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

sarahf191979

mum2one wrote: »

put ur feet up and have a coffee - wheres Sarah!!
xx

I'm still here hun, just been really busy, it's ds2 birthday 2day so am a bit run off my feet, thouht i would have a quick catch up while he was quite and playin his new DS :j, got to get ready in a bit for halloween :eek::eek: party so not going to be about much today. Hope every one has fun.... and

HAPPY HALLOWEEN




Back to normal next week:j.

Sarah
x

98jdougl

Not got much done in the past week - been working 10 & 11 hr long shifts! Have been popping out to the cat rescue shop but until someone clears out the stuff I didn't want there isn't a lot of new stuff!
Have a day off tomorrow and planning on spending it in my pjs watching christmas films and assembling/wrapping up the hampers that I have done and double checking what I have and what I still need.

I bought a gorgeous gift set in a charity shop the other week and it looked really expensive so I decided to google the brand name- I paid £2.50 for it and it is worth about $50!!!!

Welsh_Poppy

Yes the sweety jar is lovely i bought 2 very tall kiln jars from Tesco one is a mint humbug jar as hubby loves mints and the other will do retro sweets the mint jar cost 2.00 to fill and with the cost of jar 2.00 from tescos a great price as I had seen them in not so nice jars for a tenner.

NickyBo_2

kalojac wrote: »

Need to pick your brains

I am doing Pots of Gold for my nieces


So far I've got:

• a few gold coins
• £1 coin
• some gold paper eclairs (co-op's own)

Can you think what else I can put in?

Thanks Kalojac

I have put different gold wrapped sweets in mine:
Ferrero Rocher
Werthers Original
Nettos Fudge as it's so tasty and wrapped in a lovely gold wrapper
Chocolate mountains - found box of 20 in 99p store
Gold coins

sammy_kaye18

Oh Shwmae Welsh Poppy!

You are in my neck of the woods - Im in Port Talbot. :D:D

I saw some lovely jars in Tesco yesterday - it was £1 and was classed as a biscuit barrel but would be ideal for a retro sweet jar. Might go pick it up today to make boyfriend a retro sweet jar.

Did pick up yesterday this nice little set from Tesco too. Its a miniature bottle of Jack Daniels, A jack Daniels glass, a small glass bottle of coke and a metal bottle opener - was £8 but its tradition to get him jack Daniels of some sort at Christmas and dare say he'll get a bottle from someone (that's his back up gift if nothing else if thought of)

Also got my first pack of mince pies yesterday - nice Tesco's ones with the icing on top - personally i cant stand them but boyfriend likes them so they are aside in the cupboard ready.

Tiger cross stitch is almost finished now - am just on the last few bits before the back stitching begins. Cant wait for Ben to be back to school on Monday - have so much to get going on.

Cross stitch to finish
Christmas cards to make, write and address
Final shopping list to write of items to finish gifts
Go through Ben's toys and sent some unplayed with ones to charity shop
Drop bag of books at charity shop that have been sat in my room for months!:eek:

Oh what fun and just been informed bens little friend who he saw on Thursday has been taken ill with swine flu yesterday - oh the joys! both Ben and me feeling fine today and yesterday though so keeping fingers crossed and dosed up with vitamins!

sammy_kaye18

kalojac wrote: »

Need to pick your brains

I am doing Pots of Gold for my nieces

So far I've got:

• a few gold coins
• £1 coin
• some gold paper eclairs (co-op's own)

Can you think what else I can put in?

Thanks Kalojac

Dont nwo how old your nieces are but if they are older the coop does a scratch card called 'pot of gold' they are £2 though but could be a bit fo fun put in there too.

NickyBo_2

www.bangzo.com - the free book of the day is Spacecam - photographing the final frontier.
Postage is £2.45 ish, but the book is worth £17. I've ordered one for my Father-in-law as he loves anything to do with space. I'm so pleased to find this!!

This is the 3rd free book I've ordered from Bangzo and they all arrive very quickly. Another bonus is that I can pay the postage using Paypal so I just use my Ebay profits

bunbun2

Sarah hope your ds has a lovely birthday and hope the party goes well:D

nickyBo your notebook is gorgeous:T your mum is going to love it

mary hope OH's scan went OK and you don't have to wait too long for the results

my plan next week is to sort out everything I have bought, make lists and work out what I still need to get!

sarahf191979

bunbun2 wrote: »

Sarah hope your ds has a lovely birthday and hope the party goes well:D

Thanks hun, he's having a great time, we have just had his cake, and I'e just had ryan giggs head:rotfl::rotfl: (man u cake LOL....:p) kids are running round dressed up, DS1 is DOCTOR WHO :rolleyes::rolleyes: and DS2 is a wearwolf. Better go before OH cops me on here and shouts at me lol....

mary-op

Hello all :j
Been trying to make some more christmas cards and special birthday cards for twins and sons girlfriend and getting nowhere fast so given up So annoying when it all goes wrong........oh well, maybe tomorrow ?

Forgot to say the other day when we went to hospital on the way we went round a cheapy little shop and I picked up some pretty gardening gloves for £1 and a notebook I'll decorate for grandson (the one I did for hims a bit naff)............so I can do two more cobweb chasers with the gloves...............might keep one for myself:j

Really must get myself sorted............if OH's has to go for biopsy (which GP says he will) I need to be all ready just in case .................:rolleyes: