The Thrifty Gifty Girls 'n' Guys 2009 (Organised & Money Neutral for All Occasions)

shelovestobuystuff

Make sure you tear off really big pieces.I went for the large size repeat patterns so that I felt less sneaky about ripping of a metre length or more as a sample.

bikerchick1066

shelovestobuystuff wrote: »

Make sure you tear off really big pieces.I went for the large size repeat patterns so that I felt less sneaky about ripping of a metre length or more as a sample.

I love this idea for gift wrapping

I used to do it when the children were small, for covering school books!

pinkladymel

Scattymam you just had me in tears. Seeing your gorgeous, precious page about your mom and then seeing her comment to you below. Oh it is just so beautiful and so sad. You must have been a very lucky girl to have a mom like that. x

Sarah i hope you are alright today and the cleaning went ok. I decided to have chips last night with some curry and split it all down me ARGH!! The gas has gone and i'm shivering my buttocks off so I best get to the shop and buy some more.. too lazy to move...





mum2one You're a right 'un 800 cards.. If I don't receive one this year I will be miffed LOL

I am loving the wallpaper idea. Flocked paper is 'in' in the scrapbooking world so everyone has been stealing the fancy stuff for pages and covering things.. Perhaps an idea for all you crafters to stop you from bloomin spending so much.. go stealing!!! Just kidding!

junior_j

:beer: Hello all! Can i join this thread please

I have already brought next years , tags , cards , bows , christmas wrap and a prezzie for my nan and friends daughter,

I brought my nan

A ceramic dish which comes with 4 posh soaps from super drug reduced to £1.00

My friends daughter so far as a pack of 3 cupcake bath gels which were 50p but i will be adding another cheap prezzie to that.

I want to be finished by june x

JordanShannon

junior_j wrote: »

:beer: Hello all! Can i join this thread please

I have already brought next years , tags , cards , bows , christmas wrap and a prezzie for my nan and friends daughter,

I brought my nan

A ceramic dish which comes with 4 posh soaps from super drug reduced to £1.00

My friends daughter so far as a pack of 3 cupcake bath gels which were 50p but i will be adding another cheap prezzie to that.

I want to be finished by june x

I brought the soap dish too, i got four extra soaps with it for 10p great minds and all that lol:rotfl: I forgot to say on other thread, well done and good luck on slimming. Oh and boys are idiots(the nicest word i could think of):rotfl: , just ignore them;)

Mel-Okay i know this is a really dumb question,..... but are the scrapbooking papers for the actual papers inside the scrapbook, or are they the bits you can cut up? Got a bit confused:rolleyes: bless me:rotfl: and whats vellum(sp??), what do i use that for:rotfl: -I'm a novice alright:o
..xx

bikerchick1066

junior_j wrote: »

:beer: Hello all! Can i join this thread please

I have already brought next years , tags , cards , bows , christmas wrap and a prezzie for my nan and friends daughter,

I brought my nan

A ceramic dish which comes with 4 posh soaps from super drug reduced to £1.00

My friends daughter so far as a pack of 3 cupcake bath gels which were 50p but i will be adding another cheap prezzie to that.

I want to be finished by june x

Hey Jess, welcome to the thrifty gifty girls x

loveday69

paddingtondoo wrote: »

OOhhh organised and crafty - love it!

I think artymiss had the whispers pens reduced - I daren't even look or I might order - got the dies I ordered in the sizzix sale today - think I might treat myself to 1/2 an hours play later

According to my crafty friend you can use ordinary felt tips to colour in stamps like with the whispers pens and huff on them if they dry out before you've finished - will try it and report back

I feel like I deserve a treat I tackled the spare room and turned out 4 bin liners (needed to do this before we go back to fortnightly bin collections) and organised gifts into shoe boxes under the bed - didn't quite get round to sorting my knitting patterns but am now shattered .

I'm going to do a wedding scrapbook shortly so if anyone happens upon some blue/lilac/pink coordinating 12x12 papers in their travels can you give me a shout please? Have been looking for ages but don't seem to be able to find anything that won't drown the pics.

There's a lovely pinky/lilacy one here that would be lovely for a wedding one http://www.paperworkscardcraft.co.uk/acatalog/colorbok_tapestry.html

98sidney

loving this thread.. Have already started I have my wrapping paper, bows and gift tags..

Bought three pressies so far, plus two birthday ones..

Keeping my surveys going and my Nectar points are doing well..

Joined sealed pot challenge again, and will be adding to a store saver card just deciding which shop to use though, as I like asda but cant stop thinking of all the points I would miss out on if I used them.LOL..

Skint_Lynne

Oh my,

This moves really fast. I subscribed to the other thread, and when I went to read it, I have discovered that a new on has been started!! I have bought a lot of my birthday presents and some christmas as well from Boots sale, and I have made £50 back already from a mystery shopping assignment I carried out. I'll get a look at both threads tomorrow night for inspiration. My DH is going back to work tomorrow, so I will have more time. xx

mum2one

Def rate Superdrug sale, they have got a lot of items at 10p, 49p and 99p
My 10p buys ibcluded :
mini soaps - they match the soap dish sets
disney princess stickers + mini book (£2.99 price tag)
pack 2 rolls of sellotape 10p

Even got dd a paddling pool, real heavy duty one for 99p, one of the ladies told me they were selling at £20.00 in the summer.

They even have xmas cards in a keepsake box for 10p..........but think I have enough!! x