Finished Baskets - Part 2

mary43

They look lovely :T
Thought I'd finished then neighbour came round with pressie for us........so up I went to the spare room.........luckily I'd got a big cup with chocolate written all over it so OH got some ferraro rocher and I've filled it up with those. Should have some spare cello when I've done ex foster girls hamper so that'll finish it off. We don;e normally do pressies for next door but thos year she split up with her OH and we'ver had the girls occassionally........and shes a brilliant neighour to have.

Shelley3774

rainmac wrote: »

Savingholmes - brilliant use of a used sweetie box, it looks gorgeous :T Hoping someone buys me a big box of Ferrero Rocher so I can have a go

Bunbun and shelley - fab hampers ladies :T

Bunbun - can I ask where you got the clear plastic box for your brother's sweetie box?

Shelley - where did you get the Santa plate please - it's great

Hi Rainmac the santa plate is from Wilkinsons my friend bought it so I'm not sure about price but I think it was about £1.

Shelley3774

I was tasked with making our Boss a hamper for Christmas:eek:
She is notoriously difficult to buy for - 45 years old never been married and no partner, does not wear any makeup, does not style her hair and hasn't bought anything to wear since approx the late 80's and no hobbies apart from the gym. (I'm not being horrid she will happily admit to all this). Oh nearly forgot and is allergic to chocolate !!!!!!!! So armed with £50 pounds and 2 hrs (after working a 6 - 14hrs shift) yesterday I rushed around and managed to get some bits for the hamper:

It includes:

Soft white dressing gown
Bottle of wine
Wine Flute (sprinkled some snowflake confetti into it)
Bath Bombs
Shaun the Sheep Dvd (she loves him !!)
Grumpy but Gorgeous eye mask
Hot Water Bottle (she doesn't have any heating at home)
Cuddly Reindeer
Scented candle

Just hope she likes it


By shelley3774

ZLS1984

wow fantastic hampers and presents every one, I wish I was getting some of those.

miss*whisper

I just wrapped presents for 3 hours solid to go in hampers.... kept finding extra bags/boxes of stuff I stashed - most of it either from Mr B glitches or from stuff I got free from perusing the Freebie boards... well worth a look every now and again! :j

I'm sick of ribbon/paper now :rotfl: but had to wrap each thing individually as I wanted to cello each hamper and didn't want to them to be able to see the contents before they opened it

... (I just can't stop creating work for myself! Devil makes work for idle hands )

But only got to decorate & wrap the chocolate slabs and get Dad's pressie (and at last I know what to get him!!)

Wrapped OH's pot of gold and it looks so good - just want to say THANKS :T to whoever thought of it originally, such a simple idea but looks fabulous!!!!

bunbun2

shelley that is lovely. I think you have put just the right things in. I would love to get something like that!

mary43

Can't remember whose idea it was............the 12 yr old we foster is convinced it was his since he told me to fill an empty gravy granule tub with gold chocolate coins and call it a pot of gold..............I'd already done 'canned sunshine' -gravy granule tub covered in sunshine paper and filled with sherbert lemons, cannon rainbows -same thingbut multi coloured sweets inand rainbow paper.........so my first pot of gold was a tub covered with paper with pictures of coins on it.
Done ones in glass jars since then and lad we foster has done them for his sisters.
So many variations on one theme its incredible..............:j

miss_essex01

threelittlepigs wrote: »

done some more sweety bowls today
run out of cello:eek:
so had to do my best with the two flat wrapped ones

I love what you have done here! well done :T

Can i ask what u have put the sweets into? and what kind of sweets have u put in?xx

Popkins

ZLS1984 wrote: »

wow fantastic hampers and presents every one, I wish I was getting some of those.

Me too!!! I don't want to give some of mine away cos I want to keep them!!!!

threelittlepigs

missessex01 thanks
i bought some christmas bowls from B&M 99p each
the smaller ones were from same place but 99p for 2 HTH
the sweets i put in were all from multipacks they were:

mars bars not mini but not full size
milky ways
animal jellys
mini kinder bars
lollypops
christmas lollypops
opal fruits (loose)
flumps
mini haribo's
mini snowmen chocs (bogof wilkos)
choc coins (bogof wilkos)
mini packs of chewits
think that was everything
heres one i did the other day that i remembered to photo before i wrapped