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

NEgirl

It looks great! Not sure it would last 2 minutes in our house though! :rotfl:

Kim_Possible

Hi all, ive been a follower of this thread for a while. I was in a shop and saw gold lindors on sale and i thought of a pot of gold for my lindor crazy friend.
But ive found out dark lindors are actually Black.
So, picking your craft brains.....
How could i use dark lindors "a pot of coal???":rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rolleyes:

Kim_Possible

throwing my own ideas out there- a pot of snowman spares.
Id seen this on another thread where the sweets where black jelly beans in a tin

jpwhittle

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

That looks great! How tall is it? Was it hard to do?

thankyou i was really worried people didnt like what i was making lol. It wasnt very hard at all i used some of the green oasis stuff that florsts use and then hot glued the sweets on, i have just read though that you can use cardboard so im going to try that next time.
It is about 8 inches high, but i bet if you made your own shape out of cardboard you could make them any size you liked.
Its not quite perfect as there are some small gaps but it was my first attempt, thinking of taking them to my christmas fairs with me and charging about 3-4 pound what do people think?

irishgirl62

jpwhittle love your tree!!

Sian_the_Green

Great idea! I think if you used cardboard and spray painted it before it wouldn't matter if there was a gap in the sweets. I wonder if there was something you could use for the baubles, like having little lollies sticking out...

With the black Lindt I think the idea of a sack of coal would be a great one; if you could use a funny poem about her being naughty but nice and getting some coal for her trouble

RustyFlange

Kim_Possible wrote: »

throwing my own ideas out there- a pot of snowman spares.
Id seen this on another thread where the sweets where black jelly beans in a tin

Like on the card making thread earlier on Rudolph spares where I suggested you could use red jelly beans ... then white sweets for snowman spares, you could use black beans for coal of some kind maybe?

jpwhittle

how many craft fairs has everyone got booked so far? ive got 3 booked and just been told one school is desperate for something different and these would be different.
ive run out of glue now so im stuck for a bit but think im going to start my reindeer poop snowman kisses and the loo roll thing, OH wont be impressed that i need to go spending more money lol, hope it all pays of at the fairs

Sian_the_Green

I don't know how any of you have time to do craft fairs, I am going to have enough trouble just making my gifts for friends and family!

jpwhittle I think the biggie is not just the product but the merchandising, I think the way people sell things says a lot, little price tags, samples to try, nice tablecloths...

Kim_Possible

RustyFlange wrote: »

Like on the card making thread earlier on Rudolph spares where I suggested you could use red jelly beans ... then white sweets for snowman spares, you could use black beans for coal of some kind maybe?

Yes.... the card making thread...... donno why i just didnt say that!! Maybe i just didnt want to own up to where i usually lurk:rolleyes:;).
I really want to use the lindors so best idea so far is like you say snowman spares.--- my snowmen will just have really big noses!lol
I did think coal but that has unfriendly "uve been bad this year"conotations!!!