Finished baskets!!

rainmac

They sound fab Mary, completely crammed full of brilliant stuff!!!

RustyFlange

Ok so here goes, I did my first hamper for the elderly lady next door which she loved. Since then I have been buying bits and bobs for 2 fathers day hampers ... one for my partner off the kiddies and one for his dad. (my dad lives in Bulgaria and I figured a hamper for him was too heavy to post ... would have cost £33 to post it to him ) Haven't wrapped it as yet as it is a massive basket and need to find best way to do it

Inside my partners we have loads of goodies:
WD40 pen - £50p rediced in Aldi
Jamie Oliver book - £9.99 whsmiths
Jamie Oliver mug - £3 - ebay
Next infused oils set - £2 next clearance shop
Xbox 360 game - £23 - car forum I go on
dvd - £2 play.com - (should have been 4.99 but I had a £3 voucher )
3 packs of assorted thorntons toffee - £2 (reduced in clearance shop)
2 bags of Haribo - 79p - bogof in WHsmiths
Nandos hot & spicy marinade - £1.53 asda
Photo post it notes x 4 - £2 (offer on the grabbit board a while ago)
USB massager - Free - grabitnow.com
Ferrero rocher - 25p - sale at asda
Digital photo keyring frame - free play.com - another voucher.
2 miniature bottles of wine - free asda (overcharged on 2 seperate occasions so both times got £2 gift card which I used on these bottles of wine)
Chequebook of favours and gel pen - 25p reduced Clintons cards

Then to go with all of the above I have made him a scrapbook which cost £6 for the scrapbook iteself

Total £49.58 :eek::eek::eek: - I just shocked myself at this point!!! (but he is worth it)




Oops edit: i forgot to put in the freebies I got from Lush ....

RustyFlange

mary43 wrote: »

Sorry no pics but don't have digi camera - but this week I've given baby grandson his first birthday pressie

Collapsable toy box (£5) with contents of
blue teddy ...................50p
cream teddy..................50p
2 Pooh bear pics £2.00
musical toy.................£1.50
teddy coatganger.............50p
Stacking boxes............£1.00
Baby blanket...............£1.99
Baby flannel with teddy
motif..............................50p
Runaway car.................freebie from friend
Sit upon hippo car..........freebie from friend

Total cost...................£7.99 (plus box £12.99)

Basket for MIL: -(wrapped in florists cellophane and tied with ribbon with flowers on)

Toilet bag with rose pattern...........£1.00
Bath rose petals..........................50p
Miniature rose shaped soaps...........£1.00
China mug (rose pattern)................£1.00
2 coat hangers /pink silk covered £1.00
Hand cream (rose motif on bottle) £1.00
Floral notelets................................freebie from friend

Cost............................................£5.50



Apart from freebies all the rest were from local charity shop -someones 'unwanted' gifts.

Not being cheapskate but trying hard to work within a tight budget .

What a brilliant idea ... I never think to look in there for that kind of thing. I got my daughter a birthday present from a charity shop, only cost me £5 which I was happy with as it was brand new and boxed and I was saving up to buy one from mothercare which would have cost £30 :eek:
Bootsales are always a good one for bits and bobs

mary43

I've just finished wrapping the cellophane round MILs gift basket.......oh I did get in a muddle ! OH says it was the padded coathangers sticking out the sides so he stuck them up in the middle !:eek:
Managed ok after that and it looks ok now (apart from bits of coathanger showing out the top.
Somewhere on this board there were instructions on how to do this (might have been me that asked but can''t remember which thread it was on! )

Can someone put basic way of doing it so I know better for next time please ?

earthmother

Just wanted to post my Dad's Father's Day basket. It was quite hard deciding what to do for it, as he had a '60 little things' bundle for his birthday earlier this month. Luckily, I was able to shuffle a few bits so that nothing in those bundles were along gardening lines, so that's what he's ended up with here. Works well too as Mum's Mothering Sunday gift was garden-based too



The trug was a leftover from a christmas hamper I broke up, the book was very discounted from the Book People, the gnome radio the kids found in the Superdrug sale, and the seeds and bulbs were on sale in Woolies. The only full-price item is the Thorntons medal

mary43

earthmother - that's lovely........love the trug. Could do with getting one sometime this year (or early next) as I'm thinking of a gardening theme for ex foster daughter. She's now living in a country cottage and loves the garden.
I did come across a 'gardening set' in the charity shop....set of tools for indoor plants or seedlings, gardeners hand made soap, and a few other bits and I've snatched up a very cheap pair of pretty gardening gloved and a fork and trowel set. Going to add some cottage garden seeds to it and possibly an apron if I can find one........if not I've got one she can have..got pockets for the tools and stuff.

Bit ahead of myself as her birthday is March but shopping the way I do its a 'grab it while you can'

earthmother

Thanks Mary.

If you want seeds, then Woolies have all of theirs down to 60p a pack - the two packs in the trug should have been £1.70 and £2.75 respectively before the sale (they're Fothergills), and they are dated 2010, so would be fine for next year's presents.

I got some lovely wicker hanging baskets from the local garden centre at the end of last season - they were done as planting kits and the bulbs were out of date, so I got them for about £2 instead of almost £10 - well worth a look in a couple of months time as they'd be lovely hamper containers.

mary43

Thanks Earthmother...........hadn't thought of using a hanging basket as a hamper before............good idea:j

kbl

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

What kind of thing did you want? Do you have micosoft publisher? i have dsigned wine bottle labels for our home brew using it print onto normal paper and stick with pritt stick


Shaz

Sorry haven't thanked you before now, have been at hospital, those labels look fantastic! no ms publisher but my mate has it so will visit her computer soon, sorry for sounding thick but do you prittstick the whole label or just outsides?

bunbun2

here is my finished chilli basket:



I also made a basket full of toiletries/shaving stuff: