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

RustyFlange

Undercoverl angel, you could use some lighter fluid or soak the box in warm/hot soapy water for about 30 mins and it should be soft enough to come off with a sponge?

undercover_angel

Thanks for the replies, I'll give it a go later on then. Thank you! Why must these places insist on putting lables on everything, grr! Thanks again!

RustyFlange

Sorry I didn't see that Seebea beat me to it :rotfl: I open up all the threads in new tabs and sometimes don't reply straight away for never bother to refresh

Just shows our ideas must work as they are the same :rotfl:

rainmac

phunkles wrote: »

For those people who have 'professional' secret chocoholics to buy for
how about putting a variety of sweets and chocs into one of these boxes
http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/invt/0173907
And label it very boring documents or old wage slips or something really dull so no one find the stash

I LOVE that idea

rainmac

savingholmes wrote: »

Well I did my first "tool box" sweets today. Really pleased with how they look! It's for an 8 year old so I wanted somethings that were a bit off the wall! I stocked up just after halloween as I want to make my DS a Honeydukes hamper for his birthday which will be soon!

Black container £1 Woolies (pre-sales!!!)
Sweets £2-3 Flying saucers, choc eyeballs, choc footballs, gummy eyeballs (Asda 10 for £1), snake eggs (M&S), snapping candy, halloween haribos
Wind-up torch £3 Asda

The sweets were generally from supermarkets or Instore all either 3 for £1 or 2 for £1. I've kept some back for the honeydukes hamper for my DS and a toolbox for my DD!

I gave my brother a retro sweets based hamper for his 40th - he absolutely loved it said he hadn't seen many of the sweets since he was a kid. So it definitely works.... and is appreciated

That looks aboslutely fantastic and a torch too - really great pressie

RustyFlange

I'm armed with sweets ... just waiting for my little one to finish her dinner then she can go and have a nap

cocktailsavings

Hi, after only stumbling upon this site last week I went on a mad hunt round every sweet shop I could find and a trip to IKEA. I managed to find a good clear plastic box cost £3.79 though but that included the lid and two removable dividers. The contents I bought from an oldfashioned sweet store and ASDA, Sainsbury's and Tesco and they could have cost more than £3 or £4 to fill this box not too bad considering I could have spent £25.00 on a box like one that was shown at the beginning. I will post a photo of the finished product as below:-




I have also managed to fill a whole IKEA jar full of retro sweets but have yet to upload a photo of that .. but I'm on the case. I have also filled mugs with chocolate bars and wrapped them a cellophane bag. I think they are great value gifts but not sure what post I could add pics of them to?? This definitely gave me something creative to do and I think my partner will love this! x:beer:

cocktailsavings

Apologies for some reason the reply I posted has not shown the pictures. I am going to try and find out what to do.

RustyFlange

Sweet box for OH sweets have cost approx £2.45 I bought a big bag of little bags of haribo for 69p from home bargains and split them all up. liquorice came from local show, minstrels were one of the christmassy tubed and the nuts at the front are macademia nuts 69p a pack from Aldis (very cheap!!) Jelly beans were also from home bargains and were about 40p?

bravobeastie

That looks gorgeous Rusty :T