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

esmer

Georgiegirl2012 wrote: »

Yes - Elysia - promarkers are currently flavour of the month in this house. I now have 68 - but 2 of those are doublers, one is a blender pen, and one silver and one gold - so out of the range of 148 I have 63. I also have lovely letraset wallets for them - each wallet holds 24 pens. I hope to be money neutral enough to buy some more.

Sorry to sound "thick" but what are these? Sounds very interesting

Karmacat

And I'd like to ask a question too please ... what do people use A3 card for? Do you cut it up to make birthday and christmas cards? Fascinated but clueless....

esmer

Just did my first big of shopping on Lakeland. There is a code for FREE delivery. Thirty quid spent on

8oz Jam Jars I want to make Jams this year.
Christmas Gift Bags - good for my truffles
Floral Collapsible Car Bin Bought this for my friend, she has teenagers in the car and gets rather messy
'Get a Grip' Piping Bags Need BIG piping bags for decorating, the others are just too small.
Jakan Timer My Timer died and I hinted for a new one, but nobody listened.
Plain White Twist-Off Lids for the jam
A book to make Preserves & Pickles

I was 30.00 Saved a bit on stuff as it was on sale.

happycrafter_2

just about to put last few items in to hampers I made for sisters and parents (they needed to be kept in fridge). This year was mostly home made items will see the reactions later!

I made this year (decided to make stuff at short notice next year will be more organised):

onion chutney
pickled onions
2 x scarves
2 purses
1 cardigan/jacket
coconut ice
chocolate truffles
peppermint creams

will be starting my spreadsheet of birthdays and other special days within the next few days, also need to sort out my jar collection I have some frozen fruit to make in to jam.

kiwichick

Morning all,

I managed to brave the hell that was Central Milton Keynes sales yesterday in search of bargains. Didnt get any wrap as have loads, likewise tags as am going to recycle this years cards into tags.

What I did manage to get was some bits for birthdays and xmas next year. For my mum who is coming over from nz for xmas with the kids and I next year I got a matching coin purse and compact mirror (original price £13, paid £6) a boots body butter set (op£10,p£5) a leather photo brag book (op6, p£3). Got FCUK aftershave set for kids to give their dad on fathers days (op£16,p£8). Got a top for DD 9th birthday in april (op£9,p£4) and a Where's Stig book for DS birthday in july (op£8.99,p£1.99). Original price of all £62.99 and I paid £33.99 - CHUFFED!!

Am exhausted now as still not quite over swine flu, just the tiredness not contagious!! I've downloaded the spreadsheet mentioned on the sister thread and been putting in my figures. Am having a dilemma about tesco vouchers. Until now I've used them to swap for days out with the kids in summer hols as it means I can take them places they wouldnt normally get to go. Dont know now whether to save them for xmas instead? Am inclined not to and to try and ebay etc instead for funds as I love being able to take the kids out for a treat. What are your thoughts?

Al x

Karmacat

Just decided to look on lakeland myself as I saw the above, and found a variety of collapsible steamer baskets, which I've been looking for for ages now I have a dishwasher. Thanks!

Georgiegirl2012

esmer wrote: »

Sorry to sound "thick" but what are these? Sounds very interesting

ProMarkers are double ended felt tip pens (fine time and chisel tip), originally used by artists and designrs, but have now been discovered by crafters too. They are alcohol based rather than water based, so not only are they permanent, they do not bobble the paper which you get with water based markers if you go over the same place a few times, but they are non-streaky so they give a more professional finish. Mostly the results look printed rather than coloured. Copic ciao markers are very similar but a little bit pricier, and at £2.00 a pen the promarkers are plenty expensive enough for me.

http://www.cowlingandwilcox.co.uk/display.aspx?search=promarker&page=all

Karmacat wrote: »

And I'd like to ask a question too please ... what do people use A3 card for? Do you cut it up to make birthday and christmas cards? Fascinated but clueless....

A3 paper - I personally want it for cutting up to use on top of birthday and christmas cards rather than using it for the card. You could fold it in half and use it as an A4 card, and then decorate it, you could also cut it in half, then fold it in half, to make A5 cards.

I have now coloured in 2 princesses, a frog and a prince to put on my friend's engagement card. I printed out some sentiments (words) to put on, but that bit went wrong so I'm going to do them again.

esmer

Do you have a blog Georgiegirl? that sounds lovely what you are making.

fedupandskint

I've just tried some of my HM picallili in a ham sandwich - it's lovely - will def make this again next summer, in smaller jars this time for gifts,

Georgiegirl2012

esmer wrote: »

Do you have a blog Georgiegirl? that sounds lovely what you are making.

I kinda have a blog - I set it up about a year ago, and only posted on it about 3 times before finding it again a couple of weeks ago. My intention is to get it up and running again,but I haven't managed it yet.

Just found my blog for you - I will link it to my profile - there are no pictures on there yet

Link should now be on my profile - let me know if it works.