Finished Baskets - Part 2

SeaBee

Sorry for double posting, but just read your message Rusty and wanted to wish you good luck for tomorrow.

rainmac

mary43 wrote: »

junior - crikey you have been busy..............well done :T

rainmac - lovely hamper yet again :T and find time and energy for hoovering not to mention ironing -don't know when I last did any of that.
(Is the iron that metal object with a point on the base that lurks in our under the stairs cupboard ?)

Yep that's the iron Mary, well remembered I did the hoovering, washed the kitchen floor and did the ironing yesterday. Am I a domestic goddess or what!?! :rotfl:

rainmac

mary43 wrote: »

Oh eck...................can't remember now which thread it was on about the 'Emergency Computer Back Up System; - really its a pencil with a rubber at the end.
Anyway, OH got me a pack of pencils, just the sort (didn't half moan about how many shops he had to go in to get them...........lol) and I had quick google and found this site
www.webenglishteacher.com/text/pencil.txt

Whole load of stuff about how to use the Back Up System.........think it was thought up when the Millenium was due and there was all that talk about computer crashes. Makes funny reading and good to add to the pencil it anyone else is doing it. I'm putting a couple in grandsons and sons boxes along with the 'instructions'......................lol

Hope the link works by the way........not very good at them

Love this Mary, going to have to do it for the OH - he works in IT so should find it funny!

passion8

Hi all

Prayed to the patron saint of Hamper Makers, and I've finally got the dust sheets removed to enable me to get to my 'stuff' lol. I was in such a panic as oh had put things in places where I'd never dream of looking :rolleyes: including the camera.

Anyhow, I got to a few bits and bobs and yesterday and made up this tray for a teenager.



Please click for bigger picture.

It didn't take long (as you can probably tell lol) but I'm so chuffed with my little reindeer soap, even though it has no ribbon or jingly bell (The first effort had one of its eyes looking at me, and one at my OH )

Will post it on Pictures Only when I finish it off with some cotton wool balls, and it's wrapped up.

Hope you're all well. I'm just off to catch up with all the recent posts, and then start on my next 'effort' x

sammr85

sammr85 wrote: »

hi all

posted on sweet thread but thougvht I should also post here



this is the sweet boquet i've made my 'childish' OH lol

What du guys think?

Sorry to quote myself but does anyone no how i could wrap this? At the mo its hidden in the box my sons elmo live was delivered in! but it moves around too much in there to give it him that way, and i need to keep it hidden until the 25th lol

TIA

edit to add - pash love the hamper/tea tray, S&G from boots i spy lol

rainmac

Passion - love that tray of goodies, I would be so chuffed if that was under my tree

passion8

mary43 wrote: »

Safe Keeping jar is another one that's cheap..........I did several of these.
Any kitchen jar will do, put a toilet roll middle in the centre (cut a piece to stick to the base of it first)........fill the outside with dried beans or rice......create a label and a pretty lid and it's somewhere to hideaway a spare key/fiver etc.

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What a brilliant idea Mary I'll add that to the "to do" list

passion8

rainmac wrote: »

Passion - love that tray of goodies, I would be so chuffed if that was under my tree

I wouldn't mind a few of your hampers under my tree either rainmac (That reminds me - cups and saucers! Still love the simplicity yet appeal of that one )

Just wanted to say thanks again to all for the ideas and pictures - sorry that I haven't mentioned any individually but they all look great

Special :T to junior_j (who I think must be the youngest poster?) You're a real inspiration for a sixteen year old, and thanks for your posts. I couldn't think why I had November the 29th stuck in my head, (thought I'd forgotten a birthday or something lol) but then I remembered it was junior_j's shopping day

sammr85

Have you thought of curling some thin cardboard around it and then covering the cardboard with cello or wrapping paper? I had a similar dilemma last year, also with a mug but not as tall, and that did the trick. I used thin card, foil wrapping paper, and then cellophaned it up, which meant the bottom didn't fall out, iyswim?)

rainmac

mary43 wrote: »

www.webenglishteacher.com/text/pencil.txt

I've pasted this into Word, changed the font and printed it... I'm out of ink :mad: . So once I've sorted some new ink I will print it out and laminate it and stick a pencil along an edge. Think it is such a great idea, thanks again Mary :T

SeaBee

rainmac wrote: »

I've pasted this into Word, changed the font and printed it... I'm out of ink :mad: . So once I've sorted some new ink I will print it out and laminate it and stick a pencil along an edge. Think it is such a great idea, thanks again Mary :T

That's a good idea Rainmac. I printed one and photocopied the rest. I was going to selotape the pencil to the bottom edge then roll it up like a scroll and tie a ribbon around it.

I will try both and see which I like best.