Finished baskets!!

ebaybaby

Fab hampers!

I get my cellophane from a floristry wholesaler (im not a florist but the one I go only had £25 minimum spend to get a card, not hard for me!!). I get a HUGE roll of cello 100m? patterned or plain for £10 odd.
It lasts me forever. I sell clothing on ebay and I wrap my items in this before bagging them!

kaja86

They look lovely CaitlinsNanna!!! I wrapped my first one yesterday and it looked gorgeous. I used tinsel to tie the top then loads of curled ribbon and a pretty tag attached.
Try sprinkling over some silver stars and some glitter before you wrap that way it will still look 'magical' when they've opened it!!!

fireuptheband

Wow, all of these hampers look fantastic!

Love the retro sweets idea!

CaitlinsNanna

kaja86 wrote:

They look lovely CaitlinsNanna!!! I wrapped my first one yesterday and it looked gorgeous. I used tinsel to tie the top then loads of curled ribbon and a pretty tag attached.
Try sprinkling over some silver stars and some glitter before you wrap that way it will still look 'magical' when they've opened it!!!

Lovely idea with the silver stars but I don't think FIL would appeciate glitter all over the carpet once he'd opened it & taken out the contents.

I still have pink glitter in my washing machine & tumble dryer 3 weeks after one of my boys came home having had one of his mates pour a pot into his trouser pocket. It's taking ages to go away. It's worse than when you get a tissue go through with the wash.

kaja86

CaitlinsNanna wrote:

Lovely idea with the silver stars but I don't think FIL would appeciate glitter all over the carpet once he'd opened it & taken out the contents.

I still have pink glitter in my washing machine & tumble dryer 3 weeks after one of my boys came home having had one of his mates pour a pot into his trouser pocket. It's taking ages to go away. It's worse than when you get a tissue go through with the wash.

Mmmmmm, never thought about this!!! I love a bit of glitter!!!:T
Has anybody else cellophaned theirs?

postingalwaysposting

here is mine... http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=3651399#post3651399 they need to be cellophaned though... but i should do that in a minute

kaja86

Wow, they look fantastic!!!
They will be so pleased to get these on Christmas day!!!:beer:

arnie&caseysma!

I want to show you all my finished hampers! I have uploaded the pics to photobucket - how do I get them from there to here???

CaitlinsNanna

Tis easy- go to your image acount and select a picture. Highlight the link to the picture and copy it.

Look at the box you post a reply in on this forum. there's a square picture with some mountains on it- always reminds me of a postcard. click on that and paste your link in, like this-

[IMG][/img]your image here

hey presto, when you preview your post it should have the image in it.

If you want to do it another way then just remember that [IMG][/img] goes in front of the URL, or web address of your image and goes at the end.

Does that help?

this post is by CaitlinsGrandpa

arnie&caseysma!

Ok folks, I am going to attempt to post the photos of my hampers!!!

First one is for MIL - she has just done out her bathroom so I got her a white ceramic bathroom set with hand pump; soap dish; toothbrush holder and cup (which I filled with cotton wool). I also broke up a nice Boots Sanctury Set with candles etc, put in a bath scrunchie and some liquer choccies! The basket I already had in the house. Total cost about £5 (reused Boots set).



SIL - The PINK basket! Total cost about £13
This one has loads of stuff in it and is all pink! It has a magic scarf, socks (one of a 2 pack of feather socks reduced in Peacocks!), gloves, an FCUK toiletry bag gift set all opened up and the tissue paper used to line over the top of the newspaper in the bottom used to raise the height a bit, pink smarties, a bath scrunchie, a candle (out of a gift set), passport holder and digi lock, hair bobble (flower). I put it all in a wicker bin (£1.99) so she can make use of it aswell!



This is the pink basket wrapped. I did them all in the same way with cellophane which I tied with silver ribbon and then wrapped them up to the ribbon with the paper, taped it all in and then applied a nice big Penting quick bow!



Friends - Wine Basket.
We are cutting down this year so I got two of the 'bottle in a glass' glasses from Poundland; two mini bottles of wine (4 for £5 in Tesco, Morrisons and Asda), two bottle stoppers (split up sets I got on Ebay), 4 wine glass charms, tealight candles, and some liquer choccies (large boxes BOGOF in Morrisons - I took 6 from the box and put into glasses). Total cost approx £5
(basket free - a friend was getting rid!).



Friend - Winter Warmer 1
Totes chemise and socks set removed from box (off eBay for a bargain price!), crime novel from a set won in a raffle, mini bottle of wine, mug, hot choc sachets and frother, tealight candles, a sparkly toiletry set (recycled gift I wasnt going to use!), liquer choccies. Total cost about £8. (basket was another I already had)



Friend - Winter Warmer 2
Magic scarf, gloves, socks (other half of Peacocks bargain!), mini wine, mug, hot chocolate and frother, drinking games, candle and tealight candles, liquer choccies, toilerty set opened up (another recycled gift!). (basket another I already had)



I am going to have to start the bargain hunting for next year as soon as this year is over! I have been careful with the re-cycled sets not to give back to the person that gave me it although none of them are getting hampers this year!

I want to thank all those that have given me inspiration this year - I'm sure I will continue every year from now on!

Sorry the pics are so big - not sure how to re-size the yet as I'm new to this photobucket thing!