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

rufusdog52

Evening all

I have made YD some bunting today, its too dark upstairs to get a photo done tonight so will do it tomorrow. Its for Christmas so another extra present for her. I also bought some more sewing threads for SIL's craft hamper. Not much more to go in there now.

alja

oh no! I was looking at the chocolate oranges the other day! i thought they looked good...why oh why didn't i give in? haha!

have bought some pressies for my mum...got some nice bath stuff in the sale for £2 each from m&s going to go on a mad hunt for bargain pressies on saturday whilst other half is at work! woo!

mum2one

hope everyone ok, can't believe Miss Hoodie, can't decide what she wants for christmas, but has decided what she wants for her birthday next year .......
........ A hot air ballon trip.........

Just had 1st vistaprint parcel (feels like an eternity since had parcel, got nice tshirt for dad, and some xmas cards, the photo that I use on here, had a set of Christmas cards with that photo, altered the text to "Happy Christmas, from Master and Miss Hoodie", they look brilliant.

Cheated and sent dad to the cinema, taking Miss Hoodie and 9 of her friends Sat, her belated bday prezzie, must be mad, told dad he's coming with me!!

And...
I think I got chatted up this afternoon!! nothing came off it, he seemed a nice bloke, single, he was the photographer from our local paper, (dying to say, but don't want to jink it), he remembered me from 5 yrs ago when he did the story on my dodgy computer, he took some photos, we ended up chatting for nearly an hr, he was on about freelancing, and I came up few ideas, recommended VistaPrint, and he aid if I get stuck could I give you a ring... and be great to meet again to chat through your ideas, I can say thank you then!!!

Too near Christmas I don't want to add another person to the list!!! xxx

rufusdog52

Go Mum2one! Haha.

I won an item on Ebay last night, I had bid on a set of two bowls, chop sticks and something else in package (can't remember what lol) allpacked up in a gift box, its to put in with son's Thai hamper. Really pleased with this idea. I think I can do the rest of the hamper for about £5 or £6. Not sure what the actual packaging will be like on the set but not too bothered as I can always take the bits out of the box and put them in the hamper loose, might look better like that anyway.

OH has asked me to do his Bro and Sil a foody hamper again this year. I did one last year with things a bit like Anglea got from Lidl and things like boxes of nice biscuits and a bottle of wine. They really liked it last year. I only used a box from the supermarket to put it all in and covered it with Christmas paper. I am going to do this for Son's hamper too so I need to look out for a couple of nice sized empty boxes. I remember one year I was doing Christmas eve hampers for the kids, and some kind of hampers for everyone else. I needed so many boxes. We went in As*a to do some shopping and I was nicking all the boxes off the shelves as we went round. OH was getting well embarrassed. Our trolley was full of them when we got to checkout. The lady at the till laughed wondering what I wanted all the boxes for.

mary-op

Hello all :j
More like a squat then ever here now...........lol No kitchen at all...........old one out -garden like a builders yard-electrician been here all day, lights on then off then on again (least bathroom light is now sorted..........lol) Still got the oven for OH to cook dinner and hopefully tomorrow morning new kitchen goes in..............I say hopefully -nothing ever seems to be straight forward in our house. Still, we're coping.........lol

mum2one -lucky you;)

Hope you're all ok:)

rufusdog52

Evening all

Good luck for the new kitchen Mary xx

I was out this afternoon, weather was lovely. I didn't get anything else for Christmas, just had a chat with my friend.

I made a start on making a wallet to put the headed paper and envelopes in this morning but havent got far as I only have the pva glue and it means leaving it to dry in between everything.

I am off out again tomorrow, my SIL has asked me to help her do a tombola stall for the MS society. Will make the afternoon go fast.

spookybuffy

rufusd!!!2 wrote: »

Hi everyone

went in Wilkinson's and I spotted they had their chocolate coins bogof so I bought £5 worth.

how much are they?

rufusdog52

spookybuffy wrote: »

how much are they?

Sorry, should have said, they were 2 packs for £1 xx

mum2one

The Argos catalogue has come out... Miss Hoodie ha started circling items off!! x

susan42

lol at miss hoodie, DS called in from uni yesterday, asked him had he any ideas for xmas, and he said have to get the argos book...lol, he 19.

Angela - I saw those panatone in lidl, have to get some for hampers

rufus - i been looking at your blog you havesome lovely things

mary - i dont envy you with the repairs but it will be worth it in the end

dj - good luck with your show - brealk a leg, i think thats what they say in the theatre world.

Cdsmiler, thinking of you, take care

hi everyone else, hope your all busy with your xmas organising