New, New Thirfty Gifty for Christmas and All Ocassions 2011..Santas Challenge...

cdsmiler

Me again!

Ok ladies, I've read LOADS of ideas already for what I'm about to ask you, but I need some help straightening my thoughts.

I've been asked to have a stall at my friend's charity Pink Pamper Party in October. I'll have Avon stuff, but hopefully also some Christmas bits too to sell (with percentage of profits going to the charity!). As its October, and I'm a bit worried about food, what could I make? I'm already thinking of bracelets (which I do anyway!) and Reindeer Food.

Was considering Snowman Soup (individual wrapped candy canes and hot choc in a sachet) but what do I do about marshmallows and how do I present them? They always look nice in those cones, but that's normally with the chocolate powder rather than a sachet.....

So what else could I do that costs very little to make, and could sell relatively cheaply too?

Edited to say: Maybe I'm worrying too much about the foodie items?? Maybe I could do some snowman poop/reindeer poop etc? I haven't got one of those bag heat sealers though.....

Thanks all

Clare x

mrs-moneypenny

how about reindeer food?
(oats mixed with sprinkles, and a note saying to sprinklte it on your driveway christmas eve . the sprinkles glitter to guide santas sliegh in and rudolph and co eat the oats while hes doing the delivery;))

edible cake sprinkles are safer than using glitter.

ill post a copy of the note sewn on the one my DS teacher gave him when he was in her 4+ class once i get back from work

rufusdog52

Clare - There was a thread before last Christmas where someone was posting all her makes and telling how she made them, cant remember her name now but it was lovely stuff. Things like those round chocolates, elizabeth something, with a picture stuck on the top, or mini choc bars with new covers on them. I will try to remember who it was a see if I can find the post and let you know unless someone else can remember xx


Found it, that was lucky https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2766466

rufusdog52

I did the reindeer poop last year for the grandchildren, gave one each to my daughters lot, the little girl opened hers and put one in her mouth and started chewing, she hadnt read the packet but one of the boys started laughing telling her she was eating reindeers poo and suddenly the chocolate all come out of her mouth, it was so funny. She started crying and didnt see the funny side of it, thought it really was reindeers poo lol. Cant wait until she is older and we can tell her about it again.

mum2one

Claire - what about the flavoured coffees, you could do them in small bags and get some stickers from Vistaprint (usually on freebie, if you haven't got a link I'm bound to have one floating around.

Adjust the ingredients to how much you want to make (I would say use 2 to 3 teaspoons per person).

Swiss Mocha Coffee
I tablespoon drinking chocolate
1 tablespoon coffee
1 tablespoon creamer (coffee whitner)

Dark Mocha Coffee
1 tablespoon cocca powder
1 tablespoon coffee
1 tablespoon creamer

Latte
1 tablespoon coffee
1 tablespoon creamer

Just keep adding the quanties as needed, think theres one more, (have to hunt for it).

If I come up with any other ideas, let you know.

xx

Very tempted to ring the solicitor, but almost feel no news is good news, at school 2mor, so if I haven't heard by thurs will ring then, hoping thats he has missed the deadline, otherwise the cafcass officer would have been on phone to arrange to meet miss hoodie, (not religious as such, but plz let there be a god and find in my favour) xx

mary-op

Hello all :j

clare - on the 'handmade for christmas' thread (think thats the one) someone did a 'jar of smiles.........glass jar with giant choc.buttons in with smiley face put on with icing..........looked really good for any time of the year.
Little fabric hearts filled with lavender or herbs
Oh lor........brains gone !! If you type 'gifts in a jar' in the search box it'll come up..........well something will...............lol
The other year I did a 'pick 'n mix' tin of a mixture of sweets and quotes........sort of a lucky dip
Survival kits could be a cheap little gift.
Sorry..........brains gone numb and can't think :eek:
hth

OH not having great day today.........think he overdid it yesterday cooking the dinner so its my turn today...........afraid it'll be frozen lasagne, salad and garlic bread.........:)
E mail yesterday said walking sticks have been despatched.............:) Shan't dare leave the house now till they get here..............lol

Take care all:)

mum2one

It may have been mentioned some where else on the thread, but as Miss Hoodie is Club Penguin mad, thought pass this this on, we discovered this afternoon that club penguin has disappeared, its coming up as domain for rent...
Did some searching via disney site, and theres a statement, that they forget to renew the domain, apparently theres sorting it and some people can get on it, but not others, they said be rectified soon.

More a becareful incase some unscrupolus people have linked their sites to club penguin in the title. xx

Anglea

Hi all

Mary are the wrist bands you're making the types that are as long as socks? I was thinking of suggesting them to you but didn't know what they were called. Or am I thinking of arm warmers?

LOL Susan, that must have been so embarassing. Let's hope he didn't take a sneaky pic or you'll end up on youtube!

Rufus, if those neighbours were walking around naked in full view surely someone else apart from you could have seen them? Perhaps they like the danger!

On that subject, I got myself into a bit of bother. One of my friends had a telescope. During the day I used it to look round the neighbourhood because we lived right by the sea.

One day there was a pounding at the door, John and I looked out the window and there was a police car outside. He got into a terrible panic because unknown to me, he had some illegal memorabilia and was trying to hide the evidence while the police were still outside.

It turned out they had been given a tip off about a pervert using the telescope spying in bedrooms LOL I managed to avoid too much trouble just got a telling off.

mrs-moneypenny

just thought of another thing that could be put into jars. how about toy cars perhaps two or three and you could label it up as "Traffic Jam":rotfl:

mary-op

Angela - they're called wrist warmers and there's all sorts of different patters on the internet. I made mine up as I went along once I knew how many stitched I needed and they can be as long or as short as you want.

moneypenny............love the traffic jam idea -have made a note of that for little grandson.........oh and foster daughters OH........he's car mad.........lol

I did 'sock jam' last year............I'd got some dark purple coloured bed socks so they were sort of jam colour, printed off a label and did a little fabric top.
Sons girlfriend loved it.