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

mary-op

Hello all :j

I'm that excited !!! Neighbour brought round the craft' drawers that her grandad made..........only problem she took the drawers out first and told me its a bit of a puzzle working out which one goes where -there's 13 of them !! With it being hand made they're not 'uniform'.........I know I haven't quite got it right but they're in.............it's stood in comp room but where it is the carpet doesn't touch the wall so it wobbles :eek: Going to have to find a different place for it which means shifting loads of stuff about..............:eek: mind you I've a lot of storage boxes (stackable canvas sort from woolworths) and couldn't tell you whats in them so they could go upstairs out of the way. Need to paint the drawers before I can use them as well so got my work cut out. Just as well I'm more or less 'organised' in the pressie dept. - sat and painted 4 pebbles with the word Smile on them this morning so thats another little 'freebie' pressie that can go in the shoe boxes................lol:rotfl:

lizalloareds

been to HB got a couple of mini wines for 99p each, to put in with prezzies

elysia2003

Hi all.

So sorry you're not well Susan - If I lived closer I'd definately come and craft with you - I have no room here. I've been making Christmas cards today on a tray! :eek:They also do those pots in a bigger size - checkout the website - they had pastel colours too, but you could spray them.

Sugarspun - you're putting us all to shame!

Mary - well done with all you've done! You've done brilliantly.

Thanks Dramarama xxx

Picked up my order (christmas pressies for DD2) today. The invoice date was Wednesday - so I must have placed my order just after midnight not before. I phoned Tesco and they are adding 1,000 clubcard points to my account (that's worth £10 in cash or £40 in deals) so it was worth phoning.

susan42

Hi elysia, well done on getting your clubcard points:T:T. I`ll have to see if anyone would like to goto hobbycraft and take me....I`ve done all the taking the last 20 years so perhaps someone will volunteer....

Mary I`d love my neighbour to come around with some craft draws, lucky you :j and I got some pebbles here so I`m going to paint those


Sugarspun ...slow down....:rotfl::rotfl:have a pamper day now...

I saw those wines in HB lisa and couldnt think of anyone to give them too....wish i got them now :mad:

On a positive note , I did make a card yesterday, but have found my mojo has gone was sat ages thinking what to do...have to have another go today, try again..:(

SugarSpun

No slowing down!! I am on a ROLL!!!!

Jam-making today, my chutney yesterday was a riotous success despite only making half the amount I was expecting. And I'm going to re-pillage my wardrobe and re-stock my ebay box. I'm never sure whether it's better to wait to list everything till a few days before I go to the UK and then post everything from there (using my baggage allowance on the way in for ebay parcels and the way out for the entire contents of Tesco) or else to have higher postage charges and just do stuff as and when.

Cherries are now on the stove and clean jars drying in the oven. I feel like such a homemaker :rotfl:

fedupandskint

just how I felt yesterday with a pan of chutney on the go!

Having a day off today and have popped onto the calender whats left to make and when

SugarSpun

:rotfl: I made chutney yesterday too, and so did chasingsunshine and a bunch of my friends - it was such a weird day, whenever I stopped and went online somebody new was talking about making chutney. Must have been the day for it.

My jam seems to have turned out well, although again there's not a massive amount of it - three 200g-ish jars from 750g fruit and a bag of sugar.

JaneLiz

Well it's been a while since I've been on here! Been very busy with everything, but definitely getting excited about Christmas!
Bought my nephew a lovely Thomas (the tank engine) apron thing today so think I will make a nice 'bucket' of crafty things for him. Any ideas on places to buy crafty things for a two year old?? He loves painting and is often sticking things and drawing things at playgroups.. thanks!

fedupandskint

Santas Challenge – August

Back to school.
Not needed by me as I don't have any children

Car Boots
No car boots for me so far but have listed 3 things for sale so fingers crossed and found out some more bits to sell (quite a few!)

Cleaning Challenge
Completed!!!!!!!!!! :T
A humungous sort out of the wardrobe and discarded everything that doesn't fit, looks rubbish and haven't worn in over a year
A big pile to sell/give to charity shop

Christmas Lists
Nearly done now, only a few more pressies left to get. All bought at a good price and mostly reduced
Can't stand that shop stampede for rubbish when you can take your time at this time of year and plan what you want to buy instead of stocking up with festive tat

Batteries
have a stash in a box in the cupboard

Me Me Me
For me a long soak in some lovely bath stuff, a facepack and box of choccies

Lists / Notebooks
· Christmas cards - got
· Presents - got
· Accessories – tape, scissors, ribbon, cello wrap, paper – Already got!
· Cooking – ongoing all the time!
· Christmas Cake – Written all ingredients down and have bought most - ongoing task. My new cake tin arrived today
· Food list – Started

FUN CHALLENGE
Whos going to be the first to spot an Xmas catalogue
Not seen one yet but the local pub has a big sign up advertising christmas parties!

Crafting Items
Are there any simple ideas that you could share, that we could do with the children, get them involved - cutting out decopage items or attaching them together

Just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone for making this a sussessful thread - and a big thanks to you and everyone else on here making me see you can buy things for less money, think about it more, plan better gifts and a nice calm december it works!!!!!!!!!!!!

NickyBo_2

I've just had a huge unintentional shopping spree!
I only went out to by DS some new shoes and I ended up buying him lots of Christmas prezzies too! We called in to ToysRus and ended up buying a bucket of plastic farm animals, another bucket of sea creatures (he loves animal toys), a huge realistic foam T-Rex and a foam shark. They were £10 each, but they are lovely toys and he chose them himself (I'm sure he'll have forgotten about them by Christmas though, he's only2!). Then we went in Mothercare and I spotted a dinosaur set reduced from £12 to £4.80 so I snapped that up too

Just been reading the comments about chutney, guess what ...... I'm about to make some Christmas chutney! I finally found some white wine vinegar so I'm going to give it a go this evening. It's my first go at making chutney so wish me luck!

Hope everyone is enjoying the bank holiday weekend