Finished Baskets - Part 2

mary-op

Chris -thanks for the link for seed packets...........I want to make some for foster daughter (last lot she brought round were in an old envelope...........lol) I've made bigger packet and want to put some seed packets inside.........she loves her garden.

Garden journal is always a good idea..........I keep one and make note of what we planted, how it did, where it came from etc. Also make note of what the weather was like.

Chris25

mary-op wrote: »

Chris -thanks for the link for seed packets...........I want to make some for foster daughter (last lot she brought round were in an old envelope...........lol) I've made bigger packet and want to put some seed packets inside.........she loves her garden.


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thanks mary - they're cute aren't they?

I found these jam pot covers & labels through a link on a blog I follow (scroll down to 24th August) http://www.domestifluff.com/ need to look for one for chutney now

Kandipandi

Hi guys - cant believe how much you guys have been up to!! Some fab ideas on this thread.

I did hampers for everyone last christmas and they all went down so well, so im going to do the same again this year. With that in mind I have just started with my first bits:
Savers are selling off the small impulse and sure deodorants - you know the mini ones you get for holidays - 19p each! I was well impressed - I hope its all savers and not just mine (Northumberland area).

Anyhow, i'v got two siblings expecting babies in the new year so Im off to grab a cuppa and trawl through the hamper photos for baby hampers for inspiration!
x

98sidney

Hi I would like to do a Hamper for my parents 35th wedding anniversary, which is their coral one.
Thinking of doing a journal jar, and having one of their wedding photos revamped and enlarged. But apart from that lost for ideas..

findingmyfeet

hi everyone,
last year all you lovely people helped me do my first xmas hampers and here i am again. my nieces loved their baskets and have requested another this year, trouble is im stuck. they are 12 and 14. last years had pjs , socks, hot choc, mug, chocs, nail and foot stuff bubble bath etc. they want another but i dont know what to stick in them.
possibly girly night in???- varition on movie night but add in socks slippers, cheap film, nibbles, etc. OR do i do another pamper set and try to put in different stuff. Even wondered about doing the older one a handbag (as the basket) and filling with accesories/general make up.

Any ideas dont have girls of that age and they arent giving me any clues.

thanks x

RustyFlange

findingmyfeet wrote: »

hi everyone,
last year all you lovely people helped me do my first xmas hampers and here i am again. my nieces loved their baskets and have requested another this year, trouble is im stuck. they are 12 and 14. last years had pjs , socks, hot choc, mug, chocs, nail and foot stuff bubble bath etc. they want another but i dont know what to stick in them.
possibly girly night in???- varition on movie night but add in socks slippers, cheap film, nibbles, etc. OR do i do another pamper set and try to put in different stuff. Even wondered about doing the older one a handbag (as the basket) and filling with accesories/general make up.

Any ideas dont have girls of that age and they arent giving me any clues.

thanks x

You could go along the same lines maybe.

Some satin PJ's (as they are more grown up ) some cheapy slippers or some slipper socks (boots do a pack of 2 so you could buy this and put one in each basket!)
a bath bomb? (more grown up that bubble bath)
Some costume jewellry? (claires accesories?)
A film
Couple of cans of pop/bottles of J20
some crisps/nuts/marshmallows/haribo

Of you could do the above and then add a voucher for claires accesories or somewhere like that so that they could go and chose what they would like to spend it on?? that way you aren't picking the wrong thing?

Personally I think make up at 12 and 14 is too old for them. but thats my view.

findingmyfeet

thanks Rusty ideas appreciated very much. dont like kids in make up much myself but i know they have it already. there mum (my sil seems to leave them to it). Was thinking along the lines of plain lip gloss type things myself. Claires voucher sounds good though. someone at work with girls suggested hair stuff too , her girls always grooming she said.
least now ive more of an idea.
thank you

3tabbycats

vikki_louise wrote: »

Hello, sorry I'm sure this has been covered somewhere in the 167 pages (!) but does anyone have any ideas for a gardening themed hamper? Its for my godmother, so far i have all weather salve, fragrant gardener bath soak and lavender body cream. She is a keen gardener so doesnt need any tools, and Im not sure what to do seed wise, but does anyone have any ideas on little things i could include to pad it out a bit more please?

Hi, I did a couple of gardening ones last year, the pics are on here somewhere! I padded mine out with a few of the small paper/cardboard type pots & filled them with a few sweets, I had one of those mini bottles of wine in the ladies one & a mini whisky in the male one..(to warm you up after a cold winters day seed planting! That was my excuse for adding alcohol anyway!) I had a small bag of spring bulbs, I think it was crocuses & tulips, a couple of packets of seeds (cherry toms, pumpkins & sunflowers I think) and I managed to find a scarcrow man in the bargain bucket section in the garden centre. Oh I also lined the base of the baskets with thick socks & gardening gloves which weren't discovered for ages by the recipents as they didn't like to demolish the basket!
HTH!

thevicster

Hey, wondering if anyone can help me? I'm planning a cocktail hamper for my mum this Christmas - got lots of alcoholic type things but can anyone think of anything cocktail related? For example, I've just bought some Pina Colada bubble bath. tia!

Ruth_honey

Umbrellas? Ice cube trays? Cocktail recipe book? Cocktail shaker? Glasses? Coasters? Paracetamol???