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

SeaBee

Thanks Cocktailsavings, I was REALLY pleased with it, especially when I saw this one in Debenhams for £16 this weekend!http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10001_74621_717089_-1 :eek:

Also managed to pick up some of those pink toolboxes from Poundland ready for next year!!! :rotfl:

JordanShannon

Actually i think im also going to do one of these for my OH we've jst been talkin about what things we used to do as a kid, and then we got to the subject of sweeties, and he's given me a whole host of sweets that he loved as a child. So i'm now hunting for a jar/kilner so i can put stuff like candy sticks and them saucer things, and lots of sherbert in :j I'm really excited, i will post a picture, once i've done it, and once i've worked out how to put one on here LOL:rotfl:
Thanks everyone for these fantastic ideas!!:D
..xx

rainmac

Retro sweetie jar for my friend's OH...



The jar was from Ikea, sweets from Woolies mainly. Wrapped with a digital photography book as he's recently bought a new camera and wanting to do lots of cool stuff with their photos on the PC.

Sweetie box for another friend's son (he's 10)...





Box from Wickes - about £2.25 but bought using a vocher code so was cheaper; sweets bought from Woolies (and I also raided my boys stash!); I made the door hanger/tag on the parcel for about £2 and stuck 2 candy canes on top.

All these sweets are making me hungry

mary43

rainmac - brilliant !!!:T

JordanShannon

rainmac- They look brilliant i love the candy cane and the handmade hanger
Well Done:T :T
..xx

bunbun2

rainmac love the sweetie jar and box:T
I have at last thought of a girl to make one for so I can use the pink box from poundland!

sammr85

hi all

I have just made my OH's sweet boquet thingy and i wondered if people wrapped theres or just placed it in a gift bag?



Here it is. What du guys think

sarahs999

I'm going to do one of these in a glass jar for my father in law. But I want to do really old sweets if opssible, ones he would have eaten when he was a kid rather than when I was. I'm thinking imps and jelly babies; any other ideas for oldie sweets? He's 60.

stimpy27

In Hawkins Bazaar they are selling packets of Jelly older people called Jellyatrics. I think they are £1.25 a bag.......... brilliant!!:D

minimacka

thevicster wrote: »

Earthmother, I've just done one of these for my Mum, here's what I found for each decade;

50s
pontefract cakes
sherbert lemons
black jacks
fruit salad
rhubarb and custard
dolly mixture
peanut brittle
pear drops
sherbert fountain

60s
strawberry bon bons
sweet tobacco
fruit gums
jelly babies
kola kubes
drumsticks
flying saucers
white choc fish and chips
parma violets
candy whistles
coconut mushrooms

I found a fair bit of this stuff in Woolies and McColls - they had a range of old fashioned sweets 3 for £1

hth!

Sarahs999 - think this might help you with your sweetie jar. I have done the boxes for my two ds for the past two years and they love them.

MM