Finished baskets!!

RustyFlange

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

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.

I have quite a lot ready, need to nip out tonight when OH comes back to get some more supplies. Think that is the best way to plan. It was supposed to rain here today and so far its been lovely

Thankyou

savingholmes wrote: »

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

Thankyou Savingholmes Another order since my post earlier ... Looks like it may be starting to take off which is fantastic

rainmac

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

:T Brilliant Rusty :T

Bet your face looks simliar to this Very like mine when I found out I'd won POTM

I'll still keep my fingers crossed for the weather at the weekend, I want it to be nice too as would like to take the kiddies out somewhere before school starts next week.

RustyFlange

rainmac wrote: »

:T Brilliant Rusty :T

Bet your face looks simliar to this Very like mine when I found out I'd won POTM

I'll still keep my fingers crossed for the weather at the weekend, I want it to be nice too as would like to take the kiddies out somewhere before school starts next week.

My face certainly does! ... I have taken over the dining room table again! I have 14 cakes in various sizes, some cello wrapped and others ready to be wrapped. I need to make some more still as 1 of them is an order that needs to be posted out on monday!

My Thomas goes back on Tuesday next weekend so need to go buy his school shoes ready for next week then thats all his uniform sorted and ironed ready to go. Want to take them out sunday but the weather is proving a pain

rainmac

I had a Christmas Lakeland catalogue arrive today and they are doing lots of hampers this year. Just wanted to show you this one priced at £23.99...



You get a small basket with a lid, 2 plain white mugs, pot Divine cocoa powder and 2 chocolate bars. I reckon you could make the same for less than £10.

I am doing a couple of chocolate themed hampers this year so I was interested in comparing price/contents with this one. I haven't actually made mine up yet so have no pics but one of them contains:
Spotty fabric large basket - £5 Matalan
Chocolate Lover mini pillow - cross stitched by me
Time For Chocolate door hanger - made by me
Chocolate candles x 2 - £1.66 each Sainsburys
Milk frother - 99p Home Bargains
Cocoa Deli Chocolate Dipping Sticks - £2 (on offer)
Green & Black's Hot Chocolate - £2.95
G&B Cocoa - £1.49
G&B chocolate bars - one dark one white - £2.50
G&B chocolate spread - £1.65
Tesco Finest chocolate sauce - £1.29
Mini grater & whisk - 98p for the two Au Naturele
Small box chocolates - made box and added Sainsburys cheapie choc truffles
Magnetic notebook - 35op Home Bargains
M&S Chocolate Serving Plate and 2 Side Plates - approx £5, massively brilliant offer!
Chocolate face mask - 79p
2 x flannel cupcakes - 60p
Muffin cases - 51p
Chocolate recipe book in shape of cake - £1.99 Borders

Now mine works out about £35, it's for my brother and his girlfriend and has loads of stuff in it compared to the Lakeland one. I've made another chocolate one with less in and this works out about £24, the same price as the Lakeland one but contains...
Chocolate brown willow basket £1 Home Bargains
M&S Chocolate Serving Plate and 2 Side Plates - approx £5, massively brilliant offer!
Cadbury's Hot Chocolate - under £2
G&B cocoa - £1.49
G&B chocolate bars - one dark one white - £2.50
G&B chocolate spread - £1.65
Time For Chocolate door hanger - made by me
Brown candles x 2 - 25p each Ikea sale
Milk frother - 99p Home Bargains
Cocoa Deli Chocolate Dipping Sticks - £2 (on offer)
Mini grater & whisk - 98p for the two Au Naturele
Small box chocolates - made box and added Sainsburys cheapie choc truffles
Magnetic notebook - 35op Home Bargains
2 x flannel cupcakes - 60p
Muffin cases - 51p
Chocolate recipe book in shape of cake - £1.99 Borders

I am so chuffed that mine are fit to bursting with goodies

rainmac

Sorry for the long post above but I am very chuffed at my chocolate hampers

Wanted to add Lakeland are doing an After Dinner Hamper which I thought was a great idea for Xmas but not at £40 for: chocolate mint wafers, amaretti biscuits, ground coffee, coffee scoop, Scottish Clootie cake, 350ml bottle port, 2 port glasses. £40 :eek:

NemoToad

The Lakeland one is extortionately expensive!

By the way, for people making nice chocolate hampers, Green and Blacks 100g bars are on offer in Morrisons at £1. I think it's about a 50p saving, but every little helps, and Green and Blacks is yummy. I had to be restrained when I noticed it the other day as I have a few bars already as I always get it as presents (not that I'm complaining)

rainmac

NemoToad wrote: »

The Lakeland one is extortionately expensive!

By the way, for people making nice chocolate hampers, Green and Blacks 100g bars are on offer in Morrisons at £1. I think it's about a 50p saving, but every little helps, and Green and Blacks is yummy. I had to be restrained when I noticed it the other day as I have a few bars already as I always get it as presents (not that I'm complaining)

That's a great price , it's about £1.79 a bar in Tesco now, used to be £1.49.

cheekyweegit

Hi again folks,

Great to see all the pics of the baskets, like many lurkers here "I'm loving it". Well done to you all.

Rusty - I'm so pleased your hampers are taking off and wish you all the best in your business venture.

Now for those of you who don't know, Tesco is doing their big tins of sweets which you only really see at Christmas time for £7.99 but they are BOGOF until the 9th September, so it might be worth a trip for those of you making sweetie hampers.

Asda were doing the small bags of Haribo which are normally around £1ish for 50p.

Morrisons are doing some lovely lined baskets, rectangular in shape and a pack of 3 in varing sizes which fit inside each other for £4.99. They are gorgeous.

Also in Morrisons, is linen baskets with a lid from £2.99. This size is about the size of a bedroom / livingroom bin and made from wicker. They go right up to laundry basket size which was about £6.99. I thought this was pretty good as they would do male or female.

Finally, did I see someone making a chinese hamper for someone and looking for chopsticks? If so I've got a packet maybe even 2 of new chopsticks in my kitchen drawer which I know I won't use and your welcome to them. I'll just stick them in the post.

Bye for now.

RustyFlange

cheekyweegit wrote: »

Hi again folks,

Great to see all the pics of the baskets, like many lurkers here "I'm loving it". Well done to you all.

Rusty - I'm so pleased your hampers are taking off and wish you all the best in your business venture.

Now for those of you who don't know, Tesco is doing their big tins of sweets which you only really see at Christmas time for £7.99 but they are BOGOF so it might be worth a trip for those of you making sweetie hampers.

Asda were doing the small bags of Haribo which are normally around £1ish for 50p.

Morrisons are doing some lovely lined baskets, rectangular in shape and a pack of 3 in varing sizes which fit inside each other for £4.99. They are gorgeous.

Also in Morrisons, is linen baskets with a lid from £2.99. This size is about the size of a bedroom / livingroom bin and made from wicker. They go right up to laundry basket size which was about £6.99. I thought this was pretty good as they would do male or female.

Finally, did I see someone making a chinese hamper for someone and looking for chopsticks? If so I've got a packet maybe even 2 of new chopsticks in my kitchen drawer which I know I won't use and your welcome to them. I'll just stick them in the post.

Bye for now.

Thanks

I saw the baskets in Morrisons yesterday Some really pretty ones. Also forgot to mention they have the big bags of haribo half price (67p ish) in Sainsburys, they are bigger than the normal big bags if that makes sense?

I think it was Rainmac who was doing the chinese hamper? but I could be wrong.

ladsmadd

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!):

lovely sweet hamper,