Debt Free, Cashed Up and Laughing - The Cheapskates way to living the good life

I made 3 cards for today's challenge, I was on a roll and they really only took about 5 minutes each - and that included cutting and sco...

This week is a week of make its, with the new card a day challenge starting. Make It - so far I've made 15 cards - a new card every d...

This is a male card, with a nautical theme. I found the original design here  at Dawn's Stamping Thoughts.  Front of the card, flap...

I missed blogging last year. But I was flat out. It was such a busy year. I started the You Tube show, with live shows twice a week. The...

A simple thank you card I made five of these, using up the scraps from making card bases and mats a couple of days ago. Materials: 3...

Today's card - made the card base from lovely heavy cardstock that was given to me just before Christmas (thank you @joyofquilting it...

There is a better than fair to middling chance that a good portion of Victoria, NSW and South Australia will be without power for days, i...

Two very quick and easy cards, made using small pieces of DSP. This card works because the DSP I used was double-sided. Now this makes co...

Not quite the card I had in mind for today, but it works. And it used up some of my stash. I used a Kmart card for the base. Lavende...

Not what I started out to make. It was supposed to be pink,floral and embossed. This is what I ended up with!  Materials: 6...

Over on the Cheapskates Club forum I started a challenge for this year to make a card a day. In the past we've done card swaps with diff...

Another year is done and dusted. It wasn't a great year for the Armstrong family. There were trials, tribulations, troubles, heart break...

Well we still don't have a working oven. We won't until towards the end of January, but that's OK, so far we're managing....

We've been away for a week, and although we weren't due home until tomorrow, circumstances made it so we came home early. Thank...

Last weekend Australian Butcher Store had regular mince for $3.99/kg. Now this is the cheapest it has been for years, so of course I thought...

" Be a collector of skills " was a phrase I read recently on a blog I follow ( Frugal Measures ) and it has stuck in my mind. ...

Greeting cards - birthday, get well, sympathy, new baby, thank you and so on, are expensive.  Even from the $2 shops these days they are,...

I have been knitting dish cloths to use as gifts and to include in the cleaning hampers and I used my usual diagonal pattern. I love this p...

A question that often pops into my inbox is how do I manage to get so much done. It's no secret: I just do it. I have a housekeepin...

I can hardly believe that the end of the year is here. It feels like just a liitle while ago I was making plans for the year, and saying goo...