by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 21, 2022 | Christmas, Saving Money
Home Made Christmas Hampers At this time of year, thoughts begin to turn to gifts for friends and family. Many people like to make a hamper, personally, I love to receive a hamper containing anything food related. Want to do a homemade Christmas hamper? What a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 18, 2022 | Christmas, Saving Money
A budget Christmas? Christmas Season People are starting to talk about the Christmas season for 2022 now, maybe you are too. If you are struggling to make ends meet, November and December can be a very stressful time. Thoughts may turn to how the hell you are going to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 16, 2019 | Christmas
Photo calendar. Family fun and make something for Nan and Grandad for pennies How to make a family photo calendar I have had a little look at Word etc to find a calendar for 2020 and found this one in Excel. If you are au fait with desk top publishers, most of them...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 14, 2019 | My Diary
A Charity Shop Haul Went to the dentist today for a clean and checkup. Afterwards I had a little sally up the high street and spotted a charity shop I hadn’t been in before (this is in a nearby very small town). Found some lovely things, including this rather charming...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 24, 2017 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Walnut ‘Nutella’ and wheat bisks bites. These are so good they’re dangerous! Having tried faux Nutella with hazelnuts and butter, I wanted to try another version with oil. Having run out of hazelnuts, I used walnuts. So I nipped into the kitchen and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 4, 2017 | All Recipes, Other
Using up bits and pieces of fruit to make a lovely fresh Summer Berry jam Sometimes, I get a bit of this and a bit of that fruit wise. There are lots of things it can be used for. I’ll use it for smoothies, or fruity, oaty crumbles, or a pie, or clafoutis, or a sweet...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 29, 2014 | Saving Money
To Black Friday, or Not to Black Friday, that is the question I can’t tell you how tired I am of hearing the words ‘Black Friday’! To me it says ‘buy something, buy something, buy something ……. Please, buy something, anything, please’. I have had endless emails all...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 25, 2014 | My Diary
Trees, bags, walls and floors A friend and I went to a startup WI meeting last night. It was proposed that a WI was started up in Heathfield itself. Unfortunately only 5 people turned up, including my friend and I, plus 4 WI advisors. The main person organising it...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 5, 2014 | Christmas
The cutest teeny tiny christmas stockings Saw these cutest of cute little knitted mini Christmas Stockings on Elaine Colliar’s blog, Mortgage Free In Three on Monday. I made the tiny pink one, and will be making a tiny toy to go in it so that DGD can give it to her...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 27, 2014 | My Diary
Fruit, Floors and Gifts Spotted these little fellas having a team bath this morning and took this picture of them through the window. Didn’t dare move in case I scared them off. DP has been working hard over the last two days getting the old tiles and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 11, 2013 | Christmas
I was thinking about gift tags and felt sure I could do some on my pc. I looked at my dtp (desk top processor) which is an old version now and there weren’t any there, so I Googled ‘gift tags’ and found these on Pinterest. There are plenty of ideas there, including...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 11, 2013 | Christmas, Saving Money
Greetings cards Something a bit different today. I make lots of greetings cards, in many different ways. I used to work in IT in a different life, so I can play around on a desktop publisher pretty easily, which I know not everyone can. I find an image I like, scan it...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 15, 2013 | All Recipes, Other
Preserved lemons, 70p a jar, or 37p if you can get Asda SP lemons I bought 5 lemons yesterday and tried the preserved lemons recipe from H F-W’s new book, Fruit Everyday. It was extremely simple and only took a couple of minutes.For each jam jar you want to fill, you...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Other
Piccallili – around 84p a jar I made some Piccallili this week. I made some last year and found that the men in particular amongst my aquaintance liked it, and it was received with pleasure as a hostess gift too. So as it is coming up to that time of year when...
