* It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year * - It's the 2016 Christmas Chatter Thread

Treasurequeen

Peppa the bagged up gifts look great is that celophane wrap on a roll or individual bags I could do with some like that, I hope the santa paws project is a success.

moneymission welcome back from your holiday, I agreee that there are some nice bits in the next catalogue.

Pavlovsdog thanks for the updated list, I wasn't overjoyed when looking on the boots Christmas page. It seems the same as last year. I did get my boots vouchers through the post this afternoon with various vouchers of money off Christmas gifts. So if you are signed up to offers look out for the Christmas envelope from boots filled with vouchers. :j Went into my local boots to pick up a catalogue and was told by a very rude lady that works there that the booklets were only delivered to the store yesterday and they aren't putting them out yet its too early.

In Homesense today they had a stand of Christmas stationary, they had noteblocks with candy cane pens for a few pounds.

Peppapig

Thank you all for your lovely comments. TREASUREQUEEN they're individual bags with little Father Christmas figures on them although they do other pics too. I got them on eBay £2.07 for 20 - they come with ties so much easier to use than cellophane.

04624181

Tried to put a pic up but got it wrong guys sorry xx

04624181

Hi guys, so sorry I have hope this link works to show my snow craft. It is homemade snowballs in a glitter bucket for an indoor snowball fight for the kids. ( white pompoms)
I am going to try and catch up xx

kaya1991

Hello!

Just caught up with the thread, will have to pop back soon with proper responses

Just to say that unfortunately I didn't pass my driving test today I thought it was the best drive I'd ever done, but I failed because when I pulled over on the left to let someone pass me on a very narrow road, the guy passing by slowed down a little bit to squeeze through the gap (which was admittedly tight, but I couldn't have given him any more space if I'd tried!). I don't remember this happening at all and it seems a little bit harsh to me, but there's nothing I can do now. Annoyingly enough the rest of the drive went brilliantly - I managed a perfect parallel park on a downhill slope, all the roundabouts were on my side and I really thought I'd passed when I got back to the test centre. Oh well, just another £62 and 3 months' wait for the next one, right?

On the Christmas front, I'm busy busy busy squirrelling things away - going to run out of space under my bed soon!

Hope everyone is keeping well

pavlovs_dog

Live so far:
Matalan http://www.matalan.co.uk/christmas/christmas-at-home
Lakeland http://www.lakeland.co.uk/Christmas
Marks and Spencer http://www.marksandspencer.com/c/christmas
John Lewis http://www.johnlewis.com/christmas/c5000025?rdr=1
The Range http://www.therange.co.uk/search?asug=&languageId=1&OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=9A76-CIZT-ORX8-KMTQ-1FBA-806G-ZU5E-YAB2&keywords=christmas
Debenhams: http://www.debenhams.com/content/christmas
Laura Ashley http://www.lauraashley.com/en/uk/icat/christmasshop#esp_viewall=y&esp_pg=1
Paperchase: http://www.paperchase.co.uk/christmas
Superdrug: http://www.superdrug.com/xmas/christmas
Next: http://www.next.co.uk/homeware/christmas-home
B&Q: http://www.diy.com/rooms/christmas/DIY908922.cat?icamp=christmas_SRD1&_requestid=2755 1
Lush: https://uk.lush.com/products/christmas
Very: http://www.very.co.uk/christmas/en/christmas.page
Dobbies: https://www.dobbies.com/christmas/
Boots http://www.boots.com/en/Christmas/
Dunelm http://www.dunelm.com/category/christmas

Added dunelm to the list. they have a lot of the foody type gifts that BHS would have stocked. Ikea also have their decorations online

nic2075

Just popping in to say that the Wickfields gingerbread jar candle is gorgeous! I fussy on candles and hate fake smells. But it really smells of gingerbread and a great buy at £2.99 as opposed to £17.99 for a Yankee one of the same size.

They also had candy canes for 79p and lots of lovely decorations x

Edit: these were in home bargains.

freespirit66

Evening everyone, i have had a great day for freebies, i had a £5 birthday gift from M&S so got a tin of shortbread to put away for christmas (its half price atm), then a £5 birthday gift from Paperchase so got my filofax inserts for next year and then DD1 won 2 free vip tickets to Vue cinema from work so we went to see Girl on the Train for free i treated myself to some YC votives 2 halloween and 2 new christmas ones the star anise and orange is to die for.

PEPPAPIG your mug christmas gifts look lovely and im sure will be very much appreciated, glad the Santa Paws is still going well

VULPIX i am here my lovely have been a bit off the last couple of days with DD1s bug she brought back from Jordan with her, then DS went down with it then me, but luckily i only had it for 24 hrs she has had it for 13/14 days and DS 7 days, i hope you can see the light at the end of the tunnel with your hard work in the garden

04624181 i love your snow craft challenge, the kids will have great fun!

NIC did you get the gingerbread candle from HB? I nearly bought it the other day it smelt fab in the jar but i wasnt sure what it would be like lit so thought i would leave it til next time

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Kaya sorry you didn't pass, sounds a bit harsh to me as well.
04624181 I saw a picture of your snowcraft last night the indoor snowball fight tin, it looked lovely-great fun for little ones.

Not much Christmassy planned today I need to get the decorating finished.

Have a good day all.

nic2075

freespirit66 wrote: »

Evening everyone, i have had a great day for freebies, i had a £5 birthday gift from M&S so got a tin of shortbread to put away for christmas (its half price atm), then a £5 birthday gift from Paperchase so got my filofax inserts for next year and then DD1 won 2 free vip tickets to Vue cinema from work so we went to see Girl on the Train for free i treated myself to some YC votives 2 halloween and 2 new christmas ones the star anise and orange is to die for.

PEPPAPIG your mug christmas gifts look lovely and im sure will be very much appreciated, glad the Santa Paws is still going well

VULPIX i am here my lovely have been a bit off the last couple of days with DD1s bug she brought back from Jordan with her, then DS went down with it then me, but luckily i only had it for 24 hrs she has had it for 13/14 days and DS 7 days, i hope you can see the light at the end of the tunnel with your hard work in the garden

04624181 i love your snow craft challenge, the kids will have great fun!

NIC did you get the gingerbread candle from HB? I nearly bought it the other day it smelt fab in the jar but i wasnt sure what it would be like lit so thought i would leave it til next time

Yes it was home bargains. Sorry I meant to say that in my post. I hate fake smells like fake vanilla, banana etc. And hate sickly smells, but like you said, it smelled good in the jar. I was going to leave it til the beginning of Novemener to light, but last night I thought I'd see what it was like and it smelled delicious. Not sickly sweet.
I love Yankee candles but can't always afford the big jars. So these are a great buy compared to their big jars.