crazy girl's pressie challenge: as nice, cheap, original & crafty as possible

crazy_girl

mum2one wrote: »

Its not penny pinching, its being very mse, and creative. xx

couldnt agree more with that! :T

pennib

Wow Crazy_girl you were on a roll there!! Bet everybody loved them.

pennib

This is my offering Stripey Sue

crazy_girl

aw how cute is he and his little accessories too?! :0)

crazy_girl

pennib wrote: »

Wow Crazy_girl you were on a roll there!! Bet everybody loved them.

ive had some good feedback so far but most peopel havent opened theirs. we were supposed to be having a party for our mates and their kids but we both got flu so its been moved to feb (but its still gonna be christmassey!)

crazy_girl

Grandad’s 80th Birthday:

2 x fruit cakes 68p
Cadbury KOKO 99p
Bendicks mint collection 87p
2 x Cadbury’s cookies £1
4 x bottles wine £8.68
Chocolate Orange £2.75
Crate FREE
18 x sheets tissue paper £1.44
4 metes curling ribbon 4p

TOTAL = £16.45

mum2one

That hamper looks lush x

steerpike

Great hampers crazy-girl! Much nicer than the traditional gift sets . . . you must be a very organised lady

mary-op

Lovely sock monkey and what a lovely hamper :T

I'm trying to do bits slow but sure..........very slow in fact...........but, I've done couple of fabric hearts and OH found a cream apron in a drawer so I've put a length of fabric round the top of the pocket. Want to applique some flowers on it if I can find some material with the right sort of thing on. I'm sure there's some lurking in a drawer somewhere.

Keep looking around at other bits I can recycle this year now I can't get out of the house (for a while anyway). Got several jars I could maybe paint something on (there should be some glass paints somewhere -maybe same drawer as the fabric I'm after) Trouble is, I can't forage for it all at the minute.
Scrapbook paper I ordered for the scrapbook I intend to do for me and OH arrived today along with couple of little wooden signs (blank) to paint and see if I can paint some wording on them so that'll make a change from sewing.............lol

pennib

Mary-op I hope you feel more the ticket soon and can get out and about even if its just for a
wee while. Sounds like you are going to be busy, busy. it's great that you have lots of hobbies
that you can do when you're housebound, think I would lose the plot otherwise!!

Here is a photo of a picture that I've just finished. It's a very mixed media with hand and machine embroidery/watercolours/acrylic/felt tip/crayons
More photos on my homepage if you want to have a peek.;)