Well I have been a very busy bee with all my Xmas prep. The house has been completely decluttered, I am half way through my Xmas clean, all my lists have been made, Xmas prezzies have and still are being made, any prezzies I already have are wrapped and tagged and hidden away, Xmas card list is ready to go, decs have been taken out and cleaned ready for the 1st Dec, the Xmas eve hamper is done, and the stockings have all been done. I still have a lot to make and am awaiting a delivery of lampwork beads for the bracelets I am making as gifts. I seem to be knitting ALL the time at the moment but with 4 weeks till Xmas its action stations on the homemade prezzies. I also have a few custom orders for snoods which I am also trying to get done.
I managed to get Brad a bargain of a Xmas present and something he really wants from one of the local selling pages on FB. I got him a TV/DVD combi for 15 pounds the lady even threw in a free digibox so next time my dad is down he can plumb freeview into Brads room which will cost me nothing. I have also managed to get Brandon quite a few prezzies off of the selling pages. I bought some very nice gift bags for the second hand prezzies as they are obviously not packaged so are often hard to wrap. I got 4 for 1 pound from the card factory and they are really pretty and of a good strong quality.
I have decided we are going to have chicken with all the trimmings for our Xmas dinner this year as it tastes the same as turkey but is not as dry and a turkey for the 5 of us would cost in the region of 10-15 pounds when I can get 4 chicken leg quarters for 2.60.
A few tips for you Asda currently have the tins of roses and quality street for a fiver and pringles are only 1 pound a tube so I got my tin of crimbo sweets today and 2 tubes of pringles. We love pringles but at almost 2.50 a tube they are out of our price range so these will be a lovely treat come Xmas. Asda also have their smartprice mild curry sauce jars at 20p so I bought 3 but will be going back with my trolley to stock up on them before they go up again. Also if like us you enjoy a sweet treat after your dinner they have a 4 pack of smartprice chocolate moose for 18p at the moment. I promise you this is not an ad for Asda lol I just happened to be in there today and spotted all the bargains and thought I would share them with you.
Dinner tonight was incredibly cheap I went yellow sticker shopping on Sunday and got lots of bargains tonight we had some of those bargains. We each had an egg salad sub roll 15p and a bag of melon and grapes for afters 5p so 20p a head 80p in total.
Anyway off to do yet more knitting lol
Much Love
Claire xx xx xx
