Thrifty Gifty - Organised for Christmas and all ocassions 2009- Santas Challenges

irishgirl62

thank you for the idea princesswoo.. :T:Ti will keep my rings too!

98jdougl

Sounds like a great bargain mary- I can't get to ikea everytime I hear someone mention it I get sad- used to go to the glasgow one a lot with ex but neither i nor my current OH drive

Finished cross-stitching my santa face- hoping to do his hat as well tonight and maybe plan out some more patchwork rows.

mum2one

irishgirl62 wrote: »

I went to ikea to look for glass bowl for pots of gold and got tealight holders the larger one reduced from £1.69 to 39p!!! for three! i bought 20 lol!
its pretter big and i just checked two face cloths rolled fits in it and i tried a pair of thick fluffy bed socks and it fits too

Wow, thats a bargain and a half, sounds great idea with flannels + bed socks. x

sammy_kaye18

HI All

Does anyone have any idea what the best glue to use to cover a notebook would be??

rufusdog52

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

HI All

Does anyone have any idea what the best glue to use to cover a notebook would be??

Depends what your covering it with Sammy, When I did mine I used pva glue on the first one but the paper wrinkled up a bit and didnt go flat when dry so for the next ones i used double sided sticky tape to hold the paper in place (put the sticky tape down the spine and along the edges of the cover) then stuck teh bits you turn over inside down with prit stick.

I then covered the whole lot with stick back plastic (clear) which was only about 50p or so in wilkinsons for a roll which did about 4 books I think.

cdsmiler

ellionic wrote: »

I main these last year about 3 weeks before christmas and the marshmallows started to dry out and do a bit hard so i would say leave them to the last minute.

Thanks ellionic. I'll have a little think about them then. What with being due around Christmas I MIGHT give it a miss. Last year I made some home-made-food-hampers. They went down really well, but because of the contents, pretty much everything had to be made for each recipient a day or two before!!! Otherwise the stuff wouldn't be fresh enough, or would go off too quickly! Was MANIC over christmas! (Made shortbread christmas trees, citrus cake - nice NOT to have comething chocolatey around! - and chocoalte truffles....oh and some gluten free chocolate muffins for my SIL.)

Now, I know Snowman poop is nothing in comparison, but I want to make it as EASY as possible this year. I shall have a think!!

Updated pregnancy list:

princesswoo - 9th September 2009
scatty mam - 11th November 2009
cdsmiler - 15th(ish) December 2009
Fruit loop - 30th December 2009
sammy_kaye18 - March 2010
mummy2mygirls - April 2010


Clare x

sarahf191979

Doctor, Doctor I'm scared of Father Christmas

Doctor: You're suffering from Claus-trophobia.

mary-op

sammy - I covered a few notebooks last year with paper and used pritt stick but this time I thought I'd be clever and cover them with fabric...........what a pickle I got in with copydex:eek: Next one I'll use pva..........did one with that and it worked ok.

98jdougl

lol- was going to say that you probably had the best answer to sammy's question mary since you've been on a covering mission.
I love me the pva glue!!!

fallen_angel09

Was in town today and picked up some bits for m movie hamper, pringles, sweets, chocolate and also my 'special' christmas cards, so I can get on and write them out now!

I feel so organised this year its lovely!