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Finished Baskets - Part 2
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Super lot of pressies Popkins.......:T
You lot are making me wish I'd done something for OH now.............lol
We don't normally 'do' Valentines Day...........think the only thing I've got that would suit is a big(ish) red heart shaped candle hidden away with my hoard of 'stuff' -can't think why I bought it now. But think I just might wrap it some cello and put a little verse with it.............ideas please ?
Sounds lovely mary but I'm rubbish with words, I'll have a think though
:wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:0 -
Right ... I have just been upstairs and managed to put together the hamper for OH ... I had to use 2 folded towels in the bottom as it was so deep :rotfl:
Contents:
Can of woodpecker - Free
Celebrations - 10p (wilkos after christmas sale)
mini champagne - 89p - home bargains
Radox - 79p - home bargains
Jamaican ginger cake - 69p - home bargains
tabasco sauce - 99p morrisons
Love you marmite - £1.99 nettos
Balti peanuts - 39p home bargains
Bombay mix - 39p home bargains
Poppets - 20p home bargains
Trident splash - 9p home bargains
strawberry laces - 39p morrisons
Airwaves - free already had
mini red lynx shower gel - 99p superdrug
strawberry cream fudge - thortons £1.25 (2 for £2.50)
Cherry and Almond fudge - thorntons part of above offer
Cranberry and granola dairy milk - free (came with matterbox)
Beef Jerky - 76p - morrisons
Chilli chocolate - 99p sainsburys
Sports biscuits - 39p home bargains
Maltesers - free - already had
Lindt hearts (in cocktail glass) 99p wilkos
Cocktail glass with printed hearts - £1.25 in boots sale RRP £15
I have took 2 pics, cause on the normal one you can't see the glass at the back properly so did one from above which is here:
Then normal one:
Haven't wrapped as yet cause I need to get some red curling ribbon and a red florsts bow made up. and also need OH to behave and dissapear!
Total cost is : £14.78
I was expecting this to be more as I hadn't added it all up til now :rotfl: I am suprised it was so cheap to be honest Raising kids is like being held hostage by midget terrorists0 -
Love your socks Popkins, they'll make a fab sock monkey :T:wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:0
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Brilliant hamper of goodies Rusty, plenty there so you can help your OH eat some of it :wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:0
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RustyFlange wrote: »You are so funny :rotfl: :j
So can I do it? Maybe a snowman made with quick-drying cement would be better... :wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:0 -
So can I do it? Maybe a snowman made with quick-drying cement would be better...
Rainmac I plan to help him eat all of it but the yucky bits
Errrmmm its a really hard decision ... I will have to take a while to decide. ..
Oh go on then ... but only if you promise to use the quick drying cement ... no matter what the cost it is very MSE in the long run honest Raising kids is like being held hostage by midget terrorists0 -
Thanks Sian.
She lives in a first floor flat. Loves flowers but not into plants. Has a tiny courtyard. My DS is her youngest grandchild at 15 months, the oldest is 24! She definitely avoides cooking, baking...:rotfl: She doesn't go to the cinema, loves Daniel O'Donnell, but I have got her cds and dvds of him. Not even sure what she has got now. Her daughter got her a wii for xmas.
She loves spending time with her daughter. She loves my DS, but that is a sore point with me because of the way she has behaved towards me since he was born.
She's not into fashion. I have bought her trinket boxes, Swarvoski crystal things previously, scarves, makeup, flowers, smellies. She has a bath but is not into the nice smelling bath thing...she never uses the shower.
She has a mobile but is no good with technology. She is nearly 70 years old. She loves figurines and has collected things from Disney and religious figurines. She doesn't wear earrings. She gets her make up from Avon through her daughter. I have bought her jewellery before, necklaces but never seen her wear them..doesn't mean she doesn't.
I don't think she likes pamper things like pedicures, manicures, etc.
When I ask her daughter what she would like for her birthday/mother's day, etc, she tells me she doesn't know what to get her either!
I know, its sounds like I am not being very helpful, but after 10 years this is all I know about my MIL, as we don't spend much time with them.
She has a camcorder, has a digital camera, doesn't like the digi and prefers to use her old style camera.
She likes CSI and Columbo.
How about a journal jar? This is a jar filled with slips of paper with questions on for her to answer in a book. Questions could be things like "describe your wedding day", "what is your ealiest childhood memory?"...
More info on these sites... http://organizedchristmas.com/adult-journal-jar and http://www.dennydavis.net/poemfiles/jrnljar.htm
I made one for my nan for Xmas and wasn't sure if she'd like it but she loves it and has been keeping up answering questions in her book ever since. She is really enjoying re-living the memories.
Does she read? Maybe you could post her a book a month for the whole year (could be charity shop finds).
Tesco Clubcard Deals offer several magazine subscriptions - http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/browse.aspx?N=4294966467&bid=HMagazines
Any good?:wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:0 -
RustyFlange wrote: »Rainmac I plan to help him eat all of it but the yucky bits
Errrmmm its a really hard decision ... I will have to take a while to decide. ..
Oh go on then ... but only if you promise to use the quick drying cement ... no matter what the cost it is very MSE in the long run honest
If it's going to be a struggle for you, I'm happy to help out with all choclate items but flatly refuse to assist with the eating of Marmite or Radox bubble bath.
Yay, where can I get cheap cement from?:wave: If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain :wave:0 -
Ooooh great Valentine hamper Rusty and very MSE!! I'm not sure mine is going to quite so MSE as you but we'll see if and when OH ever gets out of here through the snow!!! and I get a chance to work out total costings!0
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If it's going to be a struggle for you, I'm happy to help out with all choclate items but flatly refuse to assist with the eating of Marmite or Radox bubble bath.
Yay, where can I get cheap cement from?
Think I will leave the lynx/marmite/beef jerky/radox/tabasco sauce for OH to consume on his own
Er not sure ... if we cannot find it cheaply enough then we could use some no more nails as I hear that is as tough as nails so should be fine ... could even dangle him above some shark infested waters or over a pirahna tank or something ... starve the pirahnas for a few days and they will be fine Raising kids is like being held hostage by midget terrorists0
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