Organised Christmas 2008.. The countdown has begun!

pinkladymel

Wow you lot.. Holy cow.. Are you trying to make me cry or what??:o

I checked the page this morning and they chose the card and the layout I liked the least. Then I looked at the voting.. WOW.. makes me look like a total loser really and it will only get worse! *sob*

SO I thought.. I know.. i'll check out my best favourite place.. I always leave this thread till last because it is like teasing myself LOL and you just all made me feel like 50,00000 times better instantly.:T

Thanks a lot guys I loves you to pieces :smileyheart:

Beki

updated list! yay! have done some things at last :rotfl:

1.[STRIKE] wrap advent sweeties for nan and uncle, and add the advent poem & some gold foil, put in a jiffy and post first class today[/STRIKE]

2. Laminate personalised xmas stories, certificates etc etc for kids/nans/grandads - HALF DONE

3. [strike]wrap and basket-up dd's, ds's, dad's and OH's advent baskets :eek: feel like crying now [/strike]:rotfl:

4. find out more about the elf-tradition so i can start it for the kids sometime this week (read up breifly about it last night at 1am, but was too tired to take it in, so gotta do some reading and FAST!!!)

5. write christmas cards for friends and family - have too many to do, and not sure how i'm going to do it all

6. get some more presents for - ds, [strike]a couple for dd[/strike], a couple of small token pressies for uncle's hamper, couple more token pressies for dad's hamper, [strike]present for 4 x BIL's (not all mine - some OH's! lol), present for nephew[/strike][strike]
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7. [strike]buy some more choclate coins for 'pots of gold' [/strike](i ate the last lot :rotfl: )

8. make pots of gold

9. make reindeer food

10. finish snowman soups (done a few already)

11. [strike]order cello wrap & more cones[/strike]

12. make up everyone's xmas eve hampers (doing mum & dad, uncle, nan, ds, dd, and a surprise one for me & OH that he doesn't know about)

13. make up everyone's hampers for xmas day

14. wrap all other presents

15. [strike]put up ceiling decorations[/strike]

16. [strike]take down tree decorations and re-decorate tree [/strike](doesn't look right at the mo :rotfl: )

17. clean the house from top to bottom as it's in a right state at the mo, due to all the 'stuff' going on

18. make the 'balls of life' for mum & dad, uncle, best friend, nan, & OH

19. make up, and decorate - nan's memories jar, dd's journal jar, OH's tottenham facts jar, mum's 'special things & memories' jar, dad's 'bob marley & reggae facts' jar, uncle's 'back in the day' jar, BIL's '50 things a father-to-be should know' funny jar (him and my sister are due their first baby on may 1st)

20. think of more special things to do for people that don't cost a lot of money :rotfl:

scattymam1

lol Beki - I feel like hiding them!!!(she has 3 and she she's still not happy - she wasn't impressed with the one I got her that has a little toy in instead of chocolate - she is a chocoholic)

mel - just voted for you, fab layout mind, seen that photo before and I loved it so your layout really compliments it.

Primark were brill today - but I only got the black pair - the grey I have to get in newcastle which is a drive and a train ride for me while bairn is at nursery today - could have thought of better things to do like...

pinkladymel

That list is coming along nicely beki think I need to do one LOL

Thank you for the vote scattymam x It is good they exchanged the boots for you. When I went to take something back they were right pains in the bottoms. At least you got another thing sorted off your list now! x

SugarSpun

This evening:

pack my bag for leaving for the UK !!!!
stop by the supermarket and buy everything I need
bring back all recyclables for refund
take out rubbish and recycling
wrap anything that might still need it

I also bid on my wedding dress on ebay today. The paperwork is a nightmare, but the dress is totally under control!

jamtart6

Well I am feeling suitably SMUG as I have now abandoned my list of things to do on here as I did SO much yesterday!!! :xmastree::snow_laug Yeah baby!!! I do however have a very small paper list organised into 'people' so I know who is 'done' and who needs a few bits doing (so not 100% smug yet!!!)



Have another day of hideous work ahead In fact it is only going to get worse as it gets closer to Christmas!!! Thats the prob with going on holiday/taking some time off, the few weeks before it are always horrendous!


Anyway, onto more exciting things.... like Scrapbook Apprentice!! I'm not being funny BUT the one leading on there is definitely not the nicest page/card! (I'm excluding your work from this Mel as I am biased towards it anyway as it is gorge!!! the photo is so cute!! and love the way the card is tied). Thought it was a really hard project with the stuff they gave you to do! If I wasn't voting for you I'd be going for Cleo Jarvis I think - not a fan of hidden journalling because it means you have to get the page out of the plastic cover and struggle to get it back in, much prefer the way you have done yours! I like Sarah Carrington's card and love the sparkly brown floral paper that is part of the project set!!! I want some!

We all need to vote for pinkladymel!!

kalojac

Mel, just voted for you, and it looks like you are now 3rd with 11% of the vote, here's hopin eh x

pinkladymel

WOW sugarspun when do you leave?? How exciting!!

Thanks so much jamtart for pimping me out LOL You are a sweetheart!! I could never ask for people to vote for me as I would feel so embarassed but with friends like you.. I feel so good now that I am going to clean and go christmas organising crazy in this house.

I would also vote for cleo jarvis I loved her layout.

pinkladymel

Oh Kalojac thank you so much that is so nice of you to take the time to vote for me x

chocolate.orange_2

Ive had a vote too

Welll ..... i had to Just come on here for a minutes peace. My living room looks like a table top sale .. I am putting all my bits and bobs into my hampers and it seems to be taking aaaages.

Oh well back to it