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

carlamarie_2

just an update as i have had some orders come in


updated xmas list with budgets*** red i have, blue is ideas, and green is what ive ordered and awaiting


mam £30-50 red spot brolly £1.29 (£13), red spot and blue paisely (different design on each side) pocket shopping bag £1(£2.95), red spot tissues 50p (£1), blue paisley tissues 50p (£1)

dad £10-15 thick hooded cardy jacket thingy £5(reduce from £35 £5-10 left

stepdad £20

dads girlfriend £5 brownspot brolly £1.29 (£13), brown spot and pink paisely (different design on each side) pocket shopping bag £1(£2.95), pink paisley tissues 50p (£1),

nanna 87 £10 avon perfume £3.99 (14)

neice 18 £20 probaly money/gift voucher

nephew 15 £20 probaly money or gift voucher

little brother 13 £20 probaly money or gift voucher

nephew 5 £20 gooey louie £4.24, sprayza blazta £3.54 £12.22 left probaly clothing/pjs or a dvd

neice 19months £20 dora the explora book and soft toy £2.58, build a bear koala and dress £5 (£19.50) £12.48 left probaly get another small toy and clothing/pjs

best friend 27 £10-20

best friend dd 8 £30-40 teeny meez £4.94 (£20) suki shoulder bag £1.95 (£3.95) to fill with the following; suki tissues 50p (£1), red spot umbrella £1.95 (13), red retro stop pencil tube £1 (£2.95), large red notebook £1.50 (£2.95), small red notebook £1 (£1.95),

friend 28 token gift about £5 zinc tealight holders x6 £2.34 (£23.70), coloured tea lights, i will wrap these nice and make them look good!

mother in law £40-50 red spot brolly £1.29 (£13), red spot and blue paisely (different design on each side) pocket shopping bag £1(£2.95), red spot tissues 50p (£1), blue paisley tissues 50p (£1) couple of jigsaws, a ds game, hamper made up of favourite sweets, some sort of gift set

father in law £40-50 hamper made up of favourite sweets, books, some sort of giftset, gardening hamper

with the inlaws, dh pays for their gifts but its generally upto me to pick their presents. they only recieve gifts off us and dont really bother buying each other so i like to get them a few things to open. mil is a little easier to buy for but fil is a nightmare!!!

in addition to this i also buy my mum, stepdad, mil and fil a littel something off the kids saying 'nanna' and 'grandad' usually about a fiver each, so another £20

carlamarie_2

LalaGomay wrote: »

Dunno, but a lot of babies are born in September...

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

can tell how occupied my decembers are, not one of mine are septemeber babies

SCFC1961

Thank you so much for the Adopt a Reindeer info - just ordered for my cousin :T

my3girls

LalaGomay wrote: »

Dunno, but a lot of babies are born in September...

haha quality!

My adopt a reindeer came today which is fab as i only ordered yest! I made a list of who ive to get for xmas for and im shocked at how unorganized and lost for ideas that i am.

I want to do a gardening hamper for my mum, but i know nothing about gardening so no idea what to put in it lol.

Doing a basket full of bounce for my fil's g/f - she is tigger mad so going to put tigger mug, milicano coffee (her fave), a tigger film cell and probably other bits if i can find them.

Other than that im stumped - and feeling panicky!

J
xx

Possession

Woohoo we're on 50 pages!!
My 2nd reindeer adoption thingy came today so that's their xmas eve hampers almost sorted. Now need to keep my eyes open for those all-in-one fleece onesies at a decent price.

carlamarie_2

my3girls wrote: »

haha quality!

My adopt a reindeer came today which is fab as i only ordered yest! I made a list of who ive to get for xmas for and im shocked at how unorganized and lost for ideas that i am.

I want to do a gardening hamper for my mum, but i know nothing about gardening so no idea what to put in it lol.

Doing a basket full of bounce for my fil's g/f - she is tigger mad so going to put tigger mug, milicano coffee (her fave), a tigger film cell and probably other bits if i can find them.

Other than that im stumped - and feeling panicky!

J
xx

with regards to the gardening, i did dh one last year and im doing fil one this year.
i also know nothing about gardening but i went to wilkinsons i think it the back end of septemeber and near enough picked one of everything off the shelves
ended up spending about £14 and when i added it all up (cos im sad like that:o) it was over £68 worth of goods :T:T:T
it included everything from hand tools to seeds to twines/nets to everything else i have no idea is!

added to this i bought some potato sacks and double pack of strawberry and tomato topplers from argos a couple of weeks after the wilkos sale for £1.99

my plan is to stick with what i know and do it again this year!

Rebel_Hedgehog

Our baby is also due in September. I've bought the excellent book The Night Before Xmas from amazon USA (out of print edition - widely known to have the best and most authentic drawings from any published edition)

Anyway, I plan to start a tradtion of reading it to our child to be every Christmas eve. Can't wait to start traditions such as this

murie

Rebel_Hedgehog wrote: »

Our baby is also due in September. I've bought the excellent book The Night Before Xmas from amazon USA (out of print edition - widely known to have the best and most authentic drawings from any published edition)

Anyway, I plan to start a tradtion of reading it to our child to be every Christmas eve. Can't wait to start traditions such as this

We did this when our kids were small_ they are 22 and 16 now and they each have a copy of this marvellous story (as did me and sis when we were little). They come out each christmas and the kids have both said they are cherishing them for thier own children! (not yet I hope- I waaay too young to be a Nan !!!!)

kayandy_2

The only tradition we had when I was growing up was thT the tree etc went up on the 12th as its my sisters birthday although our Xmas was still always magical without the traditions but when I have my own kids I'd like to have traditions with them! I now do Xmas eve hamper & the raindeer food and Santa key with my little brother he's 3 I do this while my mum and step dad are doing their last minute bits that they have to do

Rosygirl

Rebel_Hedgehog wrote: »

Our baby is also due in September. I've bought the excellent book The Night Before Xmas from amazon USA (out of print edition - widely known to have the best and most authentic drawings from any published edition)

Anyway, I plan to start a tradtion of reading it to our child to be every Christmas eve. Can't wait to start traditions such as this

We have done this since our oldest was born, we now have three boys aged 13, 11 & 7 and they take it in turns to read, each one wanting to get the last page. I don't get a look in anymore, just sit and listen (just as well as eyes are usually too full of tears!).
We must have about 10 copies of 'The Night Before Christmas' as I collected them before the children even, but we always read from the children's edition that my mother gave to DS1 on his first Christmas.