Finished baskets!!

mary43

Good idea rose...........just might have a couple of them tucked away in a drawer upstairs..............lol (knowing me, bound to have):j

Emms

This is a hamper I made for my friends. It started off going to be an engagement hamper but then they announced the baby too so its a mixture.





Bottle of fizz - We already had so free but would have cost about £9
2 Dove shower gels, dove body cream, footilicious foot cream and handilicous hand cream - About £13 I think but they all had money off so worth about £20
5 candles - £2
Avon lavender room spray - Virtually free in an avon website glitch
Chocs - £4.50
Basket - About £1.30 in the argos 6 baskets for £8

So we spent about £20 all in. Could have got it cheaper if I had more time but ive been studying for exams so it was the best deals I could find in the time I had.

Emma

earthmother

This was for my Grandma's birthday last week - only a mini one as she tells us off for spending money, lol.



The bear was a freebie (had to lay him down as the lid wouldn't go on otherwise), and so were the L'Occitane bits.

The chocolates (about 2/3 of a box) were left over from a christmas project, so also technically free.

The hat box is one of a set I got in last years sales at about half price, and the dish that the chocolates are in, which doesn't show up that well in the picture, is from La Redoute with a code - should have been £9, I paid £6 - it's very pretty - pink etched glass (the lid is underneath in the hamper, padded with tissue so as not to get damaged).

Total cost of less than £13 for a £30 rrp

mary43

Love them !!!

Been sorting through my basket stuff this morning...........seemed a lot when it was all in carrier bags but when I started sorting it out in baskets (who had what) I've filled one -luckily she's the one with the first birthday that crops up this year in March:j
The rest all need bits and pieces adding to...........mustn't forget I'm doing cheap bubble bath decanted into wine bottles plus there's a bottle of bucks fizz I can't drink that I had bought for me and can pass on.
Definitely a bit of retail therapy tomorrow I think, especially now I've seen these.:T

rosekitten

posted a while ago about the
tea towel hampers and how I
had bought cupcake tea towels
in Primark quite cheap but could not
remember the exact price I paid
they were £3 for 5 towels and in the
pack are two cup cake ones and three
stripey one.Although when buying
chgeck that there are two cup cake towels
in the pack your buying as some only had one
in,instead of two.

For anyone who missed this as cupcake stuff
is so expensive.
I have made a cushion from mine already and
plan to make another

this is what they look like




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princesspoppypop

Hi Rosekitten,

Do you know if blanket stitch is hard to do?

crispeater

for the cupcake tea towel cushions rather than putting the 2 cupcake ones together (if thats what you did) you could put a cupcake and a stripe one together that way you can make more and they can turn over to stripes if need be

rosekitten

crispeater wrote: »

for the cupcake tea towel cushions rather than putting the 2 cupcake ones together (if thats what you did) you could put a cupcake and a stripe one together that way you can make more and they can turn over to stripes if need be

sat here now thinking its so
obvious and it never occoured
to me until you mentioned it.
I went and bought the second lot
to make another and yet I could
have so easily made two from
one pack.Especially as the
other tea towels in the pack
are really nice and would have
matched in lovely.

rosekitten

princesspoppypop wrote: »

Hi Rosekitten,

Do you know if blanket stitch is hard to do?

its really easy to do blanket stitch
on my cushion I used a thick needle
and doubled up the embriodery silk.
although it would look just as nice
using knitting wool or just about
any thick thread.Had mine made
in under an hour.

sammiboo

It has taken me hours to read this thread

Some fantastic ideas!!!!!

I have been putting stuff together to make a valentines hamper and a mothers day pamer hamper.

I will post up pictures once ive finished them