Make retro candy/sweet boxes and bouquets for adults & kids + Photos (MERGED)

troll35

At last I managed to get some of the boxes with compartments:T I got them from the 99p shop in Halifax. They had loads. Hurray:j :j I was starting to panic as I kept visiting several of the shops suggested and I'd bought the sweets but I couldn't find any boxes.

Gingham_Ribbon

This is a little different, but I thought I'd tell you what I decided anyway.

I got some nibbles trays in Morrisons for £1.99 each. They're quite large. A bit bigger than a dinner plate, and they have triangular sections for putting nibbles in. I bought some of the morrisons bags of sweets to put in them. Mint imperials, chocolate limes, toffees etc etc. In all, for 4 gifts, it came to around £13.50. There is an offer on some of the sweets at the moment which helped.

Not quite the same but it's sweets I know they'll like and they can use the trays again. I'll post a pic in a few days when I've sorted them out.

clairg_2

Madness £25!! will have a look in pound shop for storage box and sweets and make for a fraction of the price, great tip ta x

csi

just done one for BIL in america full of english sweets, cough candy, barley twists,flying saucers, srawberries and cream, liquorice catherine wheels, dolly mixtures etc.

got 13 compartment box £1 from QD and 3x4 for a £1 sweets from farm foods plus a 49p bag of flying saucers from mr t. each fitted one compartment so for £4.50 i've got an original gift and no p/p cos MIL is going to florida for xmas so is taking it for us. normally we tell each other how much we spent from them/us so we avoid tax&p/p but this years a treat.
so much for £25 ! anyone beat £4.50

Teresa60

Just been in Poundland and they've got these compartment boxes (small ones) with screws and nails etc in, but you just empty them out and fill them with whatever sweets you want.

Raspberry_Swirl

Teresa60 wrote:

Just been in Poundland and they've got these compartment boxes (small ones) with screws and nails etc in, but you just empty them out and fill them with whatever sweets you want.

i'll be making a trip to poundland tomorrow then as one opened in our town a couple of months ago!

Teresa60

I was in Poundland today and got the above boxes, what I didnt realise before is that they have the compartments on both sides of the box so you can open one side then the other, great for putting little sweets in. I got sweets from Asda all packets 3 for £1. Great idea to OP.

LydiaSophia

got 13 compartment box £1 from QD and 3x4 for a £1 sweets from farm foods plus a 49p bag of flying saucers from mr t. each fitted one compartment so for £4.50 i've got an original gift and no p/p cos MIL is going to florida for xmas so is taking it for us. normally we tell each other how much we spent from them/us so we avoid tax&p/p but this years a treat.
so much for £25 ! anyone beat £4.50

What is QD?

csi

LydiaSophia wrote:

What is QD?

SORRY only saw this today QD is a store sometimes known as buyrights and/or cherrylane garden centres.

SEE HEREhttp://www.qdstores.co.uk/group.asp

sorry in advance if ive broken any rules posting the link

chardonnay_2

check out your asda diy section if your stuck. i noticed they had a small and large empty hobby box. can't remember the exact price but they were roughly 1.50 and 2.50 each. hth