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

Anglea

Hi all

Mary I just thought of you and your neighbour's present when I saw a chocolate smelling calculator in the Paper Moon craft catalogue.

Rufus - did you eventually finish all the decorating for you dad?

Fedup- what colour/flavours are you doing your bath goodies?

esmer

I have nearly got all my gifts, wrapped a few as well.

Making an xmas eve hamper for DD, so far I have.......

Pyjamas
Slippers
Christmas Book
Chocolate
Reindeer Dust
Santa Stop sign
Santa Letter..... and going to get her video from Santa via the north pole thingymabob lol

Not sure what else to put in for a 3yr old??

Not made much this year, been so busy, and DD goes to bed now at 8pm so I dont get much time between her going to bed and then me I think I will make some fudge and some truffles...... I do have the lakeland bags, and the JAM jars, that I never got round to making jam or chutneys.......... but do have the jars and the lids

DD wants to make shortbread for her little friends at nursery

Tree is going up this Saturday And a wee trip to see Santa the following Friday........

Hope you are all well.......

fedupandskint

Anglea wrote: »

Hi allFedup- what colour/flavours are you doing your bath goodies?

I'm not doing colours as no pigment in to dye the salt but I am doing some combinations of these with essential oils

Relaxing lavender bath salts
Energising fizzing salt bath - mint, pine and rosemary
Invigorating foot scrub -Menthol blend of peppermint, eucalyptus, red mrtyle and black pepper

rufusdog52

Sounds nice Fedup xx

Esmer, you seem really organised. Our tree is coming down from the loft tomorrow but wont go up until the weekend when OH can help me xx

Mary, you are getting there, its not the end of November yet so you are doing well considering xx

Anglea, yeah I finished all the decorating at my Dad's, we have nearly finished it all at home too, just had a new rug delivered today which OH has just put down. Thing is its about 6 inches shorter than our old one so he has had to stain the floor one end (we have stained and varnished our original floorboards). Tomorrow he needs to sort out the wires for the speakers that run underneath as the old rug was really thick and shaggy and you couldn't feel them but the new one is really thin and they stick up and feel horrible when you walk on them. Its the worst thing in our house, trying to hide all the wires, OH is fanatical about it, hates even a tiny bit showing.

rufusdog52

Its me again, no one else been on all day, must have been busy like we were.

We have put the decs up and the tree is made up but not yet decorated as we need some more lights so I will get them tomorrow and then finish decorating it in the afternoon.

We went in MrT this morning and bought some more bits, they have lots of things like boxes of chocs etc on offer. I bought a box of quality street for my son to replace the chocolate snowman that broke. I got a couple more bits for his Thai hamper too, I just need two more things now, a tin of beansprouts and a couple of bottles of Thai beer. They dont sell either in T, but sell them both in MrS so we are going to pop there at the weekend and see if they have them in stock.

We bought some more sweets and chocs for indoors in case the kids pop in, so we will get some of them down at the weekend ready (they have been hidden in the loft).

We also bought a small real Christmas tree from B&Q, its one that you put in a pot and can keep it after. Its quite a nice size for our little front garden as long as it dont get nicked.

I am going up the town in the morning to meet up with my bro and sil. Was going to meet my mate the next day but just had a call from the council, they are going to come round Thursday afternoon to see about fixing me up some grab rails in my bathroom near my over the bath shower as I slipped the other day trying to get in and out on my own.

mum2one

Exicted get to write my xmas cards, I've just finished another OU assisgnment, just 2 to do before xmas, so set myself a target of doing the Ou assisgnment then cards.
Got Miss Hoodie off school tomorrow, hopefully doesn't rain as darling dad! has voluntered to take her to a local playground xx

mum2one

Pretty sure Fri's Boots offer of the we is the FCUK bag and toilettrys, currently £45..
Mum went up to our local boots and said were stocking these black ruffled things that looked very weird...... on ly after getting her to look through the catalogue that worked out whta it was. In all honestly the offer is only worth if it you want the bag, as on the next page theres 4 full sized items packaged up is about £24. xx

floella80

Thanks for letting me know the star buy of the week. I can go into town and buy the 3 for 2 now. I didn't want to do it in case they had something that I wanted to get.

fedupandskint

Salt has arrived and little wooden scoops to go with the presentation jars

I'm going to start the bath salts tonight ready to finish off this weekend then start another batch and then another batch...

Did find the PS3 game much cheaper and I'm about to get this then all I need to get is 3 Christmas scratchcards and 2 pairs of pjs which will either be primarni or la senza depending on which is nicest. Hoping by Sat all that's left to get is 3 scratchcards and then start the food gifts

mum2one

Been organised tonight have wrote over 100 xmas cards, i just do the households as well, run out!! but theres some more in the loft.

Miss Hoodie has now decided she def doesn't want a netbook, but she wants the VW camper suitcases - £55 for small, and £89 for big... shes mad on camper vans,

Doing a hamper off Bailey for her, been routing ebay, there coming in,

So she'll have
Mug
Photo frame - shaped front of the VW camper
Cushion
Egg Cup
Salt and Pepper pots
Money box
Trolley Keys
Camper on keyring
2 x transfer - going to put on tshirts
1 x small transfer - ordered blank bag from vista (freebie!) and the transfer fit fab.

Then just got to get her few stocking fillers, and then mum and dads, there nearly sorted, just waiting for the money to come in.

Nightmare getting the suitcases, the small one I've got to do a 40 mile round trip, can't get any closer or home delievery, none available, the bigger one got reserved for when it comes in next week. So mum and me go halves on both. x