Thrifty Christmas

Thrifty Christmas is Up and Running

17 October 2011

Just a quickie as I have to get some work done but I’d like to thank you all for your lovely comments about Thrifty Christmas, it’s really appreciated! I’ve now got the site up and running and you can find it here http://thriftychristmas.violetposy.co.uk/ and I’ve done a Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thrifty-Christmas/164555316969379 and a Flickr Page too [...]

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{Thrifty Christmas Guest Post} Citrus Christmas

11 November 2010

Today’s Guest Blogger is my very good friend and coffee buddy Karen from The Rubbish Diet one of the most creative women I know. I spotted on Facebook that she had made some fabulous looking Christmas oranges and I thought you’d all like to see them. So over to Karen… Citrus Christmas If you’re as [...]

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{Thrifty Christmas} Guest Post – Rock and Bowl

7 October 2010

Today’s guest post is from the blog ‘Where the Brass Band Plays’ over to the fabulously named tiddlyompompom Last year we had a makey-doey christmas. We did it out of necessity (huge family, maternity pay ending etc etc), but it turned out to be really fun. Hard work, but fun. One of the things we [...]

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Thrifty Christmas is now Live

30 September 2010

Thrifty Christmas is now live! I’ve put it over on it’s own page this time so you can find all sorts of fabulous Christmas Present ideas to make here

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Thrifty Christmas is Coming…

17 August 2010

Yes I know it’s August, and no I’m not my mother just yet But I’ve been thinking and talking to people on Twitter, and last year I think I did Thrifty Christmas a little too late in October. Some people didn’t have enough time to make all the wonderful goodies (handmade/foodie/crafty ideas) you all suggested. [...]

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{Guest Post} Thrifty Christmas – Whiskey Bottles

10 December 2009

More Thrifty Christmas ideas, this time from Claire of the fabulous Snug Baby, this is such a great idea for the men of the family. “My eldest son was born on 1st December 2004, which didn’t give a lot of time for doing anything personalised (hand or footprints type thing) for Christmas that year. I [...]

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{Thrifty Christmas Guest Post} Footprints on a Plate

8 December 2009

Continuing with the Thrifty Christmas them my friend Claire Lancaster has come up with this nifty Christmas present if you have little ones. Over to Claire ‘This week I took Baby G to make a plate for my mum, her Grandma, for Christmas. I did this with my lil’ H and wanted to create the same in pink [...]

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{Guest Post} Thrifty Christmas from Bambino Goodies

6 December 2009

Following on from the Thrifty Christmas, Natalie from the fabulous Bambino Goodies has come up with a Trendy Bib which is easily made and would be a great inexpensive present for friends or family with babies. Trendy bibs always go down well as they can end up becoming part of the outfit. They’re actually quite [...]

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Guest Post: {Thrifty Christmas} Card Holder

11 November 2009

I have agreed to post this entry from Snaffles Mummy as she does not want to spoil any Christmas surprises for her friends. More of Snaffles Mummy’s ideas for a Thrifty Christmas can be found here. So, I will now hand over to Snaffles Mummy….. ************* Firstly I would like to thank Liz for posting [...]

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{Thrifty Christmas}

8 November 2009

Ummm not sure how this happened but it seems to be time for the November Thrifty Christmas Carnival – where did that 2 months go??? Thrifty Christmas was an idea I had back in September after a chat with other blogging Mums on Twitter. We were swapping ideas of cheap thrifty Christmas presents to make [...]

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