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

mum2one

Anglea wrote: »

Evening all

I've spent nearly all evening catching up and I thought I'd been on yesterday. This is such a brilliant thread.

Mum2one, are you away at the moment? Reading about Miss Hoodie and the machines - also wondered what entertainers you were talking about? It appears that everyone you know -at the school and everywhere gets presents - I bet they are all very pleased you think of them. That is really thoughtful. I think you must really enjoy present buying (and wrapping).

I bought some more Christmas cards today and will probably sideline the others I bought earlier in the year (but didn't like).

Congratulations to the new mum on here, my goodness that was a big baby

Welcome to all the new members and for those of you feeling unwell I remember there are coughs and colds and a bad ankle, sending you all the best

We've done the half term escape to Devon, always go to the same site, so get to know people, and 2 of the ents team they've been here for 4 yrs, stay in touch over the winter, so funny as we hire the same caravan, and the one girl calls it ours van, I wish!!

Hope everyone ok xx

mum2one

abdonz wrote: »

Mum2one did you get my pm with secret Santa answers? It kept saying following errors occured so just wanted to check
Xx

A massive thank you, getting exicted xx

mum2one

As I'm away this week, its flying visits to the thread, now were a great thread, we all help each other out, and if anything I think we are the friendliest thread on here.

The way I see it, yes Rusty is entitled to her opinions as we all are, but there are many ways to do this private messages not the fuss this has caused. We all put our photos on, as we want to help others, the threads were originally run by other mse'rs then this was joined with the money neutral, seperted, the person doing the monthly posts left, I jumped in with what was originally a one month post, but had so much fun took over and have (even if I say so myself) have a very successful 2009, a fab 2010, as we have overtook last years posts, both me and Miss hoodie put a lot of time and effort into the challenges, I don't want thanks, nor blowing my own trumpet, as its not me who has made the thread successful, that is all the hard work from you all, I know were in the virtual world, but I feel like we are a big family, and friends that we haven't met yet......
To have Mrs Tine the board guide (which I appriciate due to the problems caused by accusations made, to me that was hurtful, maybe I took it to much to heart.

Really what I'm trying to say this thread is successful due to what we have all done, and i hope that we can continue as we were before, and celebrate the fact that we want to be organised for christmas.

(apologies for the rant, but I'm like mother hen!!) xx

fedupandskint

I agree

Please draw a line under these disagreements

I want this thread to return to the friendly place it was before and put all the rest behind us

cdsmiler

esmer wrote: »

Bracelet is lovely! So much better than the ones advertised on the hobbycraft advert, they just look HOMEMADE. yours doesnt..

Oh don't be daft!! lol I'm sure they probably look much better! Plus hubby's a good photographer! lol

Thanks rufus - memory wire is WONDERFUL stuff. lol

Chasingsunshine - Thanks! You should start making again! I'm finding it very theraputic! lol

Mary - Thank you, and coming from someone who makes as much as you, that's a lovely compliment!

I won't bombard with pics of anything else I've made - I'll have them on my blog! - but if it's ok with you guys I'll post pics of any bits of jewellery I'll make for pressies (as it ties in the the theme of this thread!).

Ddraig - going to have a look through that old thread!

fedupandskint - hope you're ok and the chocoalte helped! (Yes, I know, silly thing to say, chocolate always helps!! lol)

Off to get a pen to draw a line... lol I can find a green pen...anyone got a red one to join me and make it Christmassy?!

Clare x

junior_j

Hey girls!

I have been pretty impartial to all of the "on goings" mainly because its none of my business and I don't like bad feeling virtually or physically lol. So I agree , draw a line , take a breath and continue with this lovely thread I have only really been posting properly for the last week and already I look forward to checking the thread everyday so thanks guys for making it feels this nice and welcoming!

Asda's have large bags of skittles for 62p on offer as well as 4 packs of star bursts for 62p perfect for sweet hampers , or sweet cones like i am making! x

Pixie_Fairydust

Hi all, am a newbie here. I am sooo disorganised, I really try every year but I wish I had found this thread months ago!

Oh well, just have to try my best, but have 2 jobs, 2 kids and am at college too so not much time!

Any easy/quick HM projects for me to have a bash at, please let me know, all ideas greatfully recceived.

Sorry to be thick but how do I find the freebie board?

I am going to try my hand at a sock monkey this weekend (have the weekend off, hooray)

I love Christmas, my son's b'day is Xmas Eve! so busy busy.

Look forward to hearing from you all with loads of brill ideas for me, thanks in advance, I need all the help I can get. Oh just thought does anyone have a really easy knitting pattern for a scarf and what is the best wool/needles to use? I saw some huge balls of wool, 2 for £4 in QD today if anyone is into their knitting.

Write soon, byeeeeeeeeeeee. xx

cdsmiler

Re Skittles in ASDA - check out the packs of 4 boxes (2 original, 2 sours) for the same price too - I think you might end up with a higher weight of sweets in the end!

Welcome Pixie Fairydust! At the bottom right of the screen you should evenutally see a drop down menu which will show all the boards - see if you can find the freebies board through there.

Clare x

junior_j

cdsmiler wrote: »

Re Skittles in ASDA - check out the packs of 4 boxes (2 original, 2 sours) for the same price too - I think you might end up with a higher weight of sweets in the end!

Welcome Pixie Fairydust! At the bottom right of the screen you should evenutally see a drop down menu which will show all the boards - see if you can find the freebies board through there.

Clare x

Thanks , will keep my eyes peeled! I have just made the skittle cone will upload pic when i find the stupid effing camera lead which I did have not long ago and it has magical disappeared and I am supposed to be packing and being organized for staying away for 4 days grr x

Anglea

Welcome to our thread Pixiedust

Take a look at the following section of the site - it's the freebies, Grabbit, competitions, discount vouchers, nearly freebies etc threads

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5

There is also a site a number of us use called Magic Freebies which is set out nicely and easy to use, the URL link wouldn't come out for that so you'll have to do it by hand..