Busy weekend at home. The children enjoyed our couple of centimetres of snow on Saturday. Washed away by rain overnight. Ah well. Plenty else to do.
I’m determined that I am going to be even more thrifty this year. As a fully signed up squirrel, I have enough craft materials to set up a small craft shop. Albeit a rather unorthodox and uncommercial inventory, but it works for me! In order to tackle this stash, and be a bit more thrifty, I’m joining in with Creating a Family’s Home stash busting challenge. How long before I resort to buying more craft materials.
I’m going to keep track with a weekend mosaic, so starting up from the top left….
- Bought the Mary Berry Christmas Cake mix kit before Christmas, greatly reduced in price (paid £3 !!!). Baked for 10 hours in the Simmering oven and tastes wonderful.
- When we moved in 16 years ago, I had one broken sewing machine and lots of curtain fabric. I spent evenings hand sewing the curtains, with the tiniest stab stitches. Four and a half years, the kitchen was revamped and the curtains were left down, to maximise the light in the room. It’s too cold, so today we fixed up rails and put them back. The kitchen is warmer.
- Finished quilting my hexagon patchwork made with all recycled fabric. Found fabric in my stash to make the binding.
- Remembered to heat our millet bags and put them in beds to warm the sheets before bed time.
- Decluttered 27 things. Why 27? I’ll leave the explanation for another post.
- Made two loaves of bread.
- Almost finished my latest pair of gloves, made from my wool stash, to put aside in my Christmas present stash.
- While decluttering, found so many candle ends. Melted them in oven, used wick from my stash and now have a gorgeous smelling candle….and still a lot of candle ends. Just not so many.
- With the help of the children, I finished unwinding a cable jumper that I knitted over 20 years ago. I have plans for these red balls of loveliness.
- Searched through my stash and found fabric to make pyjama bottoms for the two girls.
- Tried out a few new hair-dos for the girls.
- Slow cooked a stew using lamb’s necks. I’m trying to be more adventurous in the cuts I cook.
That’s my creative, thrifty weekend, apart from the mincemeat strudel that didn’t survive long enough to be photographed and the boring draught excluder that I sewed (stops it walking off and playing in TF’s bedroom, like the other one did). So how did you spend your weekend? (If you were sledging down hills and making snowmen all weekend, I shan’t be telling my children.)
Hey Cheryl, you must’ve found a few extra hours in the day to do this lot……..you were busy!!
Love the millet bags, very cute…..
Home made bread and lamb stew, sounds like the perfect fodder for the cold weather.
Definitely no snow in this neck of the woods, blue sky and sunshine as far as you can see…..may be a cloud or two.
Claire :}
A lot of it dovetails together and others are just finishing off and bringing into use. No magic extra hours here. It did feel a lovely wintery weekend. Enjoy your lovely sunny day.
“Busy weekend at home.” I’m thinkin’ that that’s BEYOND busy! You millet bags are adorable, the gloves are funky, and those reclaimed balls of red yarn – oh! – SUCH fabulous colour!
I so need colour in mud season. Actually I need colour all the time, but even more in mud season. I’m ignoring the mountain of brown wool in my stash. I’ll have to use that when everything is green outside again. Not yet.
WOW, you did have a very busy weekend! I love those red balls of recycled yarn, such a great idea.
Anne xx
I have great plans for the red wool, but I’m really enjoying having them as they are at the moment. Tempted to arrange them on a shelf as decorations, while they wait their turn. At least they are ready when the time is right for some red knitting!
Wow yoou have been busy! We didn’t get any snow, children were devastated.
I knitted up 10 hand puppets and made a roast dinner this weekend, does that count?
Oh, I think that counts as a busy weekend. Ten hand puppets on their own, constitutes definite busy-ness. We’re still holding out for a bit more snow. Just not this week, by the looks of it!
We have been doing a similar thing with our food stores – as we buy in bulk, and also grow and store our own, it is easy for things to get out of hand. So we are running down the stocks and only buying what is absolutely essential. You have inspired me to go and look at my craft stocks as well!
Pomona x
It’s amazing how inventive I can be if my materials are limited. Most things are possible with a little bit of thought! Good luck with your stash busting. Here’s to lots of lovely meals.
I spent the weekend knitting a pair of those gloves you have been making look so great…with the wool I saved from Snap…all the knots are inside and they look fine! Very impressed with all your thriftyness 😀
Oh wow! I can’t wait to see your gloves. Snip, being a long dog and therefore a truely wise canine, knew exactly what you should make with the wool. She was just trying to tell you. 🙂
I love this post. Made me feel all motivated.
Does the stash bust include all craft things? If so, then I’m in as I have a room full of stuff that really needs to be used up.
Pretty sure it includes everything. Half finished sewing projects, 20 yogurt pots, odd balls of wool, bag of flour just about to go out of date….I really don’t need to buy more! I look at some of my fabric and wonder why its just sitting there, when it could be in use. So glad you are joining in. 🙂