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

ebaybaby

"The Works" book/staionary store have these in, Im positive they are £4.99!

They call it a snuggie!

ariarnia

Kevie192 wrote: »

Thank you, Ariania!

I will be most interested to read the responses you get to see if they are the same as my TS officer's view. I would love to be proved wrong on this actually as I think making soap for a gift is brilliant.

As a certified and assessed cosmetic manufacturer, I would be only too happy to share recipes and ideas with all of you if I were convinced it would be legal to make and give them to your loved ones

Kevin x

Further to the discussion we had on here a while back, I was directed from consumer direct to trading standards who got back to me today with this response:

trading_standards wrote:

Dear Ms [ARIARNIA],

Further to our conversation this afternoon I can confirm the following.

Based on the amount that you advised you would be making, the ingredients you intend to use and the fact that the items will only be shared amongst the 6 members of you group for your Christmas hamper. [AS RELEVANT TO WHAT I'M DOING AS THE GROUP IS CLOSE FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS] We would advise that the precautions that you would need to take in relation to the Cosmetic Product Safety Regulations would include keeping a list of the ingredients and the quantities of each [IN CONVERSATION IT WAS STATED THAT IT WAS FINE THAT I WAS MEASURING PER CUPS IN RATIO], along with an instruction to accompany the product advising how the product should be used and that it should not be ingested or used on certain areas.


Should either the ingredients or nature of distribution change or expand then you should contact us again for further advice, as the information above may alter. This will be the case even if you do not intend to sell them but simply distribute to a wider group.

Yours sincerely,

Rachel Calnan

SO MY GROUPS HAMPERS GO AHEAD.

Rachel was a very nice lady, and anyone who's concerned about this might want to contact their trading standards to discuss what they're planning on making as it seems it varies from area to area and it is not automatically illegal to give home made cosmetics as gifts.

smwtyn

They have a Crafting With Cd Roms and Stamps section on the ideal world channel now until 4 xx

pretzelnut

Ive just made 2 ''jars of nothing'' for my brother and his girlfriend cos when I asked them what they wanted they said noting.





Message says: ''You asked for nothing. Nothing is what you've got.''

Jars are 3 for £1 from the £ shop. Then i just used some scraps of ribbon to go around the lid, cut out a label and added some wrap, but you could put it in a small box or a gift bag. The card warehoue place do 8 gift bags for £1 which are just the right size for these jars.

got-it-spend-it

irishgirl62 wrote: »

i posted this on thrifty thread and thought I would post it here too

I came across this on the moneysavers arms about a slanket, i think my four kids would love this! but the price £24.99:eek:

http://www.find-me-a-gift.co.uk/the-slanket.html?gclid=CNLzs5iX0J0CFZQA4wodJ306sQ

but I googled for a pattern and found one here and it looks really simple to do going to hunt for a cheap blanket to make four of them

the pattern is here

http://www.blisstree.com/articles/free-pattern-make-your-own-cozy-fleece-slanket-snuggie-or-snuglet-114/

Primark had these too. I can't remember how much they were but they were less than a fiver I think!

pretzelnut

primark are selling some cute fleece sleeping bag blankets.

I got my kids 1 each they are £2.97 each and are made of fleece, they roll up when finished with and have a little carry handle sewn onto them so that they can take them anywhere. They are lovely if you have younger one's under 10 years old.

jackiebetty

Irishgirl......love your count down calendars!!!! Don't think I will have time for one this year...but will def. do one for next!!!:D
Jackie x

silverchair

I've got one of those fleece blankets. They are lovely. Really nice now its getting colder & I dont want to put the heating on in the livingroom quite yet.

Im off for half term next week, cant wait to start some crafting.

sunrise27_2

princesswoo wrote: »

Ive just made 2 ''jars of nothing'' for my brother and his girlfriend cos when I asked them what they wanted they said noting.





Message says: ''You asked for nothing. Nothing is what you've got.''

Jars are 3 for £1 from the £ shop. Then i just used some scraps of ribbon to go around the lid, cut out a label and added some wrap, but you could put it in a small box or a gift bag. The card warehoue place do 8 gift bags for £1 which are just the right size for these jars.

ha ha bet you can't wait to see their faces lol

janeym8

liking the jars of nothing

am feeling much better except the heartburn from the antibiotics so hoping to get some crafting done this weekend when hubby at work

have been scouring ebay for cellophane but can i ask, for a hamper approx 12"x12" how much cellophane do you need ,so i can roughly estimate how much i will need in total?

was in ikea last night ,just to get out of the house,and they have all their christmas stuff out ,just before the tills-they had some packets of 6 cone shapes with handles which looked nice and i thought would be easily made but cant think of anywhere i need them for this year
on ikea site they show them hanging on the tree but dont give the name or a link to them unfortunately and head still being a bit fuddled cant remember price

janey xxx