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Partytime! (Again…)
BigSmall’s social life continues at a far more exciting pace than my own, and he has not one but TWO parties coming up. And I am starting to feel the present pressure a little now… It would be quite...
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Flea finds
I left you all on a cliffhanger yesterday, and I hope you all managed to sleep ok what with the suspense… So here it is, the big reveal-what we bought at the Flea Market…. The first purchase was this...
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Not my best buy…
You may remember my delight at my Flea Market finds recently…. I have been on the lookout for a little while for a ‘prettier’ alarm clock for the side of my bed than the current one Although as hubby...
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Freecycle Finds…
I have not had a huge amount of luck on Freecycle lately. Everything seems to get snapped up within about 3 nanoseconds of being posted, and I usually miss out. But not this time! I saw a collection of...
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Small people’s clothes
Small people have a habit of growing. Most inconsiderate. So while I get ‘new’ clothes because I want some, I don’t very often need them, but the Small people do, as they are starting to run out of...
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Birthday number 1
I posted yesterday about the fact that we celebrated not just one, but THREE birthdays in our family this weekend. And I thought you might like to know what we made for each of them. So first off, it...
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30 Ways to Save £1
I first read about this on the wonderful blog of a fellow Waste Watcher, Everyday Life on a Shoestring, and then again on the equally wonderful A Cheerful Living Adventure. It is a competition being...
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Swishing
Last week I went to my very first Swish! Well, it wasn’t technically a Swish, it was branded as a clothes swap, but as that’s what Swishing is, I’m counting as my inaugural swishing experience. It was...
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Recent purchases
I feel like I have been on a bit of a spending spree recently, albeit a Make Do and Mend one… I visited my first ever garage sale, and came away with a motley selection including 4 rolls of sellotape,...
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Hit, Miss and Maybe…
You may or not be aware that My Make Do and Mend Year is now a whole 9 months old, so we are three-quarters of the way through our adventure! (A sobering thought, that I could have gestated a baby in...
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Swish Swish Swish!
It’s official, Warminster has Swished! Emma Croft from Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is working in Warminster for 6 months with the aim of encouraging the local community to reduce the waste they send to...
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Without the aid of a safety net…
I bought a dress at the weekend, for the princely sum of £4 from the flea market bit of the Frome Super Market. As a complete aside, the Frome Super Market is AMAZING. It started off as an Artisan...
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Back to School…
Or in BigSmall’s case, STARTING school-eeek! I was a little over-whelmed when I attended the parent’s evening at the end of last term and was presented with a very long list of Must Haves in terms of...
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It’s just not cricket …
Well, actually it is. I found this old cricket card game in charity shop shop at the weekend, and couldn’t resist. I have lots of cricket fans in my family, so thought that they would make great cards,...
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Spend Wisely, Waste Less, Appreciate More
I got this e-mail (below) recently from the lovely people at Pretty Nostalgic Magazine, For our January/February issue, we want to run a ‘Change Your Life’ feature – a roundup of inspirational but...
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Charity Shop Fairies
Someone on Twitter once mentioned to me (as you do) that there were such things as Charity Shop/Car Boot/General Thrifting Fairies, who can choose to smile down on you and bless you with a multitude of...
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Paint it, plant it…
This is another Christmas make, admittedly far too late to be of use to anyone for Christmas 2013, but it makes a nice gift anytime of the year, or you could go crazy and treat yourself… This is what...
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Christmas 2013-the post-match analysis
Ooooh, this is a bit like Match of the Day. Only without Gary Linekar. Or any football…. OK, so is today Twelfth Night, or was it yesterday? I can never work it out. But whatever, I hope you have...
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And then he was 3…
Crikey, SmallSmall is 3! How did that happen?! Even though the official Make Do and Mend Year has finished, we are still very much living by the ethos of it. So in keeping with that, SmallSmall had...
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Make Do and Mend-able
I have very exciting news for you all about a shiny new Make Do and Mend project :) I am launching a new site in the next couple of months-called Make Do and Mend-able The aim is for this to be the...
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