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Frugal Christmas: Handmade Paper Stocking Tree Ornament

Posted on December 6, 2008 by greenbucks| 15 Comments

For another Frugal Christmas post, I present “Handmade Paper Stocking Tree Ornament”.

Here is my post about Personalized Christmas Gift Tags.

My two younger children did these, two for each of them. When we were looking at these ornaments when we hung these, I thought the paper stockings look old-fashioned when put side by side to newer and more modern designs of tree ornaments these days.

Materials:

  1. red construction paper
  2. white paper scraps, preferably Japanese paper
  3. craft glue
  4. Scrapbook embellishments

I just instructed the kids about what they should do and they did these quite well. Another post will be dedicated to the instructions and tips.

For now, we sit back on our (almost) modern furniture and enjoy the crafts hanging on the tree that they made.

Yes, there is going to be another post about another handmade paper ornament that they have done.

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Of Christmas Parties and Eating

Posted on November 25, 2008 by greenbucks| 2 Comments

Christmas means different things to different people.

For children, it means getting gifts: new toys, new gadgets, new clothes and sometimes even cash.

For adults, Christmas means clearing up the social calendar as early as possible to be able to say “yes” to the different parties which mean socializing with friends, eating a lot of scrumptious and carefully prepared food and drinking different kinds of beverages meant for each special dish being served.

Diet? This is a word that is forgotten for the time being. After all the merriment, eating and drinking are done, then it is time to look for different kinds of physical exercises and training, alli reviews and toning down to get back into shape.

So has your pre-Christmas calendar been filled yet?

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Without a Maid

Posted on September 24, 2008 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

The norm in most homes in the urban places here in the Philippines is to have a maid or a house helper.

We don’t have one. We have been without a maid for what, five years now, almost six years.

People ask me always, how do we cope?

It takes a lot of time management to be able to cope, especially to a part-time working mom, part-time stay-at-home mom and full time homeschooling mom like me.

Here are some ways:

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