!

xxx You deserved it! xxx

Pippilongstocking

psychopathbabble wrote: »

wow... you made that?!!! that is amazing!! :T

if possible though i'd find one of just you or crop the kids out? (just being overly cautious!)

ETA: sorry, I'm a lurker normally but got carried away when I looked at the link

Hello!

Just thought I'd say hi whilst you'd delurked!

Maty - poor Rodders - my two were most unhappy! But nicer today so we've already had a walk!

DDFW - thanks for the pm/chat yesterday - love hearing about folks plans!

VL - I'm sure yours is lovely too but that dress of hers - oh my word looks amazing! Hope you're good and works behaving a bit more now

LT - odd here bad forecast for the week and now looks *reasonable* at the moment but that can change in a blink - hope the office isn't too cold today.

Piq any more thoughts on the job?

Keiss - wrap up lass and wow you'll be here soon - don't stress about the handouts - we'll be fine and I'll help as much as I can! Posters up everywhere!
morning all!

KK hows the leg? Hope you're fine....

Off to do banks and update a bit

Pippilongstocking

Another day in the homestead of stripes

What on earth can I tell you

Not much I've been quiet as works been a bit crackers but appears to be settling.....(famous last words)

I'm upto 25hours a week in womble central and have between 5-10 hours gardening sorted a week/fortnight couple that with a bit of teaching and the odd bit of invigilating - I'm pretty OK for work (fingers crossed that holds)

Money - £18 left in my Royal account (oh dear but all will be well - first of the council tax off - so my dd's are up by 83.77 a month) which is a booger but understandable - £27 left in the other account as I lent £200 to a chum which is payable back at the end of the month as my rent is due - so as long as that goes to plan - I'm OK.

CC's - 350 left in one - over £500 in the other slowly the balances left are getting higher which is good if slow.

Mobile phone bill big (117!) but kids away and I've been working alot so I can claim some of the calls back. However, thats not on as its normally 25 a month - so I need to stop yibbering or find out why its so high.

Life in general

Reduced shopping now such a way of life that I'm hardly talking about it but shopping is based around these beautious bargains - yesterday after an event scooped a whole pile of breads (30-40p each) and parmasen (SP?) 30-40p for huge lumps - down from 90% and some anchovies for 13p which I'm seeing if the chooks like as I'm not sure I do and I got them some pies too for 15p as for the money - they're fine for scraps for them and I bagged a couple of celariac and a neep for 10p each.

So that's all going fine

Stripey storecupboard requires a top up - just used the last of the rice Keiss brought in the summer - so that's lasted well! Need a ferret through that and see about topping it up.

So whilst I'm a bit quiet - I'm still MSE'ing to the hilt - just forget to say

Oh and I got some milk for 10p and froze it.

I told you its all go here!

We took the rockets to work event again and they went down a storm!

troglodyte

Morning!

Pouring down here - good for the garden though. Pippi you sound in control of things and well done on the bargains! And if you're not keen on the anchovies, stir a couple in to meat stews, they disintegrate but just impart an extra savoury flavour, trust me it works a treat (the Romans used to do something similar).

Starnac the dress is fab! Glad you had such a great time.

Hello everyone else, hope you're all fine and not too wet!

Have been making a little bit of progress on sorting here - finally unpacked some boxes which have been languishing since we moved house 4 and a half years ago! Found lots of ornaments and trinkets I had missed. Also things I don't really need but find it hard to just throw out - old text books for example, I never read them and anyway they are very out of date by now so no use to any current students, but still interesting and anyway I just can't bring myself to throw away a book! Something sacred about books.

Right, best get on with stuff, have a good day all!

Kittikins

Oooh Trog, try and put your textbooks on Amaz*n or get shot......so sayeth the woman who has taken over 20 years to get rid of some of hers

Now I know I need to have the house rewired, I'm glad I've not yet brought in too much from the garage yet from moving house...it also makes the place feel ever so slightly "minimalist"!!

I've been rather non-MSE this morning, my leg hurts so I'm walking from home and bought some naughty treats when I popped into the village shop to get a loaf of bread.....

Lemon_Tree

KK didn't you say you were thinking of moving down the street soon? or am i confuddled. i was never sure whether you sold to rent or buy (which is none of my business anyway lol)

i should be getting my broadband access today - yippppppeeeeeee! so i can finally look at pictures and see how Hagis is growing and Starnac's fab dress. work are so boring that they barely let you on this site let alone somewhere interesting to look at photo's or read a blog

Karmacat

DedicatedDFW wrote: »

Crumbs! Sorry Pippi i've done it again - apologies for taking over your thread a bit :o:o

But it was in answer to a question someone (me!) asked And Pippi doesn't mind, she said so

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

I've no pension aside my state one :eek: so I need to fathom that out - until I do (having been given very good advice) I'm going to put it in an isa until I fathom out what on earth to do.

Waves to KC:D

**waves right back**

troglodyte wrote: »

Morning!

Starnac the dress is fab! Glad you had such a great time.

Hello everyone else, hope you're all fine and not too wet!

Have been making a little bit of progress on sorting here - finally unpacked some boxes which have been languishing since we moved house 4 and a half years ago! Found lots of ornaments and trinkets I had missed. Also things I don't really need but find it hard to just throw out - old text books for example, I never read them and anyway they are very out of date by now so no use to any current students, but still interesting and anyway I just can't bring myself to throw away a book! Something sacred about books.

Starnac, absolutely, the dress is lovely - and it looks so difficult to get right, with a hem like that. Congratulations!

Trog - omg, I do know what you mean about books, but I'd be drowning in them if I didn't get rid of some. Honestly, I've still got bookcases and bookcases, and eventually, I just end up thinking, you know, I have to spend money and lose space in the house to store this stuff - and I don't want to do it any more. And they're nice to leaf through every 5 years or so, but ... ug. Mind you, saying that, one of my economic anthropology books is now sat in with my financial trading books (The Gift, by Marcel Mauss) - I just looked at amazon, and what do you know, its still in print! Edition 3,000, of course :rotfl:

Hope everyone is well - lots of exciting plans going on here

starnac

Thank you for all your lovely comments about my dress. The corset I made pretty easily as I have made quite a few of them in the past but this was the first time I had attempted a skirt like that. I had to enrol the help of DH who has a very mathematical brain. I told him what I wanted and what I had to do to get the pattern right, gave him my measurements and a bit of pattern drafting help and he did the maths that I needed to get it right!! It was a bit loose around the waist but I forgot to compensate for the corset making my waist smaller.

Lots of lovely chat going on here. Loving the patchwork lifestyle chat mostly. This is what I aspire to but am still trying to work out how to get there!

Hope kiddies are settling back in Pippi