Finished Baskets - Part 2

emg

Popkins wrote: »

rescuedogs My local Matalan hadn't even heard of them!!! In the end I've ordered a couple from ebay - a bit more expensive than in the store but I'm gonna use the blue one for DH's Xmas Eve Hamper and he's gonna use the pink one for my gifts - then next year I'll re-use them for birthdays for our nephews/nieces or Xmas!!! That way get our money's worth for the slightly extra spend!

I've looked for these boxes on ebay but cant find any, what did you put in your search box? I must have looked in about 10 Matalans but no luck!

Popkins

emg wrote: »

I've looked for these boxes on ebay but cant find any, what did you put in your search box? I must have looked in about 10 Matalans but no luck!

Hi - I put 'Chalkboard Storage' in the search box - but I've just done it again and they don't come up - I think I must have got the last two!! Sorry...

junior_j

Hello all

This hamper is for my Godsons 10 year old brother (who has developmental age of roughly 7ish)

Unwrapped



Wrapped



Contents:

4 Tubs of grafix play dough - 50p
Robin hood figure £1.00
Graphic word search book - 20p
Graphix activity book 50p
Boys shower gel lotion and scrubber £1.00
Tranformers colour by number £1.00
2 cold coins 10p

Total
£4.30 70p under budget!

And i made a cellophane stocking



It looks horrible in the pic lol! I have neatend it all up now!
Jess x

mary43

junior - lovely pressies and how inventive to do a cellophane stocking :T
You really are such a good example to all young people

junior_j

Aw thank you very much Mary , the reason it looks not so good in the photo is because i done it at 1 30 am in bed last night lol! It has been neatend up now i am happy to say!
Jess x

junior_j

My mums stocking has

Spa bath minerals
Body spray
Hairy spray
Spa body butter
Golden wrapped chocolate coins
Sunsilk colour repair shampoo!

Cost me under a 5er and she will have other small presents as well as her main pressie she is more then worth it lol , she is one person i wont budget my money with hehe
Jess x

savingholmes

passion8 wrote: »

For what it's worth I don't think I'd give anyone a hamper if they responded like that But I think the words 'discussion threads' and 'hampers' puts some people off ... until they see them

(I still wouldn't take the time or make the effort though - but that's just me.)

I gave various family members hampers recently and they were delighted and very pleasantly surprised. I had mentioned a hamper and they were expecting scotch eggs and sausage rolls... :rotfl: They got a retro sweet hamper and journal in a jar set etc....

brookeslay

Hi Brookeslay, how about a little cuddly penguin, a book of info all about penguins, a pack of Penguin biscuits... sorry, can;t think of more at mo, does that help?

thanks rainmac :j I`ve seen the penguin book someone mentioned on here that had interesting facts so i`ll buy that.

Lovely Lovely hampers passion8 :T

junior_j love your tigger wrapping paper .

I have one matalan chalk box but keep forgetting to buy chalk do they sell it in poundland or asda ? I need to write a list really, but I might just have a snooze instead.

B

junior_j

Brookeslay- Thanks , got it in the January sale and its so good quality got it for 1.99 reduced from like £4.00 .. lol! Its ok. The only wrapping paper i have used so far! Hopefully i wont need to buy any more!
Jess x

ZLS1984

Sorry not been keeping up with this thread been a bit pre occupied. Very nice hampers every one, you are all doing fantastic jobs.

I have read some where on here about family not always being happy to get hampers. Sorry if I read wrong in middle of doing more than one thing. Any ways my family get what they are given and if they dnt like it then thats there problem, in my eyes they should be gratefull to get any thing lol. (Mind you that's how I was brought up I think, but I dnt pass it on to my daughter lol)

Any ways mine are nearly done just need to wrap most of them and I have to finish my mums. It was going to be a chocolate and bath products but to be honest she dnt use bath products unfortuantly. So its a choclate and pot of gold type thing. Just hope she will be happy with it, as I think she was expecting a good present but tuff I dnt have the money to do it.

Anyways keep up the good work everybody.