Small Valentines sweets!

Claire_Bear

At Christmas I bought my OH a fairly big cookie jar and filled it with random sweets. I thought it would be a good idea to refill it every holiday with appropriate things, so for Valentines it's going to be red/heart sweets etc, and at Easter it's going to have foil wrapped eggs and the such. Only thing is, it's such a big jar that from what I've seen I'm going to have a bit of trouble filling it up cheaply for Valentine's day, I want to spend about 5 or 6 pounds. So far I have two packets of red foil wrapped coins for 39p each, I'll get a few rolls of Love hearts for about 35p each, and a net of foil wrapped heart chocs for £1 in Sainsburys but I don't think this will fill it up very much. Has anyone else seen any bargains which would be suitable for this purpose? The jar is a bit like this http://www.stormthecastle.com/terrarium/images/terrarium-for-kids/cookie-jar-terrarium.jpg

JailhouseBabe

I would try somewhere like home bargains - last year they had 4-packs of love hearts very cheap (I think about 30/40 pence). Does it have to be sweets? Most of the supermarkets have 'Polish' sections; some stock a heart shaped cakey-biscuit type thing.

Claire_Bear

Home Bargains is where I got the choc coins from, but that was a while back and they didn't have much Valentines stuff in then so hopefully they'll have more choice when I go in Was also disappointed in Wilkinsons, asked where their Valentines stuff was and the woman pointed me to one tiny stand of cards, would have thought they'd have loads of stuff in? Or has that changed now?

flyingpig58

Have a look in Tesco I got some nets of ladybirds (lovebugs) for £1.04 each - 13 in a net - I made these with them



Asda have nets of caramel filled hearts - 10 in a net for £1.00



And I covered Twilight mints to make these

And then I made some Hug in A Mug Packs


This bee was made using a round humbug



my blog address is in my profile - or just google itsallfiddlefart to find me

Claire_Bear

Those ladybirds are so cute, just the kind of thing I'm looking for The coins in the Hug in a mug are the ones I already have too. Great crafts by the way, I love all your little gift packs

RustyFlange

I have made a box of love for my OH. I wanted to do something different to the pot of love I made him last year! ....

I also have some twilight choccys for borrow fiddlefarts idea if that is ok? obviously I will use different papers! will PM you now.

Here is my box!





I also made this bottle hanger aswell. (OH's favourite wine ) I am replacing the card inside the hanger with a GAME gift card which I will wrap in paper before hand.

Crafty_JuJu

RustyFlange - these are great I like the idea of the skratch card..may have to use this in my hubbys present Thanks x

Sunshine12

Hi Claire Bear,


I saw some Valentine chocolates in Tesco today. The are individually wrapped in pink and red paper and I think they say something like "I love you so much" or something like that (cant remember exactly). 42p each or 3 for £1.00.

thevicster

Try here;
http://www.keepitsweet.co.uk/catalog/index.php/cPath/63

they have lots of valentine's type things which are mostly £1 for 75g. I think if you use the code POSTPALS you get 10% discount and free delivery and possibly a donation to postpals. Can't say for sure but if you search this site Vikki from PostPals has posted it somewhere. hth

thevicster

Apologies, I got that completely wrong, try this thread;

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2251269&highlight=

LJM

ebay do lots of sweets etc if you look under wedding favors