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

Qaphsiel

Hello all,

SugarSpun what a beautiful photo. Also Lego is a hit with 10 yr olds.

Rufus my DooYoo voucher hasnt arrived yet. It is due tomorrow. I am hoping it will be here soon as i want to get my daughter a dolls pushchair with it from amazon but knowing my luck the price will go up before the voucher arrrives. I wish they sent the email vouchers instead

I have got my stash of pressies out the loft that i buy during the Jan sales especially and during the year. Got fair amount there already :T So very pleased. Most my relatives done now to concentrate on my kids.

I saw somewhere but now cannot find it where you get a beer glass and a brown and cream flannel and arrange it in the glass to look like a beer. Was going to do this for my BIL as we only do token pressies and i have a Becks glass from a free giveaway earlier in the year. I have searched for beer and glass but cant find it. Does anyone know where it is??

Ohhhhh also for anyone who doesnt look the grabbit section there are Cath Kidston stationary sets inc notebooks from £3.14 each. I have picked up a couple beautiful notebooks for myself for christmas for just under £9 delivered.

mum2one

SugarSpun wrote: »

Hello all!

I've been very busy organising my shelves and clearing out the freezer. There are five packs of frozen cookie dough ready for slicing and baking as necessary, all the frozen expressed milk I spent hours pumping has gone weird and metallic-tasting and since Wee Beastie wouldn't have it it's all gone too (:() and we've been eating a lot of Freezer Surprise. I've also printed the Christmas photo of Wee Beastie to go in magnets with Christmas cards and here it is:



And now that's done the last things are to buy Christmas decorations (buying lights tomorrow and other than that waiting for Ikea to have their Christmas stuff out) and make Christmas cake. All the ingredients are here so I shall probably do that this weekend.

What do ten year old boys like?

She is absolutely beautiful, really angelic looking, and the photo is amazing, looks like a professional took it,

You've been really organised, can say that our freezer is now lovely and tidy, thought we'd found some ice-cream hidden - no it was one of my ready cooked meals......

I would hazzard a guess as 10 yr old boys - toilettries - hair gel side of things.

Apologies - have a brain like sieve at the mo - but one of the lovely ladies suggested boks and Chris Ryan was one of the authors mentioned, another author would be Andy Mcnab, I have his books, but he also does a boys range (can't remember if he is co-writer or not), but have a look on Amazon and bring up what he's wrote.

My friend she has 2 boys there 12 and 6, a the mo there both into Man Utd, so I've been getting items throughout the year off half cost, - dread whaen dd comes home with a party invite for a boys party, xx

mum2one

piglet27 wrote: »

Hello all

Welcome to findingmyfeet you will be at home here, everyone is lovely.

Sugarspun your photo is gorgeous, what a lovely pressie.

I have just made 5 more snowman soups, my ds helped me (2 1\2) he cried for 10 mins when we finished, cause i wouldn't let him have an ice cream! little one's are so funny sometimes.

Ah bless him,

Last night i made my first christmas card, not too bad but def have room for improvement, lol. Also made some small bags of choc santas and snowmen, they are soo sweet. Wish i knew how to post photos on here! oh well.

Hope your all getting on well, only 71 days left!

I'm not brilliant with photos, have you tried selcet all, coipy then paste, if that doesn't work there is a "middle man" that you upload photos to, then put the lonk on the thread and then anyone can click into it. This is sods law - can't rememebr whats its called, as I've got some photos to do, so fingers crossed one of the lovelky ladies will come to both our rescue. xx

elysia2003

LOL. I had to rescue you last time Mum2one - It's Photobucket!!!

Rufus - what brilliant dolls. Whoever receives them will cherish them more because you made them especially.

Clare - Come on get a wiggle on with that jewellery - we want to see pics!

Chillout - You need to link your homepage (blog) in CP (control panel) and then we'll be able to find you on Blogger. I look forward to seeing that cake, I have allsorts of intolerances but I don't let that bother me - I'd rather suffer the consequences, lifes too short.

Mum2one - How's the courses going?

Findingmyfeet - Just buy DD any of the OOTW from Boots - I'll guarantee she'll love them all (my 19 yr old DD does)!

Sugarspun - what a stunning photo? It's beautiful the way her face is all lit up. What is it she's looking at?

Mary - Incase I don't speak to you later, have a wonderful weekend up in Scotland. Make sure you wrap up warm, It's going to a be cold one!

Thank goodness it's Friday tomorrow! We're off on hols Monday - Friday so I need to start packing at the weekend and I have a mountain of ironing to do first - Any volunteers?

mum2one

elysia2003 wrote: »

LOL. I had to rescue you last time Mum2one - It's Photobucket!!!

Rufus - what brilliant dolls. Whoever receives them will cherish them more because you made them especially.

Clare - Come on get a wiggle on with that jewellery - we want to see pics!

Chillout - You need to link your homepage (blog) in CP (control panel) and then we'll be able to find you on Blogger. I look forward to seeing that cake, I have allsorts of intolerances but I don't let that bother me - I'd rather suffer the consequences, lifes too short.

Mum2one - How's the courses going?

Findingmyfeet - Just buy DD any of the OOTW from Boots - I'll guarantee she'll love them all (my 19 yr old DD does)!

Sugarspun - what a stunning photo? It's beautiful the way her face is all lit up. What is it she's looking at?

Mary - Incase I don't speak to you later, have a wonderful weekend up in Scotland. Make sure you wrap up warm, It's going to a be cold one!

Thank goodness it's Friday tomorrow! We're off on hols Monday - Friday so I need to start packing at the weekend and I have a mountain of ironing to do first - Any volunteers?

Your a star thank you, got the end of course assisgnments sent off now for the 2 courses, get the results by Christmas, got 2 on the go, small understanding mgt, done the book just the assisgnments to do - they should be a doodle, now on the sports course, so far a week ahead, which is good going as only started it Tuesday and was 2 weeks behind, - aiming for little and often approach.

Decided set myself little targets then I can get on with my xmas goodies, - plan is the finish week I'm on and one more week, then I can do flavoured vodkas and put mt cherries and raspberries to soak properly. DD can help me with that at the weekend.

Planning on pear drop vodka, toffee, maybe kola cubes, see what else comes to mind. xx

Anglea

Hi all

Piglet - uploading photos - first you need to get them on an album like Flicker. Then go to this thread and the reply box, look at the row of icons at the top of the box- go to the blue and green globe - it will tell you to INSERT LINK. This is the link to your photo on the Flicker album.

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Elysia good luck with your packing - and your holiday of course!

Presents for children - plus all ages including adults - if anyone is stuck, the PO do a gift card that can be used in loads of shops including computer ones.

mum2One, is the sports course all theory or practical too? Good luck for not getting drunk trying out all those vodkas LOL

cupkate89

Qaphsiel wrote: »

Hello all,


I saw somewhere but now cannot find it where you get a beer glass and a brown and cream flannel and arrange it in the glass to look like a beer. Was going to do this for my BIL as we only do token pressies and i have a Becks glass from a free giveaway earlier in the year. I have searched for beer and glass but cant find it. Does anyone know where it is??
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Hey Qaphsiel,

I'm not sure how to do links or anything fancy like that but I think what you are looking for is 'a pint of socks'. I just tried searching for that and a few threads came up

I'm sure someone clever will be along soon with a link for you though if that doesn't help! :cool:

Love Kate xx

susan42

mum2 one - love those little buckets:j

finding my feet - welcome to our slice of mse:wave:

elysia - congrats to DD on her work at school, looks like all our children are thriving , we brought htem up so well:D. I can imagine your horror with the neighbour though, htat would be like me, i always put my foot in it

chillout - i`d like to try the cake but looks like you blog link has been deleted in your signature, mine was thats why you have to go into "user cp" above the posts and put it in there

sugarspun - thats a beautiful photo

rufus - i love the dolls they`re ace

qaphisiel - i made a beer glass here on my blog if its any good to you

mary - have a wonderful time in scotland, i`m so jealous

As regards cupcake toppings

main ingrediants : 2oz butter to 4oz of icing sugar creamed together

then for coffee : 1tsp instant coffee dissolved in 2tsps hot water, let it cool before adding to above

chocolate : add 1tsp cocoa or 1oz of melted chocolate and a couple of drops of vanilla flavourings.

coconut : add 1oz of desiccated coconut

lemon : add 2 tsp of lemon juice and 2 tsps finely grated lemon

lime : add 2 tsp of lime juice and 2 tsps finely grated lime

vaniila - add 2 tsps vanilla essence

orange - 1tsp finely grated orange and 2 tsps orange juice

strawberry - 2tsp of strawberry essence

theres loads more but they`re the ones i tried so far and to make the colours the right colour i use a couple of drops of food colouring

mary-op

Hello all :j

rufus........love the dolls:T

elysia.....It's cold here........is it going to be colder in scotland ??? Oh eck.........well, I've packed the warmest jumpers I've got, OH's packed his thermals, arctic fleece coat, hat gloves fur boots........oh and expect I might need a brolly...............lol

Finished off friends ''jar of hugs'' and thats it now till I come back...........just when I think I've finished I think of stuff I've still got to do........
Fill joke pill bottles up
Fill up tic tac snowmen
Bon-bons for gravy tubs with face mitt over them
Make (or at least try) to make chocolate playdough
Get choc lick stuff (need to find some cone shaped little bags for that
Make felt gingerbread people
Envelopes for friends writing box
Get more foam to make shapes for grandson

Oh eck............it goes on and on and on:eek: and I keep seeing more stuff I want to have a go at.................lol:rotfl:

Anglea

Susan, when you put the icing on the cakes, how did you get those big swirls?

Thanks for all the options, yummy!

Mary, that list doesn't do you justice, I know for sure it could be at least 5 pages long

And what's up with the weather today? You are right, it is cold. You'll have to do a lot of snuggling up with your OH in Scotland