Finished baskets!!

hogshead

Hamper makers there are a few deals around, sorry info already posted.

In Hobbycraft they have rolls of cellophane on BOGOF ( buy one get one free ). Various designs, pinky flowers, white flowers, 2 easter designs & I am sure there were others, I recall red!!!! I shall double check but I think it was 10m per roll & are priced @ £1.99 per roll so definitely a bargain.

Also I did spot the bags of shredded astro turf, LOL, in Poundland BUT they also had packs of folded tissue paper in pastel shades which would go through a shredder quite easily & give you more colour variety, quantity & quality for said £1.
Obviously if you don't have a shredder the bagged stuff will suffice but consider shredding your own, you'll never buy bagged again!

Happy Mothers Day to you all, wherever you are, whomever you are with.

Take care

bungle82

After the success I had with hampers as gifts at Christmas I decided to make one for my mum for Mother's Day.

I used a basket from Wilkinson's that was £1.49, then arranged the following items in it:

Pink polka dot oven gloves (£3 @ Asda)
Trevor Sorbie gift set (£4.99 in Boots half price January sale)
Bright coloured boxed pot pourri (reduced to £1 in Asda)
Passionfruit body cream (Just 49p in Savers - and smells gorgeous!)
Bath smellies (FREE - part of a gift set I received at Xmas!)
Lip Balm (£1.19 @ Savers) in a ornamental cocktail glass (49p in M&S January sale)



I then cellophaned it and attached a big pink pull bow and it ended up looking like this:


Gave it to my mum yesterday and she loved it :T

I love this thread sooooooo much for all the ideas it continuously gives me!

x

MrsE_2

kaja86 wrote: »

Daughters-Hot Choccy basket!!

Yummy scrummy(cost about £9 including basket)

Your baskets look amazing & the price you make them for is amazing too.
Can I ask where you bought the little whisk, I've been looking everywhere for one:D

mary43

passion8 - I'll have a look round the boards here to find a digital frame but if you do find a 'bargain' priced one can you let me know ? I just might get lost on this site -so much to look through................lol

bunlge82 and MrsE - lovely baskets ! Reminded me.........I've got a little whisk like that, think OH got it from Woolworths but I never use it. I'll put it in one of my baskets..............I seem to be putting coffee related stuff in quite a few of them.....................lol

earthmother

They do the little whisks in Wilkinsons - 49p for 2

passion8

Just posting this to show what the white cellophane's like Not sure why me new table looks like that though lol



Be back in a moment as photo bucket doesn't seem to like microsoft - or me?

passion8

hogshead wrote: »

Hamper makers there are a few deals around, sorry info already posted.

In Hobbycraft they have rolls of cellophane on BOGOF ( buy one get one free ). Various designs, pinky flowers, white flowers, 2 easter designs & I am sure there were others, I recall red!!!! I shall double check but I think it was 10m per roll & are priced @ £1.99 per roll so definitely a bargain.

Also I did spot the bags of shredded asro turf, LOL, in Poundland BUT they also had packs of folded soft tissue paper in pastel shades which would go through a shredder quite easily & give you more colour variety, quantity & quality for said £1.
Obviously if you don't have a shredder the bagged stuff will suffice but consider shredding your own, you'll never buy bagged again!

Happy Mothers Day to you all, wherever you are, whomever you are with.

Take care

Thanks hogshead The nearest hobbycraft for me seems to be Leeds, and i'm not sure but I think it'd be easier for me to get a trade card for one a bit closer, but still got a load of cellophane for now. Thanks flower hour :T

I spotted the tissue paper, but put it off for now. The reason I mentioned the 'astroturf' lol, was for emergencies only, but so impressed with it that I bought some more today!

If you zoom in to that picture above, you might (lol) just spot where I shredded the tissue from the last GWP from Boots I've shredded the paper from the current GWP for the Elle Mc hampers that I was thinking of doing .....so there's a theme there somewhere Shred all the packaging from you know where lol, and oh got me reams of paper from a salvage job, so I'm not against it, far from it

But it was nice to use the prepackaged ....for a change x

Thanks again

passion8

bungle82 wrote: »

After the success I had with hampers as gifts at Christmas I decided to make one for my mum for Mother's Day.

I used a basket from Wilkinson's that was £1.49, then arranged the following items in it:

Pink polka dot oven gloves (£3 @ Asda)
Trevor Sorbie gift set (£4.99 in Boots half price January sale)
Bright coloured boxed pot pourri (reduced to £1 in Asda)
Passionfruit body cream (Just 49p in Savers - and smells gorgeous!)
Bath smellies (FREE - part of a gift set I received at Xmas!)
Lip Balm (£1.19 @ Savers) in a ornamental cocktail glass (49p in M&S January sale)


I then cellophaned it and attached a big pink pull bow and it ended up looking like this:

Gave it to my mum yesterday and she loved it :T

I love this thread sooooooo much for all the ideas it continuously gives me!

x

That's lovely bungle82 Well done :T Do you ever look in the Boots thread for some bargains?

passion8

mary43 wrote: »

passion8 - I'll have a look round the boards here to find a digital frame but if you do find a 'bargain' priced one can you let me know ? I just might get lost on this site -so much to look through................lol

Will do mary43 I've seen them posted but it's like that old adage - 'Can never find it when you need it' - sort of thing but I'll keep my eye out for you

mary43

Ex foster girl just popped in with large box of Thorntons choccys for me............lol
Asked her about these digitalframes............about £100 she said!!!!:wall: :shocked:
and there's me trying to work to a strict budget!!!!
Just might have to think again on that one