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

freespirit66

Evening everyone, i had a lovely morning at Winchester Christmas Market with DD2 and her OH, they treated me to a lovely breakfast and a mulled wine, it was really lovely to spend some time with them. I didnt like how busy it was, it was heaving, as we were coming out the queue to get in was taking 10-15 mins!! I have never seen queues like it there before. Im paying for it tonight though with the fibro, i have four days to recover then i am off to London for the weekend

3FORHOLIDAYS oh no dont worry about not answering, i was worried i had put you on the spot and you didnt want to do it that is why i didnt mention it again

VULPIX love your crafty makes they are really lovely,

GETTINGTHEREQUICKLY mmmm i now want to make christmas rocky road and brownies for christmas, i am going to put them on my list of baking. Oh your poor mum, i hope she gets well soon!

3forholidays

Welcome to the thread Muffin Man 7! Never too late to join us.

Hope that you enjoy London Free.

Mrs_Ryan

Hi everyone
Hope you're all feeling suitably Christmassy- 13 days!
Just thought I would share the hamper I made for OH's brother and sister in law. We bought them a Dolce Gusto machine last year so this year we bought them a box of every variety of pods they had in Asda- 13 boxes :rotfl: OH just wanted to wrap them in normal Xmas paper but I thought it would be nicer to display them in a hamper. I had the cellophane already but as the basket was so big didn't want to wrap it totally so I just put the cellophane over the top. The boxes are padded round with self shredded tissue paper and I lined the basket with a sheet of tissue too. The basket is a magazine rack from Dunelm (only one I could find big enough to hold them all) and the ribbon is also from Dunelm. Very proud of it- think it looks lovely!

Spendless

Thanks for the ideas where to get Christmas bags. They must have sold out in a lot of places where I am. Wilkos just had the 50p ones I picked up. HB and Asda didn't have any. I ended up picking up a 10p bag for life one from Sainsbury's which was all they had. Later today I'm wrapping and transferring then I'll see what else I need bag wise.

I've booked today off work, due to attending a Christmas party last night, woke up with raging thirst and can't nod back off.

vulpix

Have woken with a rotten cold so that explains the sleeplessness yesterday.

We got 2 trees up yesterday.The house looks like a tornado has hit.Empty decoration boxes everywhere.I will have to try and tidy a bit as the plumbers are coming later.

Today is the day I go to a local school to road test the Christmas story my son has written.He is 25 btw,sounds like he is about 10!

I am getting excited now,not long to go.The decorations have made all the difference for me.last year we only had minimal as we were in a building site.I will compensate this year!

Hope everyone who is poorly is feeling better soon. Vx

vulpix

Sorry still not with it.

Mrs R the hamper is lovely.What a good idea for a gift.I would love it.x

Free I am pleased to hear you had a smashing time.I am like you,hate crowds.The thought of going somewhere like the Trafford centre gives me shivers.

lemonade_money

Hi everyone, I came and put a foot in your lovely Christmas door for a while, then I disappeared. I'm tentatively re-entering. I've had a bit of a downslide but am going to try to be more positive.

I have about 20 pages to catch up on, but just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the advent help a while back.

Hugs and love to all x

KnightRider

Hello all,


Nice to see a thread where people seem to be as excited about Christmas as I am! :-)


I've had a pretty good 2016 - I seem to be on a bit of a lucky streak this year, I won two big prizes one after the other in a charity raffle at an event earlier this year and then won another very big prize at random at a sci-fi event later in the year. I also got a promotion at work and also got to tick off a couple of things I've always wanted to see/do.


My only request for 2017 would be to meet someone special - that would be the icing on the cake for me! :-)


I'm very picky about what Christmas presents and cards I buy - I've been very busy getting presents for friends and family over the last few weeks. I really like to get the right present for the right person and it's not unheard of for me to spend a couple of hours in town looking for the right card for someone either. I know I'm strange!

LMG1305

Congratulations princesskitty, sorry to hear you're feeling so unwell.

I hope everybody had a lovely weekend. I did some wrapping this weekend, finally! I have family & friends gifts under my tree now, mostly wrapped and ready to go. I have to start the mammoth task of wrapping our daughters presents soon though as I have once again left it until the last minute and I am so busy this week too so looks like i'll be having marathon wrapping sessions next weekend. Problem is I actually enjoy wrapping when I have the time to wrap neatly and make the presents look pretty, but when I leave it to the last minute I get fed up after an hour so everything just looks like I threw the paper over it and hoped for the best http://static.moneysavingexpert.com/images/forum_smilies/laughing-smiley-014.gif

freespirit66

vulpix wrote: »

Have woken with a rotten cold so that explains the sleeplessness yesterday.

We got 2 trees up yesterday.The house looks like a tornado has hit.Empty decoration boxes everywhere.I will have to try and tidy a bit as the plumbers are coming later.

Today is the day I go to a local school to road test the Christmas story my son has written.He is 25 btw,sounds like he is about 10!

I am getting excited now,not long to go.The decorations have made all the difference for me.last year we only had minimal as we were in a building site.I will compensate this year!

Hope everyone who is poorly is feeling better soon. Vx

Aww i hope you perk up a bit for your reading session, good luck, i hope it goes well!!

3FORHOLIDAYS thankyou

MRS_RYAN the hamper looks fab, i would be so chuffed if someone made one of those for me