really old style living?

rachbc

The only 'highst' supplier of cyrstallised flowers I've foudn is waitrose - but they are about £4 for a little pot. Found some some online but the postage bumps the price up so much

ChocClare

They are easy enough to make yourself, mardatha, eg here

Obviously, as you are in Scotland, you may not HAVE any flowers of course (*hides*)

mardatha

It's October and no I havent ! I've got a few straggly bits of dying lavender and that's it ! Unless I walk up the hill and start snipping heather...:D which is too much like hard work for a tired wee slug like moi !
Thanks Rach, I will try ebay. I found my book with dried flowers and now want stick them on card to make gift tags.
I was thinking of giving pots of home made soup, but not sure how to present/package it . Any ideas gratefully welcomed

Red_Doe

Soap`s very easy to make for homemade gifts, works out quite cheap too compared to pricey shop bought gift soaps, and you can dress it up with bows and dried flowers etc.

mardatha

RD, i had a soap-making business for a few years and only recently stopped doing it. My whole family has enough soap to last until the end of time :rotfl: They're probably all wuite glad to get a change !:D

ginnyknit

Yes guys, Mardatha makes fab soap, when I opened my parcel it smelt wonderful in here, the fragrance drifted round after me

mardatha

I miss it, but went on benefits and not allowed to make more than £5 a week now ! :rotfl: cant even do it for fun, as the raw materials cost too much.
Ah Ginny pet, how we have come down in the world eh ! :D:D

Vaila

kegc wrote: »

I always got the Broons and Oor Wullie books for christmas! They were my favourite part! Horace definitely my favourite - I also have Maw Broons cookbook which is wonderful!

my bother has always got a broons and oor wullie annual for christmas, he even started to collect the older annuals to, we now have a loft full of boxes of them now!
anyhoo, i used to make bath bombs but have lost the recipe , does anyone make there own ?

ceridwen

mardatha wrote: »

I miss it, but went on benefits and not allowed to make more than £5 a week now ! :rotfl: cant even do it for fun, as the raw materials cost too much.
Ah Ginny pet, how we have come down in the world eh ! :D:D

Mardatha me ducks - now that you're 60 - are you still on benefits? I sorta assumed you were now getting State Pension.....dont know about the Ratty Virgo of course...

So presumably you're now allowed to make as much money as you like????

Gigervamp

mardatha wrote: »

I miss it, but went on benefits and not allowed to make more than £5 a week now ! :rotfl: cant even do it for fun, as the raw materials cost too much.
Ah Ginny pet, how we have come down in the world eh ! :D:D

Lol, I gave up when they kept changing the goalposts (the EU regs).