We have come to the end of yet another week.  The French Gardener and I have been working about the Garden Trails, Hospitalitea Trails and we took time for the Beach Trails on Thursday again. Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts this FFF that encourages us to look back on our week and be thankful for, and blessed by.

Friday’s Favourite Five # 14

1. Frugal and Cleverness. “Once in a lifetime Experience”  The PEI Tourism has approved my Scrapbooking Hats’n Hospitalitea as an experience.  I’m blessed to be frugal. Last night I got help from the French Gardener to make these little tiny sand bottles for the scrapbookers I have coming today. Plastic tubing, wooden dowel, hemp and a little bit of glue to seal the bottom of the bottle.  These are 1/2″ long.

2. Found Scuba Helmet. I’m thankful that a drive up East on Thursday had me stumble onto this Scuba Helmet and it is “my photo of the week”  I know that it is being used as a light post.  I don’t know what it is, but I’m including the photo for your insight into it. Go ahead use your imagination.

3. Gaining a Sense of accomplishment. The French Gardener was working inside this week helping me organize moving rooms around.  It has been a big task to undergo and God was with us every step of the way overseeing this accomplishment without any injury.  This is such an accomplishment and I’m blessed to have a hubby to squash big bugs and lift heavy things and he says, and build this product shelf.

A product shelf to hold this much could have cost anywhere around $800. This one was made with boards found at the re-store $7, cut into 3″ widths, then cut grooves in the back for the white board pegs $20, placed the correct distance apart.

4. Garden Harvests. The  garden has provided  this week plenty of blackberries, cucumbers, tomatoes, green peppers, lettuce and seeds.  I have to spend a little time collecting seeds and putting them into envelopes.

5. Getting snail mail. I met a lady her name is June, over these past number of weeks while she was here visiting from Georgia and visits the Island every year.  A few weeks ago her beaded  glasses chain broke and she left it for me to fix.  I did and put a little charm tea cup on one side to remind her of  the fun she had at Grandma’s Afternoon Tea Room.  She wrote me an inspiring snail mail when she got home and told me she would see me next Summer.

Only two typoze/spelling this week…. groves = grooves and scenses = sense

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Has this ever happened to you?

You’re walking down the street and the toe thong lets loose on your flip flop!

You almost trip and manage to compose yourself before anyone sees you, but you are left with a useless pair of flip flops.

I have a frugal solution to your problem and mine.

Poke the toe thong back through the flip flop and turn over, see above.

Now, you will need you one of these here bread ties.

Your local store will carry these for free on a loaf of bread.

No tools required, just get yourself one and put it around the thong toe of your flip flop.

Look’e here it’s as good as a new’ons.

I believe these here flip flops were $6.99.  I checked at Wal-mart the other day and they are $7.99 a pair, where is this world coming from. Thay’s just flip flops, I remember paying $.99 cents a pair at wal-mart not long ago.

Times have changed, kids today would run to Wal-mart and pick out a new pair.  No not us, dad taught my brother and I to be frugal, he said if you can’t be frugal, be inventative  this is a new word for find a way to make it work.

I dedicate these flip flops to my brother who has saved himself so much money on insurance over the  past three years by using the same pink slip over and over again.

xo,

cindy