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

kiminijane

Yay for shiny folders! We should start a club... THE SHINY FOLDER CLUB! (or SFC for short )

Thanks for all the crafty and freebies links guys, I'm really getting my teeth stuck in here.
I've also been going back over the festive pages on here, namely the 'festive fivers' page. I brought 4 stars today for my OH, two best friends and parents.
And for free!(ish)

I went onto freenameastar (put .com afterwards (sorry, not allowed to post links as a new user )) and named 4 stars, I paid the $2 options so I could cover up the 'freestar' banner on the certificate. They then sent me the individual certifcates to my email, along with an option to print off where a star map of where said star is, which I printed off in colour on card.
I then framed the one for my parents (£1 frame from Poundland thank you!). Then for the others, I rolled into a scroll and put in a little box with sparkly star confetti.

They look FAB and I know the recipients are going to love them

So for my parent's star - £1.22 (for star)
- £1 (for frame)
= £2.22 TOTAL

For the others' star - - £1.22 (for star)
- £0.33 (for confetti)
= £1.55 TOTAL


Awesomenus gifitus!


xx

pretzelnut

Thanks for the star idea, i tried having a go but the preview keeps crashing so i cant actually see what i will be paying for. i shall keep trying.

kiminijane

princesswoo wrote: »

Thanks for the star idea, i tried having a go but the preview keeps crashing so i cant actually see what i will be paying for. i shall keep trying.

Keep perservering! Its worth it in the end
x

sarahf191979

98jdougl wrote: »

oohhhhh, sarah you're in trouble!!!
I got mine in the post today and well chuffed with it. sounds like it is a regular offer though- they did it last christmas as well so keep your eyes peeled

Glad someone got one, I did get one last year for the kids to give my mum that was free from a dif company so hopefully someone will do one then I can do all the grandparents this year.

Thanks

Sarah
x

sammy_kaye18

kimini jane - when you put your name in the registering boxes do you put it for the recipients of the star or for yourself?

Looking to get one for my nieces.

SugarSpun

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

I was clearing out the wardrobe last night and found a bag of Christmas stuff that I'd forgotten about! Pregnant brain strikes again, and now I'm horrendously overbought for this year.

The plan is to take it all to the UK with us, and then I shall spend a few hours organising everything, wrapping and sorting what's a gift for this year and for whom and wrapping and sorting birthday/Christmas gifts for next year. All of this will be written down and then transferred to my spreadsheet, which will be rigorously updated whenever I buy anything for anyone else.

From the sheer volume of stuff I uncovered, it looks like next year's birthdays are also sorted How could I have been so disorganised?!

sarahf191979

SugarSpun wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

I was clearing out the wardrobe last night and found a bag of Christmas stuff that I'd forgotten about! Pregnant brain strikes again, and now I'm horrendously overbought for this year.

The plan is to take it all to the UK with us, and then I shall spend a few hours organising everything, wrapping and sorting what's a gift for this year and for whom and wrapping and sorting birthday/Christmas gifts for next year. All of this will be written down and then transferred to my spreadsheet, which will be rigorously updated whenever I buy anything for anyone else.

From the sheer volume of stuff I uncovered, it looks like next year's birthdays are also sorted How could I have been so disorganised?!

Wow your so organised, you can do my shopping if you want LOL and wrap it too if you feel like it, you could be our personal shopper for everyone on the thread your so organised. :T

But then again you haven't long to go now have you and when the baby comes you will be happy knowing that its all done and you can spend time with your lovely baby.

kalojac

I did the freenameastar.com last night too for one for my boys to share and one for my nieces and nephew, going to get them framed for xmas. Also did the NASA thing where you can send your name to Mars in 2011, and you can print those certificates too, so I did those for all the kids (my boys, neices, nephews, friends kids), going to do those in a scroll rather than a frame, and put that in with their xmas too.

kalojac

sarah - did you see the Dr Who Voice Changer masks on play.com earlier this week? The Dalek one was 7.99 or 8.99 and I was going to buy it cause my kids were eyeing it up last year but it was £30 I went on this morning to buy it cause its the last weekend of the sale and there are still some Dr Who Bargains but the Voice Changer mask is only available for £12.99 on playtrade.

mary-op

Hi all !
I did the Name a Star last year for baby grandson -it was on the Freebie board.
Haven't done the Mars thing yet..............might have a look at that.

Thought I'd just about covered christmas but having another look at my 'hoard' and the fact that sons birthday is coming up, plus his girlfriends then my best friend.................nope ! I'm not done yet:rotfl: