Finished baskets!!

RustyFlange

Well I am just about to wrap one of the baby hampers I made, so far tonight I have made 8 various nappy cakes ready for the weekend ... only one thing I forgot to do ... check the weather for Sat. Turns out there is a weather warning and heavy rain so I guess I won't be doing it after all ... good old OH for gloating that it was going to rain and I had wasted my time putting them all together! Grrrrrrrrrrr

got-it-spend-it

bunbun2 wrote: »

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!):

Wow, that is one of the best gifts I have seen on here. You must have put so much thought into it- I love it and wish I had someone to make one for!

maria_and_the_imps

bunbun2 wrote: »

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!):

any chance you could show us a close up of the lable or possibly just tell me what the picture is many thank you

ps little imp joshuas first day at big school today

rainmac

maria_and_the_imps wrote: »

any chance you could show us a close up of the lable or possibly just tell me what the picture is many thank you

ps little imp joshuas first day at big school today

Sending good luck wishes your way Maria - for you and for Joshua, my Jack's first day on Tuesday next week

rainmac

SugarSpun wrote: »

I just wanted to share an idea - I'm making my stressed OH a Mental Health box, and in it there are:

An eraser to make mistakes disappear
A packet of straws so he's never down to the last one
Marbles to replace the ones he's lost
A soldier to fight his battles
A mask for when he needs to be incognito
A plane for when incognito's not enough
String to keep it all together
Chocolate for when the worst has happened
Fortune cookies so he can see what's coming
A rain poncho for when the s**t starts flying
Glasses cleaning wipes for clarity
Glucose sweets to perk him up
Prunes to keep him going
A fan for moral support

€1-store-tacular!

Really love this idea!

rainmac

RustyFlange wrote: »

Well I am just about to wrap one of the baby hampers I made, so far tonight I have made 8 various nappy cakes ready for the weekend ... only one thing I forgot to do ... check the weather for Sat. Turns out there is a weather warning and heavy rain so I guess I won't be doing it after all ... good old OH for gloating that it was going to rain and I had wasted my time putting them all together! Grrrrrrrrrrr

Ohhh Rusty, people will still go even if it's raining. Do you have or can you borrow a gazebo type thing to cover your stall??? Such a shame not to be able to do it now as you've gone to loads of effort

RustyFlange

rainmac wrote: »

Ohhh Rusty, people will still go even if it's raining. Do you have or can you borrow a gazebo type thing to cover your stall??? Such a shame not to be able to do it now as you've gone to loads of effort

Well I am still holding out hope to be honest. I was really looking forward to doing it. We have 2 gazebos in the garage (under all my stuff from when I moved in :rotfl:) so I might be able to dig one of them out possibly. However I have just had a phone call from a lady in Newcastle. She was searching on the net for a christening gift and stumbled across my number. My first order over the phone so it just shows that the company name is working well and all my details are coming up on the net Also had 2 orders at nearly midnight last night and possibly a third from the same place today just waiting on details ... I feel inundated but unbelievably chuffed

bunbun2

ooops I did put in one of my posts to msmoo that I had a photo of someone else's Harry Potter hamper from last year but it must have got missed:D I can't take any credit for this one:rotfl: I am making mine next week - will post a picture then!
maria sorry that is the size of the photo that was on the post and as I didn't make it I dont know what the labels said!! not sure what I will put on mine.

got-it-spend-it

RustyFlange wrote: »

Well I am still holding out hope to be honest. I was really looking forward to doing it. We have 2 gazebos in the garage (under all my stuff from when I moved in :rotfl:) so I might be able to dig one of them out possibly. However I have just had a phone call from a lady in Newcastle. She was searching on the net for a christening gift and stumbled across my number. My first order over the phone so it just shows that the company name is working well and all my details are coming up on the net Also had 2 orders at nearly midnight last night and possibly a third from the same place today just waiting on details ... I feel inundated but unbelievably chuffed

Rusty, that is fab news about the telephone order! Don't worry about the forecast for Saturday. Who knows what the weather will do? I'd get all your stuff ready then make a decision on the day, if you have to.

Maria, hope first day at school goes well for little'un.

savingholmes

RustyFlange wrote: »

Well I am still holding out hope to be honest. I was really looking forward to doing it. We have 2 gazebos in the garage (under all my stuff from when I moved in :rotfl:) so I might be able to dig one of them out possibly. However I have just had a phone call from a lady in Newcastle. She was searching on the net for a christening gift and stumbled across my number. My first order over the phone so it just shows that the company name is working well and all my details are coming up on the net Also had 2 orders at nearly midnight last night and possibly a third from the same place today just waiting on details ... I feel inundated but unbelievably chuffed

Great news about the telephone orders! I'm sure you will do really well your stuff always looks brill. :A When we did a car boot we were told it would storm - got burnt in the sun instead.... All the best