Christmas is coming! 2007 - merged thread

piglet6

There's also this website, which is the US one, but you can probably find somewhere in the UK which sells the same sort of thing. It says that shipping outside the US is done on an order by order basis, although with the £ so strong at the moment against the $, it might not be as expensive as you would think...in particular, I was thinking the freeze-dried astronaut ice cream , which would be quite light weight-wise...?!

http://www.thespaceshop.com/hosware.html

Piglet

nikflo

got a result for my mil for xmas, she has an old gucci watch and i managed to get her a few diamond bezels for next to nothing, and i found a lovely revlon small make up bag in the 99p shop that i will be putting them in.

still have no idea what to get my mum. am thinking of doing my nan an "afternoon at home hamper" and filling it with a word search book, nice tea, a coaster and a dvd. need to think abit more on that one!

Sallys_Savings

bestpud wrote: »

Well, you all have me inspired to get off my bum and avoid the usual last minute panic buys this year!

The days out hampers sound great and I'd like to do one for my niece and nephew (and ds and bil) using Tesco vouchers. I was thinking of the Space Centre in Leicester as not too far away from us and it has good reviews. I know my nephew is into space at the moment too!

Does anyone have any ideas what I can put in with the vouchers with a space theme? Nephew will be 9 just after xmas and niece is 8.

Tia

How about the stick on glow stars which they can stick on their ceiling from Tescos..I think they were £1.29 a pack.

somethingaboutshopping

TerminallyShortOfCash wrote: »

OH MY GOD!! I'm so far behind it's unreal!! I'm having a massive panic now because I'm usually much more organised than I am at the moment! DS was born four weeks ago and I'm just beginning to get into a routine now where I can sit and make Christmas things. So far I have knitted a bag, a scarf and a pair of fingerless gloves. I've found a pack of 50 blank ivory cards and envelopes for £5 which I'm going to get and decorate for xmas cards and I've seen some lovely bottles in Selfridges for oils and vodkas which I'll flavour. Was planning on making some soaps, bath bombs and bath salts too as well as chocolate truffles and calendars with piccys of DS on. So much to do, so little time left.... *worry worry*

Are you CRAZY! From what I know of motherhood your role at the minute should be constantly wondering when you will next get a chance to shower! Hee hee, I can understand why you are stressed but look at the list of things you already have. You are doing great! Oh and also congratulations on the new addition to the family :T

savvy

dollydaydream07 wrote: »

best friend - pamper hamper so far - warming stones gift set(avon £8, reduced)perfume gift set(recycled from last years pressies, i love the perfume but not opened it yet) and im thinking of getting her a gift voucher for a massage at the beauty salon and im not sure what else to put in it???

What about a body scrunchie, they do them quite cheap in Savers and in many different colours, and perhaps a facecloth in the same colour, also those wooden massage things are quite cheap in places, cotton wool balls, a cooling eye mask, and a facial cleanser or perhaps free sample sachets of things like cleanser, mask, toner, moisturiser

LouiseJ

Just been to an out of town outlet shopping mall & Whittards were having a half price sale on loads of gift sets to make way for Xmas stock, they were selling their hot chocolate for £2 (mentioned in a previous post) which comes in loads of flavours (Irish Cream, Mint, Orange)etc and loads of other items half price Chip & Dip sets, tea for two sets etc. Staff said that sale will be finished by Friday.

Also Crabtree & Evelyn were selling loads of stuff for less than half price I normally never go in because its so expensive but you can bag a bargain at the moment. They will also wrap items and if you mention that its for a present you might be lucky enough to get a nice gift box thrown in for free, I got a gorgeous rose gift box which must have been about £4 to buy. You don't get if you don't ask!

Think I will go back again tomorrow with some more of my Xmas savings & see if I can get all the presents for females.

Hope everyones planning is going well.

annaangeluk_2

TerminallyShortOfCash wrote: »

but I do like toffee vodka. I add werthers originals to a bottle of vodka and leave to dissolve. Voila!

hth
Tsoc

That's an awesome idea! Thank you! If you add a couple of werthers does it make it extra sweet? I have a left over bottle of vodka from when I catered my friend's hen night so i'm going to use that ot make toffee vodka!

What kind of bottles should I put it in? Would clean(obviously!) olive oil bottles work?

Thanks!

TerminallyShortOfCash

somethingaboutshopping wrote: »

Are you CRAZY! From what I know of motherhood your role at the minute should be constantly wondering when you will next get a chance to shower! Hee hee, I can understand why you are stressed but look at the list of things you already have. You are doing great! Oh and also congratulations on the new addition to the family :T

:rotfl: I'm fortunate in that I have a particularly docile baby! All he does is eat, sleep and fill his nappy - doesn't seem to realise that he can scream his head off if he wants to! Not that I'm complaining

Not sure whether adding extra Werthers will make it sweeter - would imagine it would make it more toffee-ish tho. A personal favourite is to take a bottle of vodka and dissolve a couple of bags of skittles in it. The sugar from around the outside of the sweets forms a sort of crust at the top of the liquid (I dissolve them in bowls rather than in the bottles) and if you add lemonade to the vodka afterwards, the crust floats to the top and is yummy. Seriously high in sugar tho and definitely NOT a drink for an elderly aunt with diabetes!! :rotfl: I would think that old olive oil bottles would be fine. Selfridges do some gorgeous decorative bottles - shaped like stilletoes and things - for about £2.95 each including their stoppers. Still works out cheaper than buying a flavoured brand vodka.

Sorry - bit of a ramble.
Tsoc xxxx

TerminallyShortOfCash

In fact, I think it might be high time for a trial run of flavoured alcohols and lovely chocolate sweeties before Christmas!! I love Christmas! :santa2: :santa2:

mikeD

SueMaggie wrote: »

I'm doing a gardening hamper for a friend who is due to move house shortly. Just came across this on the Woolworths site - a Wilkinson Sword garden multi-tool reduced to £1.98.

http://www.woolworths.co.uk/web/jsp/product/index.jsp?pid=50844072



If you order to collect in store you don't have to pay postage (and Quidco reduces the price further).

Thought this was great for the price and would be useful for anyone else thinking of doing a gardening hamper.

I got one of those some years as a free gift with something or other I bought. They're really handy and very well made, I can recommend them.