New Thrifty Gifty - Organised for Christmas and all ocassions 2010- Santas Challenges

sarahf191979

Love the challenges Mum2one, and well done on your weightloss.

The clotted cream diet sounds a good un

Been really busy all week, not done any organising:o but have bought 2 xmas pressies, got little mini hot water bottles in mini knitted jumpers for a £1 each in B&Ms so they will go in the kids xmas eve hampers, got to have a root in the pressy boxes this morning for gifts for the school fair, its non uniform day as long as they take something in for the tombola, thank goodness for the january sales lol

Right I'm off to catch up with everything I've not done all week catch you all later

Have a good day everyone
xx

Anglea

Hi all

Mum2One - that's a brilliant present - I bet she'll be really pleased with it. So cute!

Sarah - I like the sound of small hot water bottles, I could do with some of them e.g. yesterday I was using a large one for aches and pains and it was really arkward.

Mary - your post about button bracelets suddenly triggered a memory for me, and I remembered that after all the panic about safety pins, I did have a load of them after all in my crafting box behind the sofa - they were in a kit to make safety pin and bead bracelets.

I wonder how many of you are 'that' organised that you have a folder describing all your craft stash?

mary-op

Hello all :j
mum2one -Love the little watering can:T

Angela - surprising what bits and pieces get bought and stashed away then forgotten about or its a case of 'where did I put it?????:eek:'

Not very organised really but here goes on list of cheapy pressies:

SOS Boxes -you all must know about...........lol
Small fishing tackle box filled with stuff that someone might run out of........tea bag, batteries, elastoplast etc.

Button necklaces - cord and mums old buttons threaded as per instructions shown on www.buttonjewellery.co.uk (well sort of..........lol)

Specs cases - fabric remnants from charity shop........foam sheets from Poundland -cut material & to size that will fit specs and stitch together with foam inside for padding

Handbag charms - doubt I've done these properly -saw some on Jewellery Thread - got some of my old beads I haven't worn for years and cut the wire to sort of bracelet size adding bigger bead to it and fix to handbag with key ring and one of those things you put on dog leads -don''t know what they're called.

Notebooks -cheapo shopping list size covered with prettty paper

Pens - covered with paper to go with notebooks

Bookmarks - used fabric on card or just pretty card with image of person reading a book or maybe just stick flower on..............punch hole in the other end and thread ribbon through

Journals - cheapo notebooks A5 size covered with fabric or pretty paper -matching pen

Pamper pots - empty pringles tubes covered with paper and filled with samples of bath/beauty stuff

Applique gloves - cheapo pair of gloves (no more than £1 -sometimes 50p) and stick on flower then stitch round the edge. Can do the same thing with a cheapo plain scarf

Can't think of any more at the minute.......got a list in my book but I know there's some I haven't added...............not to mention last years..........lol:rotfl:

Was trying to have as cheap a christmas as possible with freebies off the Freebie Board and anything I'd got round the house I didn't need/want anymore that was good enough to pass on. So far its working..............most expensive pressies will be scrapbooks for my sons but they'll be 'one offs' they won't get again.

Ooops..........nearly forgot this one...........it's over on the Freebie board..........I've done it for my grandkids.......give them a laugh I hope. Past two years I've done the free 'name a star' and sent their name off to Mars...........
http://faceinspace.nasa.gov/index.aspx

Print it all out (this one doesn;t give out certificates till later date) roll up and put in a kitchen roll middle thats covered with paper and ribbon tied round it so it's a sort of 'scroll'

Anglea

Mary, :T

Thanks very much for all the details. Covering a pen? I wonder if that's fiddly?

mary-op

Angela - not really..........depends on the pen. Mine are all smooth as opposed to some of the bics you see around. Just have to make sure you leave enough space for the end to go in and out at the top of the pen.;)

NickyBo_2

Great quilt Rufus, it looks amazing!


Well done on the weightloss Mum2One, I think I'll try the clotted cream diet too!

I LOVE the new challenges, I've already completed a few

- the Fathers Day one. In Tesco I found 'I love my Daddy' and 'I love my Grandad' mugs, only £1. I bought them for my son to give DH and my Dad for Christmas.

- Leaving presents - my son only goes part-time to nursery so won't be leaving a class as such. Do pople buy for nursery workers at the end of school term, as it's not the end of term for him as he goes through the summer too. We bought for them at Christmas, just wondered what the 'etiquette' was!
I do buy presents for the two teaching assistants I have in my class as well as the two parent helpers that come in. I have 4 lots of bathy sets for the TAs and helpers so that's sorted One of my teaching assistants is leaving so I'm going to get her extra, don't know what yet though.

Freezer and garden clear out - ideal timing, thanks! We've just sold our house and we're hoping to move in the summer holidays. Therefore the clearout challenges are ideal as I'll have to do it anyway and this way I get to tick another challenge off the list and look extra organised this month :rotfl:


I really like the sound of the £2 challenge. Ages ago I bought a set of jewellery making beads from a charity shop, the full set cost £2. This challenge is the ideal excuse to have a play around with those.


Hope everyone has a great weekend xx

mum2one

NickyBo wrote: »

Great quilt Rufus, it looks amazing!


Well done on the weightloss Mum2One, I think I'll try the clotted cream diet too!
Thank you
I LOVE the new challenges, I've already completed a few - someomes orgainsed

- the Fathers Day one. In Tesco I found 'I love my Daddy' and 'I love my Grandad' mugs, only £1. I bought them for my son to give DH and my Dad for Christmas.
Thats a great price
- Leaving presents - my son only goes part-time to nursery so won't be leaving a class as such. Do pople buy for nursery workers at the end of school term, as it's not the end of term for him as he goes through the summer too. We bought for them at Christmas, just wondered what the 'etiquette' was!
I would say - add them on to the list, even thou he;s going back!!
I do buy presents for the two teaching assistants I have in my class as well as the two parent helpers that come in. I have 4 lots of bathy sets for the TAs and helpers so that's sorted One of my teaching assistants is leaving so I'm going to get her extra, don't know what yet though.

Freezer and garden clear out - ideal timing, thanks! We've just sold our house and we're hoping to move in the summer holidays. Therefore the clearout challenges are ideal as I'll have to do it anyway and this way I get to tick another challenge off the list and look extra organised this month :rotfl:
Congratulations on the selling of your house, hope ur sorted for your newone

I really like the sound of the £2 challenge. Ages ago I bought a set of jewellery making beads from a charity shop, the full set cost £2. This challenge is the ideal excuse to have a play around with those.


Hope everyone has a great weekend xx

Have fun with the jewellery making, I'm experimenting, done some zip fobs for purses, they worked out at 15p each, do a bulk seletion and photograh, going to try Marys Keyring idea.

xx

A 2 in one......

Massive thank you aswell to Mary for her ideas,I think we're heading for avery mse bday and xmas lists xx

mrsow

hi hope everyone is well x
mum2one thank your DD for taking it easy on us x

off on holiday for a week so will catch-up when i get back x

timnlaura

Hi there, i was wondering if anyone could enlighten me on if you can buy the clear packaging for the flannel chocolate logs?

havent had any luck myself.

TIA

mary-op

Hello all :j

Well what a day.............there was me happily making some bookmarks then thought I'd wash my hair........stick head over bath and get nose bleed:eek: Second time this week...............had one Thursday night for no apparent reason:eek: So after panicking and having to open new pack of loo rolls in the bath room, dripping wet hair etc. I did the 'squeeze soft part of nose' bit and found my bag of cotton wool balls to plug it up (sorry for being graphic !) and when it eased off I rang NHS direct.........wasn't sure whether I should be rushing of to a GP somewhere (our out of hours is 9 miles away which is a nonsense). Chappie at NHS said to get appt. with GP Monday morning -blood pressure I expect- and if it happens again this weekend to go to A & E !!:eek: The hours I've spent there this year:eek:
Meantime to take it easy (lazy old me most times does............lol and not bend down if I can help it.......not difficult with my back..............lol:rotfl:


So fingers crossed and nose pinched/plugged I'll be ok till Monday................its summer fair in town tomorrow.........not sure whether to chance it or not.........it'll be so hot I'll probably melt or have embarrassing nose bleed all over a craft stall :eek: Maybe give it a miss........play on the safe side.
So, hair not washed, well not properly but did get my bookmarks done in the finish.................lol

mum2one - I can't take all the credit for cheapy pressies.........got a lot of ideas from the craft thread and card making thread on here;)