Pots of gold help!

springdreams

What about small bottles of whiskey or brandy? You can get the minis at your local off license, or buy the gift sets from Tesco and break them up.

For the men who don't drink alcohol, you could get a mini gold torch for £land

jade*ben

I got 6 small glass tumblers for £2.50 in tesco. Bags of gold coins 2 for £1. Going to make 12 pots of gold for work colleagues.

pinkskyatnight

Chris25 wrote: »

apologies if it's already been said......another thing that could be used is flowerpots. either terracotta (for adults) or plastic ones & spraypaint them gold or wrap with gold paper/fabric

thanks for this!! ive just come across this thread and thought what a brilliant idea, we arent exchanging gifts this year except kids but i think it will be a really nice touch, i was googling what i could make the 'pots of gold' out of and seeing your post just clicked! i have loads of unused plastic flower pots in the garden and these can be spruced up being covered with some gold tissue paper! many thanks!:A

jezebel1

my pots of gold in cheap tumblers

newtosaving1

Hi
I absolutely love this idea! Will be making a few for family and friends! My brother however doesnt like chocolate!

So thumbs up to werthers originals, couple of pound coins & scratch card, but does anyone have any ideas what I could put in which doesnt contain chocolate? I wanted to keep things on the cheaper side, so wasnt necessarily going to put a gift type thing in, but couldnt think of any gold sweets or similar?
Would appreciate any ideas!
E

springdreams

newtosaving1 wrote: »

Hi
I absolutely love this idea! Will be making a few for family and friends! My brother however doesnt like chocolate!

So thumbs up to werthers originals, couple of pound coins & scratch card, but does anyone have any ideas what I could put in which doesnt contain chocolate? I wanted to keep things on the cheaper side, so wasnt necessarily going to put a gift type thing in, but couldnt think of any gold sweets or similar?
Would appreciate any ideas!
E

Toffees - M&S have ones wrapped in gold paper.

Miniature whiskey or brandy. Local off license should sell them.

Haribo gold teddies - Aldi's have a pack of 4 mini boxes for 99p

newtosaving1

they're great ideas! Thank you so much, will make a little shopping trip tomorrow!

Butterfly_Brain

newtosaving1 wrote: »

Hi
I absolutely love this idea! Will be making a few for family and friends! My brother however doesnt like chocolate!

So thumbs up to werthers originals, couple of pound coins & scratch card, but does anyone have any ideas what I could put in which doesnt contain chocolate? I wanted to keep things on the cheaper side, so wasnt necessarily going to put a gift type thing in, but couldnt think of any gold sweets or similar?
Would appreciate any ideas!
E

I did them last year and put them in small kilner jars from Ikea and filled them with Asda smart price chocolate eclairs (gold wrappers), ferrero rocher, gold coins, plus a lindt reindeer. They went down a storm

Betsie2010

Got my gold bowls from amazon so will be making some this week end. Saving some to do with my nieces as they are the name place settings for the Christmas table.
My lounge is beginning to resemble Santa's workshop!!

RedLass

Your pots look great jezebel1 :T I like the design on your tags, very end of the rainbow!

Today I bought gold coins and gold scratchcards, so that's everything and now it's just the filling and wrapping. Could try it this weekend, but I'm planning on putting the Christmas Tree up so... will see how enthusiastic I feel after that!

Update:

So, I've wrapped my first pot:





I now know it's going to take me a while to wrap 18... and I still need to print the poem for the tags.

Does anybody have any tips for cutting cellophane into squares quickly/semi-accurately?? My roll is 80cm long, but I want 50cm squares for the pots... :think: First one was a bit of a faff, especially because once I rolled it out on the carpet, I couldn't see the edges of it! Oh, and I've also learned I had better put the hoover round before doing the rest

And, I've just worked out how much these cost.

Coins £5.00
Orange Chocs £3.50
Teddy Bears £8.00
Worther's £4.00
Toffee's £1.20
Scratchcards £18.00
Mini Twix £2.79
Glass Tumblers £15.30
Decorative Balls £2.99
Bows/Tinsel £2.00
Cellophane £4.75
Gold Card £2.00

I made 18 in total, so they work out at £3.86 each. I'm thrilled with that :xmassmile