Christmas Crafting Ideas by Flyingpig - Its Good To Share.

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Also on the back of the tags on my snowman soup i put

enough for 2 mugs
mix with water (as some can be with milk)
and a list of whats in there and a BBD i always put end of Jan 2011

cuddles123

Quick question for Bitsybeans please.

I read that you used tea to dye your pipe cleaners brown. Did it work OK?
If so, what strength tea and how long did you soak please?

chaosweddings

im back from my school christmas fair and it was brilliant, every thing went down really well and i sold out of a lot of makes:

snowman soup took 25 sold 20 £1.50 e
fairy milkshake took 12 sold 7 £1.50 e
monkey milkshake took 12 sold 7 £1.50 e
pints of socks took 6 all sold and took orders for more £3.50 e
dog treats took 12 sold all and took orders for more 75p e
cat treats took 12 sold 8 75p e
reindeer/snowman poop took 15 of each and sold 20 50pe
reindeer food took 15 sold 7 50p e
bah humbugs took 10 and sold them all £1 e
my homemade salts and soaps took 40 mixed packs and sold 32 between 50p and £3 each

so a really good fair, i have 3 more on the 27th november and 3rd and 4th of december so will have to make more soaps asap

thanks for the well wishes

pointofnoreturn

chaosweddings wrote: »

well ive packed my suitcases and im off !!
Off to the school xmas fair on the bus with all my makes lol.
im just glad ds is home today as he is going to have to help me pull the suitcases lol

wish me luck

Awww hope it went well for you chick.

Posted before I saw that you had done well!!! Yippeee sounds like you had a good fair there.

I am doing a school fair on Saturday then the following Saturday I have a stall at a local Leisure Centre. I've not made huge amounts of anything as I have alot of jewellery to sell as well sock monkeys and other bits.

tranmererovers

Wow that's great Chaos weddings. :T

I'm just making a few final bits for the school fair tomorrow. All the profits go to the school and I hope we sell lots as we have spend over £100 of their money on stock for the makes :eek:

If I'm not online tomorrow night you will know why :rotfl:

Flower08

chaosweddings wrote: »

im back from my school christmas fair and it was brilliant, every thing went down really well and i sold out of a lot of makes:

Thats brilliant well done! You better get making some more for your next fairs!

chaosweddings

my only tip from doing the fair today would be put prices on items, or put a place card with price on in front of the items as many people at the fair didnt have prices and people were getting fed up asking all the time

susiecm3

Chaos well done sounds like a great fair, wish i had of found this thread earlier as i could have done our school fair :beer:

I have just been to asda and picked up a red fleece blanket down to £1 i needed fleece for the cute little snowmen someone posted the other day so i was really impressed, got some pillows from wilkinsons for £1.50 for stuffing and also 3 dark brown flannels for reindeer, hubby is out tonight so i am going to make a mess :T

Bitsy_Beans

cuddles123 wrote: »

Quick question for Bitsybeans please.

I read that you used tea to dye your pipe cleaners brown. Did it work OK?
If so, what strength tea and how long did you soak please?

I put the tea bag in and filled up the cup about halfway. Left the tea bag in to stew, curled round the pipe clearners and left them all in the tea mix overnight.
When you take them out DON'T wring them of excess tea as they will lose the colour. Leave them to dry on kitchen towel and they should be a dark brown colour. I found a couple of them don't quite have a uniform colour but I don't think that makes much of a difference

Well done chaos :T

mary-op

chaos - well done with your sales at the fayre :T

craftygranny - love the way you've displayed the gifts on a small tray..........lovely idea :T

Was going to get so much done today but only got boxes made for fudge kebab (3) then had lengthy phone call from lad in scotland we used to look after.
Neighbour reminded me that another neighbour was getting married today so I dragged all my card making stuff out to make her a card

Wanted to do another kitchen organiser but couldn't decide which paper to use.............leaving that now till tomorrow.:)