❄❄ Let It Snow ❄❄ :: Christmas 2012 Chatter Thread

Chris25

for anyone doing a pot of gold - from this Thursday, ALDI will have a giant chocolate coin for 99p

and a 4 x packs of Haribo GoldBears also 99p

pinknfluffy28

OWNMYOWN - would you pm me your facebook page so i can be your friend pleeeeeease! I love seeing all your christmassy makes, they give me insperation to get a move on with my own lol :rudolf:

FeistyFidget

Wowsers you guys have written pages since I was last on this morning! It has taken me ages to catch up

I have had a wonderfully Christmas day, doing lots of Crafty things - will update with photo's of these tomorrow.

I had my trip to the 99p store and managed to spend just under £11! I only went in for a look My little Chihuahua's are no-longer fighting over the one mini hot water bottle as they had fantastic fleece ones in there! They look a bit on the cheap side, but my pups don't mind

I got a few decorations, and the awesome tree silicone moulds - these are going to be perfect for bath fizzies I also picked up a set of 3 glass cups which I plan to etch using my left-over etching cream and vinyl (I'm lucky enough to own a digital cutter) and fill with hot chocolate on a stick

Definitely feeling festive now! My challenge for the evening is to finish knitting my first pressie!

kaymumof3

i feel im getting there snowman soup made for xmas eve and also teacher pressies and av some left over for family members

have done my sisters hamper- snowman soup, snowman poop, sock monkey,Christmas novel,snuggly socks all ready used a shoebox wrapped in xmas paper

hoping to get some cellophane from lidal to finish it off

have 2day decided that we WILL do a roast after all so now writing a xmas menu/shopping list

anybody got any good recipes to use up turkey? i want to jot down some ideas as we always have leftovers

will ava catch up now

kraftykat

KMR1984 wrote: »

For my peanut butter chocolatey cup-type things (catchy name huh? ) I used:

110g digestive biscuits
115g icing sugar
130g peanut butter
112g butter (melted)
400g milk chocolate

I used the round chocolate mould from Lakeland as pictured here:

• First melt some chocolate (I use approx 100g) and coat the mould (bottom and sides) before popping in the fridge
• Crush digestive biscuits, add them to a bowl with melted butter and icing sugar and give them a good mix
• Add peanut butter to the mix and give it another good blast for a minute
• I used a teaspoon to measure out the peanut butter mix and squished as much in as I could, leaving around a mm gap
• Pop it back into the fridge for 10mins and melt some more chocolate to coat the tops
• Once you're done coating the tops, another 10mins in the fridge and you're good to go!

One note: This did make a LOT! I filled the above mould 3 times, so you may want to half it. Or not. It is damn tasty! :rotfl:

Yum Yum...thank you :T

bossymoo

Hi

Kids are done! Last one sorted today, I made a call to a dance school and booked my little girl in for a term of dance classes. She's only 2 but loves music, dancing, dressing up and they do a toddler group that offers a mixture of dance styles so they can see what they enjoy most.

DS is already booked for a football class too, he was so giddy after they did a taster session at nursery, so I called them up. Now I just have to work out how we can get to both on a Saturday morning, lol.

So, other than getting my gran some crisps I'm just about done! Even post off presents for my nieces abroad today!

jemtom

daisiegg wrote: »

Oh I love this thread so much I read every day but never feel like I can contribute as I am not crafty or making anything! But I do adore Christmas...does that qualify me to be here?

yes of course, its not just crafting on here its shopping and general x-mas chit chat

dinky_dragon wrote: »

Afternoon all

Hope someone can help me, does anyone know where you can buy a small bath? I'm sure a photo of one was posted a long time ago, someone had taken a photo of it in the shop-and for the life of me I can't find it. It might have been B&M but my nearest one is 30 mins drive so I want to be sure! It was to put bath bombs etc in I think. A lady was selling one on Facebook, I turned up this morning to pick it up but she'd lost it :mad:

Any help would be much appreciated!

think it was from wilkos hth

xx

Hanley25 wrote: »

Not feeling very christmassy at all today. Our car got broken into last night and the kid's in car dvd players were stolen. They were hidden away under the drivers seat with a coat over them but whoever it was must have known they were there as they were the only things stolen! Our car insurance company will cover the dvd players but dh will lose his 6 years no claims bonus. Trying to decide if it's worth it or not. Also gotta pay out £60 to get the broken window replaced. Not a happy bunny. :mad:

how awful!

Own_My_Own

jemtom wrote: »

i love your gift/card boxes they are great

Thanks, they are really easy to make.

Take a piece of 20cm x 10cm card.

Score and fold in half to make 2 squares.

Measure 5cm in at the top and bottom.

Score from this point to the edge of your fold.
(You should end up with a diamond inside your rectangle,like this )



Fold so that the edge triangles overlap each other.

I then punched a hole through the overlapped sides and tied it up with ribbon.

Hope this makes sense.:)

EDIT- Have done Pinknfluffy28

Own_My_Own

daisiegg wrote: »

Oh I love this thread so much I read every day but never feel like I can contribute as I am not crafty or making anything! But I do adore Christmas...does that qualify me to be here?

Of course it does. This isn't a craft thread, it's a Christmas Chatter thread.
Making things is just what we are chatting about at the moment. We do go pages without it.
I feel slightly to blame as I have just started a mini business making small gifts, and show what I have made each day on here.

You really do not have to make anything to be on here, you just need to be -

a Christmas Mad
b Just Mad
c Fruity Loopy
d Daft as a Brush

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wuvvies

your all so clever. i cant do anything crafty at all. i love christmas and spent sunday looking at christmas decoration. love it. ive done half of my christmas shopping and half is wrapped as well. it makes me feel really cosy and happy thinking about christmas