OS Christmas Support thread & timetable

Rachie_B

1st of november kyle ?!!! lmao 1st december is soon enough for us
hubby wouldnt allow me to put the tree up any earlier i dont think !

and i think even myself and the kids would be sick of the sight of it after all that time lol

pink fibre optic sounds good

aww tine thats a lovely idea

fake for us ,real make too much TBH

whats the "in" tree for this year ? last year was black fibre optic wasnt it ?!!!

Rachie_B

mrs-moneypenny wrote:

i brought a gorgeous fibre optic twig type tree for £3 at the car boot a couple of weeks ago its about 3 foot tall white but when you plug it in it changes colour (not as tacky as it sounds) for the main tree we have a fake one now as it goes up 1st week in dec.
It used to go up christmas eve after the girls had gone to bed when we only had 2, we told them santa brought the tree and decorated it (it was a real tree and i used to put the decoration box in the with santas mince pie and sherry. But as the family grew santas work load increased and the kids wanted to do the decorating so now its a fake one earlier

just had my prima delivered there is a christmas traditions suppliment with it that has some lovely flet decorations in to make. some nice recipies as well

i nabbed my sisters supplement today :rotfl: :beer: some fab ideas in there

loving the simple table decoration with apples etc in !

purpleimp

tine wrote:

Real tree Am going to make decorations for mini trees for my grandparents (I fold stars from ribbon and make little decorations from stamps )

Hi tine, any chance you could let us know how to make these? They sound goregeous!

Grace

caravanlover

fake for me too, i have a white tree, great really pretty with multi coloured lights:rudolf:

QueenB.

I know many of you on here are already really organised pressie wise but my organising starts this coming monday. I have all the lists and ideas ready so it will just be a case of starting to find what i need and organising my time to make sure all H/M stuff is finished in plenty of time.:D

Rachel021967

I found this on the freebies board. https://www.eyegas.com/xmas05/ My daughters like it as they say it's proof that sprouts are bad for you.

Queen.Bess

Rachie_B wrote:

i nabbed my sisters supplement today :rotfl: :beer: some fab ideas in there

loving the simple table decoration with apples etc in !

Same here! I love my Prima magazine and the supplement came at the right time to get prepared for Christmas!

Not doing too bad 'recycled' presents wise and yesterday was very pleased when DH's family agreed to a £20 per couple max spend in order to save money. This is very good considering SIL wouldn't have even entertained this thought a year ago and MIL can save her money as it has been known for her to spend over £100 on each of us (her 2 children plus OHs) in the past!!

Also bought M&S shortbread tin on Friday, whilst on offer and that's gone upstairs until 1st December! Will probably encourage DH to make Christmas food list this afternoon and then we can buy items a few at a time rather than in one big shop!

BWZN93

furrypig wrote:

Just got an email to say the Now christmas 2005 album is on offer for £5.99 delivered.

I love listening to Chrimbo music when I wrap my pressies up, which might be soon if I keep doing so well!

Oh its at 101cd.com

ive just found 'various artists - rockin around the christmas tree' for £1.79 delivered at http://www.thehut.com/hut/6505216.product

Jo x

Roz_V

Well that's my roll of cellophane bought... paid £20 from my local florist and its a huuuuuge thing!! Will keep my friend's in hampers for years to come!! :rotfl:

Bought a few things for my parents' food hamper when i was in Spain last week... some locally made honey (BBE 2008... should have bought some for next Xmas :rotfl: ) and some locally produced sweeties. Wanted to get some local wine etc but ran out of space All that's left for them now is to make chutneys - which I must do this week or it'll be too late!

Sister and SIL's "Winter Warmers" are just in need of some marshmallows to be complete, other sister, and most friends done... just one or two bits left to get for a pamper hamper, and then presents for the lads (I need Xmas and Birthday presents for my OH, FIL & Friend's OH) ... I'm stuck on those...

Also I'm stuck on where I'm going to keep all my hampers once I've cellophaned them up as they won't just fit under the bed like they do when in bits!! :rotfl:

MrsTinks

purpleimp wrote:

Hi tine, any chance you could let us know how to make these? They sound goregeous!

Grace

Hmmmm triiiicky... let me see if I can find somewhere on the web with star instructions The little Kraemmerhuse and Julehjerter (sorry don't know if it's possible to translate those) I'll have to take pictures off to show you all not a problem just need to get round to it

This btw is how a traditional Danish x-mas tree would look the hearts are handmade and the designs can be indefinitely varied

and this page has the star instructions... they're in Danish so I'll look for an english translation the size of the star is dictated by the size of paper/ribbon you use http://www.julidannevang.dk/klip/fletstjerne/fletstjerne.shtml