My faith is restored! We ventured out this weekend to the local car boot, and came back with box fulls of stuff (hardly any of which we had gone to get, but hey). It was cold and drizzling, and the clock’s had just gone back, and the Smalls had decided to come too, so my … Continue reading
This weekend was a busy one, and saw me celebrate my 30 something birthday! I wasn’t really sure what to expect, as with the greatest respect to my lovely hubby, I am generally the ‘maker’. He is most excellent at fixing, and making do, but doesn’t very often venture in to making. But I needn’t … Continue reading
The lovely people at The Vintage Fair very kindly asked me to do some guest posts for them on My Make Do and Mend Year on their blog, so when I heard that the Fair would be in Bristol, I couldn’t really resist the urge to go and check it out! I was most excited,and … Continue reading
I put a picture of these on Twitter recently (you can follow me, @makeandmendyear for more such tantalising nuggets…) and was asked for the recipe, so I thought that this was as good a place as any to share it. It is from The Hairy Bikers’ Family Cookbook, Mums know best, and is really pretty … Continue reading
This weekend sees my brother and his lovely wife celebrate their very first wedding anniversary! Tradition dictates that this is the ‘Paper’ wedding anniversary, so I put my thinking cap on and consulted the kind people of Facebook land, and sent out a tweet for help. There were some fab ideas, including framing wedding/honeymoon pictures, … Continue reading
I thought I would share with you this present that I ‘made’ for a friend this week. It is quick and easy but I hopefully something that would be appreciated a bit more than a token box of chocolates or similar… My friend likes to bake, and I had recently pinned these to My Make … Continue reading
After a couple of crappy days and an inadvertent fail (see here), I ventured forth with renewed vigour (?!) yesterday, and straight into the nearest charity shops (a girl has to find a bit of retail therapy somewhere, right?). I went in looking for a winter coat for me, and some PJs for the Smalls. … Continue reading
I have to start with the confession. I have had my first ‘fail’. Forgive me, for I have bought new. And the thing that is making me most cross, is that I didn’t even mean to! Maybe I should give you some background, in my quest for forgiveness… I was having a bad day yesterday. … Continue reading
If any of you have been following on Facebook or Twitter , you will know I have been banging on endlessly about making some slippers for some time now. I have even created a Slippers board on Pinterest, and run a poll on Facebook to help me decide which ones to make… I never imagined … Continue reading
Not our garden, but my parents. In a bizarre turnaround to the normal run of things (basically, my parents doing everything for us in our garden, bar mowing the lawn..) we went to help my parents out with their garden and allotment this weekend, as my mum has not been well. It was my type … Continue reading
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Other than my pants, the rest are charity finds
A money-saving, growing-our-own, making-do-and-mending husband-and-wife blog
Some of the cool and useful food, craft and sustainability skills that your grandparents knew, but probably didn't teach you!
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