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

rosalie-lavender

pinknfluffy28 wrote: »

just been on the phone to a friend who i havent seen for a while, but her dd is same age as my youngest. we were discussing xmas pressies & i mentioned id got dd a couple of polly pocket sets as shes asked for them for ages. my friend told me id wasted my money, her dd had them last year and even then she was too old for them & never played with them. Does anyone have any experience with polly pockets? dd is 5, she loves lego & moshi monsters so when she asked for polly pockets (similar teeny weeny type toys) i leaped at the chance to get her something girly, as she doesnt really do dolls etc. Are they for much younger children? would hate to think ive wasted money on something she will only play with once or twice? im seriously considering ebaying the 2 sets & getting her more lego :-(

My daughter played with Polly Pocket until she was much older than 5. In fact she still has them and won't part with them and she's 18! I wouldn't give Polly Pocket to a child much younger than 5 because they have such tiny pieces in them.
The girls in the after school club I work in seem to love anything with little bits and pieces in right up until after they have moved up to the Juniors.

FeistyFidget

rsaini11 Those are beautiful! I plan to do this center piece for Christmas



And I am sure I will whip up a gingerbread house (or 5) now that I have all that cellophane

msgigglewick

Some wonderful crafts and baking going on! Treated myself to a chocolate house mould the other day with my profit from the knitting.. oh and the new look reindeer jumper too shhh lol

Got an elf to finish off today as it was a request for a smaller version of the one im doing, i may just make one more smaller version then thats it this year lol i've got a few bits i need to get done for family gifts before xmas so need time todo that.

im really in the xmas mood today! hopefully dd4 will humour me and request watching christmas mickey films again lol

Gettingtherequickly

I am so far behind at the mo, but thank you ever so much to those who answered my question on the Coke truck - got to see it, was fab, there was a little fella beside himself with excitement at the snow machine!. Had a bad day as something I had committed to before knowing about the truck had a time change and they still managed to tell me the incorrect time, so had to drop my coffee when I was rung to find out where I was:eek: And it went on for 1 1/2 hrs longer than expected, so I was completely panicking about whether I would see the truck, but it all turned out well

Also to whoever tracked down the truffle recipe for me, now copied an pasted into Word.

mandco

just a quick one amazon have
Bosch TAS6515GB Tassimo Beverage Maker, Titanium

on the black friday deals at 8.59am

moneysavingmumofone

Just popped on to say to Nanamia that I got an email this morning to say Tesco Direct are doing Free shipping to Australia until 7th Dec. Unsure of any minimum spend though. x

moneysavingmumofone

mandco wrote: »

just a quick one amazon have
Bosch TAS6515GB Tassimo Beverage Maker, Titanium

on the black friday deals at 8.59am

Thanks so much for reminding me of Black Friday, had a look and they have the Harry Potter complete bluray boxset for £17.99!! Thought I got a bargain the other day at £21.15! Just cancelled my other order and ordered from Amazon.

PRINCESSX87

Morning all,

Looks like i'll be spending most of my morning reading & catching up on the thread, Wow!!

Some of the cakes / crafts looks amazing.

So, I finally got out this weekend gone to make a start on my shopping and i'm kind of kicking myself as i knew i should have started shopping, Grabbing bits earlier in the year. As we was planning on buying a few bits from Superdrugs for OH mil - What would have cost us £16.98 last weekend, Would cost us £29 this saturday just gone.

So, Will be having a rethink on her presents as i cant bring myself to spent an extra £12 for the same products just 7 days later.

However, We did manage to cross some people off the list.

Truffles:
If anyone's doing these this year, Not sure if this has been said already but you can also do baileys ones for the adults just adding a drop of baileys to the cream mix

weeclick

Just sat in work this morning working out all what I still need to make within the next 4 weekends -

x6 hot chocolate mugs
truffles (white and milk choc)
chocolate slabs
mini slabs
fudge
x6 individual personalised dvd slideshows
reto sweet jars

all the novelty tags for all the above

Plus still have a few things to wrap and start putting the hampers together. Its only when you count in number of weekends you realise you have very little time left!!!! :eek:

ReformedShopaholic

Wow some great makes on here last few days.....nods to omo, kerrylm, kelly7, rsaini11.

spent ages looking for tags to match my paper that I bought in the sale last year without tags, never thought of making my own. Ended up with some that sort of go with it as I was so sick of looking.

Finished sewing the name on one stocking, possibly sewing a sprig of holly onto them at the suggestion of my niece who can't believe I am only doing names and nothing else! Depends how much more I can stand sewing after I have finished my name....though I have started to get a strange longing for a sewing machine! especially after looking up a tutorial online about how to do a particular stitch which ended up with me signing up to a sewing site who keep sending me ideas