Thrify Gifty Santas Challenge 2013,

mum2one

Plzed to say mum and dads anniversary party went off without any problems! had compliments about the cake, (big phew) as Miss Hoodie made ir and decorated it.

Everyone loved the little gift bags and thought the bottle bags were fab (4p from Asda).

Just the four of us are going out for lunch tomorrow.

xx

Anglea

Hello everyone

Best wishes Sugar spun with your good news :T

Hi again Clare, what kind of cake did you make? I can't believe how fast time flies, starting school already !!!

Mumtoone, so glad your party was successful, you always put in so much effort.

my list - hardly started that's why I keep needing to see it

THIS WEEK -
Monday - see advice person
Tuesday - art/craft club - collage envelopes
Birthday card for P and I. Present for P. either buy or decide on.
See parents again and decide on legal stuff. Email solicitor.
Get S's book back and my scarf

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Special Occasions
10 collage envelopes, present for P, card for P and I - 26th
wedding card for wedding 26th, present for Ly, anniversary card Feb, cut up Xmas tags, get cards/paper in sales, write letter or postcard to Australia, Poland, USA, Carol

Post Xmas
Events/health/Xmas info in diary, . write dates in 2013 diaries x 2
plastic bags of stuff pre-Xmas - go through and put away, Put away Xmas cutlery, 2013 timeline

House
clean upstairs, arrange boiler clean

Finances
financial filing, updates, forms to fill in, PP, book research

Personal
do something with hair, excercise

mum2one

Not a thrify day - Miss Hoodie and me took mum and dad out for lunch, just the 4 of us, after all fuss yesterday, still think she expected people to jump out of the corner.

It was lovely, they had Sunday Roast - the size of Yorkshire pud was about 6in across, 4in high, and soft but crispy, - then when the veg came out - was in a big fruit bowl - all pipeing hot. I had gammon and it was melt in the mouth.

Puddings - we did go mse - shared 2 puds between the adults, plum pudding with brandy sauce, sticky toffee pud, toffee sauce, + vanilla icecream, - you could tell it was posh icecream - had bits of vanilla in it.

Wasn't too bad £75 for 4 mains, 3 puds, 5 drinks. But it was all fresh food.

Its the pub we use when we meet our friends from manchester (summer + winter). Anyone near Chester area, 10 miles away - pm and i'll pass pub details across.

lazy ngt - just waiting for washing to finish, sods law clothes not been washed b4 so had to do 3 seperate loads.

Back to reality tomorrow....

Hope your not all snowed in!! we had a slight covering earlier.

xxx

mrs-moneypenny

congrats sugarspun, lovely news
had an expensive weekend (but it was planned) took the kids their partners and mil out for a meal as it was DH birthday really nice to get everyone together.
DS2 has come home from school with 2 party invites so sorted gifts for those.
posted 1 birthday card over the weekend
got another to put a euro mills ticket in and post this week.

spent most of sunday working on mums mothers day pressie cross stitch its coming along well, almost finished the 'X' stitch part and going to be moving on to the back stitch this week.

hope everyone is well and managing to stay warm

cdsmiler

redbooties wrote: »

cdsmiler, I bought Harry Potter tour tickets for my daughters birthday when if first opened. It was amazing, I thought it was very good value for money. I would suggest you make sure you have plenty of spare batteries for your cameras, we took 2 cameras and had 3 phones with us and we took so many photos they all ran out.

Lol will do!!!

SugarSpun wrote: »

I thought I was done shopping, but I am going to have to buy for a whole new person :eek: Can't even do much advance shopping because I don't know anything about them except they're making me quite sick and very dizzy.

OMG, congratulations!!!!!!!!! Good job you're all sorted as early as you are!! When's the due date?!

mum2one - Glad your party went well! What went in your party bags in the end??
Anything back from Mary yet?

Angela - hi! I did a Disneyland Paris castle cake. WIll try to post a pic on here.....

Will check my list later, and add the bits I forgot too! lol

Clare x

cdsmiler

Ok, here's me trying to post a picture of the cake. I rushed it (hence things being a bit wobbly and soft looking!), and used pack mix cake for the castle bit. SHould have made my own cake for ALL of it (not just the grassy area which was the only bit I allowed people to eat as the packet cake is vile) as it would have been more stable too. Packet mix was a bit soft and spongy! But I needed to save some pennies!





Clare x

rufusdog52

Cat believe I forgot to subscribe to the new thread DOH!!, There was me thinking its very quiet so far this year and just had to catch up on all I had been missing!

Sugarspun CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Doesnt seem that long ago when I was saying it before xx

Mum2one, glad the party went well xx

Susan, hope you are having a nice holiday xx

Hi to everyone else. I am not that organised this year yet. Managed to get all my personal Christmas cards in the sales but missed out on the wrapping paper and boxed cards, not that I need many of them. Wanted to get the paper though. Grandson's birthday in a couple of days and hadnt managed to get a present so stuck a tenner in with his card for this year. Not really my kind of thing but couldnt think what else to do this year. I have started saving £2 coins as its YD's 18th in July, saving up towards a party if she is having one. If not she can have it as a present. I have two weddings to go to, one end of May and one week after beginning of June. First one is my Son's and second my niece. I am in the process of sorting out my outfit. Hoping to make it myself, I have ordered a pattern for a dress and another one for a hat. Won some vintage cream fabric on Ebay at the weekend so hoping that is in good enough condition to use to make both and may be a jacket too to go with it. Only paid £5.99 including postage for the fabric. Patterns were dearer lol. Not going to make it until nearer the time as I am still dieting and want to see what size I will be by then. I have lost 3 and half stones now so going well.

rufusdog52

Hi Clare, that cake looks lovely, very artistic. Well done xx

SugarSpun

Thank you ladies cdsmiler due date is mid-September so early days yet. I saw the doctor today and all looks fine.

Kitchenbunny

Wow, that cakes looks great. I bet it took ages to make.

Well, it's been a fairly frugal day as the snow meant I couldn't get my main shopping done. That's good, in a way, except I'll have to go tomorrow now. Oh well. Not quite snowed in but we work at the bottom of a big hill so did get a little panicky when getting close to home time and it hadn't stopped snowing!

On the preparation front, I've reorganised my present cupboard and made more room. In fact, there are some wrapped already (I'm keeping a spreadsheet of what's what though) to save time next year! Is that a bit intense? I keep having a look at what's left in the sales but can't really find anything else that I want - that's usually the signal for me to step away from the reductions as I'll buy it for the sake of having it just in case.

Have a lovely evening, everyone.

KB xx