Finished Baskets - Part 2

rainmac

Hi all, this is my latest hamper/ set of pressies for my OH. His birthday is the day before Valentine's Day so we tend to do Valentine's Day on his birthday...

Valentine's box of goodies...







Contents:
Love jigsaw - £3.94 Amazon
Heart candles - £2.25 Amazon
2 x blocks of Thorntons flavoured chocolate - £3
Thorntons heart chocolate lolly - 90p
Thorntons I Love You choc squares - £2.24 Clintons
Heart candy lollipop - £1.50 John Lewis
Heart hot water bottle - 2.75 Lloyds Pharmacy
KShocolat Dipping Kit - £4.75 John Lewis
Card in a box - made by me
Homemade felt heart deocration - felt cost approx 30p
I Love You toast stamp - £3.75 ebay
3 x tubes Love Heart Sweets - 35p for 4 tubes (used other tube in dish of love) Home Bargains
Lessons in Love game - £1.55 Amazon
Passion poppers (same as party poppers) - £1.75 Amazon
Handmade chocolate discs with heart sprinkles - £2.50? John Lewis
Cinnamon Tic Tacs - 99p :eek: Ingredients

Dish of Love...







Contents:
Red plastic heart dish - £2 Paperchase
Love Bug scratch cards x 2 - £2
Love Heart sweets - packet put into a small cellophane bag (sweets were part of a pack of 4 tubes for 35p in Home Bargains)
Lindt red heart chocolates - 97p from local shop
Lovely tag courtesy of Rusty, ta

B'day pressies...



Contents:
From the boys
I Am The Daddy t-shirt - £7.99 Play.com
Star Wars Press Out & Build Models Book - £4 The Red House Books
From me
Mini Dad quote book - made this using Basic Grey chipboard album, £1.99 from Docrafts website and scrapbook papers and other bits had already
The Offical British Army Fitness Guide - £3.99 The Book People
Think Gum - 75p? Hawkins Baazar
The Islamist book - £6.99 Amazon

All together...



Don't think I've done too bad, hope he likes them I know I'm going to love helping him eat all the chocolate and nicking that hot water bottle

rainmac

cumbrian and sian - brilliant hampers, so original, well done :T :j

rainmac

jojo_sapphire wrote: »

Hiya,

This is my first post in this thread but i have been lurking for a while. I'm not sure if you saw my post on the min board about a friends 40th birthday gift.

Thanks for your idea of a hamper Rusty,

Its going to be a "Now your getting OLD........er" / pamper hamper.

so far me & OH have come up with:

Hair dye
Dove pro-age shampoo & conditioner
Olay anti-aging cream (2 small bottle one day & one night)
Face Mask
No7 anti-aging lip & eye screen
Vitamins & Energising tablets

Then to help her relax and stop worring about getting old..
Bubble Bath
Bath Lilly
Candles
[FONT=&quot]Bottle of wine[/FONT]

we were also toying with an old pair of glasses, but they would be a bit useless
and also some sweets or something, although i'm sure you will come up with some other fab ideas, as this will be my first hamper.

Thanks

Sounds like you have loads of fab ideas

How about a getting older survival kit there are some ideas here... http://www.sawyers-specialties.com/survival-kits/older/getting-older.php

Donna posted the one she made for her MIL on this thread (I think) - it's really fab... http://amoregreenandsimplelife.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-01-14T07%3A01%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7

bunbun2

wow rainmac that's some lovely things for your OH - he is going to love them! you have been busy:T

Aesop

Hi everyone

Fab baskets and ideas.

I want to make my MIL a mlother's day basket as on a very tight budget. I have over the previous years for birthdays, christmas, etc given her Daniel O'Donnell CDs, DVDs, smellies, flowers, plants.

I would like to do something a bit different this year and am a bit stumped for ideas. DS makes it very hard to sit still and think, lOL.

She lives in the North East and I live in London. She spends an awful lot of time with her daughter, they go on holiday together, spend her birthday and mother's day together, so don't want to anything really themed around that.

Can't do her a pamper basket as have done that before.

Any ideas anyone? What is everyone else doing for their mother's days?

mary43

rainmac - brilliant !!:T OH will be so pleased with that lot

Thanks for the links...........gives me a few ideas of things to do for my friends birthday later this year:j

Popkins

Rainmac - loving your valentines bits for your OH - really really love the dish of love - that heart dish is soooo cute!!! and will be useful every year!! LOL!! Also now thinking that I should've bought the heart hot water bottle cos I already have a heart shaped hottie but have just noticed that the stopper thingie is broken and so has started leaking! Might pop on over to Lloyds pharmacy to see if there are any left - bet there aren't!

I popped over to Crawley yesterday and got a few more bits for my OHs valentine hamper - heres a photo of them...



Pack of 'Snap' love cards - Cardfayre - 99p
Tissue Paper - Cardfayre - 99p
Red mini Pegs - WHSmiths - Clearance 99p (rrp £2.49)
Love Hearts Books x 2 - The Works - 49p each (rrp £2.50 each)
Balloons (on sticks) x 2 - Poundstretcher - £1 each
Love Cracker (with love voucher inside) - The Works - 99p
And of course the Champagne Love marmite - 1st one was quite a bargain
for Ebay at £3.49 (99p for the marmite & £2.50 postage)
But then because I was away and I really didn't think I'd win it (I put my maximum bid of £1.00 & generally they were going for about £3ish) so I put a bid on 2 different ones & lo and behold won both of them!!! The 2nd one cost me 99p two & £2.75 for postage. Think 2 might be overkill for him but no-one else seems to want one - is there anyone out there who would like one? So anyway not such a bargain as I've ended up spending total of £7.24 on them both!!!! Mmmmm that wasn't the MSE plan!!

Thats it for now - I did want to lay everything out in the lounge so I could see exactly what I've got and tally it up but thanks to the ridiculous amount of snow my OH couldn't get to work today!! He did try bless him but his train got to the next station and then they turned around and came back to our station (took about 1.5hrs though!!) he then trudged through the snow, stopped in at the supermarket for some supplies and he's been working in the dining room eversince! The word 'underfoot' most definitely has NOT escaped from my lips!! Honest!! LOL!

Sian_the_Green

aureol212 wrote: »

I want to make my MIL a mother's day basket as on a very tight budget. I have over the previous years for birthdays, christmas, etc given her Daniel O'Donnell CDs, DVDs, smellies, flowers, plants.

Could you let us know a little more about what she likes? Does she have a garden? Do you have kids that could help making things or making pictures or foot or handprints? Does she enjoy her garden? Or is she a baking/cooking kind of person? What about films or the cinema?

Sure we can think of something!

rainmac

Popkins wrote: »

Rainmac - loving your valentines bits for your OH - really really love the dish of love - that heart dish is soooo cute!!! and will be useful every year!! LOL!! Also now thinking that I should've bought the heart hot water bottle cos I already have a heart shaped hottie but have just noticed that the stopper thingie is broken and so has started leaking! Might pop on over to Lloyds pharmacy to see if there are any left - bet there aren't!

I popped over to Crawley yesterday and got a few more bits for my OHs valentine hamper - heres a photo of them...



Pack of 'Snap' love cards - Cardfayre - 99p
Tissue Paper - Cardfayre - 99p
Red mini Pegs - WHSmiths - Clearance 99p (rrp £2.49)
Love Hearts Books x 2 - The Works - 49p each (rrp £2.50 each)
Balloons (on sticks) x 2 - Poundstretcher - £1 each
Love Cracker (with love voucher inside) - The Works - 99p
And of course the Champagne Love marmite - 1st one was quite a bargain
for Ebay at £3.49 (99p for the marmite & £2.50 postage)
But then because I was away and I really didn't think I'd win it (I put my maximum bid of £1.00 & generally they were going for about £3ish) so I put a bid on 2 different ones & lo and behold won both of them!!! The 2nd one cost me 99p two & £2.75 for postage. Think 2 might be overkill for him but no-one else seems to want one - is there anyone out there who would like one? So anyway not such a bargain as I've ended up spending total of £7.24 on them both!!!! Mmmmm that wasn't the MSE plan!!

Thats it for now - I did want to lay everything out in the lounge so I could see exactly what I've got and tally it up but thanks to the ridiculous amount of snow my OH couldn't get to work today!! He did try bless him but his train got to the next station and then they turned around and came back to our station (took about 1.5hrs though!!) he then trudged through the snow, stopped in at the supermarket for some supplies and he's been working in the dining room eversince! The word 'underfoot' most definitely has NOT escaped from my lips!! Honest!! LOL!

Wow, more fab stuff! I like my little heart dish too but think £2 is rather steep for a little piece of plastic but as you say it can keep getting wrapped up year after year...

RustyFlange

Oooh rainmac your hampers look fantastic, your OH Is spoiled!!! ... I love your pot of love ... the tag suits it well x

I want to go upstairs and sort out my hamper for valentines, I had everything out yesterday and sorted through it all and have now filled the box with completely random things. I need to order a BLU ray dvd for him then I am done I might see if I can nip upstairs and sort it in an hour or so.

Just a quick update for those who know me ... I have just got back from the solicitors, we are back in court thursday so she tells me :eek: I was told March ... but he has demanded it be brought forward :rolleyes: