Your Cheapskates CLub Newsletter 09:23
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Let Your Online Shopping Cart Simmer for a Day or Two; Free Bubblewrap for Moving; Don't Waste the Oil, it Adds Flavour
3. Share Your Favourite MOO and win a $25 gift voucher!
4. MOO Month - Lets All MOO
5. On the Menu - Easy Chicken & Parmesan Risotto
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Making the Most of What You Have: Apples
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge - MOO Apple Cider Vinegar
8. Cheapskates Buzz
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. Handmade Christmas
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Welcome to MOO Month!
I love March, it is 31 days of learning new recipes and skills that will last a lifetime and save us a bundle of money, something everyone wants and needs to do.
It means a lot of extra work for me. Finding 31 new MOOs, testing them, writing them up, posting them to our website, takes a long, long time. And I love every minute of it!
I hope you love MOO month too, all 31 days of it. Check our website every day for a brand new MOO.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
Let Your Online Shopping Cart Simmer for a Day or Two
When you HAVE to shop online before you order, sign up for the company newsletter and set up an account. Some companies send you a welcome email including a discount code when you create an account/sign up for newsletters. When you put items in your cart, do not rush and checkout (obviously do if you are buying something on special which has a limited quantity or sale time). If you can wait, let your cart “simmer” for 24+ hours and often companies send you an email saying "we have saved your cart and are offering a discount code for the items in it" to encourage you to checkout. This also gives you a chance to decide if you need the item. Recently I bought a special non-slip absorbent mat for an elderly relative directly from the manufacturer, an Australian online website and they sent me a welcome email and a $20 discount code. The same mat was sold by other retailers for a lot more. I saved over $50 by going directly and using the code. Another time, I had put items in the cart and I was offered 10% off code. Next time you are purchasing online, let your shopping cart "simmer". Buy from reputable Australian companies and websites who seem more generous with promo codes than big overseas conglomerates. Also google promotion/discount codes (including free shipping) for that company and many bargain websites publish those. Try all of them before checkout and payment. You may be pleasantly surprised how much you can save if you are patient.
Contributed by Vazz
Free Bubblewrap for Moving
Windscreen repair stores have huge amounts of bubble wrap that they just throw away (their new windscreens are very generously wrapped in it). Tell them you’re moving and ask if they can put some aside and you’ll collect it once a week. Trust me you will get way more than you need. It will save you a fortune when packing breakables.
Contributed by Kelly
Don't Waste the Oil, it Adds Flavour
My daughter buys the feta cheese in the oil, so once that's finished I freeze the remaining oil. Then when making chicken schnitty (using homemade breadcrumbs ) I add this to the oil. Adds so much flavour. Also you don't need to use as much of the ordinary oil.
Contributed by Karen
There are more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tips
It's MOO Month!
And we want your favourite MOOs!
Cheapskaters just love to save money, time and energy and one of the best ways to do that is to MOO!
We have been trained by some really clever marketing to think that we can't make these things ourselves. That buying them from supermarkets, department stores or hardware shops is the easiest and best way for us to have these things and it's just not true.
What do you MOO that saves you money, time and energy? How do you use your MOOs?
Share your favourite MOO hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year Cheapskates Club membership and a $25 Coles Myer gift voucher.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Enter your tip here
4. Share Your Tips
MOO stands for "Make Our Own".
This month I am challenging you to make your own - yoghurt, washing powder, moisturiser, pancakes, pizza, liquid hand soap, dishwasher powder, pasta sauce, compost, glue, icy poles, lemonade, biscuits, cakes, cordial, apple pie, dishcloths, veggie bags, window cleaner - absolutely anything you can think of.
When you make your own you have the advantage of knowing exactly what goes into it. You can monitor the ingredients and materials and adjust them to suit yourself, your family, your home, your lifestyle and your budget.
The article "31 Days of MOO" explains the challenge and is chock full of things you can make yourself.
Share what you make yourself, how you make it and how it saves you money, time and energy. One lucky MOOer will win a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club and a $25 Coles Myer gift card, just for sharing their MOO. Use this form to share your MOO and enter the MOOing competition.
Good luck and happy MOOing!
Share Your Tip
5. On The Menu
Not quite a $2 dinner anymore, this recipe is still a very budget friendly dish. Even my boys like this risotto because it's full of flavour and colour and deliciousness. I serve it with a green salad on the side and fresh bread.
Easy Chicken & Parmesan Risotto
Ingredients:
50g unsalted butter
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 chicken breast fillets, cut into small dice
2 cups arborio rice
1.5L chicken stock
1/2 cup grated parmesan, plus extra to serve
100g roasted capsicum, thickly sliced
2 tbsp chopped fresh basil
Olive oil, to drizzle
Method:
Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius and place a 5-litre casserole dish in oven to heat. Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat, add the onion and sauté until soft. Add chicken and cook for 2-3 minutes until it starts to colour, then add the rice and cook, stirring for 1 minute. Add stock and bring to the boil, then pour everything into the preheated casserole dish. Cover tightly with a lid or foil and place in the oven for 15 minutes. Remove and give everything a good stir, then cover again and return to the oven for a further 15 minutes. By this time all liquid should have been absorbed. If it hasn't return to the oven, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and gently stir through the parmesan, capsicum and basil, and season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with extra parmesan and basil, and drizzle with olive oil. Serve on a bed of baby spinach if liked.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Easy Chicken & Parmesan Risotto
Tuesday: Spaghetti & meatballs, salad
Wednesday: Fish, wedges, coleslaw
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Chicken & Mushroom pot pies
Saturday: Sloppy Joes
There are over 1,800 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge
Making the Most of What You Have: Apples
Using every little bit of something means you are really getting your money's worth. No waste. At all. Everything is used up.
That doesn't mean giving it to the chooks or the dog. It means thinking about what you have and using every single bit of it to feed your family. And then, when there is nothing left you can use, composting it, or giving it to the chooks.
Take the humble apple (because it's autumn and that's apple season).
You can eat them fresh, and they are delicious.
You can peel and core them, then stew the fruit in a little sugar with a pinch of cloves, and they are delicious.
You can peel and core them, dip them in lemon juice and dehydrate them, and they are delicious to nibble on or add to trail mix.
You can peel and core them, and slice them thinly and use those slices to decorate the top of a plain cake. Or you can peel and core them, and dice them and add the diced apple to cake or muffin batter, or yoghurt, and they are delicious.
Or you can peel and core them and simmer slowly to make applesauce to add to cake batter in place of butter or oil; add it to pancake batter; add it to your breakfast cereal; add it to yoghurt; use it as a sauce over hot or cold meats; or just enjoy it as is, it is delicious.
But you still have the peel and the cores left; most people would compost these tasty morsels or give them to the chooks.
But you can use apple peels and cores to make so many things.
When I process apples, I like to wash them well, in soapy water, and then rinse them really well in cool water with a splash of vinegar added. This means we can safely eat the peel without worrying about any nasties, and they will keep a lot longer in the fruit bowl or fridge (and apples keep for ages in the fridge anyway, this extends their shelf life).
When I peel apples for applesauce or apple butter or stewed apples, I slip the peels into a bowl of icy cold water with lemon juice added (the lemon juice helps to stop the oxidising that turns apples brown). When I've finished, I drain them really well and pat them dry with a clean tea towel and put them into the dehydrator on 50C and let them dry. When they are completely dry, I grind them to a powder. Or eat them - they are really delicious. But the powder can be used to flavour so many things, and because it is dehydrated, it's shelf stable, and keeps for a good 12 months (it won't last that long).
Cores can be processed in your steam juicer to make apple juice or boiled in water to make apple flavoured drink.
Cores and peels can be processed to make apple jelly.
Cores and peels can be steeped in boiling water to make apple tea.
Add apple peel to a jug of water and chill in the fridge. It gives the water a very mild, but pleasant flavour, great if you don't like to drink plain water.
Cores and peels can be boiled in water and then that flavour intense water used to make a simple apple syrup that is delicious over pancakes or drizzled over muffins or even added to smoothies.
Apple peel can be tossed in cloves and cinnamon and roasted until crisp, then eaten as a snack (and they are delicious!).
Add apple peel and cores to a jar and top up with brandy. Let it steep for about six weeks in a cool, dark cupboard, giving the jar a shake every now and then, to make apple flavoured brandy. Just make sure the brandy is covering the apple peel and cores completely.
Apple peel and cores can be used to make apple cider vinegar.
If you only use one apple at a time, don't think you can't use it all. Put the peels and cores in a bag in the freezer until you have enough to make juice or apple powder or whatever.
Using the whole fruit, and much of it as you can, gives you the full value. No wasted fruit means no wasted money.
And no wasted money helps the grocery budget. Simple.
Next time you have an apple, think about what you can do with the whole fruit and see what you can come up with.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge
MOO Apple Cider Vinegar
The apples on our tree are ready to harvest. I know this because the bats and the birds have been trying to get to them. And that means I have a lot of preserving to do, and a lot of peeling and coring of apples.
So what do I do with the apple cores and peels? I turn some of them into apple cider vinegar.
This vinegar is made using the peels and cores of apples, any apples will do. I use the little green, hard apples off the apple tree in our front garden to make apple cider vinegar, much to the frustration of the fruit bats and birds.
You will need:
A large, clean, wide-mouthed 2 litre glass jar
Muslin, cheesecloth, netting or a Chux
apple scraps, the cores and peels, preferably from organic apples
1 litre cool water, left to sit for 24 hours so the chlorine can evaporate (or use filtered water)
Step 1. Leave the scraps to air overnight. They’ll turn brown, which is exactly what you want. Add the apple scraps to the jar and top it up with water. You can continue to add scraps for a few more days if you want. If you’re going to do this though, be sure you don’t top the jar right up first, leave some room for the new scraps.
Step 2. Cover with the cheesecloth and put it in a warm, dark place.
Step 3. You’ll notice the contents of the jar starts to thicken after a few days and a grayish scum forms on top. When this happens, stop adding scraps and leave the jar for a month or so to ferment.
Step 4. After a month you can start taste-testing it. When it’s just strong enough for you, strain the vinegar through a double layer of cheesecloth. Bottle in clean, sterilized bottles. Store in a cool, dark cupboard.
You can use this vinegar makes a great fruit and vegetable wash to remove bacteria and keep the produce fresh longer. Use 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to about 5 litres of cold water. Let the fruit and veg soak for no more than five minutes, swishing around. Drain and dry well.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
8. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Christmas Gifts to Make Now From Your Summer Garden
Make Veggie Powder
My Oh Oh Its Happening Survival List
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Cooking with Mince
2023 $300 a Month Food Challenge
Washing Powder
Latest Tips
Save Paint Going Into Our Waterways
Stockpiling 101
MOO Plant Milks
Latest Recipes
Easy Lemon Cake
Quick Mix Date Cake
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Latest Shows
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Let Your Online Shopping Cart Simmer for a Day or Two; Free Bubblewrap for Moving; Don't Waste the Oil, it Adds Flavour
3. Share Your Favourite MOO and win a $25 gift voucher!
4. MOO Month - Lets All MOO
5. On the Menu - Easy Chicken & Parmesan Risotto
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Making the Most of What You Have: Apples
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge - MOO Apple Cider Vinegar
8. Cheapskates Buzz
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. Handmade Christmas
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Welcome to MOO Month!
I love March, it is 31 days of learning new recipes and skills that will last a lifetime and save us a bundle of money, something everyone wants and needs to do.
It means a lot of extra work for me. Finding 31 new MOOs, testing them, writing them up, posting them to our website, takes a long, long time. And I love every minute of it!
I hope you love MOO month too, all 31 days of it. Check our website every day for a brand new MOO.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
Let Your Online Shopping Cart Simmer for a Day or Two
When you HAVE to shop online before you order, sign up for the company newsletter and set up an account. Some companies send you a welcome email including a discount code when you create an account/sign up for newsletters. When you put items in your cart, do not rush and checkout (obviously do if you are buying something on special which has a limited quantity or sale time). If you can wait, let your cart “simmer” for 24+ hours and often companies send you an email saying "we have saved your cart and are offering a discount code for the items in it" to encourage you to checkout. This also gives you a chance to decide if you need the item. Recently I bought a special non-slip absorbent mat for an elderly relative directly from the manufacturer, an Australian online website and they sent me a welcome email and a $20 discount code. The same mat was sold by other retailers for a lot more. I saved over $50 by going directly and using the code. Another time, I had put items in the cart and I was offered 10% off code. Next time you are purchasing online, let your shopping cart "simmer". Buy from reputable Australian companies and websites who seem more generous with promo codes than big overseas conglomerates. Also google promotion/discount codes (including free shipping) for that company and many bargain websites publish those. Try all of them before checkout and payment. You may be pleasantly surprised how much you can save if you are patient.
Contributed by Vazz
Free Bubblewrap for Moving
Windscreen repair stores have huge amounts of bubble wrap that they just throw away (their new windscreens are very generously wrapped in it). Tell them you’re moving and ask if they can put some aside and you’ll collect it once a week. Trust me you will get way more than you need. It will save you a fortune when packing breakables.
Contributed by Kelly
Don't Waste the Oil, it Adds Flavour
My daughter buys the feta cheese in the oil, so once that's finished I freeze the remaining oil. Then when making chicken schnitty (using homemade breadcrumbs ) I add this to the oil. Adds so much flavour. Also you don't need to use as much of the ordinary oil.
Contributed by Karen
There are more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tips
It's MOO Month!
And we want your favourite MOOs!
Cheapskaters just love to save money, time and energy and one of the best ways to do that is to MOO!
We have been trained by some really clever marketing to think that we can't make these things ourselves. That buying them from supermarkets, department stores or hardware shops is the easiest and best way for us to have these things and it's just not true.
What do you MOO that saves you money, time and energy? How do you use your MOOs?
Share your favourite MOO hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year Cheapskates Club membership and a $25 Coles Myer gift voucher.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Enter your tip here
4. Share Your Tips
MOO stands for "Make Our Own".
This month I am challenging you to make your own - yoghurt, washing powder, moisturiser, pancakes, pizza, liquid hand soap, dishwasher powder, pasta sauce, compost, glue, icy poles, lemonade, biscuits, cakes, cordial, apple pie, dishcloths, veggie bags, window cleaner - absolutely anything you can think of.
When you make your own you have the advantage of knowing exactly what goes into it. You can monitor the ingredients and materials and adjust them to suit yourself, your family, your home, your lifestyle and your budget.
The article "31 Days of MOO" explains the challenge and is chock full of things you can make yourself.
Share what you make yourself, how you make it and how it saves you money, time and energy. One lucky MOOer will win a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club and a $25 Coles Myer gift card, just for sharing their MOO. Use this form to share your MOO and enter the MOOing competition.
Good luck and happy MOOing!
Share Your Tip
5. On The Menu
Not quite a $2 dinner anymore, this recipe is still a very budget friendly dish. Even my boys like this risotto because it's full of flavour and colour and deliciousness. I serve it with a green salad on the side and fresh bread.
Easy Chicken & Parmesan Risotto
Ingredients:
50g unsalted butter
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 chicken breast fillets, cut into small dice
2 cups arborio rice
1.5L chicken stock
1/2 cup grated parmesan, plus extra to serve
100g roasted capsicum, thickly sliced
2 tbsp chopped fresh basil
Olive oil, to drizzle
Method:
Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius and place a 5-litre casserole dish in oven to heat. Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat, add the onion and sauté until soft. Add chicken and cook for 2-3 minutes until it starts to colour, then add the rice and cook, stirring for 1 minute. Add stock and bring to the boil, then pour everything into the preheated casserole dish. Cover tightly with a lid or foil and place in the oven for 15 minutes. Remove and give everything a good stir, then cover again and return to the oven for a further 15 minutes. By this time all liquid should have been absorbed. If it hasn't return to the oven, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and gently stir through the parmesan, capsicum and basil, and season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with extra parmesan and basil, and drizzle with olive oil. Serve on a bed of baby spinach if liked.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Easy Chicken & Parmesan Risotto
Tuesday: Spaghetti & meatballs, salad
Wednesday: Fish, wedges, coleslaw
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Chicken & Mushroom pot pies
Saturday: Sloppy Joes
There are over 1,800 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge
Making the Most of What You Have: Apples
Using every little bit of something means you are really getting your money's worth. No waste. At all. Everything is used up.
That doesn't mean giving it to the chooks or the dog. It means thinking about what you have and using every single bit of it to feed your family. And then, when there is nothing left you can use, composting it, or giving it to the chooks.
Take the humble apple (because it's autumn and that's apple season).
You can eat them fresh, and they are delicious.
You can peel and core them, then stew the fruit in a little sugar with a pinch of cloves, and they are delicious.
You can peel and core them, dip them in lemon juice and dehydrate them, and they are delicious to nibble on or add to trail mix.
You can peel and core them, and slice them thinly and use those slices to decorate the top of a plain cake. Or you can peel and core them, and dice them and add the diced apple to cake or muffin batter, or yoghurt, and they are delicious.
Or you can peel and core them and simmer slowly to make applesauce to add to cake batter in place of butter or oil; add it to pancake batter; add it to your breakfast cereal; add it to yoghurt; use it as a sauce over hot or cold meats; or just enjoy it as is, it is delicious.
But you still have the peel and the cores left; most people would compost these tasty morsels or give them to the chooks.
But you can use apple peels and cores to make so many things.
When I process apples, I like to wash them well, in soapy water, and then rinse them really well in cool water with a splash of vinegar added. This means we can safely eat the peel without worrying about any nasties, and they will keep a lot longer in the fruit bowl or fridge (and apples keep for ages in the fridge anyway, this extends their shelf life).
When I peel apples for applesauce or apple butter or stewed apples, I slip the peels into a bowl of icy cold water with lemon juice added (the lemon juice helps to stop the oxidising that turns apples brown). When I've finished, I drain them really well and pat them dry with a clean tea towel and put them into the dehydrator on 50C and let them dry. When they are completely dry, I grind them to a powder. Or eat them - they are really delicious. But the powder can be used to flavour so many things, and because it is dehydrated, it's shelf stable, and keeps for a good 12 months (it won't last that long).
Cores can be processed in your steam juicer to make apple juice or boiled in water to make apple flavoured drink.
Cores and peels can be processed to make apple jelly.
Cores and peels can be steeped in boiling water to make apple tea.
Add apple peel to a jug of water and chill in the fridge. It gives the water a very mild, but pleasant flavour, great if you don't like to drink plain water.
Cores and peels can be boiled in water and then that flavour intense water used to make a simple apple syrup that is delicious over pancakes or drizzled over muffins or even added to smoothies.
Apple peel can be tossed in cloves and cinnamon and roasted until crisp, then eaten as a snack (and they are delicious!).
Add apple peel and cores to a jar and top up with brandy. Let it steep for about six weeks in a cool, dark cupboard, giving the jar a shake every now and then, to make apple flavoured brandy. Just make sure the brandy is covering the apple peel and cores completely.
Apple peel and cores can be used to make apple cider vinegar.
If you only use one apple at a time, don't think you can't use it all. Put the peels and cores in a bag in the freezer until you have enough to make juice or apple powder or whatever.
Using the whole fruit, and much of it as you can, gives you the full value. No wasted fruit means no wasted money.
And no wasted money helps the grocery budget. Simple.
Next time you have an apple, think about what you can do with the whole fruit and see what you can come up with.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge
MOO Apple Cider Vinegar
The apples on our tree are ready to harvest. I know this because the bats and the birds have been trying to get to them. And that means I have a lot of preserving to do, and a lot of peeling and coring of apples.
So what do I do with the apple cores and peels? I turn some of them into apple cider vinegar.
This vinegar is made using the peels and cores of apples, any apples will do. I use the little green, hard apples off the apple tree in our front garden to make apple cider vinegar, much to the frustration of the fruit bats and birds.
You will need:
A large, clean, wide-mouthed 2 litre glass jar
Muslin, cheesecloth, netting or a Chux
apple scraps, the cores and peels, preferably from organic apples
1 litre cool water, left to sit for 24 hours so the chlorine can evaporate (or use filtered water)
Step 1. Leave the scraps to air overnight. They’ll turn brown, which is exactly what you want. Add the apple scraps to the jar and top it up with water. You can continue to add scraps for a few more days if you want. If you’re going to do this though, be sure you don’t top the jar right up first, leave some room for the new scraps.
Step 2. Cover with the cheesecloth and put it in a warm, dark place.
Step 3. You’ll notice the contents of the jar starts to thicken after a few days and a grayish scum forms on top. When this happens, stop adding scraps and leave the jar for a month or so to ferment.
Step 4. After a month you can start taste-testing it. When it’s just strong enough for you, strain the vinegar through a double layer of cheesecloth. Bottle in clean, sterilized bottles. Store in a cool, dark cupboard.
You can use this vinegar makes a great fruit and vegetable wash to remove bacteria and keep the produce fresh longer. Use 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to about 5 litres of cold water. Let the fruit and veg soak for no more than five minutes, swishing around. Drain and dry well.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
8. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Christmas Gifts to Make Now From Your Summer Garden
Make Veggie Powder
My Oh Oh Its Happening Survival List
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Cooking with Mince
2023 $300 a Month Food Challenge
Washing Powder
Latest Tips
Save Paint Going Into Our Waterways
Stockpiling 101
MOO Plant Milks
Latest Recipes
Easy Lemon Cake
Quick Mix Date Cake
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Latest Shows
Subscribe to our You Tube channel and never miss a show.
10. Handmade Christmas Challenge
On the spur of the moment, we (being me, Wayne and AJ) decided to swap the craft room and rearrange our home. So that's what most of last week was spent doing. Not a lot of crafting or gift making, but plenty of organising and decluttering and shifting furniture and washing walls and cleaning carpets and getting quotes for new light fixtures.
And it was exhausting and (almost) back-breaking - well my back was aching for a couple of days after all the lifting and shifting and pushing and pulling and up and down the step stool.
But I think it has been worth it. Now I have a bigger craft space, and we have a dedicated train room. In theory our home should be tidy all the time, but we all know theories can be disproved at any time.
I did add some embellished drink coolers to the gift box. I was etching glasses and making drink coolers for an engagement gift, so just kept going while the Scan and Cut was working, and added to the present box.
How are you getting on with your handmade Christmas challenge?
Don't forget to check in for our Make It Monday show and tell over at Cheapskates Chatter, we'd love to see what you've made.
Handmade Christmas Central
The Handmade Christmas Forum
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