crafty for christmas 2008

rainmac

mum2one wrote: »

Cant believe how organised everyone is.

Don't be taken in, we talk a lot about what we'd like to do/ could do rather than get round to actually doing it :rotfl:

rainmac

Poohzee, love your journal jars

Brilliant present!

rainmac

Melissa, didn't mean to be slanderous:rotfl: I do remember you saying you were going to look at making your own

shaz_mum_of__2

Just a quickie

Aldi are selling tubes of knitting needles for £2.99(8prs i think)

Mary our wilko sells wooden doorknobs which could be used for "pegrails" only about 40p each ish??

Taking DS72 age 7 to a craft thing today making chinese dragons it's at council run arts centre and its free ,yesterday it was terracotta men making ,next week kites one day and yoyos another then next saturday theres a roman re enactment day in a nearby village with mock battles and catapults etc

All free too

Shaz

sammy_kaye18

mary43 wrote: »

sammy - you seem so organised. Good luck with the certificate. You did well to get back that far. How long did it take you ? I've been doing mine for about 7 years now and got back as far at late 1600s but only because I found contacts/relatives who had more info than I could ever have got.

Hi hun

Have been a bit illusive form my own thread lately - but am back now

just ordered bf a christmas present on Amazon today with gift vouchers i had managed to collect - had to pre order but it should be here in september so thats one thing done - im hoping i will be able to get him his wheels if i can pick up a few extra shifts at work once little one has gone to school because one extra 7 hour shift for me (which id be working will bring me in £40 a shift for each extra shift i do) so hoping his wheels wont be too much of a stretcha dn i think that would make his christmas if he came in and saw them sat under the tree.

Also managed to get the birth certificate for my mother in laws dad - cost me a fiver but mother in law knows as i had to double check details and she asked me to teach her how to use it so we should be doing it together hopefully. Plus at some point i will have to go and fill her details in too which reminds me she gave me a name earlier so must fill that in on my tree for her.

Mary - my mother in laws tree (baring in mind i started with only her death certificate and no other info) took me only 5 months to do and that was her mums mums side and her mums dads side too. i get very addicted to things though so am looking forward to getting cracking on this with her now once all the kids are back in school.

jane130

I was browing aorund earlier the way you do and found this cshopping list blackboard , sounds really easy to make

http://www.craftideas.info/html/coffee_shop_chalkboard_b.html

mary43

Thanks jane - something to add to my 'stuff to do list'..............lol
:j

jane130

lol that was my thought exactly mary ... along with now who can I give that too LOL

BigMummaF

This peg rack thingy for your grandson Mary--what about little dolly bags hanging from them so he can put his ear phones, phone charger, mp3 etc in them? Might that work?

Seeing as I'm sat here surrounded by wires for all of the above & then some, I'm contemplating making one for the computer corner now....

Anyone got Santa's e-mail so we can ask for a postponement this December
:rotfl: :rotfl:

mary43

Thats an idea BMF to hang all his gadgets on.......not so sure he'd want to put them in dolly bags though unless I could concoct some trendy 'male' looking ones...........oh............just had a thought............I sent about for some fabric samples from the freebies board -was going to use them for cards but maybe not. ! Some are grey, blue, & beige -I could use one as a 'pocket ' on his door hanger and the others to make holders for his mp3 etc. with a little luggage type label on each one (just so he knows what I mean otherwise he'll think Nans lost the plot total..........................lol

Thanks for that.............needed some cheering up..............our oldest lad went into the city today to cash his pay cheque (got sacked yesterday) -he owes us some money he promised us today and now has rung up to say he's lost his money and all his ID and has gone back to the bus station to see if its been handed in...........he's got a hope.......! So, I was really mad, mad, mad:mad: Ooops..............gone totally off 'craft' topic..........rant over..................lol