Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

vulpix

Have minimised a pair of trousers by setting fire to them!thinks must get an aloe vera plant! I put a washing basket on the work top which pushed on the ceramic hob, on which part of a pile of laundry was touching !!! doh!!

I am slowly thrashing the house into some order,only had 3 visitors yesterday.

Hope to get a bit of food shopping today and then do some baking just in case I get more visitors.

Vx

vulpix

ps,hope your burn is getting better meritaten.x

dND

meritaten wrote: »

It was! but liberal applications of Aloe Vera and less than two hours later - its fine! I am a bit gobsmacked, as although I had used it on really minor burns - the pasta and cheese sauce felt like Napalm! my hand was really red and raw looking on most of the back of my hand! I rinsed hand under cold tap, applied about an inch worth of the leaf gel and one more application later - my hand is fine! no pain, no redness - just feels a bit 'tight'. rofl - I feel almost like I witnessed a 'miracle cure'!

Keep applying the aloe at least twice a day until the skin has fully recovered - I did that to a quite large burn, about 1.5 in diameter, and once it had healed there was absolutely no trace of a scar. I also nicked my other hand at the same time and stupidly didn't put the aloe on there; result one scar!!!
The Aloe plant is a good investment as it produces babies once it is established so it should go on for ever :j

lollyfin

Lavender essential oil is good for burns too, hope your hands ok today meritaten.
I finished my DGD cardi yesterday and have started squares for a blanket, I've really caught the knitting bug again and unravelled some other knitted pieces to give me more wool for my squares.
Can any of you recommend a good book for an absolute beginner on sewing. I have a machine and want to learn but am totally clueless.

celtic_moon

Hi All

Hope the burn is doing well Meritaten!

I am sorry but I had to giggle a little. I was given an Aloe plant which has served me very well and sprouted lots of babies (they're like spider plants in that way) and as part of our frugal Christmas giving we are gifting some of the babies. I have just finished wrapping up a decent sized one for the stepson who is decidedly accident prone! We are seeing him and his OH today and undoubtedly will be told of another 'incident' he has had! I use it for anything skin related as I have psoriasis and a lot of 'first aid' stuff irritates my skin something chronic! Keep applying it - it really is a wonder 'drug' :-)

Xxx

fuddle

I can't say I've minimised today. Well maybe I could count hoovering the crumbs? Nope, I think that's most probably displacement.

Apologies. It's Christmas and my household is a little giddy.

It's gingerbread making day. Normally I do this on Christmas Eve but getting ahead this year. I'm not looking forward to fiddly icing later though. I'm too much of a perfectionist to enjoy summat I find too hard. :rotfl:

I am a bit conflicted if I'm honest. I don't ask family what they would like for Christmas because I would like to choose their gifts, it's part of the enjoyment for me, otherwise it becomes an expensive pressure. I have bought my neice a kite for Christmas. My two love their kite and it really did come from a good place. It's been poo poo'd as something that wouldn't be very well received by the little girl (4) because she can't get immediate satisfaction from it on Christmas Day and 'maybe it would have been a good idea to ask about her Christmas wish list'. I don't know what the heck to think as I can't decide whether I should be very angry at the rudeness, saying this to my face, or upset that a gift I gave with the intention of the little girl having fun with her mam and dad has been disregarded as not good enough.

Anyway I have a chorus of Christmas tunes coming from my girls upstairs... complete with recorders :eek: :rotfl:

FunBrum

Fuddle That was a bit rude to say that to you!:eek:

You choose whatever you want as its a gift and should be appreciated no matter what! :A

I'm thinking of minimising my gift wrapping, by just putting ribbon and bows on the gifts and omitting the paper.....What do you think?

[Deleted User]

Fuddle it's a super gift and one the little 4 year old will love, don't feel wrong footed by the response, just wait for the first decent windy day after Christmas and her dad will revert to childhood himself and take her out to fly the kite, magic!

lollyfin

i think your choice of gift was great fuddle our DGD isn't 2 yet but she loves it when we all go to the park to fly her kite and I totally agree with mrslw the rest of the family will love it as well when they get out there

silvasava

How rude Fuddle - we have had kites for years and I don't know any child or adult that doesn't like them. Anyway - she will have satisfaction from the kite long after Christmas day has been & gone instead of instant gratification that can probably be obtained from other presents she's given( & possibly instantly discarded!)