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

cornishorchid

All those having trouble with their truffles, try adding 1/2 again of melted chocolate, as this should make it set firmer (so if you used 100g of choc, add another 50g)

chickywiggle

"Evil" fairy?? carlamarie??

The playpen worked will with DS1 (he was 2month old for christmas 1, 14m for christmas 2 and 26m for christmas 3 so I think it fell well with being outside the 'testing boundary' of being too young to be told off but old enough to understand (DS2 is 18m this year)

DS2 sooo wanted to put the star on top (daddy lifted him up last year) but we didn't have a table or chair high enough so he "let" me do it.

They have their little white tree for their room from Poundland last year which has lost a leg so DH has to make a base for it - I offered to buy a new one today but DS2 wouldn't have any of it.

I am LOVING this idea tho and soooooo tempted to make one.
No idea where I would get a big enough bit of felt from tho..................uh oh found some

Nanamia - glad DSiL is feeling better.

sugaJen

cornishorchid wrote: »

All those having trouble with their truffles, try adding 1/2 again of melted chocolate, as this should make it set firmer (so if you used 100g of choc, add another 50g)

Ooh thanks, ill try this tomorrow

LalaGomay

moneysavingmumofone wrote: »

LalaGoMay-I am planning on tinselling the sh*t out of my whole flat at the weekend, I will be sure to put up pics of every room. I am striving to be known as the crazy christmas lady.

:rotfl:
I must remember to send someone up in the loft to get all the decorations down this week. My tinselling the sh** out of everything and everyone shall start Saturday morning. Something worth getting up early for!

autumngirl

ReformedShopaholic wrote: »

....Weirdly he wanted the kitchen roll but not the toilet roll. Maybe sometimes you can go too far? Normally I would have said yes I'm having it and thrown it in, Think it was more my decision not to get as I just can't associate foxes with Christmas.

M&S are also doing Christmassy toilet roll and boxed tissues with 'festive' foxes on. Thankfully I wasn't that keen on the design as it wasn't that cheap! I ended up getting some kitchen roll in Wilkos, £1 for 2 rolls - I bought The Snowman design (as in the Raymond Briggs Snowman rather than any old snowman!) but they also had a nice Nordic style reindeer design too if that helps anyone.

Betsie2010

Thanks moneysavingmumofone - Fred Claus followed by Johnny Depp in Chocolat helped!! Have ordered couple more Christmas DVDs from Amazon to try to keep the Christmas spirit going.

Hope your ds is not in so much pain now. I used to get ear infections a lot when I was little and my Dad used to warm a (clean!) hanky on a hot water bottle and hold it on my ear. Eventually I'd fall asleep and to me he always healed my bad ears!

chickywiggle

ooops bought my green felt (I have a stash of smaller coloured squares to make decs with).

hmmmm - I may stash chocolates.................have just found some tree decs left over from last year ............... ah welll it takes a while for choccy to go off doesn't it. :rotfl:

kaymumof3

we have decorated the house!!!

our tree is white and we have decorated it with a red white and blue theme in fil's memory 1st year without him and oh thought it was a good idea as fil was a big rangers fan

i have also started 3 candy sleighs i have the candycanes topped with kitkat so far and nxt time im in town im getting minisanta and mini choc pressies from 99p store these are goin to be the name setting for the kids if i get round to it i might do me and oh a pot of gold

im getting there with the prezzies we are having to be very careful with the pennys this year and times flying by, bills being payed n never much left over eek

i found the elf story in £land so that's a bit more towards our Xmas eve hamper the £land and 99p store are proving very useful found thinsulate hat and gloves in there so that's dads prezzie along with what i picked him up after fathers day reduced sorted

another bargain from £land this week were travel squinkies a little case (crown,diamond,shell)with 3 squinkies so got some for my neices so slowly but surely we are getting there

have got quite a few things lined up for our activity's advent calendar crafts/baking/seeing santa,xmas lights etc so lots to look forward too

tinkermcjingles

Had a lovely day at Manchester Christmas markets. It really made me feel Christmassy. Didn't buy anything but just loved walking around. Liverpool markets on Friday with mum :-)

LalaGomay

Had been planning to go to Exeter shops and Christmas market this week, but now the trains are under several feet of water.

Poor Exeter. Hopefully it'll be all better in a week or so!