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Christmas melted colourful crayons….

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I first blogged about melted crayon cakes way back in 2011, but last weekend I made a Christmassy version that I thought you might like to see today. It’s such a simple little craft, but it looks so cute and it’s a lovely way to spend a cosy afternoon together.When I first made my colourful crayons, it really was back in 2011 when the kids were still at the stage where colouring and drawing filled entire afternoons. The idea back then was to melt together all the random stubby crayon ends that collected at the bottom of their drawing boxes, and it worked perfectly as a fun way to use … [Read more...]

100 frugal but fun Summer activities….

July 8, 2025 By Cassandra
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Are you ready for the Summer Holidays?One of my friends mentioned today that she always runs out of ideas for things to do with the kids after a couple of weeks which means that she then resorts to more time on electronics than she would like and that reminded me of this post that I wrote a few years ago. I sent her the link to this post and she messaged me back to tell me how grateful she was. 😁I thought I'd reshare it today with you because I know lots of you will be in planning mode for the Summer and these ideas from a few years ago should hopefully show you that … [Read more...]

Super fun rice krispies pops with Easter sprinkles….

April 19, 2025 By Cassandra
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These super cute Rice Krispies Pops with Easter Sprinkles are so easy to make and I guarantee the kids will love eating them almost as much as they'll love making them with you!We've made something similar to these cute little Easter treats at Christmas before but we moulded the Rice Krispies into something resembling triangle shapes and decorated with some green candy melts to make them look like Christmas trees but that was when the kids were younger and weren't too cool to make things like this with me. It's been ages since I've made something fun like this but last weekend … [Read more...]

How I plan our Summer Holidays (2024 version)….

July 23, 2024 By Cassandra
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It feels funny to be right in this post right now but I'm planning Summer Holiday fun again!I wrote a post back in 2011 about how I planned our summer holidays - Miss Frugal will have been nine and Master Frugal will have been six at that point. I shared all my top tips on how I made sure that we managed to fit as much fun over the holidays as we possibly could without spending a fortune and over the years that followed this post, I did pretty much the same thing every Summer for the years they were in school, every year making sure we had the best time our budget allowed us to … [Read more...]

Halloween Pumpkin Peppers….

October 18, 2023 By Cassandra
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I'm not normally one for making food look pretty but last week I spotted some lovely looking orange peppers in the reduced section at the shop and as soon as I spotted them, I knew exactly what I was going to make with them - Halloween Pumpkin Peppers!And I don't even care that there's still a month left until Halloween!Halloween pumpkin peppers are so easy to make and they can be prepared in advance of when you want to cook them which makes them even better in my eyes. I made these guys when I was on a late shift at work last week and left them in the fridge for Mr Frugal and the kids … [Read more...]

Review: The Deep, Hull….

November 26, 2022 By Cassandra
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Check me out getting out and about to all these new places - last week you got a Beamish Open Air Museum review and this week you're getting a cheeky review of The Deep in Hull. 😂Before I tell you about The Deep itself, I thought I'd just let you know that I used my Tesco Clubcard Vouchers to pay for our entry which was a bit more complicated than it usually is when redeeming vouchers.The actual buying of the vouchers was just as simple as it always is, just choose The Deep on the Tesco Rewards site and redeem however many Tesco Clubcard vouchers you want to redeem to pay … [Read more...]