Finished baskets!!

maria_and_the_imps

finished my first ever basket last night a gardening one for my mum, husband always turns his nose up at things i make but he actually said it looked really good and that he liked it. also thought i would let you know that on
www.FreeNameAStar.com
you can name a star for free and dedicate it to someone
i did one for my mum as i have had a very hard year and she has been a star!!!!
well just thought you could put it in a basket maybe as you can print out a cetificate
xxxxx

RustyFlange

maria_and_the_imps wrote: »

finished my first ever basket last night a gardening one for my mum, husband always turns his nose up at things i make but he actually said it looked really good and that he liked it. also thought i would let you know that on
www.FreeNameAStar.com
you can name a star for free and dedicate it to someone
i did one for my mum as i have had a very hard year and she has been a star!!!!
well just thought you could put it in a basket maybe as you can print out a cetificate
xxxxx

Thanks for the link, that is fabulous. I plan to name one for OH and both my children. My son already has a star named Harvey which is his rabbit which died.

moneysavingmumofone

Sorry to be a pain but can anyone find the harry potter sweets hamper that someone on here done? Cant find it anywhere:rolleyes:

bunbun2

moneysavingmumofone wrote: »

Sorry to be a pain but can anyone find the harry potter sweets hamper that someone on here done? Cant find it anywhere:rolleyes:

I have it saved in my favourites as am making one for ds2's birthday next week. It was made by 'snaggles' but can't remember which thread it was on.
I have a picture of it and the list of sweets so will try and copy them if you have no luck finding the post.

moneysavingmumofone

bunbun2 wrote: »

I have it saved in my favourites as am making one for ds2's birthday next week. It was made by 'snaggles' but can't remember which thread it was on.
I have a picture of it and the list of sweets so will try and copy them if you have no luck finding the post.

If you could post it that'd be great as ive tried searching snaggles and it comes up invalid user Thanks

moneysavingmumofone

Ive finished my sisters/sils baskets now, not put them together yet but got all the stuff for them. Im going to start buying stuff for my nans next month, its so much fun:D

bunbun2

hi msmoo

here is the list of sweets and the picture of the finished hamper:


Honeydukes is the sweet shop at Hogsmead (the magical village in Harry Potter). I have got a cardboard box that is stamped 'by owl post', and I have made some labels on the computer to re-label various different sweets as the sweets mentioned in the Harry Potter books (had to use some artistic license for some of them, lol).

So I have Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans (Jelly Belly Beans), Fizzing Whisbies (Flying Saucers), chocolate wizarding money - gold galleons, silver sickles, bronze knuts (chocolate coins), chocolate mice (couldn't get frogs), butterbeer (small bottle of pop), licorice wands, invisible mints (Fox's Glacier Mints), chocolate golden snitches (Ferrero Rochers with the little brown case and label carefully removed, just leaving the gold foil), stinging basilisks (super sour snakes) and magic dust (popping candy).

I've taken them out of the original packaging and made small packages of each (didn't want him to have TOO many sweets...lol), wrapped them in brown paper, and stuck the new labels on.

Hope he likes it!



The Honeydukes hamper (Ryan had unpacked it a bit before I got chance to photograph it!):

moneysavingmumofone

Thanks so much, thats really helpful

cookiedough38

I bought some lovely boxes today from matalan. I am doing novelty mixed hampers for both sister in laws and their partners this year. I am making it into a kind of snowed in survival kit. With novelty bits and pieces to keep them amused over christmas. Does that sound a bit rubbish? I hope they like them, anyway here are the boxes, £5 for 2 from matalan.

rainmac

Cookie, that doesn't sound rubbish at all! I'd love something interesting like that for Xmas

Love your boxes! Are they both the same size?