* Rocking around the Christmas Tree * - It's the 2018 Christmas Chatter Thread

Treasurequeen

On eco friendly gift ideas. There is a company in Dorset that make bee flower balls for the garden that come in recycled packaging.

Another idea is A hamper filled with homemade goods or organic items in glass and recyclable packaging. Meat rubs in glass jars are a good idea.

Using the ribbon you get in a new top to hold onto a hanger, you can cut off and make ornaments to hang off them or use them with recycled card as gift tags.

I confess I am an eco warrior and have tried to be more eco with gifts this year. I’ve done An organic food hamper and gift voucher that I self printed for my parents.

I reuse bows and gift bags I just use sticky tape and the bows are like new again. I do love Christmas though but I try to reuse as much as I can. Not everyone is perfect or has the money, I’m glad I’m not the only one this year being more conscious. :j

Treasurequeen

Just a word of warning the Christmas cards in the works be careful as I bought three packs of 10 last year and only six of the cards overall were ok. Most of the cards had a defect on them or the envelope had rips in it.

nic2075

Happy Halloween. Tomorrow is the day I start to really think and look forward to Christmas :j.
I went into Tesco to see if they had any reduced Halloween stuff for next year, it was replaced by all the Christmas stuff!

Tesco did have the big tins of sweets back to 2 for £7 again. Also some nice loreal and other nice smellies gift sets reduced. I picked up some Impulse body sprays for the girls stocking.

freespirit66

PEPPAPIG

:bdaycake:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hope you have a lovely day and are very spoilt x

Oops 45 mins early

girlinayellowdress

happy birthday peppa xxx

murie

Have a fab Birthday Peppa!!

kerri_gt

Happy Birthday Peppa xx

On the subject of being more eco-friendly at Christmas - I now try and avoid cards and wrap with glitter or foil as these cannot be recycled - the glitter especially clogs up the recycling machines and is too fine to be effectively separated out.

If people are doing glittery crafts though, there are a number of widely available eco / bio degradable glitters on the market if sparkly bling is your thing

StokieBecks

Happy Birthday Peppa! Hope you have a fantastic day
Can't believe it is November!

murie wrote: »

Stokie- I noticed white tinsel in Wilkinsons yesterday, i think it was either £1 or £1.25, (it was you that wanted white tinsel wasn't it?)

Thanks for that Murie. Thankfully I am sorted now thanks to this thread and all the wonderful folk on here especially Kerri who found me some that matched what I already had and kindly sent me some when Poundworld was closing down.

We have been away for a few days and walked the illuminations at Blackpool again. Love the walk - all 5 miles of it. Felt this year it was exceptionally quiet (maybe because it is the last week of the lights)

I bought a lovely bag off the market - it's a snowman design. And I just couldn't resist!



Today is goig to be spent doing a few more cards for the school xhristmas fair so I have plenty of choice. Need to get some change for a float over the next couple of weeks.

Hope everyone is ok

nic2075

Happy Birthday Peppapig. Hope you have a great day x

describes

Happy birthday Peppapig! Have a wonderful day