Crayon art!

Hello Dear Reader,

Just been playing making crayon art with my daughter and her friend. Such an easy and fun way to make new canvas' for their rooms.

Peel crayons and place on top of blank canvas you can pick up in Wilkinson s. then apply a hair dryer over the crayons until they melt and create a rainbow effect. There are some lovely ones on pin interest.

Have Fun, they kids loved making them!
Em x

Sausage & mash & onion gravy!

Hello Dear Reader,
Had a busy weekend, went to see War horse in Cardiff Millennium centre. Thought it was excellent and well worth a treat if you haven't seen in. Its set st the beginning of World Ward I and tells the story of a young boy called Albert and his beloved horse Joey, and the unimaginable obstacles they overcome both individually and together.

At the heart of the show are life-sized puppets which bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage. Filled with stirring music and some of the most innovative stagecraft of our time, this is a remarkable tale of courage, loyalty and friendship, and a genuinely unforgettable theatrical experience. After a cleaning, shopping at Aldi and defrosting the freezer. I've organised my week's meals and chosen a cook book for the week. As I often get overwhelmed but too many choices of what to make or try.
"> This week's cookbook choice is:-

The Hairy Dieters Eat for Life: How to Love Food, Lose Weight and Keep it Off for Good! (Hairy Bikers)

Tonight we had sausage and mash with onion gravy  (recipe from book) followed by individual apple crumble.

What are you eating this week?
Em x

Freebie

Hello Dear Reader,
I cam home last night to a small brown parcel. A free bottle of flash concentrate! I love entering these freebie offers. It takes a few minutes and you never know what you receive.



The plan is to deep clean my conservatory this weekend with it!
Em xx

Yoga goals!

Hello Dear Reader,
How are you? Had a lovely chat up with an old school friend last night. We previously have gone to yoga together and both miss it. Sometimes life gets in the way and its easy to give up on a class when things are busy.
So we have decided we would start in September and start practising at home until then as we both have yoga DVD's still in the wrappers!

The biggest dream /goal is to go to Bali and undertake a yoga retreat! We have both watch Eat, Pray, Love and since then have a wish to go to Bali. Anybody been?

So here's saving the £2.00 coins!! Where would you like to go and why?
Em xx

Budget!

Hello Dear Reader,
A lovely morning this morning! It's pay day tomorrow, as you can tell i'm excited! I have worked out a budget for July including my car tax! Hate paying car tax! Here's what I  have done:-

1. Worked out income coming in (will confirm when I have pay docket)
2. All direct debits
3. Extra out goings - car tax...
4. Budgeted for Food, Petrol, kids dinner monies, kids clubs...
5. Amount to save for emergency fund.
6. Amount left towards holidays etc..

All my food and car money is going into a different bank account and weekly I will be drawing it out and it has to last!! As you can tell I have previously just gone with the flow with money but after reading Dave Ramsey's books I want to be completely debt free including mortgage!

I recommend you read this:-

http://www.daveramsey.com/media/broadcast/mytmmo/pdf/guide-to-budgeting.pdf

Starting a new budget every month allows you to accommodate birthdays, days out, car tax etc..

Or if you are feeling tempted by http://www.frugalqueen.co.uk/ Getting ready for July's challenge where she is "Just make do with what I have July'. It means I have a complete spending break in July"!



Happy Budgeting!

Em x

Tea for two!

Hello Dear Reader,
I'm sitting in my garden enjoying the sunshine. My neighbors are a retired couple who have retired to the garden and spend all of their time there enjoying their hobbies. When I noticed the pair enjoying 'tea for two' a proper tea pot and milk jug and two cups on a tray! I commented how romantic it was...! So this post is dedicated to the couples out there who are still together in their retirement years enjoying a pot of tea for two, as it is often the small gestures of life we should be most grateful!

http://youtu.be/lrk6kbXuFCs

"Tea For Two"

And Two For Tea

Picture you upon my knee
Just tea for two and two for tea
Just me for you and you for me alone
Nobody near us to see us or hear us
No friends or relations on weekend vacations
We won't have it known, dear
That we own a telephone, dear
Day will break and you'll awake
And start to bake a sugar cake
For me to take for all the boys to see
We will raise a family
A boy for you, a girl for me
Oh, can't you see how happy we would be

Em x

Quiet traveling in car with tween and teenager!

Hello Dear Reader,
I thought I would share with you, I have discovered after years parenting how to keep my two quiet in the car for the two hour long journey to Tenby. Being on your own with two kids in car for two hours whilst driving can be stressful! I now down load an audio book and we listen to half of it there and half on the way back and we are all glued to the story! This keeps my hyper daughter and my teen entertained whilst playing ipads etc.. without arguing!

We have really enjoyed the Boy in a Dress and Demon Dentist. The age range suits both kids and me!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Demon-Dentist-David-Walliams/dp/0007527241/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403446941&sr=8-1&keywords=demon+dentist+audio+book


The new jaw-achingly funny novel from David Walliams, the number one bestselling author! Make your appointment if you dare…

Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find… a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow.
Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it…?
Listen and enjoy!
Em xx