Thrify Gifty Santas Challenge 2012

rufusdog52

Anglea - Thanks for asking, we are having it today. Looking forward to them all coming round. Only thing is the storage heater in the dining room fell off the wall last night, we had just gone up to bed too, made an awful crash. Luckily it just missed the chairs and table which is all laid out ready for the meal. We have someone coming to make the electrics safe, they were supposed to come last night but then rung and said they couldnt make it till this morning and would be here about 10, still not here and just had a call saying they dont know what time they will be here and they will ring on the way. Hoping they will come before the family arrive at 1.

susan42

Hi everyone, I found you. Glad your all ok and its great to see some old and new faces here

Welcome to the newbies. :j:j

Rufus - I got a sewing machine for Christmas so I`m off to find a class lol. Was the kindle cover hard? :oBearing in mind I havent worked out how to thread the machine yet....

Mary - Hope you had a great Christmas

Elysia - its with great regret I wont be on the money making board but it got a bit addictive and I want to craft more, so you check in here occasionally lady, keep me upto speed...lol

Mum2 one - I Pm`d you , but thank you once again.

Hi Angela , great to see you x

fed up - great to see your hampers going well...

pips mum - good luck in the sales

jamtart - wb

If I missed you out I`m sorry. But Im off to catch up from the beginning.

WelshDreamer_2

Just a pop in before work, everyone seems like busy bees here, does anyone know for any wrapping paper online cheap enough to bulk up on for next year working solid for next week or so so doubt there will be any left in shops, and missed the very post on grabbits thanks, in advance and hope everyone has a nice new years eve eve ...

mrs-moneypenny

afternoon all
hope everyone had a good and organised christmas

ive made a start on next year by filling next years calendar with everyones birthdays need to go through my card book and see what cards ive already got in my drawer.

gone for a more mse plan for new years dinner - everyone gets a table pressie bought by me but this year after chrsitmas dinner i but everyones name cards in the champagne bucket and said everyone was to pick a name and they were to buy that person a gift of no more than £4 for the newyears table. i got my youngest DS so nipped in the sales and got him sorted also nipped in lush as all their christmas products are 1/2 price so got two DDs sorted with ther table pressies as their brothers hadnt a clue what to get.

happy 2012 everyone

mum2one

Bargain alert!!

Been in Evans and there clearing out their pandora style bracelets and beads

bracelets were £6 reduced to £1
beads were 6 beads for £8 - now 6 beads for £1.

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Peacocks - upto 70% off,thou there seems to be a lot of summer items in there, but great bargains on nightwear.

Catch up properly later xx

mary-op

Hello all :j
You all seem to be busy grabbing bargains ! Well done.
I've resolved to spent nothing until I've had a thorough clear out of ''stuff'' that I know I can recycle on to someone else. Already got a spare room full (well not quite full) of bits and pieces left over from previous year...........must go through them and see what I can use.........sent to charity shop what I can't and make a fresh start.

So, had a lazy day and been messing about with cross stitch stuff I had bought me. Can't see myself doing the fiddly little designs but had a go at letters and basic type flowers...........thinking I might have a go at some sort of sampler as my ''new year project''...............it's something Ive not done before.

susan - lucky you with the sewing machine. I can't manage to lift a 'normal' one on to the table so think I'll get one of those ''mini'' ones.

Hope you're all ok and hugs to those who need them ((((((:))))))

mum2one

Hope everyone ok, thought give you a laugh, watching an old repeat Hugh bloke cook, christmas special, he was cooking a 10 bird roast, Miss Hoodie, completely straight faced pipes up, oh why doesnt he go to iceland they do a 3 bird roast, or aldi does a 4 bird roast, save him the trouble.......

Course we just burst out laughing, bless her!.

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Digressing again completey a miralce has happened in the house, finally got dad on to th mse way of thinking... the house ins came through... up from last yr by £50, shopped round the other ngt on internet, but today we went into Swinton, got a gd price, bless them our insurers couldn't match, its obviously got intro discounts etc, but he saved £30 on the insurance, and in 4 mths time he gets £40 cash back........
xx

mum2one

rufusd!!!2 wrote: »

Anglea - Thanks for asking, we are having it today. Looking forward to them all coming round. Only thing is the storage heater in the dining room fell off the wall last night, we had just gone up to bed too, made an awful crash. Luckily it just missed the chairs and table which is all laid out ready for the meal. We have someone coming to make the electrics safe, they were supposed to come last night but then rung and said they couldnt make it till this morning and would be here about 10, still not here and just had a call saying they dont know what time they will be here and they will ring on the way. Hoping they will come before the family arrive at 1.

Oh heck, massive hugs, in the nicest of ways glad it happened when no one was there.
Hope it gets sorted quickly xx

susan42

rufus-I hate waiting for tradesmen they seem to follow their own set of rules.

mum2one- trust miss goodie to say that. you taught her well.

hi moneypenny

Mary-I had one of those little ones last year for Xmas, the instructions were in a foreign language . tried translating them bit couldn't see the pictures on how to thread it. tried contacting company . so I give up. so told oh it was good as he bought it and he bought me a bigger one this year as he said I liked it so much. I can't sew not even a button, I'm hopeless. teach me a lesson for telling porkies ...

rufusdog52

Hi everyone

The heater is fixed and didnt cost anything, the bloke came about 11.30, said he would take it apart and have a look and said he couldnt find anything actually wrong just a bit dented and the electrics all sticking out so he put a new switch on the wall and fixed the heater back on the wall and said to give it a try to see if came on this morning and it did so now I can ring up the other insurance and tell them I dont need to claim after all.

Our last Christmas dinner went off well apart from the dog knocking a glass of red wine all over my lovely patchwork table cloth I made. I have washed it twice and it seems to be coming out a bit, so I might try it again and see how it goes. It might not show.

We are not doing anything tonight as OH has to work tomorrow so will be up at 5 so early night for us tonight. No doubt we will hear the fireworks.

He has found out he is working next Christmas and will be on nights all over the holiday - great!! Will be hard trying to keep YD amused for the time, will be boring. May be she will get an offer to go round someone elses house for Christmas day instead.

Susan - great news about the sewing machine. The kindle case was really easy to make. The one I made myself took a bit longer as I was just working it all out, but I made another one after for my niece and it only took half an hour to do. Unfortunately when she got it it didnt fit as hers was an older kindle to mine so I had to make another bigger one yesterday. My sister is sending the first one back to sell on my shop. I am off to make some more this morning plus I need to finish off making a cushion for someone.