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

mrs-moneypenny

hope things go well tonght mary and your DH is soon feeling well enough to breathe without the mask

susan42

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

popping in with homemde hugs for all i think so many are needed in this thread at the moment ill just leave them here in a nice basket and you can all help yourselves as you are passing through.

Aww thats lovely, i like that and have helped myself to a hug and left one in for others

Angela - i`m fine, waiting, and waiting to go into hospital...lol. I`ll join you on that weight loss, I seen my holiday photos and no-one is seeing them. So I need to lose weight by december too. So I got a goal...at least a stone, but whatever will be better than nothing. So I been to slimming world today

rufus - glad YD ok, and good luck with craft stall

Mary - keep us posted, it must be such a worry,

elysia - you like a stalker lol, hope you having a good holiday or is it next week

wheres mum2one gone ? hope she`s ok

elysia2003

It's lovely that you remembered Susan. Yes, it's next week, but only for a couple of days.

Mary - that sounds ominous (sp). I hope you get more info when you go tonight. Underwear inside out for you.

mary-op

Thanks. Don';t expect I'll get much info tonight.......nurses can only say whats already been said and to find a doctor in the evening is like looking for gold dust...........still I'll try.

fedupandskint

Mary - my thoughts are with you at a time like this with what you are going through at the moment and I hope that all turns out well for you both x

Elysia - hello again my dear! I am absolutely fine enjoying a nice studying break from uni over the summer then its back to combining work and uni again for a full on 6mths.

I am preserving away to carry on seasonally preserving and getting some jars ready to go into Christmas hampers again like last year. Went out with mum for the day today and picked up some bargain greengages, plums and redcurrants to make a start on jam and jelly making for a change this year. Also going to have a go at redcurrant shrub if I have enough juice left over! The next few evenings are going to be pretty busy with a jam making factory production line and the cuboard is stocking back up again!

This year I could maybe do a sweet jam presentation pack and a savory chutney pack. Will see how it turns out first before seeing if I can sell some at work

rufusdog52

Evening all

YD had a good birthday apart from a couple of hitches, first was the hair straighteners I bought her, she put them on to warm up and one plate remained cold. I had a look on Amazon and managed to find a phone number after about 15 mins of searching. Rang up and told the lady and you couldn't have got better customer service. She has ordered another set of straighteners to be sent 1st class post and emailed me a link so I could print off a label to send the other pair back in my own time.

Second thing that happened was later on after we went up the town and spent some of her money, she went on to BF's house and I went in Co op to get her a cake for later. Couldn't decide which to get so in the end I bought a nice chocolate birthday cake. Got it home in one piece and put it away, then she rang later on and I told her I got the cake. When I said it was chocolate cake we had tears, apparently she doesn't like chocolate cake lol. Anyway I rang Co op up and spoke to a nice man who said they would change it if I brought it in so that's what I did. Apart from that the day went off fine.

Managed to get a bit of sewing done in between everything else today, I am making a couple of bags for the shop. They are taking quite a while to make so not sure whether to do many of them or not as not sure what I would get for them. They are like my pink one with the stars but in different fabrics (lots of pockets in them). Might see whether these two sell or not and then decide.

Twisted_Angel_2

Hello all

Hello Mary - I hope your husband is doing well tonight and you manage to speak to a doctor X

I have managed to get few more stocking fillers today thanks to a few offers posted on the grabbits and the Play.com sale. :j

I am hoping to decorate a small wooden chest for the hampers i want to do for my daughters. I am not very good with art etc so wondering what paint / varnish etc is best to use? Does anyone know? Also i am wondering of there is it will be better to print off the picture i want stick them on and varnish over them as i am awful at drawing !

mum2one

Twisted_Angel wrote: »

Hello all

I am still trying to read through the whole thread and have been lurking. I have made a good start on Christmas. I took advantage of the ELC glitch couple weeks back and brought my little girl a lot for Christmas and she is almost done :j I got mugs from the disney sale for our christmas eve hamper to have with Snowman soup plus some bits to make little hampers for my nieces and daughter. I also brought sets of 5 bottles of bubble baths in a little bag for £1.99 from Argos in Disney princesses and fairies themes to go with the bits i brought from Disney for hampers. They should make lovely pressies altogether. 2 Disney fairy hampers and 2 disney princesses hampers.

For my sister and my SIL i brought a few bits from the Body shop glitch few weeks back so they have a nice set each of a body butter, shower / bath gel, eye shadow palette, lip gloss. I have brough nice seaweed basket for the bits to go into.

I shall florist wrap it all nearer christmas !

a girl after my own heart, argos bargains, - when miss hoodie (dd) was about 2, she actually thought we lived in argos! xx

mum2one

Mary - Hope everything is going on ok with hubby, it sounds like at last you've got to the bottom of it, (nicest of ways). Really hope that theres some support network for you as well.

Sugarspun - So sorry about the guzumping, have you got plan B.

Apologies for my diasppearing act, just shattered after last week, have to school went really well the kids loved doing their own sandwiches, one girl chose to have ham and jam!! she eat it.

Managed to do some fairy cakes, so funny as one of the boys, went in and told the teacher we'd done cakes, all the rest of the kids had a right moan, but bless his heart, the smell of cakes were wafting down the corridoor, the game was given away within 5 mins!!

The kids were really happy, as I got them a card, was originally a bday card, so had to put a sticker, she likes winnie the pooh and got one of the nice ta's to round the kids up at break time, and I stuck another winnie the pooh card into a photo frame. There was tears all round, must to the disguist of a couple of the other teachers, - but the kids have idolised her. Miss Hoodie still gets to see her, as she is now taking up clarnet lessons, (by her teacher), its £10 for 30 mins, - as we now get £13.70 csa fortnightly, said she could have a lesson a fortnight and the rest go for ballet, to me the csa is her money.

She's not doing too gd, shes been sleeping in with me, and moaned about having to write to him, were just letting her work through it, just got to hope it go right eventually.

Gd news - got the car through its MOT, with repairs £167. (gd as only got £150 towards it), need a new tyre, just legal, but get it before hols, before next MOT need some welding doing.

Plan is finish getting bedroom emptied this week, wash walls, and get dad to paint next week, then put up furniture... at the mo living out of carrier bags for clothes!!

Done a review on xmas list, culled a few names off, save the budget, and then sort out the shed and see what we've got. Be glad of hols, no PTA, no Govenerors meetings, no Chip and Biff Books, - then end of Sept restart open Uni, (a week b4 court case!).

Shouldn't laugh, but with everything being a bit rough, mum said have the Tesco vouchers, and put them towards a hol next yr, was originally going to be a family tour of Ireland, with week at grandparents area, thats on big hold. Think with next payout should have £350/£400 vouchers.

I'm looking at Cyprus, as Miss Hoodie wants to go where I've been, and said if we go, do a day flight to Egypt, (all in hol), - nearly fainted at the prices, summer hols next yr, 3k for 2 weeks, 4 star all in... Its unbelievable, she asked about cuba, and its cheaper to go, even if we upgraded to 1st class on flight.... so weird, as she choose the hotel I was meant to stay at, but got cancelled I was the day of the ash cloud. I don't think we're be getting there, nice thought thou!! we can dream. xx

Anglea

Hi all

Twisted Angel - painting the wood.

If it's unpainted I would just sand it down (some people use a damp cloth with white spirit beforehand but I don't usually) then if it's to be painted a colour, do a base coat in matt white emulsion. Then a coloured emulsion.

If it's to be kept natural then use a varnish, I usually use a clear one if the wood is nice, or a stained one if I don't like the wood for any reason. Sandpaper in between coats.

As to the picture I would prefer to stencil and paint it because it's very easy to get creases in it or stick it wonky. With a stencil you could paint over it all if it goes wrong.

Rufus seems like DD's birthday today didn't go all that smoothly - did she like chocolate cake before? There have been some hiccups at my end too.

fedup, to add to your jam making, I picked some blackberries on Saturday on the way home from the shops, so they are starting to appear - are you going to get some too?

Mary I'm hoping you'll have found out exactly what is going on.

Elysia nice to see you again on here, hope you get good weather on your hols.

Susan, so you're hiding your holiday photos?

Mrs moneypenny good luck with your lists and lovely idea for hugs

Hope mum2one and everyone else is doing well

Day 1 of my weight loss didn't go according to plan DS went awol most of the day and it messed up meals, then his dad and uncle said they were coming by the evening so I bought some cake and biscuits - and I couldn't stop myself because I hadn't eaten anything for tea.

I've just been sorting all my dolls house bits as I plan to make a setting tomorrow at the craft club. Years ago I had planned making them as presents but decided against it, in case people didn't appreciate it.