tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445738973767248632024-03-13T04:29:39.294+00:00Thrift BeeThrift Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07384788128253479325noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944573897376724863.post-46448013458472952872013-09-16T21:14:00.003+01:002013-09-16T21:14:58.688+01:00'Russell Crow' 2009- 2013 R.I.P<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thrift Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07384788128253479325noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944573897376724863.post-76385422531988126692012-12-23T20:16:00.000+00:002012-12-23T20:29:10.261+00:00A couple of things i made earlier........<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Every year I write a 'lessons learnt' note to myself as a reminder of how to have a smoother running run up to Christmas. Like many hundreds of others I have spent many Christmas Eve's painting, sewing or embroidering and then wrapping and generally getting annoyed at myself for not having tackled some of this sooner. </div>
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I store this note to myself, along with this years present list (as a reminder of what i gave) and the Christmas card list , in the box of Halloween stuff in the attic, because if I put it with the Christmas decorations then its just too late.</div>
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Things on the list.....</div>
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1. Start making cards/presents in November.</div>
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2. Wrap fudge as soon as its made so you don't eat it.</div>
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3. Wrapping takes half a day - don't leave it all till the last minute.</div>
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4. Aldi's version of Baileys is just fine.</div>
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For some reason, I have never managed to achieve Christmas preparation completion, and i hope i don't speak too soon, but this year has been the best yet.</div>
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Every year i make a wreath for the door. I left it a little late this year, next year, i'd like to have it done even before the tree goes up. No berries on the holly this year so I added the toadstools. I like them.</div>
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Mr Thrift Bee insisted I dug up the parsnips to day, to ensure that 'if they looked like the elephant man, we would still have time buy some supermarket ones' Dear God man, even ugly homegrown vegetables taste better than supermarket ones.</div>
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I think you'll agree though, that my slim and tall parsnips are the handsomest in the land.</div>
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Thanks to those of you who commented on<a href="http://thegoodlifeemporium.blogspot.ie/2012/12/christmas-tree.html" target="_blank"> Pine Cone Bob at the end of my last post</a>. He came about after I had made my <a href="http://thegoodlifeemporium.blogspot.ie/2012/12/pinecone-snowflakemaking-something-for.html" target="_blank">snowflake</a>. I made several of them and they all sold at the flea market last weekend. </div>
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I gathered up bag fulls of pine cones when we felled some trees this year. They have been drying off in the shed for months. I love making something from nothing I was intent on making pinecone and beeswax firestarters. Unfortunatly they are the wrong kind of pine cone, because these little beggers only smoulder and don't catch alight.</div>
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So what to do with two large bags of scutty fireproof pinecones.......and came up with this.....</div>
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I cut out a large circle of card.</div>
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Drew a rough snowflake shape.</div>
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Another thrift haul that seems to have a bit of theme going on. The first find is two fibreglass rectangular trays on a stand. Anyone know what how this was used? Is it for sandwiches?</div>
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I posted a while back about a jumble sale find of amongst other things, a really nice <a href="http://thegoodlifeemporium.blogspot.ie/2012/09/thrift-haul-kitchenalia-need-some-help.html" target="_blank">pasta maker</a> machine. It was missing a handle to turn and the clamp to keep it steady. I emailed the Italian company who made it and was able to buy the missing pieces from them.<br />
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To start with I tried a faithful carbonara recipe with Jamies method of making pasta which could not be simpler 200grms '00 flour' and two eggs. You just mix it together, knead for 5 - 10 mins, Pass it through the machine 7 times to get the right thickness and then through the tagliatelle cutter.<br />
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The homemade fresh egg pasta cost approx 10c per person! I used to buy Lidl egg tagliatelle for €1.69 and use half the box for a meal for three of us. (I would still recommend it) If I make this dish one more time I will have recouped my 'investment' of €1 for the pasta maker!</div>
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You are unlikely to have come across Old Monk rum unless you are one of the lucky people to have holidayed or visited India. This bottle of rum is a remnant of the last time I traveled to India which was for our honeymoon in 2005. In a previous career I was fortunate enough to travel there at least twice a year for the best part of about 20 years. It took a while for me to fall in love with the place, but I eventually I did.</div>
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Which isn't bad for a sniff, in my kitchen, on a stormy afternoon in the Wicklow mountains.</div>
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When I was living in Central London 15 years ago I had a friend who used to swear by her wind up parking angel to help her to find convenient parking spaces. When you wound the angel up, her wings would flap and by the time she stopped flapping a space would miraculously appear. I witnessed it on several occasions and although we always got a space, I would never be so daft as to think this plastic bit of tat was responsible. </div>
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Seems that local businesses are at loggerheads with the traffic wardens. Their prolific ticket issuing is potentially damaging to business in the town. Volunteer Parking angels are feeding lapsed metres to ensure customers are not put off shopping the high street. Having googled for a parking angel image, I discovered that in Devon/Exeter way the same scheme is happening. Anything like this happening in your area?</div>
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The best thing about this is it gives me the license to spend a guilt free €20 in the area and €20 donation to the angels.</div>
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Two months ago with Little Bees birthday money we went shopping for a new flock of hens. I posted about it <a href="http://thegoodlifeemporium.blogspot.ie/2012/09/re-united-and-it-feels-so-good.html" target="_blank">here. </a>and <a href="http://thegoodlifeemporium.blogspot.ie/2012/09/betty-bluebell-ginger-and.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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The hens, we were told were about two weeks away from laying.</div>
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Hens start to lay at about 26 weeks old, you can tell when they are close because their combs go redder and redder. We waited and watched patiently........the weather turned a bit colder and the days got shorter and both less heat and especially less light will slow down egg production, or in this case delay it starting. They could, of course, have been younger birds, but they were bought from a lovely free range hen seller who is unlikely to have lied about their age.</div>
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We went to Scotland last week for the weekend (and had a fabulous time). Our neighbours very kindly fed and locked up the flock at night. When we got home I went to feed them and found four lovely fresh eggs waiting for me. I am so happy to be back in our own egg production again. In fact i was so excited I forgot to photograph the eggs but cooked one up for Little Bee to have when she got in from school.</div>
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After an absence from posting for a while I read <a href="http://missielizzie-meandmyshadow.blogspot.ie/" target="_blank">Me and my shadow's husbands post</a> about cold water swimming (rather him than me!!). Missie Lizzie extends an invitation to give free reign to the 'other half' and suggest he guest blogs on his <strike>obsession</strike> hobby. </div>
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Tonight I have offered the same opportunity to Mr Thrift Bee to which he asked 'Can i write anything i want?' my reply of 'within reason' was met with instant grumblings about freedom of speech, censorship and wishing to be truly free to express himself. </div>
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The clear honey was produced before the heather flowers in August. After that the honey produced when the bees forage on the heather is much stronger and gloopier (and more difficult to extract)</div>
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This was the result from the few frames he scraped. I have to admit it is one of our most precious home produced harvests. Like a full log pile, a cupboard full of honey is extremely comforting.</div>
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I'm sure I'm not alone in getting stuck into a certain category of thrift and perhaps going a bit overboard every now and then. Both Mr Thrift Bee and Little Bee have started saying 'not another lamp' when I come home from a days <strike>scavenging</strike> shopping. But one of these angled lamps has been on my thrift list for a while. Its really heavy base prevents it from falling over. I'm thrilled with it.</div>
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This is the third standard lamp I've bought in the last two weeks. One I'm keeping, the second is for a friend who said she wanted one when she saw mine. This one is for selling at the flea market. It has a lovely mid century modern feel about it, but the shade is a bit dull. What i'd really like is a straight sided circular shade and will keep my eyes peeled. In the meantime I decided to give this shade a makeover.</div>
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Look what i found! - An absolutely beautiful all metal immaculate Brother sewing machine. It is early electric, Model 601. Anyone got an idea how old it might be. Can't seem to find any info on it.</div>
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In all her retro pale blue loveliness.</div>
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Linking to <a href="http://apronthriftgirl.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Thrift Share Monday</a> and <a href="http://missielizzie-meandmyshadow.blogspot.ie/" target="_blank">Magpie Monday</a><br />
and <a href="http://blog.capscreations.com/search/label/thrifty%20love" target="_blank">Thrifty Love Cap Creations</a></div>
Thrift Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07384788128253479325noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944573897376724863.post-62691858228935233882012-09-25T18:41:00.000+01:002012-09-25T18:43:30.618+01:00Ta-Dah Tuesday - lunch and dinner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ever since creative blogger Hey Homewrecker posted about putting her sunflowers in the <a href="http://heyhomewrecker.blogspot.ie/2012/08/friday-flowers.html" target="_blank">coffee pot</a> that she found in a skip, I've been on the lookout for a coffee pot of my own, and this weekend I found it. </div>
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A marcato pasta maker, it weighs a lot so i could tell it was good quality. Unfortunately the removable handle is missing. I have emailed the Italian company to see if i can get a replacement. A good pasta machine has been on my thrift list for an age!! Anyone else got this machine? Would you recommend it?</div>
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Thank-you to everyone who came up with suggestions for <a href="http://thegoodlifeemporium.blogspot.ie/2012/09/re-united-and-it-feels-so-good.html" target="_blank">naming the last remaining hen</a> and our handsome rooster. Little Bee thoroughly enjoyed deliberating over every name, although would not commit until her Nana (my mum) asked her over dinner last night. </div>
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Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Rosy and Russell (as in Crow) Thank-you so much to <a href="http://conniesnow.blogspot.ie/" target="_blank">Connie</a> and <a href="http://sopastcaring.blogspot.ie/" target="_blank">Curtise</a> for their inspired choices. Do check out their wonderful blogs to discover many more talents than just excellent chicken naming.</div>
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Earlier in the year we very sadly lost all of our 7 hens and two adorable ducks to a fox. All our poultry had homemade sturdy housing and were locked up safely every night, but this fox prowled in broad daylight and over the space of a couple of days cleared us out completely. The last two hens had initially escaped but became poorly afterwards and finally died from the shock and horror of it all.</div>
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Some neighbours of ours went on holiday in June and asked us to look after their hens and ducks. They didn't have a male head of house in their flock. So, with our neighbours permission, cockerel, went on a bit of an extended holiday and has been happily servicing a new harem of hens down the road.</div>
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It has taken until the second day of Autumn for the Summer to arrive here in Wicklow. So my haul this week was photographed outside, in the sunshine, after i had planted out my winter swedes in the vegetable garden.</div>
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Last week the thrift Gods were on a bit of a go slow for me, but sure enough this week....wham, bam and thank-you thrifty m'am!!! A rare enough jumble sale and a couple of car boots later and I've ended up with a sizable haul that i'm pleased with.</div>
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Three table cloths, all came up beautifully after they were laundered. The crochet one is huge, for an oval dining table, it had a big stain in the middle and a dry cleaning ticket attached with a safety pin, suggesting it had been cleaned and the stain remained. I threw a bit of bleach over the stain and everywhere the bleach touched went bright purple.Aaaghhh! So into the washing machine it went and thankfully when it came out it was snow white. </div>
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This is probably one of the iconic images conjured up by many people if you were to ask them to think original Hollywood. </div>
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But actually the ORIGINAL Hollywood is not to be found on the warm west coast of the United States of America, where the sun shines all year round, palm trees sway in the breeze, and a large percentage of homes have a swimming pool. </div>
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I have been threatening to get this little job done for a while now, its the kind of job that i get around to on a day that I don't need to leave 'the ranch'. The perfect rainy dull day presented itself, last week and along with a batch of blueberry jam (which didn't set very well) and a birthday cake for Little Bee, I made just three bottles of blackcurrant vodka.</div>
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You spend all your life dreaming of one day owning your own camper van and then all of a sudden two come at once!! The VW is a money box and of course will be used for the camper van fund. The other was given to friends that are currently actively shopping for one, hopefully as a good luck charm.</div>
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The large jar with aluminium lid is a cracker, Mr Thrift Bee spyed it ,he has a good eye, and often spots things that i have missed and this jar was only €1.</div>
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I picked up a nice selection of crochet items throughout the morning.</div>
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A letter tray/paper organiser has been on my thrift wish list for some time, it is easy to find plastic ones but i was very pleased with these Ikea ones.</div>
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I have also been after a new fruit bowl. I dropped something on the one i have had for years and needed a replacement. It will also be used as a salad bowl on occasion. Little Bee is a great fruit eater and i'm a big believer in always having it in easy reach for her just to help herself. Another well spent €1.</div>
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We don't own a scrabble board. This is a travel one in its own zip up case. It's not old, the letters are plastic, but it will sit with my collection of board games waiting for a camper van, or a power cut.</div>
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'Cooking with apples' <br />
Nice recipes printed on it. We often get given bags of apples in autumn from kindly neighbours with more productive apple trees than our own.<br />
Our best apple tree will this year, be offering from its boughs, just one solitary apple, which is about the size of a small plum.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"> London landmarks. (pre London Eye which was when i lived there and met Mr Thrift Bee)</span>
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From the year i met Mr TB - strange to me to think this classes as proper vintage now! </div>
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Neither of us have ever been to Australia. I just need a 26 year old Australian to gift it to.</div>
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Linking up with the following</div>
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