whats going on...ooo i mean coming down

i know i havent been posting like i should, but i have been busy.

For christmas hubby and the kids bought me a mushroom growing kit, some lovely hand tools, seeds.(about 5 packs).. and promised to help me around the garden, and true to their word.....today (boxing day) they started cutting back a HUGE budliea which has been blocking out the sun in one part of the garden. it is just outside our garden wall, in the waste ground, which used to be where all my chickens lived... so its time to get that back in order too...wink wink...lol..



While hubby and my eldest were doing that i cleaned mrs chook and duckywucky out, which i thought the duck was a boy.... But.. it has now starting quacking and it hasnt got a 'kiss curl' on its butt feathers....so hopefully some lovely eggs from her in the spring....

i had their house all nice with fresh straw, and what do they do.????? go and mess it all up .....there's no pleasing some people..... oooooo i mean animals....lol..

i'm nearly there

yep had an email last night from the website people to say its not going to be long before i can start listing my things for sale..hurrayyyyy!!!!!!

i thnk it was due to emails not being recieved from designer..

panicking a bit now,as i'm not to sure what to put on there now..lol..

but here are some tasters of the type of things that might be on there..hehehehe



1940's cc41 table cloth




some vintage material



granny blanket


and loads more.....

what do you think from a pillow case to this

yesturday, after reading lace threads blog it got me 'itching' to make something so this is whatt i managed to amke out of an old pillow case. and a bit of crochet lace that came into work as rags...its the same crochet lace that i gave bloomin murtle a while back

what do you think as a first attempt?

ok i know..lol.. a pattern just for a stocking.

i also used an old cotton sheet for the lining on the inside, and used wadding too
here is a pic of the top

so i will prob finish it off by putting an organza ribbon bow on the top too, hubby said it was good but not very 'christmasy' lol.. well its kept me busy for an hour or too until my sewing machine packed up...

there is nothing as good as a freebie

this week its been like an emotional rollercoster for me, hubby broke his foot so is off work for 6 weeks ...eeeekkkkk!!!!

so now my tightwad gazzette is being read again, just to remind me of some money saving tips..



so that is my emtional down sorted....and now my high..

my ..FREEBIES....

LOVE THEM..

my cake plate and china cake cutter


AND 2 christmas plates


I have just been reading lace hearts blog.. wow is that lady good...that christmas cake looks sooooo yummy....and that beautifull horse that they have made.. SO you young lady!!!!! have made me want to sew.... so this afternoon. i am going to have a few hours in front of the old sewing machine.... so watch this space for my disasters..lol....if i cant shop i might as well sew....

I'm SLOWLY getting there.

yep i am slowly getting there with my website, but i am going to have to have help setting it up as i havent got a flipping clue..lol..

so hopefully within the next few weeks i will have some of my lovely vintage clothes and fabrics online for people to buy...


All the money from items sold on the website and ebay.. yes i know i hate them, but hayho if i can sell some things to get some pennies for my daydream fun... its got to be a good thing..


Pricing is going to be my problem as i dont know how much to charge ... how much do you think i should ask for this?

HELP!!!!!!

I need Help and ideas from you shabby chic'rs I am soooo piddled off with ebay at mo, i have decided to jump right in with my biker boots and have a websit to sell my vintage clothing and other vintage chich bits and pieces.

i need help in what catogory buttons to have..this is what i have thought of

Vintage Clothes
Vintage nylon nighties
handbags and accessories
Homeware
Aprons
Tea Towels
Textiles
Bits and bobs.
Craft items


The lady who i have bought the web layout from has also asked me for any text, and i havent got a flipping clue any ideas ?

Blowing off the Dust

this week my electric sewing machine decided to play up AGAIN!!!!
So i have dug out my old singer sewing machine, that was given to me when i was about 8 - 9 Years old... i spent many an hour in my bedroom with this old hand singer machine making clothes for my dolls.. well trying to ..lol..



i absolutely love the look of old machines... plus if you think about it they are sooooooo eco friendly.. you dont need electric to make them work they are practically bomb proof.. and there are so many of them still around you can pick them up very cheaply. plus they look lovely in the corner of the room as a decrative piece of furniture.



guess what i will be playing with tonight....

i am a very happy bunny!!!!!!

ooo sandie a very big THANK YOU.. i love it, its pefect look sandie from dancing on a blade of grass kindly got a bathroom sig.


plus yesturday a house clearance person i know came in and i had these for FREE
such a happy bunny.( with cheesey grin on face)




i have been looking for a cake stand for ages, but just couldnt justify spending the money that people were asking for them...
plus a beautiful mirror which i havent taken a photo of the whole thing otherwise you will see my messing living room lol.

this is going to go in bath room when its all decorated. might leave it as it it or i might do a rough coat of dimity paint on it...

i am such a lucky girl today....

i am def on the change

i am def on the change,lol.... and one of them is def liking more girlie things... i am slowly stepping away from the goth - biker look, and designs etc....

these curtains came into work a few days ago.. and i had a lovely cheesey grin on my face as i liked them sooooooo much...dont know what i am going to do with them mind you... prob annoy my hubby with them..lol..

so you chic'ers are def rubbing off on me.... flipping heck you never know i might start wearing high heels next....

what do you think of the curtains...? any suggestions on what i can do with them. they are poss 1950's with that lovely shinny sheen to them

'Apes' we miss you sooo much

have had a bit of an emotional rollercoster weekend.

a good biker friend of ours died a year last friday, and his bike club done a memorial ride out for him on saturday morning, passing the place where he got killed riding his bike, we then went onto the grave so we could all pay our respects. and then we rode passed his house, and then back to the club house. where they held a one day bike show.

their club house is in the loughor boat club, which as some fantastic views.

manage to get a couple of pics..( none of me ..yes you can carry on looking,lol nothing scary on here now)
i have also got some other personal issues going one ( dont worry will not bore you with them..) so tday i am an emotional time bomb.

so done some work this moring.. and i have said SOD IT!!!!!!!! i am not working for the rest of the day.. i dont care if someone wants their smelly knickers recycled... they can either wash them.. or flipping wait...

i realised i hadnt had my hair cut in over a year.... and i have booked myself an appointment for this afternoon..... the whole works.. cut dyed.. and re-styled...so its going to be alot shorter...and flip knows what colour...but i better go and do a de-lousing session...lol... has youngest came home from school last week with visitors.....so better to be safe than sorry..

here are some pics.. and a link on youtube of us coming back from the run.

at around the 34 sec mark we are going passed.. the bike with the big screen



Miss you loads......Jeff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6W8t1y7mF8

I AM SOOOOOO NAUGHTY

I an so naughty and to be honest embarrressed yes i am..why?

well i have to admit i have boguth one of these


and one of these.. for making welsh cakes etc.



and the most embarassing one ...i bought a doughnut maker last year.. and i dont know where it is ..and i have never used them....

silly or what....so i think its about time i used them...


ooooooo ye i nearly forgot...

look what i got today.....hehehehehe.. hubby has just gone up the unit to get it for me as it is soooooo heavy... handmade a bit 'rustic' so to speak.. but hay a lick of paint.. and a few shabby chic bits.. will work wonders...


oooooo ye.. that is not thunder and lightening happening.. its hubby's reaction to the unit when he see's it......lol...

have a nose you know you want to!!!!!!

as its quiet on the old raising funds for my saving pot, i thought i would enlighten you on what i do for a living...well that is what i do for work, dont actually have a wage yet..lol..

I have turned my hobby of collecting/selling vintage clothing into a business, which has now ended up me recycling, buying/selling textiles...clothing... shoes and handbags. Its very hard work, and now after a year it is starting to come together.

here are some pics of my unit.. where it all happens

First of all here is my 'office space' where i try and drum up business and speak to all you lot on the shabby chic forum



here is a pile of bags ready to be sorted the bales are full of clothes to ready to be sorted



and here are some of the nice things i find






and here is a pic of some the bags ready to go after being sorted



at not forgetting the smelly shoes.. which this pic is all singles... no pairs amoungst them.....lol... but done worry they will be bagged and recycled.

hi caroline look away now... dont look any further.... pitty there wasnt smelly cybervision.. as this would def be the time to put a nice old dolly clothes peg on your nose



So there you have it a nice little nose into my unit on this very wet and cold start to september....

and teh award for the most boring blog goes to .......

yep ME.... i must have the most boring blog in the world... not many photos... no sense of humour.. and basically just a bloody boring read....

so i have awarded myself a the most boring blog in the world title.

as for an acceptance speach....mmmmmmmm well. there isnt going to be one as i will bore you all to tears...and lets face it with the flipping british summer being a total wash out.. the kids bored out of their brains... and they cant wait to go back to school;, just for something to do ( which is a flipping first in our coop...lol.) you dont need another thing to bore you...

even a game of eye spy on my blog will be exciting.....ooooo hang on a minute.... now there's a thought..... a game of eye spy on the internet.... i wonder if that has been done before.... it probibly has....lol....


right going now as i am even boring myself now.. with all my flipping boring waffle.... i am going to waffle off now to work..i have had some lovely things in work... so if i got any energy left later i will psot some pics.. of some of the things that have come in....

but done worry i wont show any pics of the smelly stuff that comes in...

lets get ready to rumble

well what i mean is... from sept 1st we are starting a monthly gorcery challenge. to try and keep or reduce our shopping budget.. this is going to be great for me, to try and keep me forcused, and to try and save some pennies..and to stop ALL un-necessary spending.. ..

I know i use a lot of money off coupons when i can, but to be honest every though this is great and have kept food on the table in very desperate times when money has been non-exisitant. i really do need to get back to reality and realise one day i am not going to be able to rely on them, as the supermarkets have put a stop to it all...

so from now on a stick to my budget....and if i do use money off coupons its not fro extra things etc...what i mean is if, when i work out my new weekly/monthly grocery budget.. thats what i shop to..i know i am confusing lol.... but i know waht i mean...( I THINK)

I am going to use old cookery books to try and get some ideas for cheap meals.. and one book i do love for using up left overs is a book called we'll eat again, its a book with some recipes from world war II,, and its great for using up left overs. I must admit i do wonder sometimes as we are so used to having abundance of food in the supermarkets, how would we cope if we were in the situation that our parents and grandparents were in during the war time, we are in such a throw away soicety and food is a huge part of this too.

money from old scrap...

just a quicky to say hubby weighed in some scrap fpr me today and got £46 for a few bits. so this is going straight into the daydream fund. along with some postal orders i have got from some ebay sales.

so now my total is £615.09 now i really do need to go start making money to hit my target of 2k by christmas.

need to get back on track

had a great time at the bulldog bash, but really do need to get back on track now and get forcussed again on my day dream, as i must admit i have been sooo busy since i have got back with work. its sunday today and i am off to work again to try and do some sorting out of the textiles, i had my step-father and hubby helping me yesturday, and today my motehr and step-father are helping again. it does save me alot of money as i dont have to pay someone..lol.. so hopefully when i got surplus cash flow money i can add this to my fund.

a bit of sad news..... one of the chicks ( white one ) and one of the ducklings have sadly died. last week, i just found them in the coop. really did put me on a downer for a while. but i will just have to get back to getting used to it.

this week i have got to try and get my butt into gear and make chtuney out of my rhuburb, otherwise the large amount of rhuburb i have in the garden will go to waste, which i cant let happen...

my courgettes are flowering nicely, but once a little courgette starts appearing it just falls off, the only thing i can think its must be all this wet weather, so will have to try and make room in the greenhouse for some of them.

oo yep just to say my lovely new wellies really did come in handy at the bulldog as it was a right mudbath, and everyone was envious of them...lol....

speak to you all later..... take care.....

I'M BULLDOG BASHING THIS WEEKEND

Yep its that time of year again where we go to the bulldog bash, europes biggest bike rallies, organised by the Hell's Angels .
We have been going for a few years now, and loved it....party on down with great bands, watching the bikes go down the drag stripe etc...plus we allways spend some time in stratford too, as its a beautifull place. normally the police are only in the back ground around the place, and are never on site. but this year... i think they are going to be out in force due to the shoting last year of jerry on the way home from the bulldog. They seem to think there is going to be trouble.

So tonight i am getting my clothes ready, well making sure i have a few spare pairs of knickers in my pockets ...lol... as we are going up on the bike, we got to travel light, so only bare essentials... like tent, sleeping bag and booze...

I know i havent posted much, and havent done much for my fund, but after this weekend... i will knuckle down...Work is getting very busy at mo..typical. really as i am away for a few days...but it will still be there when i get back...

here is a link to the bash.... why dont you browse around the site.. and see what its all about.

http://bulldogbash.eu/

MEET THE FAMILY AND THE FUTURE OF BIKERBOOTS AND CHICKEN FEET

.... meet the new arrivals.... 2 duck eggs have now hatched and are doing well...

so here is a family photo...



not much money going into the daydream pot at mo, and the way ebay is going with their policies....i better watch my account... so i am now looking at other auction sites to sign up to.. there are 2 main ones cqout and ebid, which are starting to get alot of ebayers signing up as they are fed up with the ebay changes...so might be worth all you shabby chic'ers taking a look, as by what peeps have been saying, there are some good bargins to be had... will try and get some links on my page for you

BUT...even though there isnt much money going into the pot.. i have got the start of my smallholding ( or backyard farm...lol..) in those little cuties.....

They are the start of my daydream becoming a reality.....

WHAT'S WRONG WITH PEOPLE???????

It makes me MAD!!!!!!!! how some people are so horrible...and selfish and no manners and well just twonks really..

While i was doing my weekly firday pick ups for work, i called into tesco to get some red wine vinegar for my rhuburb chutney ( lidl's dont seel it booooo) so i was strolling round the shop looking to see if there were any good offers this week, anyway i went down the milk isle, and i waited and watched, while a little old lady ( same hiegth as me lol) strugged to get some milk from the upper shelf, as they were right at the back and she couldnt reach... while she was struggling there were people ( including tall blokes) just pushing passed her to get to the other milk in the cages... and not one person asked if she needed help, Plus they were acting as though she wasnt there...so in my 'speak loudly to make a point voice' asked the little old dear if she wanted help.. so she pointed out the milk she was trying to get, and i stood on one of the cages and managed to get milk for her, even i struggled.... and still no one stepped in to help....

WHATS WRONG WITH PEOPLE??????? where's the respect and manners gone ? that poor old lady not only did no one help her, you could see she was in a bit of a tizz because of it....

When i handed her the milk,, i made a little joke saying that no one thinks about us shorties... to make her feel it wasnt only her that had this problem....

If this is the attitude society is getting, i dred to think what its going to be like when/if i reach the age of the little old lady...

Right i think its time to put the kettle on......

ooo ye little chooks are doing well.... more pics to follow...

ooooo we have the pitter patter sound of baby chicken feet

oo i am sooo 'egg'cited the donated chicken eggs we had from Rose-Sparky have HATCHED!!!!!!

this is the first time we have ( well mrs chook did it lol) ever hatched baby chicks.. in the passed we did buy some fertile eggs and tried to incubate them, but without success..

they are soooooo cute... there is a yellow one and a brown one....the brown one is a bit stronger than the yellow one... and it is 'egg'actly 21 days since we put the eggs under her....there is also 4 duck eggs under her too.. so we will have to wait another 10 days for them...

and i was having a bit of a poo day too.. so this has really put a smile on my face, and i want to see more baby chooks hatch out.. so this must be a sign... to show i am doing the right thing by trying to save for a small holding...

i think you lot better start thinking of more names..( hope the father doesnt want custardy)

WHAT NO NAME !!!!!!!!!

i am now feeling really a bit mean now...as i havent named my chook, and she is about 14 months old now..... shame on me...

but there was a reason. when i used to have quite a few chickens and ducks. i used to name them, and if they died or the dreaded fox had them, it would really upset me, especially when the fox had Mrs Fluffybum...so i stopped naming them, thinking i wouldnt become soooooo attached.But now that i only have one, and hopefully is is going to my a mam, i think its only right to name her..

soooooooooooooooo C O M P E T I T I O N.......T I M E..........

i need a good name for her, as hopefully she is sitting on the start of my live stock for my smallholding.. or if not my backyard farm...lol..

so i am setting a competition... to name the chook..

the best name that the kids pick out of the suggestions will win a prize..... dont know what that will be yet... but something wil be in the post to the winner...

here she is.... so get your thinking caps on... and get entering...( saves me thinking of another flipping name...lol....)

RAIN STOPS PLAY

I have managed to get hubby to help me in the garden... to try and tidy it up so i can turn it into my backyard farm...lol...

but within 10 mins it started raining, and hubby was back indoors... with his feet up watching tv....so rain stopped play again....

managed to sow 2 rows of turnips..... havent eaten these for years, and if i remember rightly i think they taste a bit like swede... but are smaller and quicker to grow...its only me that like turnips, but i am sure i can put some into casseroles without them knowing...hehehehehe..

going to try a diff way of putting a pic on my blog, so bare with me dont know if its going to work...lol..

its a VERY rare pic of hubby actually doing something in the garden...

what does an itchy right palm mean?

i meant to ask earlier on, but for the last few days i have had an itchy right palm... noe does this mean money coming in ? money going out ? or just that i have the lurgy on my right palm?

i cant remember what it is suposed to mean.....but what ever it means i did get £50 today.... hurray!!!!!!!! i get a lovely coupole who lives a bout 50 odd miles away, and they go round the festivals... selling clothes... but they dye them, re-vamp them etc.. to make them more individual... this is the 3rd time they have called to my unit.... i save things for them, that i think they could use... and they call with me every time they are passing to go to a festival...

so my total has now gone over the £500 mark..... which is a bit of a boost for me, as i must admit... i was hoping i could save/make loads of money in one go...lol..

more things being listed tonight on ebay....so please take a look....hopefully from next week i will be doing a few buy it now items....

kids are on hols from tuesday onwards i think.... so dont know whether i will be able to save a bit during that time.. might need the extra cash.. just to keep up with the food bill...lol...

i would love to have more comments from you guys who read my posts..... even if its just to say i am mad i will never save/earn the money.. or i need my head seeing to.. or just to introduce yourself and say hi......

and i will try and post more photos...i know i keep saying it but i will.... soon....

I'VE BEEN THUNDERED!!!!!!!!

all i can say is WOW i am impressed. i have never seen thunder live.. but boy did they flipping rock.... We went to the concert mainly to see whitesnake, but to be honest thunder were the main band even though they were on first... they totally out rocked whitesnake and def lepard.. and in my opinion stole the show.. ..def lepard were really naff.. walked out after about 4 tracks... and so did a lot of others.....

take a look at an old thunder video.....

it will really get you rocking..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlK9mCpZ6gU&feature=related

right going now to carry on being a rock chick.......well until i go to bed with my fluffy slippers and my cup of coco....and a good book to read...

i am going to be a rock chick groupie tonight

i am all excited..... only a few more hours before we go and see whitesnake in concert... with thunder and def lepard playing too... corrrrrrr that david coverdale is still sexy with those to die for cheek bones.... ok he has gone a bit wrinkly..... but hay havent we all....

We seen whitesnake not so long back.. we had freebie tickets to go and see them, our friend Ashley Williams used to be their roadie, and drum tech to the late great awsome drummer cosy powell... who i personally think was sex on legs.....aaahhhh who died 9 years ago in april i think....

i know this is totally off the plot of my blog..... but i dont care.... lol.... i am still a biker and a rock chick at heart...too..

http://www.deep-purple.net/gallery/whitesnake/whitesnake-1985.htm

the one of the left is the georgous cozy powell and then there is david coverdale.. mr cheek bones himself...then there is john sykes.. guitarist, and then neil murray...

still cant quite get the hang of posting pics...

i have taken some money out of our household emergency fund and added it to my total.. just to keep me motorvaited..plus so now i have £455 in my isa account...

right going now... as i am sooooooooooooo excited....
' here i go again on my own, going down the only road i never known, like a drifter i was born to walk alone...so i have made up my mind, and i aint wasting no more time.. so here i go again...'
( ok.. i am no good at singing..lol... so good job there is no sound with my blog....hehehehe)

my new wellies look soooo sweet i could eat them

oooo my new wellie boots.....the family knew i wanted a pair of 'girlie' wellie boots to use in the garden, and yesturday they came home with a sweetie pair..lol..so now i dont have to wait until its dry to go in the garden..Plus they said it was an early birthday pressie from the kids...bless

what do you think? i am going to take them to the bulldog with me if the weather is anything like its been lately...lol... so you will see a biker chick..( well old boiler of a chick really) with my black goth leather look.. with pretty wellies on.... what a sight... especially the morning after the night before...


Over the years i have bought loads of gardening....self suficiency books... and in general the 'good life' style books... and i found this one last night called LIVING ON A LITTLE LAND by Patrick Rivers it was written in the early 70's which i quote 9 written on the back of the book)
This is a book for those who, by choice or circumstances, are having to tighten their belts.The never ending spiral of inflation remains a constant factor in our lives...

Its about a couple who bought a run down ..overgrown...neglected property with land... a good read...

in one of the chapters... there is advice which to be honest is a very good and valued point for me...
quote....' Before embarking on your venture you have plenty of homework to do. You can prepare for it generally by weaning yuorself off city habbits, such as convienience foods, eating out, entertainment. you can learn about farming and other usefull skills, meet like minded people, read, and accquire capital by saving..

It also goes on about other things... and i thought yep... this guy is right.. if i want a smallholding... its all well and good daydreaming about it all, but i must learn the skills and also the mind set that will be needed.... so good job i have started trying to grow some veg again...AND..... going to try and cook more from scratch.. and try and bake more cakes and busicuits rather than buy them...

ooo no things are going to get worse

now i am really piddled off...i was watching the news last night and car tax is going to go up by loads in thev next 2 years... waht the heck is the government on....????? we have a p reg mondeo so i think our road tax is going to be £400 plus ... we are allready moaning and complaining about the rise in food prices and fuel... and they slam this on us... gorden brown is saying he is going to help.. but no he's not.. if the government really wantevd to help they would lower the amount of tax they ahve put on fuel...

i wish there was a revolt against the government.. we voted for them ( well not me personally) to run the country.. they should listen to us....

how the heck am i suposed to save for my dream.. when all these price rises are happening...all my extra money i an trying to get will be used in living ..expenses and feeding my family....

sorry i am not normally a political person, but i just had to have a moan and a groan.... i do not trust that gorden brown with my kids sweetie money let alone the countries financial decisions.... when ever has there been a politician that actually done something right for the country financially...????????

no wonder people are stealing scrap metal and pinching petrol.......


and on a brighter note......lol.....its FRIDAY.....and the sun is shining through the grey clouds......HURRAYY ... maybe we are going to have some good weather.....ok maybe not...lol...

HURRAY MORE MONEY

After a few quiet days without earning/getting extra money for my fund... i sold £21 worth of bits from the unit.... hurraaayyyy!!!! which now brings my grand total to wait for it...lol... the huge sum of £396... I know i have other money to add over the next few days from my ebay sales and slice the pie.. so as soon as that money is my bank account it will be added...

still havent done much in the garden....... flipping british weather.. dont you just love it.... all this rain..... but i have managed to re-pot my courgette plants, which i have put outside..... my lettuce seedlings now need transplanting, and so does my marigolds....plus i think it is now time to start the cabbage seeds off too....

i really do need to get get more pics on my blog dont i ...... will try my best.. honest......

speak to you all later.....

ooo ye before i forget...... i am going to see whitesnake..... thunder....and def lepard on monday night... yes i know ..... but these tickets were bought months ago... before all this lot began.... so iam being a rock chic.. groupie for the night.....

oooo heck i'm lost

its saturday and i am totally lost.... realy i am.. i dont know what to do or where to go...

where is the shabby chic cafe gone ? i need to catch up on all the gossip...oo well i am sure i will find it somewhere..

hubby has decided he wants to go out tonight, i have given excuses for the last 2 weeks, but today i can not get away with it, so we are going out tonight...as i have said in an earlier post he doesnt know that i am trying to save.... and i want family life to be the same, them not knowing or seeing that i am penny pinching etc.... plus i have had such a poo day in work with flipping annoying work neighbours, which hopefully will be all sorted out on wednesday morning with an official meeting in the site offices..

Today i have started back on slice the pie, as the new scout room is open, its a great palce to earn some money by writing reviews on up and coming bands and artists..
here's a link www.slicethepie.com there is no referral etc.. but if you want to take a nose.. and see what its all about., so i think i am up to £9.20 will leave my money build in there, and when i had a decent amount i will get the money out and add it to my fund total.

The weather is totally naff... wet and cold, so not much doing again in the garden, so will do some painting on one of my projects.... before i get ready to go out..

going now i can hear the kettle has just boiled so going to make a nice cuppa see you all later.....

be good and if you cant be good be carefull.....lol...

i own up..i have been stripping for money

yep.... i have lowered myself to stripping.... well with the prices that they offer these days..... i just couldnt refuse it...

it will take a bit of time...... but in the end i am hoping that they will be a large amount of money going into my DayDream Fund....I do it in the evenings , once i have sorted the family out etc.... so its not interfering with anything else i do..... except trying to finish a shabby chic project that i have got on the go...

Ok its NOT that type of stripping..... you lot.... what are you thinking...lol.......

As you know i weighed in my alu cans this weeks, and found out that the pirce of scrap metal is very high at the mo..... so we are sorting out hubby's stash of bike/car bits, plus what he has still got up his mother's garage.... we actually found a remains of one of his land rovers.... which we honestly thought had gone...lol...

there was also an old copper tank there from when hubby's mother had her cental heating changed a few years back.... so as one does.... i phoned the scrap metal merchant to find out the price of various scrap......FLIPPING NORAS !!!!!!!!!!! they are buing copper for 3 thousand pound a ton.... alu cans are 5 hundred pounds a tone .and steel cans , which they never used to buy before ,they are now offering £150 per ton....

soooooo i have been stripping all the old electrical things that have broken that hubby has stashed 'thinking' that the inner bits might come in handy for something...lol.... yep they certainly came in handy.. for me to strip to copper from the cables etc....

so in a nutshell i have been stripping wire cables etc for the copper.....and also keeping the brass pins in hte plugs etc.....

We also go through about 10/12 tins of pet food everyday, which we wash and put out for the recycling every week, because they are steel....... not any more..... they are going to be kept and weighed in..... even if its just a few £££££'s every now and again....

ok.... you can get the straight jacket now.... i have def lost the plot.....how sad am i..... stripping in front of the tely every night......hahahahaha

I've just come back to reality.

Yesturday i came back to reality.. as the house that made me start all this is now sold subject to contract...i was gutted, this brought me back to reality..what the hell am i thinking off, did i honestly think that i could save that type of money???

Take a look at the house..
http://www.ctf-uk.com/pontardawe.html

it was the living room that i totally fell in love http://www.homesonview.co.uk/Scripts/ShowPhotos.asp?CompanyID=CLEEPONT&ID=CPP00705&pic=3

I could just imagine my family there.... with my shabby chic furniture projects....cooking with veg that we had grown in our own veg patch...

life's a bitch..........BUT.. its another day.. so i GOT to try my best and try and get closer to my dream...


A BIT MORE ABOUT ME.......I love cooking.... i have recently started painting unloved small bits of furniture.....which i love as while you are sanding down and painting, you can just forget about the world and just get lost in what you are doing......here is one of my finished projects.

do you think money attracts money?

I'm sitting here drinking my cuppa before i go to work, and i was thinking i am really pleased with the amount of money that i have manged to get in the time...over the last few days i have managed to get.

£12 worth of sales on thursday in work
£18 worth of sales on friday in work
£30 part savings by using money off coupons
£20 hubby helped friend move his daughter used our van, did get £40 but treated kids to bk
£50 ebay sales
£53 cashback from quidco.. due to be paid out anytime

so i have managed to get a grand total of £183...to add to the daydrean fund..

so now my grand total now stands at ....£368.......

THERE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN HAPPENING...... my one and only chook has gone broody..ooo bless so my pas.... Miss_phish and Rose_Sparky are going to send me some fertile eggs... ...cant wait..... know in my luck my chook will decide he hormones have gone back to normal...lol..

so will keep you updated .....


sorry for the lack of pics, but will try and add some, ..

see you all later....

another rainy day

woke up this morning and its raining again... and they have forcasted MORE rain.. will def have to buy a pair of shabby chic wellies now....dont think my trainers will cope with much more in the garden...

last night i had a fruitfull night using money off coupons off my shopping, saved a massive £5. and only paid 53p.. i love happy scanners.....lol... so i have put £30 into my daydream fund so now its up to £185.

was messing round with the old calculator last night number crunching and if i want to reach my day dream target of 200k in 3 years................. wait for it..............i have got get just over £183 per day......i really think if i dont want to make a fool of myself and make this blog a laughing stock of blogland i better really start thinking about getting some big bucks in... ....

so if anyone reading this has got a fat cat job that pays mega money for someone to sit on their butt all day i am your person....

When i number crunched last night it did deflate me to be honest.... and put my on a bit of a downer.... but i cant let the girls ( and dave ) down on the shabby chic forum..... so going now to earn some pennies on slice the pie... which is a great way of earning some pennies.. if you havent heard of it... you review up and coming bands.... and you get paid for your opinion.. there is a sliding scale of the amount you get paid, it starts at 3p and goes to 15p per track.... i am a bit confused how they work it out,, but at mo all i want is money.. i am on 2 starts which is worth 5p per review.... this time round.. i am up to around the £6.50 mark.. so it does creep up....

going now as i got to earn/make /save/ LOADS OF MONEY.....

i've lost the plot

ok... i honestly thought it was wednesday yesturday when i wrote my blog... just sign me in to the looney bin right now and put yourselves out of the misery of reading my woffling notes....

today i think i am going to learn the basics of what day it is... as i am sure somewhere along the line this will come in very handy...

today i am hoping to knuckle down and list some things on turbo lister ready to upload tomorrow on ebay....i also need to write some business letters... to promote my business...and post htem out to potential suppliers...

yesturday ( tuesday) when i was sorting out the rags that come in ( my business is recycling textiles) i started putting items aside to do a car bott with.. i get loads of items in still with the tags on... so was thinking of taking them to a boot sales and sell things at 50p each.. let people have some bargins.. and me have some extra money for my day dream fund...even if i get £20 - £30 it will all help.... i have quite a few bike leathers in various condtions.. and helmets too so i think maybe a fiver each for them... as they are in the way now....i also got loads of levi jeans.... so maybe a £1 each for them.. get the old impluse buys flowing....

going to finish my cuppa now, do my sarnies for work.. and toddle off....

oooo ye as you have prob noticed i have added google ads on here.. i am also going to the person who helped me to do the blog ( you know who you are..lol.... so hide now ) to put the google search bar on here as well...... so if you fancy clicking on thse ads, and doing asearch when that is up and running feel free.. as i am hoping i can get a few pennies for my fund..( well you got to ask havent you hehehehehe)

take care peeps.... and dont forget who ever you are if you know me or not to leave comments... even if they are to say i am a twonk....

my wednesday whinge

oo what a flipping day.....trying to sort a major step in my business and.. its knock back after knock back... but hayho.. thats business for you... dont want to go into to much business talk, as it will take me away from my daydream....

found 50p today in work...hurrraaaaaay!!!!!!!! so that has gone into my saving tin, so once i open that up.. all wahts in there will be added to my total.... the halifax forms have come through.. so will fill them in, and start the ball rolling.. with the 10% savers account...

i am hoping to get some things ready to list on turbo lister tomorrow and thursday.. so hopefully some of them will sell.. i was suprised on sunday with balls of vintage wool selling, and i have quite a lot of it there so strike while the irons hot so to speak..... anyway boring entry today i know,, but will try and do a better one tomorrow... better go.. got to put the steaks on ready for tea..... dont worry didnt pay full wack, they were reduced down to 50p.....bargin....

one week since the start

wow doesnt time fly.. its one week since i started the blog....maybe i should have a party...lol..

well another monday morning. sitting here having my morning cuppa... thinking what money saving or earning thing i can do....??????

sold some things on ebay last night.... which theoretically should go into the business account, but i think i will put some of the money into my pot.... and put it down as wages.... i think from now on this is waht i will do, unless the business need more cashflow...

still waiting for the halifax paperwork to cme through so i can open a savers account at 10% interest.... but i was also thinking of opening a barclay or lloyds instant saver account.. i know its a low interest... but i can put my money into there.. instead of my current account.... where there is no interest... plus there will be no card to take the money out..l.ol..

so today is going to be trying to sort out a bit of structure to the money i am saving.... i also worked out ( if my maths are right ..which you will have to check) that when i hit £200... hopefully not long.. i would have save 0.01% of the 200k that would have bought a house currently on the market that i love...

so only another 99.99% to go.....lol...

sunday supermarket shopping day

well its sunday morning, and i am here cutting out money off coupons that i have printed from the internet, there is also a £5 off a £30 spend in tesco couon in the news of the woeld newspaper, so i have just sent hubby up to the local newspaper shop to buy me 3 ...so i will use 2 today in 2 seperate shops which will just so happen to be just over the £30 mark, and i will also use some other money off coupons to try and maximise my savings....

Sunday is also another good day to go shopping in the supermarkets as they reduce stuff down at about 1 - 2 pm it is hit and miss.. but its worth going as you never know what you can get for literly pennies and stock up the freezer....

i am slowing getting back into my tightwad thrifty ways... without the family suffering.... no i will re-phrase that.. without them noticing.....i think its going to be an uphill struggle with the food shopping, as food prices are set to rise even higher.... they are predicting that fuel.. gas.. electricity... coal....and food is going to rise by approx 40% ...so at the moment i am going to make the most of the money off coupons.... as if they stopped excepting them i will be totally in cac street... as there is no way my weekly bufget would cope.... let alone trying to save some pennies from it....

so today's shopping i am going to try and start buying the staples to stock up.. and dog and cat food.... while the money off coupons are flowing..

my day dream fund is going to be a big struggle.... and is only going to be drip fed by small amounts... but i am determind with the help ( WELL THE BOOT UP THE BACKSIDE) from my shabby chic pals.. to stay forcused...

as not only do i want to hear biker boots around my daydream smallholding.. i want more chicken feet around there too.. to keep my one chicken, who lays me a beautifull egg everyday.. company...

i am trying to get my head sorted to today.... and i am trying to get some sort of routine going.. so i can get as much done as poss, rather than sit on my butt when i come home from work.....

my work..... i owm my own textile recycling business which is very hard work.. i have been doing this for a year now, and i am still not taking a wage out, as i am trying to grow the business.. i have recently moved to a bigger unit.. so with the extra expense of the unit, advertising etc.. the business needs to fund an extra £200 per month.... before i even think about taking a wage.....today. saturday.. i had my parents helping me for a few hours to try and help me catch up with the sorting... and to be honest it looks as though we have done nothing.... so tomorrow again for a few hours.. they are coming over to help me....if/when i get on top of things.. i can list a few bits on ebay to help with my day dream fund....today i had quite a few things in still got the labels on.... i had one blouse which cost £100. and the person just threw it away.... i just cant work these people out..... more money than sense.. or should i say they still got room to spend on their credit cards....

This is just a small pile of rags to sort through


I wish i could just instantly get money so i can go out and buy my dream home... but i am starting to take baby steps... to try and get the money, and in the mean time i am learning how to grow things in my garden....

i have now come to the idea of selling one of my trikes....i sold a pair of my bike boots that i loved... here they are..


will take some pics when the weather is better to show you her...

going now to try and dig out my thrifty... saving.... penny pinching books..

see you all later.....

take care.....xxxxxx