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Finished baskets!!

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  • kizzyw
    kizzyw Posts: 159 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    These are for my cousin,her hubby and baby.P1010017.jpg
  • kizzyw
    kizzyw Posts: 159 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Contents of lagre box
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  • kizzyw
    kizzyw Posts: 159 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    For her hubby ive popped in some Vodka,Redbull,2 mini wines and will add a couple more bits.The smallest box of the 3 has got a couple of baby toys
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  • wow everyones baskets are brill

    im waiting on cellophanexx
    Not setting myself any comp targets this year, didnt seem to work last year!!! £120.98/£2008
    2009/ maybyliene eyeshadow, rimmel polish, loreal foundation, Glamour: hairbrush
    boots card =2625
    quidoco= 110.00
    Thanks to all that take the time to post
  • kizzyw
    kizzyw Posts: 159 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    OMG:eek: So sorry about the size of pics,if any kind person knows how to shrink them.Never actually done pics befor:confused: Also done another toiletry hamper and a baby hamper but i'd better not post them till i work out how to make em smaller
  • eSparkles
    eSparkles Posts: 114 Forumite
    kizzyw wrote: »
    These are for my cousin,her hubby and baby.P1010017.jpg
    Hiya,
    all of your hampers are gorgeous. Can I ask where you got the above boxes from,. they are GORGEOUS !!
    Erica xx
  • savvy
    savvy Posts: 31,128 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    kizzyw wrote: »
    OMG:eek: So sorry about the size of pics,if any kind person knows how to shrink them.Never actually done pics befor:confused: Also done another toiletry hamper and a baby hamper but i'd better not post them till i work out how to make em smaller
    Have you got them saved in Photobucket or something like that? In Photobucket you can resize them then re-post them here ;)
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  • kizzyw
    kizzyw Posts: 159 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Heres the baby hamper hopefully scaled down a bit
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  • kizzyw wrote: »
    These are for my cousin,her hubby and baby.

    Those are lovely :T
    Well Done !! :T

    May I ask where you got the boxes from ?
    Thanks
  • kizzyw
    kizzyw Posts: 159 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Thanks for all your kind comments:T
    My baskets came from various places The blue/white gingham ones i got from Home bargains £4.99 for a set of 3
    The Chocolate bin in the first pic was Matalan for £5 bit more than iwanted to pay but couldnt find any the right size locally
    The coffee and choc basket was from Wilkos if i recall was £1.99

    The seagrass lidded baskets and also the glittery parcel boxes came from JTF wholesale following a chance conversation with a colleague whose wife is a card holder.Havent as yet met her but told her husband i was after baskets /price etc and they very kindly brought me these.Seagrass set of 4 was about £7 or £8 the same ones or similar were in Instore.The glitter boxes were about £11 for 3

    The baskets for the JD hamper are the ones posted on here from argos
    Still got a couple more to do so will post more pics once finished.Just hope i dont make a hash of the wrapping:rolleyes: :o
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