Finished baskets!!

mary43

Siren - have you a link for the watering can at Tescos ? I've had a look at their web site and can't find it. Skegness isn't far from me. We've got a Tescos where I live but its mainly foodstuff.
I'm doing a gardening hamper for someones birthday next year - bit in advance but I'm grabbing things while they're at the right price......

mrsproudmum

I am struggling to find cheap baskets myself none in H and b , none in wilkinsons .

Valli

mrsproudmum wrote: »

I am struggling to find cheap baskets myself none in H and b , none in wilkinsons .

Our local Morrisons has a set of three (stacking) with fabric liners, rectangular, for £8. Basket type, no lid.

rainmac

pinkcloudnine wrote: »

Just been into Wilkinsons, they've loads of mugs half price. Mug sets with 2 coasters, coffee bean ones for only 99p!!
Mini whisks ,pack of 2 now only 25p!!
Defo going to make a hamper for DH neice whos getting married soon. They already have a house & have everything like toasters etc. So have decided on a coffee, choccy, & orange hamper. Got 30 tealights in Next sale today for £1.50, clove, bitter orange, & choc, mmmmmmmmmmmm good enough to eat!!!
Just need a dark coloured basket now, to really get started, any ideas where??

I bought a set of 4 dark brown wicker baskets in Home Bargains about 6 weeks ago for £3.99. They are square-ish in shape, no lid, really nice and great for the £

Also

rainmac

pinkcloudnine wrote: »

Just been into Wilkinsons, they've loads of mugs half price. Mug sets with 2 coasters, coffee bean ones for only 99p!!
Mini whisks ,pack of 2 now only 25p!!
Defo going to make a hamper for DH neice whos getting married soon. They already have a house & have everything like toasters etc. So have decided on a coffee, choccy, & orange hamper. Got 30 tealights in Next sale today for £1.50, clove, bitter orange, & choc, mmmmmmmmmmmm good enough to eat!!!
Just need a dark coloured basket now, to really get started, any ideas where??

I bought a set of 4 dark brown wicker baskets in Home Bargains about 6 weeks ago for £3.99. They are square-ish in shape, no lid, really nice and great for the £

Also bought a brown fabric basket/tray thing from Matalan yesterday for a chocolate hamper, cost £5. I bought the brown circle one... http://www.matalan.co.uk/pages/product-view/004/123/5708/new-paper-trays. Think someone may have mentioned these on this thread already.

HTH

DdraigGoch

I find that a good source of baskets is .... the recycling site. Many towns have them and they're a wonderful source of cheap baskets, all sorts of stuff - quick wash and they're cleaner than they are straight out of the shops! Anyway, I have found an awful lot of wicker ware there, so shall be on the look out for basket-ty type stuff from now on! Thanks for all the ideas. Thanks to you all on this thread, my OH's Cmas present is already done - and I can now afford to give some of my friends presents, which I couldn't last year.

mrsproudmum

RustyFlange wrote: »

Argh I can't find them on the website, I can only find the eco ones? or were these what you meant? Thanks for the great idea!

Yes that will be them they only do one set of 3 hession beand bags they are shopping bags tho.

cookiedough38

has anyone wrapped any of their hampers for christmas yet?

lilian1977

I've wrapped one but only because I was going to give it as a birthday gift and changed my mind!

Here are 3 new ones I've just done (not wrapped yet):

Mum's birthday:



Friend's birthday (she likes dogs and tea, and wanted to borrow the Ewan McGregor books from me so I just bought them cheap from Tesco, there is a packet of tea under it all):



Another friend, also got her Kenzo perfume which is in an orange box so it's a hamper to match:

Valli

Wow - they look stunning - wish I was going to be on the receiving end!

Many(?) years ago, when you could get paper gift vouchers for £1.00 in Boots etc, and they came with a card we used to give these to each other instead of regular birthday cards. It was like getting an extra pressie if you got 5 or 10 £1 vouchers.

The new-fangled plastic gift cards have stopped all that! Grr:mad: