Old Style Christmas Presents

Triker

I got an apron....a jokey pressie but I really like it and wore it to make dinner, made me feel 'in charge'...:rotfl:

Some cook books, I'll have to have a looksy re the titles, soooo busy yesterday too much to take in.

A pizza stone.

And some amazing Staub Cast Iron pots.....:j:j:j:j


This one and this one :happylove:smileyhea:grinheart:happyhear

midge61

I got the river cottage everyday cookbook. It's really good and cn;t wait to try some of the recipes.

Kimitatsu

You ladies (and gents) have completely converted me to OS money saving :j This year my DH bought me a beautiful treadle sewing machine, and a couple of books, economy gastronomy and the new one by Darina Allen about forgotten cooking skills

I made MIL a hamper for Christmass as she has been really ill and it went down a storm so getting all set to do lots more OS stuff next year :T

kippers

My best presents were my loppers to prune my trees and and orange and lemon zester. Oh i nearly forgot my best best present was a muffin cake stand that holds 13 individual muffins...it's beautiful and a real surprise from my DH

sunflower76

Three new recipe books were under my tree:

• James Martin Everyday
• Delias Happy Christmas
• The Curry Bible from M&S (no link)

I'd asked for the Delia book and think I'll try lots of things from there and the Curry book seems fab too. I'm less impressed with James Martin as I'm not a big fan of him on tv but there are one or two things that have caught my eye so I shall give him a go. His book seems a bit fancy overall.

I also received a bucket with 'Born to Garden, Forced to Work' which sums me up nicely. The giver had then filled it with lots of gardening odds and ends; a seed tin, some new (pink) hand tools and a pink swiss army type knife. Very useful and fun too.

Oh, and pink wellies, I LOVE my pink wellies :T

thriftmonster

I got the new Delia Christmas book, a book on tapas (we love them) and one on French feasts. I bought dh the RC Everyday book as he's a big Hugh fan so we're covered on the book front - although I like rthe sound of the Darina Allen one.

I also got a ball of organic string, kitchen scissors etc in my stocking - but no rubber bands this year as I'm still using the ones from last year.

My Mum also got me a jute reusable bag from Booths with pigs on - I already have the one with goats - and we don't have Booths over here.

rach

I got a few OS prezzies:

A gravy separator jug from DH (had been meaning to get one for ages as love making proper gravy!)
The 'LEON' cookbook - I adore the LEON restaurants!
Good Food's 101 cheap eats cookbook
Nigella's Christmas cookbook
HM Christmas chutney from SiL

Not sure if they're OS but I also got some new walking clothes and walking socks (i think walking is an OS passtime!)

Most of the above I'd asked for, except the gravy jug, DH knows me too well!

I gave some OS goodies:
chilli jam
fudge
rocky road

and they went down so well I am going to save jars from now on and make lots more hm prezzies next year!

lisa26_2

I got the economy gastronomy book and the humming bird bakery one, a rolling pin and flour dredger and my favourite.....a special planter for my garden. It has a big planter as the base then a pole going up to a triple hanging basket bracket and three baskets to hang on it. I love growing tumbling tomatoes so the 3 baskets will be filled with those then I'm going to pop a couple of climbing bean plants in the bottom planter to climb up the pole and some other stuff too, maybe some strawbery plants or some herbs so they look pretty!!

I also got an absolutely gorgeous framed pic of my godson, I love it!

angeltreats

I got a Marco Pierre White mini chopper from my husband, a recipe book full of different puddings from Grandma, a Yorkshire Teatime recipe book and a 10 Flowers to Knit and Crochet book from mum in law. Very happy with my little haul!

Reverbe

I didnt get any presents this year which I guess is pretty OS but what I did do was save a lot of my freebies etc especially... which made for some nice treats to come..