Finished baskets!!

98jdougl

finally finished reading through the thread (only started at page 200 though)
I tend to lurk on the crafty for christmas thread but since my crafty-ness is leading to hamper-ness I figured I would join in here
Have almost finished my first hamper which is for my mum so pictures will follow soon. Just need to make her some vodka!!! (doing skittles, toffe and blackcurrant & liquarace (SP i know!))

Mazcabs

Hi there

Attempting my first hamper for my sisters birthday after being inspired by all of yours. I have a pair of gardening gloves, gardening book, hand fork and hand trowel. (she's just moved to new house and wants to start growing veg). Anyway wondered if anyone knows where to buy a cheap trug like basket and also some cheap seeds to start her off? Thanks

Have all the contents of hampers for my niece and nephew xmas hampers as well using the matalan chalkboard boxes after all the ideas here as well !!

PS On Thurs 23rd Aldi have loads of Indian food bits, spices etc if anyone is doing an Indian food hamper.

3tabbycats

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

Was it me rusty

http://www.candigifts.co.uk/items/product-range/wicker-baskets~trays/list.htm


Hope so

Shaz

Wow! What a fantastic site, I have a feeling I'm gonna spend a small fortune on there! Thanks for posting the the link!

3tabbycats

Mazcabs wrote: »

Hi there

Attempting my first hamper for my sisters birthday after being inspired by all of yours. I have a pair of gardening gloves, gardening book, hand fork and hand trowel. (she's just moved to new house and wants to start growing veg). Anyway wondered if anyone knows where to buy a cheap trug like basket and also some cheap seeds to start her off? Thanks

Have all the contents of hampers for my niece and nephew xmas hampers as well using the matalan chalkboard boxes after all the ideas here as well !!

PS On Thurs 23rd Aldi have loads of Indian food bits, spices etc if anyone is doing an Indian food hamper.

Hi, the post a couple above yours by Shaz has a link to a fab site thats got a couple of different sizes of trugs. I was going to do a gardening hamper in a hanging basket but think I'll be doing a trug instead now!

98jdougl

Mazcabs wrote: »

Hi there

Attempting my first hamper for my sisters birthday after being inspired by all of yours. I have a pair of gardening gloves, gardening book, hand fork and hand trowel. (she's just moved to new house and wants to start growing veg). Anyway wondered if anyone knows where to buy a cheap trug like basket and also some cheap seeds to start her off? Thanks

I got my seeds and bulbs out poundland and wilko's quite cheap

roosterbean

Wilkos have got 50% off some of the seeds at the moment - I bought onion, radish and runner beans but they had plenty of others. Only paid 20p for some of them and their sell by date is 2009-2010....

shaz_mum_of__2

for anyone wanting to give a bottle of wine the baguette baskets at candigifts look nice with one in plus a bit of shred

Shaz

got-it-spend-it

Was in Asda today and the have the little 125ml bottles of Italian sparkiling wine for £1 each. It's Stowells and looks quite nice. It is usually £2.50 odd. Didn't manage to get any of the 50p handwash or shower gel though- the shelves were totally bare!I'm making a bag of Lovely Lady things for my best friend's birthday this week, as being 'Lovely Ladies' is a bit of a longstanding joke between us. So far I have:-Pink knickers-Pink Lipbalm-Footsoak-Little bottle of wine-Personalised newspaper front page-Little notebookI'm going to wrap the individual items in tissue then put them all in a hessian shopping bag with a pretty label. I'll take a pic when it's all done (hopefully tonight but who knows...)

bigmomma051204

Ermmm i am sure this will have been talked about 176 pages ago (wild guess lol) but as i am lazy and can't be bothered to search all through this MASSIVE thread, where can i get cellophane from?? Is it mega pricey?? Cos i have finished most of my hampers now but it has just occurred to me that i havent a CLUE how to wrap them!!!!??!!??!!? Is my only option cellophane? All the hampers i have made are in little square-ish baskets (from homebase!)

Angie100

Managed to pick up a few gift packs at a car boot today, one in a nice gold bowl and the other in a white bowl with a red gingham ribbon stuck around the rim. It looked good and I was thinking that you can pick up cheap plain bowls in Ikea or wilko's and add the ribbon to make a nice cheap little bowl to put stuff in. I got both gift packs for £1.20 and will re-do them with cellophane and ribbon. Also got 2 lovely books for £1 for the both-one was called 'Simply Sparkling Christmas Beading' and the other was 'Heirloom Gifts'. Will have a look through later and see if anything nice and easy to do!!