Finished baskets!!

passion8

Lara wrote: »

I haven't seen or heard of the BodyCare shop . Is this another group of stores "up North" can anyone tell me? .

Apologies Lara - I've just spotted your post.

I'm not sure if they're located specifically in the North, and Google didn't help much, but I'll ask about

Meanwhile, I'm catching up on the hampers that have been posted recently. I think I might take mine apart and tidy them up a bit - everyone's looks great

I've got to remember not to buy such big baskets next year. Some had to be double wrapped in cellophane :eek: And no pics unfortunately, as no camera, but I'm hoping some recipient might take a pic and e-mail it back to me

passion8

pookienoodle wrote: »

Hi,
here is a picture of one of my finished gifts.
Its for my nephew and consists of Lynx smellies(tesco h&b;) ) and bottles of bud.
his request was for beer and smellies so wanted to make it look good.

I love the Bud bucket pookienoodle Can I ask where you bought it from please?

li'l_p

I have only done one hamper this year for my friend who's pregnant (due April) so I am wanted to do something to encourage her to relax. It contains:

• Hot water bottle & fluffy cover
• Shampoo & conditioner
• Radox bath foam stuff
• Bath pillow
• Large Dairy Milk
• Piglet mug with misc. Options hot choc sachets
• Shower scrunchie thing
• Two tealight holders & battery operated tealights
• Unazukin (yes/no) doll



I am really pleased with it, especially as I ended up getting everything to coordinate in purple.

Loving everyone's baskets in this thread... well done!

i_like_shoes

After reading this thread back in Nov i thought " how hard can it be?". Its been fantastic making the baskets. I wanna make loads and give them to people i dont know lol lol....Ive even made my own christmas cake for the first time and puddings.I've suprised my OH no end lol. I would like to say a huge huge thank you for the inspiration i've had from here. I cant wait to start getting stuff for next year... I've had a new lease of life for pressies. Who needs to trawl around the shops, thinking of things people dont want or need.

A huge THANKS ALL X

BabyKat

WOW
I have not long joined MSE and have taken ages to go through this whole thread.
I would like to say what a bunch of talented people you all are to have made such lovely baskets.
I have now decided that i will be making some for next year.
Thank you for giving me some ideas.....as it is getting harder to get something for my family

Doodles

Hi
I wanted to say how much I've enjoyed reading this thread. I'm definitely going to get creative for next year! I was looking at You Tube for wrapping techniques and found this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4WdRb6Eduk

I was quite impressed at how she shrink wrapped the cellophane so thought I'd post it in case its of any use to anyone? Hope you can get into the link I've posted, but if not search "shrink wrap a gift basket in one minute" on YouTube.

pookienoodle

passion8 wrote: »

I love the Bud bucket pookienoodle Can I ask where you bought it from please?

I work in a pub.
the amount of branded items we get sent is just silly.
I finally found a good use for them.

pookienoodle

anyone needing some cello at the last minute?
I had one more basket to do today and found some in my local greengrocer(he does a few flowers and fruit baskets) at 20p a metre! for the christmas one's
my local florist had wanted £1.50 a metre.

crispeater

well i've finished filling my hampers and managed to arrange them. only 1 left to wrap which is my mums. but here are 2 that i wrapped today.

my nan
unwrapped

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd193/crispeater_hampers/DSCF0335.jpg

wrapped

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd193/crispeater_hampers/DSCF0338.jpg

my brother in law who loves beer, brie and chocolate but probably not all at the same time lol
unwrapped

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd193/crispeater_hampers/DSCF0341.jpg

wrapped

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd193/crispeater_hampers/DSCF0344.jpg

i put coloured paper crepe (or however you spell it) so that i didnt need to find a big bag to put it in or wrap again to stop them seeing whats inside. i've used pink for the girl hampers though.

Sammz

Hi everyone Thought I'd post a pic of my baskets. I'm an Avon rep so bought a lot of stuff throughout the year, mostly from the clearance section. Added in a couple of other bits too. Can't have the items on show, hence the silver paper. Oh, and tags were handmade. Contents can be seen at:

http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p160/Sammz-/?action=view&current=basket1.jpg
http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p160/Sammz-/?action=view&current=basket2.jpg
http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p160/Sammz-/?action=view&current=basket3.jpg
http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p160/Sammz-/?action=view&current=baskets.jpg