Finished baskets!!

earthmother

What about a Lego Star Wars keyring? You can get them on ebay from around £4

There are three Potato Heads - Darth Tater, Artoo Potatoo and the Spud Trooper. £5 is about the cheapest you'll find them, so Asda looks like a good bet.

I'll keep my eyes open for anything else - would solve a few problems for hubby's present too

chuchies..x

www.firebox.com they have some really good gadgets and a few starwars bits and bobs good luck..x

claffys

ccastley wrote: »

Help!

I'm doing a rather extravagant (not very MSE of me, I know) Star Wars hamper for my husband (who it may not have escaped your attention is a big kid), because he's worth it!

I've managed to snaffle episodes 4, 5 and 6 off Play.com for a fiver each. The things I still want to get and am looking for cheap prices are these:

- Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga for Xbox 360 (Not Lego Star Wars 2)
- Episodes 1, 2, and 3 on DVD (Ebay's been rubbish so far!)
- small bits and bobs, sweets, figures, etc - cheap ones

Please let me know if you see any around, it would be much appreciated!

Thanks to all the wonderful posters in the past few days as well - I'm plenty more inspired by the hampers and some of the tips - especially the bow making one.

Cheers!

I got some Yoda bubble bath from pound land :rotfl:

Emms

ccastley wrote: »

- Episodes 1, 2, and 3 on DVD (Ebay's been rubbish so far!)

Amazon have them but its £40 for them all.

Emma

Sea78

I discovered Instore for the first time today on recommendation of this thread - and OMG! Had practical palpations in there - just WONDERFUL!! SO cheap. There are various things I saw there that are the cheapest I've seen - Bratz dolls half price etc. I didn't get much as am really trying hard not to spend too much. I did get a fabby football lampshade, which I'm going to use at the 'hamper' for a friend's little boy and fill it with cheapie footie themed things - will line with strong cardboard though - it was only £3.

I also got OH a little pack of FHM minis for £2.99 which I thought was good This is for his hamper, which is slowly growing.

I will be posting some photos shortly of the hampers I've completed - tonight if i can, but it might be tomorrow if I can't work the camera! I have spent quite a bit so far, but would have spnt a lot more on rubbish that I'd spent no thought on had I not gone down this route. I need to buy cellophane - how much do you think I will need for approx. 8 boxes? How many metres do I need to get?

Sea xxx

Sea78

This one is for my friend -
tin bath - £5 from Matalan (3 for £15)
matching towel (at bottom, not seen) £3
flip flops - 19p (bodycare)
tealight holder - 37p
candle (in holder)- 33p (part of 3 set for £1 from Instore)
Mango body butter - 50p Ethel Austin
Manicure set (a freebie)
Various free avon sachets (free in an avon hamper I won)
Dove soap- 39p
Boots weekend pamper set - 3 bottles/tubes - £2
Radox - £1 Tesco
Exfoliating mitts - 99p - body care
Cleansing wipes - £1.24 (on a BOGOF)
Total - £15.01 - I do intend to add a couple of other bits - cheapie things, but near done. I'm going to get some paper to shred for under the towel to umph it all up a bit and will rearrange it a bit better now I've seen it on screen.




This one is a little more expensive- but I used vouchers!!
Tin bath (as above) - £5
2x candles - free!
DVD 1 - free with amazon vouchers from surveys - £3.99
DVD 2 - free with amazon vouchers from surveys - £7.49 odd
Exfoliating mitt - 99p
Angel book - £3.99 - free with amazon vouchers
Fleecethrow (undersneath) - £1.99
Hair serum - 50p
Candle in tealight holder (37p Tesco) 33p for candle.
Chocs - Tesco finest - half price - £2.50
Avon hand cream - free with win.
Avon sachets - free.

I will get a few more bits- when I can get the quidco code working on Amazon.

Total so far - £11.68

As above I will rearrange - and turn the bath round!!

Bit scared but I hope they will be well received.

I am doing a lot more hampers as well, so will upload pics when they are all completed.

Sea xxx

sophiesmum_2

They both look lovely Sea. I would love to receive either of them, and lots of bargains in there too:T :T

kizzyw

Both look lovley,im sure the recipients will be over the moon.....if not send one to me;)

Boomdocker

Some one mentioned Instore a couple of posts up,. I popped into my local one last night just as the assistant was price reduing the baskets!! I too nearly fell over with excitement. I only picked up 3 as storing them is difficult. I snaffled a small lidded wicker basket £1.50 from £3, a small seagrass hamper £1.20 from £1.50 and a white lined willow basket £1.60 from £2.00.There was lots of stock and many were great prices before the reductions but hey it all helps. Might be worth revisiting your local store.

Lara

I am soooooooo inspired by this thread I have got my baskets and cellophane & ready to go!! I got a beautiful old fashioned wicker basket with a handle at my local charity shop in the week. Even though it cost £4.50 it looked as though it had just been gathering dust in someone's house. I love it so much I think I may have to make myself a hamper so I can keep it! :rotfl:

The one thing I would like though is some shredded paper/tissue to put in the baskets. Apart from buy some paper and putting it through a shredding machine - which I haven't got - can anyone give me any idea where to look to purchase some. I have looked back through the thread but didn't notice any. I would prefer tissue as it looks so much softer:).

Many thanks :j .