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

janeym8

sian the green ive also got some last minute stuff to make
up to a month ago i thought i was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo organised with some things i wasnt able to make until last minute due to space issues ie having none lol and then............
-decided to decorate hall/stair/landing
-our bedroom
-put a screw through pipe underfloorboards when "sorting" the squeaky floorboards so carpet fitter had to be put off
-500 mile trip down south to see family
-MIL unwell falling all over the place but refusing to go into hospital so lots off phone calls between me/doctors/social workers/neighbours
-visited other family down south
-back to MIL after yet another fall and got her into hospital
-Cleaned MIL house top to bottom as she hadnt been able to look after it and had refused all help-she is a life long smoker and had CUT DOWN to 30 a day
-extra week in London doing all this plus had to get carers leave to be able to be off work
-back home in the snow and finished work today

OMG sounds awful when i read it all back

still to do
-record bowls
-finish decorating journal jars fo ddx2
-finish a calendar
-make guinness glass -socks
-organise wrap hampers x4
-finish some general wrapping
-deliver 3 lots of pressies
-take wreath to cemetary
-food shop

oh and have not got a single decoration up

feel like my very orgainsed christmas has gone very very very very wrong
wheres the wine????????

janey xxx

mary-op

ah just thought is it like the money tins that look like beans tins?

Yes...........was me.................:rotfl: I did this last year, some were jars with dried beans in, my sons had raw plugs in so he could hide spare key in the shed........granddaughters had hair bobbles and grandsons had marbles.............got to be one of the cheapest xmas pressies I've ever made.

Sian_the_Green

janeym8 wrote: »

sian the green ive also got some last minute stuff to make
up to a month ago i thought i was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo organised with some things i wasnt able to make until last minute due to space issues ie having none lol and then............
-decided to decorate hall/stair/landing
-our bedroom
-put a screw through pipe underfloorboards when "sorting" the squeaky floorboards so carpet fitter had to be put off
-500 mile trip down south to see family
-MIL unwell falling all over the place but refusing to go into hospital so lots off phone calls between me/doctors/social workers/neighbours
-visited other family down south
-back to MIL after yet another fall and got her into hospital
-Cleaned MIL house top to bottom as she hadnt been able to look after it and had refused all help-she is a life long smoker and had CUT DOWN to 30 a day
-extra week in London doing all this plus had to get carers leave to be able to be off work
-back home in the snow and finished work today

I'm amazed you're still walking about sane after that lot!
I think your glass of wine is well deserved

MrsLove

whoopidoo wrote: »

Getting close isn't it Can I be cheeky and ask that when the new thread starts up can someone pretty please post a link to it in here? It's just that I'm subscribed to this thread and I get lost very easily on the boards so would love to be able to find it and play along from the start next year

I agree this would be great - I'm current sat in Bangkok Airport feeling very UnChristmassy so have come on here to see what you're all up too I don't get home until 10th Jan and would hate to lose you all in the meantime

mrbrightside842

Hello lovely peeps! I need some creative help and thought I'd be best asking you guys! I made up my Snowman Soup's and handed them out at school, and they went down very well. The teacher in my class loved them, and said she'd love to make something similar with the kids when we go back in January, as we have a snowman theme after Christmas whilst we do all the Winter stuff.

So I've been left to think of something to make with the kiddies, that would be along those lines but simple. I've also got lactose intolerant kids in my class, so wouldn't be able to do the chocolate. The marshmallows would be fine, and still nice and snowman-ny, but I can't think what else, or what to call it if I'm nt going to mix it like the soup.

dizzytina

:DI just want to say thankyou to everyone who has contributed to this thread which has helped me sooooo much this year. i have been alot more organisedthan ever and made some lovely gifts that i'm hoping people will appreciate more than a random bought gift from the high street.

i am snowed in at the moment and it is still snowing heavy in Blackburn!!!! Anyone else got the same problem? I hope it clears tomorrow as i still have presents to deliver ahhhh:eek:.

Going to make a chocolate log and some rocky road with my daughter today and start chilling:D

mary-op

mrbrightside842 - if the marshmallows will be ok and if you can get white ones you could fill jars up as 'pots of snowballs' or make snowmen from odd white socks, put the marshmallows in cellophane, pop them inside and its a snowman full of snowballs......or, if the children can bring an empty jar from home the 'pots of snowballs' could become snowmen with some goggle eyes stuck on or painted on. For the hat a sock would do.........just cut off the top and tie a ribbon or elastic band round it to make if look a bit like a ski hat.............piece of ribbon for a scarf.
Sorry, can't think of anything else at the minute but I did a few of these myself this year and they worked out ok. hope that helps

mrbrightside842

mary-op wrote: »

mrbrightside842 - if the marshmallows will be ok and if you can get white ones you could fill jars up as 'pots of snowballs' or make snowmen from odd white socks, put the marshmallows in cellophane, pop them inside and its a snowman full of snowballs......or, if the children can bring an empty jar from home the 'pots of snowballs' could become snowmen with some goggle eyes stuck on or painted on. For the hat a sock would do.........just cut off the top and tie a ribbon or elastic band round it to make if look a bit like a ski hat.............piece of ribbon for a scarf.
Sorry, can't think of anything else at the minute but I did a few of these myself this year and they worked out ok. hope that helps

Thanks for that! I think I'll have to have a little play about, will wait til after Xmas though, got so many things to be doing now, but it'll give me a nice little post Xmas project!

sethsgran

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My daughter sent me these links of an idea she has seen for snowman soup.

sethsgran

Mrs Brightside I love your quote about spellings. Many moons ago I wrote to a boy who would return my letters when he replied in RED he would correct my mistakes!! No he didn't last long!