Christmas 09 Let's Get Organised!!

wendywitch

boxingboy wrote: »

Wendywitch what about a student cookbook? If you look on Amazon there are some really good ones with lots of ideas

I got my eldest nephew one of these when he first went to Uni.:D

victory

Money_maker wrote: »

For anyone who isn't creative or hasn't got a lot of time, found this little advent tree with drawers at http://homeshopping.24studio.co.uk/clearance/october-rock-bottom/12 - is only £7.99. I have one with little drawers (like a tree carousel), when the boys were younger I would put a couple of smarties or little choccie figure in them. Now they're older, I use a rhyming clue to where the little treat is hidden!
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HTH

I would have bought that but the £4.99 postage is nearly the cost of the advent calender and a bit steep so will look elsewhere for one fab idea though.

Welsh_Poppy

My Tripp bags arrived first thing and they are fab thanks TAM

kraftykat

wendywitch wrote: »

Who I need help with -
My Daughters Grandad has just taken up digital photography so I'd like to do a gift basket based around that but got stuck on ideas. So far I've thought of - LENS CLEANER, FUNNY BOOK, PHOTO PAPER, PHOTO ALBUM, NOVELTY KEY-RING, FUNNY T-SHIRT.

Play.com have some very cheap SD memory cards, I got a twin pack of 2gb cards for £7.99, I think they have single ones for around £4.99.

I bought them for digital photo frames that I bought for our kids to give to grandparents, I'm going to preload the photos onto them.

LynT_2

wendywitch wrote: »

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My Daughters Grandad has just taken up digital photography so I'd like to do a gift basket based around that but got stuck on ideas. So far I've thought of - LENS CLEANER, FUNNY BOOK, PHOTO PAPER, PHOTO ALBUM, NOVELTY KEY-RING, FUNNY T-SHIRT.

Try 7dayshop - they have loads of photography stuff, how about a print your own t-shirt/cards, a photography book, camera bag?

cyclingyorkie

victory wrote: »

I would have bought that but the £4.99 postage is nearly the cost of the advent calender and a bit steep so will look elsewhere for one fab idea though.

i was looking for something like that - somewhere on here someone mentioned a tatty teddy one in clintons - it's 9.99 but as my kids didn't like the chocolate in the choccy ones last year i felt it was a decent investment!

yippee_kye_yay

hi all :j havent been around for a few days, i am so sad i couldnt wait to get back to this thread!:o

anyhoo, i managed to get my cups for the movie hampers from home bargains i think they were £1.29 each or may have been 99p cant remember now. they are the coco-cola ones that look like a glass but have a lid and bendy straw with them. (thank you bubblegumcola for the pm about these)

in wilkinsons they had the small bottles of pepsi for 97p buy one get one free so i got 6 - 2 for each hamper. but then i went in home bargains and saw they were 3 for for £1 so i got another 6! so now the hampers will have 4 bottles each.
when i got in there was 8 bottles and i hadnt paid for 8 so i think ds has stuck a couple in the bag too. never mind a couple for me;)

so i think the hampers are pretty much finished! they have in them
4-5 dvds each
6x mini bags of toffee popcorn
2x popcorn boxes
1x big bag of rainbow drops
4x bottles of pepsi
1x drinking cup with straw

might actually get some doritos and dips to add too nearer the time actually then it will be like the nachos you can buy at the cinema.

got father in law a bottle of old spice aftershave which he asks for every year and also saw that they have started doing the body sprays so got him a couple of them as well. got him a bag of liqorice cakes for his liqorice and toffee hamper. still need to get the toffee and some hard liqorice to go in there. also need to order a book he wants

traded in a couple of ds games at Game and got £29.80 for the two so got a game for mother in law which has just come out for the grand price of 19p:beer: i am jsut working through another game which i will trade in when ive finiahed to put towards another game we have seen for her but that isnt out until next month so no rush.
picked up a milka chocolate santa to go in her sweets hamper. still need to get her jaffa cakes and turkish delights (all her favourite things)

got a set of 4 tree decs with some little paints for £1.49 in home bargains which the kids will do nearer the big day. im hoping to get lots of xmas crafts/activities to do in the run up to xmas, but as my kids are only 2 and 1 we're pretty much limited to painting/drawing, cutting and sticking and small treasure hunts.

i bought a little robin crosstitch set last week in hobbycraft which i bought to give it a try. i completed it the other night, never done one before. found it suprising how easy and relaxing it was so may well be buying more of these and making cards possibly? or something else?

in home bargains there was some carmen hair curlers for £3.99 which i thought id tell you about - might be a good present for a teenage girl maybe?

i got loads more but i cant remember all of it now lol! :rolleyes: it will come to me.

right im off to read what ive missed out on!

Triggles

I love the idea of the advent calendar but not only do I hate the chocolates part of it, DS2 doesn't like chocolates anyway. So I've bought a cloth advent calendar from Hobbycraft that I need to sew together, and I'm hoping to put together some small ornaments (some stitched, some inexpensive purchased) to put in each pocket, and DS can put those ornaments on the tree, one each day. I am thinking about having ornaments in some pockets and some other items in other pockets - not sure what though. Maybe on days we're planning on doing some type of holiday activity (Christmas baking, going out to look at lights, doing paper chains, stuff like that), putting that on a little card and putting that in the pocket, so the activity is a surprise until he sees the pocket for that day. Either way, I better get moving on sewing it up!

yippee_kye_yay

just remembered something else that i got in poundworld they had kids mini crackers, i think there 8 or 12 in them. we got scooby doo and disney princess ones but they also had winnie the pooh and christmas themed ones (santa, snowmen etc)

also while i was in there i saw that they had the paper lanterns, i know a few of you have ordered them on line but might be worth checking these out too.

queenb1981

festive that make christmas decs have got their factory down road from me and their factory shop is now open to public so i went there,they have some lovely things and it felt so christmassy thats all i have done to report apart from going to town shopping yesterday, bodycare have got their kids gift sets out from £2.99 (hannah montanna,disney princess,tinkerbell), they had some nice ben 10 & winnie the pooh sponges for 99p too