Finished baskets!!

passion8

Discount-Diva wrote: »

My Daughters hamper as she opened it today, I forgot to take a pic before wrapping

I recognise a lot of those things D-D but not all. Bet she loved it eh? :T

Discount-Diva_3

*niptuckfan* wrote: »

discount diva those are great where did you get the hangover tea bags?

In the sale at Whittards, either a pound or 50p can't remember which, also got the giant cups and saucers in the sale there too

passion8

hogshead wrote: »

Have you tried scouring the store display units for cardboard display boxes. I used one for mine as they add support to the back & sides leaving the front exposed which it just what you need here.

I agree hogshead, that's a great place to start I picked a few up from Tesco shelves too (I really was tidying them up btw ) and all they had on them, in the way of advertising, was "Christmas" - perfect lol.

Another way is to put 'greedy boards' in The saying came from a friend who hires out skips. More often than not people put old doors up the sides to give them more room in the skips and it drives him nuts lol, but the same can be applied to hampers. If the container, say a mug for instance, is too shallow, find some silver card or similar, (make sure it's a lot taller than the mug btw ) and just insert that in the mug. It just strengthens it and keeps the items from wobbling all over the place

HTH (if anyone can understand it lol)

Discount-Diva_3

passion8 wrote: »

I recognise a lot of those things D-D but not all. Bet she loved it eh? :T

Yes she did and she liked it even more when she opened the pink No7 jewelery box and found her cheque

passion8

Discount-Diva wrote: »

Yes she did and she liked it even more when she opened the pink No7 jewelery box and found her cheque

A cheque as well? Lucky girl

You seem a bit like me present wise D-D. I remember one Christmas when my dd was a bit skint, and we crumpled up some £10 notes amongst a box of pot pourri (perfect camouflage btw ) and she was thrilled

We, on the other hand, were then skint

Discount-Diva_3

passion8 wrote: »

A cheque as well? Lucky girl

You seem a bit like me present wise D-D. I remember one Christmas when my dd was a bit skint, and we crumpled up some £10 notes amongst a box of pot pourri (perfect camouflage btw ) and she was thrilled

We, on the other hand, were then skint

Oh thats a lovely idea

We can't help but spoil them can we

passion8

Discount-Diva wrote: »

Oh thats a lovely idea

We can't help but spoil them can we

I was thinking more of that famous quote:

"Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home."

:rotfl:

passion8

I got side-tracked by all these lovely hampers and forgot why I was 'visiting' this thread

I've been looking at the Easter bonnets in Poundland (where else lol), and they've been bugging me lol. Then I realised why.

Not all kids are allowed chocolate, so I was thinking of turning the hat upside down, filling them with whatever is allowed, and cellophaning (what else? ) them up.

If you're near a Works, it might work out even cheaper. They were selling them locally for £1 for 2. I bought 4 after I noticed a friends kids had been bought the same eggs I'd intended to buy them, but not sure what I'll put in them yet. Something useful maybe, or even the eggs taken out of their boxes, and then maybe some extras along the brim of the hat. (I hope it works lol).

In Au Natrele they were selling those popcorn boxes I mentioned in Clearance - 3 in varying sizes for £1.25 Not too large but handy if you haven't got a basket or box, and come flat-packed so don't take up much room.

Hth someone.

earthmother

If it's purely chocolate (say a dairy intolerance) they can't have, then Woolworths have easter jellies and marshmallows that are all individually wrapped (in a multipack), and boiled-sweet type rabbit lollies (on really long sticks - would be great for one of the sweet bouquet things), and Sainsburys do small square tubs of wine-gum type jellies.

If it's sweets in general that are the problem, then craft items would cover most age groups, a basic farm set (you know the sort, a tractor, couple of fences and some animals) would do for littlies and still be easter/spring-ish, toiletries/haircare or a scrapbooking/diary type of setup for older girls, some type of basic construction kit for the older boys.

You could get some of the hollow plastic eggs that everywhere seems to sell for hunts, and fill them with the items to make it more eastery and the hat would look just like a basket of eggs if you finished off with some shredded tissue.

vwcampervan72

http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w75/vwcampervan/?action=view&current=my-hampers007.jpg


Heres my 1st attemmpt at a hamper for my friends birthday the weekend, the 1st pic is the unwrapped

Here the wrapped version

http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w75/vwcampervan/?action=view&current=my-hampers010.jpg

The cost of this hamper is

Basket £2.00
Shower gels half price superdrug 95p
Boots set £1.50 sale
Other items shampoos, bath oil balls,candles free from various hotels on holiday
Avon tub won in a Xmas raffle at school lol
wrapping came to about £1.20 for cellophane and raffia


Im loving these hampers :j