Help with novelty birthday gift ideas

Jenny_Summers

Hello ladies and gents.. I'm after a bit of help please, my uncle's 50th birthday is this weekend and my mum has decided to go with a theme for the gifts that she/we buy him ( I say we because as of yet I haven't managed to find anything just right and my mum's gifts are getting pretty expensive so me and little sis will probably end up just chipping in with her). The theme she has gone for is things he loves music/ football and also cooking and gardening.. To give you an idea of what I mean here's what we already have:
-Sgt pepper pepper mill
- A 'punk' apron
- Man united novelty garden gnome
- An abbey road garden sign

My mum still would love to get something with Queen/Freddie Mercury on and also something to do with UB40, but I'm having a hard time finding anything to do with those 2 that fits with either the gardening or cooking theme.. My mum had visions of a Freddie mercury decorative fork and trowel set and an Ali Campbell kneeling mat and while, yes, those are quite specific and I didn't expect to find them, I was hoping to be able to find something but so far my searches have returned nothing.

I've looked on amazon, ebay and also just done general google searches with the terms- freddie mercury novelty/garden/gardening/ promotional/ memorabilia/ funny/ gift/ kitchen/ cooking/ cookware and the same for UB40.. I've tried combinations of those terms also and had little to no success. I've even tried looking at the image results for the searches just to see if these things do exist.. somewhere.

Can anyone think of anything that might return some relevant results? Or maybe even an online/ actual shop that I might try?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
thanks Jen x

jayjay88

The only thing I can see are Freddie Mercury T-shirts or costumes. There was a Freddie Mercury Lego man t-shirt that was quite amusing but I am not sure if that is what you are looking for. Just thinking maybe you are looking for something a little too specific?

Jenna_Appleseed

Jenny_Summers wrote: »

My mum still would love to get something with Queen/Freddie Mercury on and also something to do with UB40, but I'm having a hard time finding anything to do with those 2 that fits with either the gardening or cooking theme.. My mum had visions of a Freddie mercury decorative fork and trowel set and an Ali Campbell kneeling mat and while, yes, those are quite specific and I didn't expect to find them, I was hoping to be able to find something but so far my searches have returned nothing.

Buy some plain ones and create/customise your own with sticker paper/printable fabric/image transfers and internet images of those artists?

eta: Letraset does semi-transparent printable sheets (called safmat)
http://www.letraset.com/products/124-Safmat/949-Safmat-Film-A4/

eta2: if she's into Half Man, Half Biscuit and/Joy Division you could always get her some Joy Division Oven Gloves - or be easy to do some similar with transfer paper.

Jenna_Appleseed

Or you could customise something with Freddie Mercury Stickers - http://www.redbubble.com/shop/freddie+mercury+stickers

Haven't used them, so no idea what the quality's like/if the company's any good, sorry.

Novacanada

freddy mercury cardboard cut out. raise the stakes and bring a cardboard friend to the party....

lulubella27

How about some Freddie mercury plant pots? There's a pin on Pinterest I saw for covering those cheap plastic terracotta colour plant pots with fabric - if you can get the Freddie mercury t shirt you could try it yourself? I'm sure a google would tell you how to do it, but I think it was quite straight forward.