Crafting for Christmas 2009, let's begin again.......

NEgirl

Had a good day today between Ikea, Tesco, Matalan and Home Bargains. I managed to get pink blue and black collapsable boxes called Drona from Ikea - £2.99 each and perfect for hampers! I got the yellow bowls for the pots of gold too and also managed to get £10 in gift cards from handing in 10 books so overall got a lot of goodies and only spent £30!! Homebargains - Cherry lambrini, gorgeous pink colour to go in the girlie hampers £1.99 each and some other pink goodies. Then Matalan had 3 for 2 on the christmas pressies so i got some more bits there.......then Tesco.....managed to get all the gold coins, gold sweets and tins of biscuits etc (beautiful snow scene tins half price £3.50) Some of the Elspeth Gibson shabby chic goodies were on half price too... So managed to almost finish the hamper shopping today!

irishgirl62

Giggle love the sock cupcakes!

RustyFlange

Just a quicky from me, my OH loves the proper jelly beans, and I managed to get some in sainsburys the other day, just the small tubes which are 99p and gourmet ones so some quite exotic flavours! I emptied them into a glass jar we have had stuck in the cupboard for ages and it almost filled it. (I need to buy one more tube just to make it full) I cut out the different flavour bit of the tubing and placed it on the top ... voila ... jellybeans in a jar at a fraction of the cost that jelly bean company charge for their pots and I know OH will love it! I may change the ribbon for some christmassy ribbon!

mary-op

Rusty - they look brilliant.:T...........lovely and colourful. Just shows what can be done with a bit of thought

ali - I got the link for the soup thingy from the Making Cards thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8vDQ...eature=channel

I really must stop looking at all these ideas........I'll never be finished at this rate................lol:rotfl:

s_michaels

hey just noticed someone mentioning a free font on someones blog, well there are websites that allow you to download them for free.

www.dafont.com
www.1001freefonts.com

These are the two main ones I used to use when I worked in a printers designing things.

wheezysmith

RustyFlange wrote: »

Just a quicky from me, my OH loves the proper jelly beans, and I managed to get some in sainsburys the other day, just the small tubes which are 99p and gourmet ones so some quite exotic flavours! I emptied them into a glass jar we have had stuck in the cupboard for ages and it almost filled it. (I need to buy one more tube just to make it full) I cut out the different flavour bit of the tubing and placed it on the top ... voila ... jellybeans in a jar at a fraction of the cost that jelly bean company charge for their pots and I know OH will love it! I may change the ribbon for some christmassy ribbon!

I did something similar last Christmas but filled a Kilner Jar with all different types of mints for my OH - was thoroughly enjoyed. Can't believe what this kind of thing costs in the shops. Will do the same this year.

I saw in Matalan they were selling "pick & mix" jars with little scoops attached. :rolleyes:Maybe get a little scoop (Ikea??) to the side so that he can scoop out the Jelly beans??

s_michaels

are any of you struggling to find pots for your pots of gold? Do they have to be gold pots or just pots filled with gold?

oh and if you google pot of gold it looks a bit like a cauldron, I know there's loads of cheap plastic ones in the shops what with halloween so does anyone think they'd work?

Clurbur85

Hi s_michaels,

I am making loads of pots of gold this year... I have decided to spray paint plant pots gold because its cheap and I think they will look pretty authentic... having said that, I bet there will be loads of stuff in the sales after halloween.

Also, I've just saved £9.50 on gold coins... they are on BOGOFF in Tesco, Forero Roches are on offer too - £3.50 for 30! So fill your boots! ;o)

:beer:

rainmac

Found this 2010 calendar bookmark idea today, think it's a great idea and allows you to decorate one side of the bookmark and have the calendar on the other... http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14699339

rainmac

s_michaels wrote: »

are any of you struggling to find pots for your pots of gold? Do they have to be gold pots or just pots filled with gold?

oh and if you google pot of gold it looks a bit like a cauldron, I know there's loads of cheap plastic ones in the shops what with halloween so does anyone think they'd work?

I don't think the pots have to be gold coloured