Finished baskets!!

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Our local farmfoods is selling the 6pack of dowe egberts cafe switch for £1 i thought quite nice for hampers I bought for inside my secret santa mug :j

Miró

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Hi there

here is one that is "under construction" for my mum... it started off as a "gardening hamper" but i have now added some yummy goodies well it is christmas and she does have a sweet tooth
just want to get some lovely smelling hand cream for after all that gardening and that is another 1 done :T
Not a very good pic... but when they are all done i will post a pic of the lot of them
Heck folks -what are we going to do to fill our time after xmas :rotfl:

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Just spent ages wondering what 'jogurtbuttergeback' is....keep forgetting you are in Germany!!!!

MRSMCAWBER

evening everyone

Well i have finally got 3 more hampers done, nearly gave myself a hernia lugging more stuff back from the supermarket and then had fun trying to get everything in the baskets :eek: ....
This one is for my neice..she is only just 1 and loves anything musical and flashing..so the big marraca thing plays different tunes when she shakes it ... mind with the weight of it me thinks she is going to be inflicting pain :rotfl:
then she has a pooh scarf n hat, gloves, some disney choc coins, the reindeer is a draught excluder..but it wouldn't fit in her mum n dads hamper .... a choc santa and a box each of choc bananas, choc orange segments and choc strawberries - a lot of sweet stuff i know - but they have about a years date on them and im sure mum n dad will "help" and there are more bits hidden at the bottom.. inclding a box of disney pasta -shaped like characters

will get it wrapped in the morning


By xmasme

Kisto...if you want me to check the price of the bigger balls of twine..just let me know

flowerscotland

all the ideas on this thread have been amazing :beer: and the finished baskets look fab ! I would be so chuffed if I got one for xmas !

I have decided to make my dad an olive oil one, he loves olive oil, he just recently 'found' it and uses it when cooking all the time, anyway I have bought him an olive oil receipe book and tesco does loads of diff flavours of olive oil, so will get those as well, but I was wondering if anyone might have any advice of what kind of holder/basket to put these in, Im not sure if it would look right in a basket hmmm. What do you guys think ?

MRSMCAWBER

Here is one for my brother

the basket is a bit bright..but he will be sooo distracted by the contents he won't notice
He loves Tapas, messe etc..and im rather chuffed with this one and the prices compared to similar in the UK was brilliant..will work out overall prices soon

he has:-
3 bottles of beer
3 matching beer glasses
1 bottle greek red wine
1 bottle greek whote wine
bottle balsamic syrup
2 tins different marinated prawns
2 tins marinated fish
5 jars antipasta... artichoke hearts, bean salad, aubergine etc...
and some choc expresso beans

I had to put the jars in bags as i know they will leak if i don't, and i have taped bubble wrap around the bottom half of the glasses n bottles as i think me n hubby will go batty listening to chink chink chink all the way back to the UK :rotfl:


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shopaholictiedtheknot

flowerscotland wrote: »

all the ideas on this thread have been amazing :beer: and the finished baskets look fab ! I would be so chuffed if I got one for xmas !

I have decided to make my dad an olive oil one, he loves olive oil, he just recently 'found' it and uses it when cooking all the time, anyway I have bought him an olive oil receipe book and tesco does loads of diff flavours of olive oil, so will get those as well, but I was wondering if anyone might have any advice of what kind of holder/basket to put these in, Im not sure if it would look right in a basket hmmm. What do you guys think ?

I think a basket would be fine, but what about a nice pasta serving bowl or morrisons have some deep wooden bowls which i think were only a few quid?

flowerscotland

shopaholictiedtheknot wrote: »

I think a basket would be fine, but what about a nice pasta serving bowl or morrisons have some deep wooden bowls which i think were only a few quid?

thank you i will have a look tomorrow

Dusty_Moth

I was in QS today, and they've got lots of really nice looking boxes and baskets if anyone is still after them? I know they were mentioned previosuly, but at the moment they've got a buy two gifty things get two free type offer, so you could get 4 for the price of two! (or some bits to go in them as well!!!)

Wish I hadn't wrapped/posted mine now as they are so nice (and a much easier shape to post!!! Oh well!)

shazspice

Just wanted to show everyone the yankee candle basket ive made my mum for xmas :xmastree:

Contents of the basket are -

Clean cotton pot porri
Fresh cut roses pot porri
Clean cotton electric plug in
Clean cotton refills
Lavender refills
Lilac Blossom small jar
Lotus blossom tealights
Juicy orange sampler
Juicy grapefruit sampler
2 sampler holders
Buttercream wax tart



I will be wrapping the basket in cellophane with yellow flowers on will post a picture of it wrapped when i get round to wrapping it

MRSMCAWBER

And this is one for sil and bil

I ended up running out of room..there is so much in there hubby is going to have to shift it

They have a 1 year old and 1 due in feb :eek: so i wanted to get them some staple bits..pasta etc and some treat bits....

Got them all sorts of stuff including:-

2 mugs with a coffee tin
an aerolatte set with cocoa shaker and stencils
4 lots of pastas that i haven't seen in the UK
2 lots of noodles
2 packs coffee
3 different fruit teas
4 syrups for adding to coffee/cocoa ... choc, vanilla, caramel and irish cream
6 sachets of dressings
cocolate covered tropical fruits
ginger cake
tutti frutti cake
hot chilli n garlic sauce
apple chips
toffifee
choc truffles with toffee pieces
cranberry clusters dipped in choc..

Should be enough to keep them entertained for a while :rotfl:


By xmasme


shazspice... i love the basket..i love yankee candles