I'm not someone who agrees with the whole 'Presence not Presents' ethos at Christmastime (but that's a whole other post so stay tuned for that in a couple of weeks) but equally, I don't want to spend a small fortune on the presents that I do buy.There are a few things I try to do throughout the year that help me to pay for some presents without actually having to spend any money so today, I thought I'd share a few of them with you...Swagbucks The first thing I do to save up for Christmas is to use the Swagbucks site throughout the year to accumulate Swagbucks which are kind of like … [Read more...]
Have an organised Christmas with my amazing FREE Christmas planner printable….
BACK FOR 2018 BY POPULAR DEMAND!(Five emails requesting it totally counts as popular demand, right?Today I'm going to be super nice and help you to have an amazingly organised Christmas by sharing my amazing FREE Christmas planner printable with you...And yes, I completely get that we're not even halfway through October yet but the idea of this planner is that you print it out now and start to get organised gradually. If I shared this in the middle of November then you're probably a good way through our planning at that point, aren't you? I figured if all the Christmas … [Read more...]
36 Simple homemade ornaments for kids….
We've seriously downgraded our Christmas decorations this year thanks to the fact that we have a new addition to our family, Monty who's a 10-week old Bichon Frise, Shih Tzu cross puppy. He's into everything so we thought a smaller tree would be good this year as our usual one is floor to ceiling and quite bushy.I didn't want to buy an artificial tree so we went with a real one that was small enough that we could stand on a table in the living room out of Monty's reach. It's cute but a little wonky and because it's smaller than usual, we decided to really cut back on the tree … [Read more...]
Ten homemade Christmas hamper present ideas….
Today I'm sharing ten Christmas hamper present ideas with you so if you have any presents left to buy make sure you read on!For the last few years, I've made a bit of a beauty/pamper hamper for Miss Frugal instead of a Christmas Eve box and this year's hamper is the best one yet. I can't show you exactly what's in it but if I remember, I'll try and take a photo once she's opened it but before she dives in! I can show you the little wicker hamper that I've used though....Just ignore the glaring dog in the background - he HATES the basket for some reason!I love to give hamper … [Read more...]
Christmas Waffle Recipe….
This amazing Christmas Waffle Recipe genuinely tastes of Christmas and I guarantee you're going to love it if you try it!Life is generally too busy for us to manage to have a sit-down family breakfast but every now and again, we manage a Sunday morning where we're all at home with no friends sleeping over and no work commitments. Those mornings are my favourite Sunday mornings because I just potter about the kitchen in my pyjamas and take my time making a lovely family breakfast for us all to enjoy together.We managed one of those mornings yesterday and this is what I … [Read more...]
5 things to make with my free Christmas poster maker….
You might have seen that I've relaunched my amazing Christmas poster maker recently and made it even better because now it's a completely FREE Christmas poster maker so you don't have to pay a penny to use it! Today I wanted to share some cool things you could do with it....Make a Family Christmas Traditions Poster First of all, I couldn't write a post about things to do with the poster maker without including the whole reason why I set it up, could I? The whole idea started when people complimented my personalised family Christmas Traditions poster and I wanted to find a way to help … [Read more...]
