Christmas 09 Let's Get Organised!!

sarahf191979

yippee_kye_yay wrote: »

really long post this lol but im after suggestions for the following
god daughter aged 6 - likes high school musical, hannah motanna budget £10
nephew aged 2 - budget £20 he is a little behind in speech and he has no attention span, so really looking for something which will encourage him to try to talk maybe? and something that will stimulate him for longer than 2mins (need ideas for bday and xmas)
little brother aged 10 - budget £15 loves making stuff, experiments, xbox, rugby (altho he supports my rivla team :mad:)
friends daughter 10months - budget £10???

i think thats all! phew!

If you do have a homebargins near you as already said they have loads of HSM stuff in really cheap, also I picked up some 25th Anneversay Carebares all in white with a DVD for £7.99 one for my Little sister 3 and one for a cousions baby girl who will be 11 months at Christmas they are really cute special addition ones. They also have lots of educational toys in too pretty cheap maybe you could find something in there for your nephew.

HTH

Sarah

D_O_S101

Hi everyone.
Trying to think of a book idea for my mum for christmas. I know she likes stories about cornwall. Has anyone got any suggestions for fiction books centered around Cornwall?

mummy2mygirls

hi havent been able to post in a while - lappy playing up!!! but have been reading and keeping up......
not really done much for xmas etc - just had a bit of a lovely surprise - i am going to have another baby so need to be even more organised now. Will have dd3 first christmas and will have the tiredness and sickness of being pregnant aswell.... very early days though so im not telling people in the 'real' world just yet

D_O_S101

I'm currently in the process of putting together a beer hamper for my dad for christmas. If anyone is interested Asda currently have an 3 of £4 offer on, on their Ales. So far I've got 9 bottles of Ale plus the magners gift set which I think has a bottle of magners and a pint glass all for £16. Can anyone give me any ideas for anything else to put into it. Trying to work on a £20 price tag for his present. Can go over it abit.

stokegal

For a Beer Hamper how about...

Bottle opener
Bar Towel
Novelty Beer Mats

Ohh, just remembered - I was in Wilkos yesterday and they had a guide to British Pubs for £3

Dependant on the theme of the beer, ie if you were going for traditional pub beer theme you could add Salted Peanuts, Pork Scratchings, Dominos, Cribbage Set

D_O_S101

Thanks for the heads up on the book from Wilko's. Do you know if thats in all the stores or just the one you went to. I might try and get a bottle opener.

sarahf191979

D_O_S101 wrote: »

I'm currently in the process of putting together a beer hamper for my dad for christmas. If anyone is interested Asda currently have an 3 of £4 offer on, on their Ales. So far I've got 9 bottles of Ale plus the magners gift set which I think has a bottle of magners and a pint glass all for £16. Can anyone give me any ideas for anything else to put into it. Trying to work on a £20 price tag for his present. Can go over it abit.

Bottle Opener, Beer Mats, book on real ales?

If you have a B&M's or home bargins near you they do bottles of real ale starting at 99p each

HTH

Sarah
x

stokegal

I'm not too sure if it's nation wide or just to certain Wilkos but if they don't have any in, I have just found this on amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Pub-Guide-2009/dp/0091922518/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249908887&sr=8-1

sammy_kaye18

mummy2mygirls wrote: »

just had a bit of a lovely surprise - i am going to have another baby so need to be even more organised now. Will have dd3 first christmas and will have the tiredness and sickness of being pregnant aswell.... very early days though so im not telling people in the 'real' world just yet

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!! :T:T:T:T Theres going to be a baby boom on this thread before long! lol do you know your estimated due date yet?


Well have been out to town today and brought some paint your own disney princess pictures for my nieces. Am debating whether to do a hamper each or one big hamper - but small separate ones seem to be looking good about now for them.

Also becuase I spent over £4 in Ethol Austin they gave me the option of an item half price so i get a football shaped money pot which will eitehr go to my nephew or one of my cousins - not sure yet though.

Also picked up some paper, flowers and ribbon to decorate my nans diary with. I have this diary in purple
so have brought some lacy looking paper, some fine purple flowers and a pale purple ribbon to decorate with. Hoping it will turn out nicely. Was thinkign of decorating so I leave a strip of purple at the opening edge or on the spine of the book but cant decide because I have the diary 2010 to try and cover but was thinking if i put white paper on it then I could put a flower on top to hide it away. Don't know will see

Apart from that don't think I brought anything else. Oh yes i did a teddy in ethol austin for £1.50 - its a white teddy with a brown ribbon but thinking if I change the ribbon (i don't like it) then I can put that holding the bracelet box with the bracelet in that im hoping to pick up on Thursday for her, then cellophane the lot up.

so all in all a good day and i think I spent about £9.50 on all of it. not too shabby

sammy_kaye18

ALSO

SOMEONE WHO WAS DOING A DRAWING HAMPER

cant remember who it was but they had the posable mannequins in Wilkinson's today for £1.97