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[Pink Chocolate]

Here ya go ... reindeer food, the poems and two downloadable tags. xx

was there supposed to be a link with that as im confused

[Hysteri-CAL]

was there supposed to be a link with that as im confused

Oooops I've added it now

Here it is again ...

[xxpaddler]

We do small paper bags of snowman poop, which is white maltesers... and small paper bags of reindeer poop, which is chocolate covered raisins or almonds.
always goes down well as a table favour.

[Voodoo Vixen]

This is a brilliant thread!! Will keep me busy for the next few months!!
Am loving the battery one.... definitely one for DS. In fact, they are all great!

[Voodoo Vixen]

This site had a cute little poem, which is nice for someone overseas or "across the miles":

On Christmas Day
At half past three
make yourself a cup of tea
I'll think of you
You think of me
underneath the Christmas tree

(You could use their little decorated pine cone idea or do something else tea-related... cup of tea and teabag or decorated tin of teabags, etc...

teabag 1.JPG teabag accordian book 3.jpg these are really quick and easy to do and would be brill with that poem!!

[Scrappy~Sarah]

Thanks for this....fab ideas and Cal you have really made me laugh this am
Defo trying some out this christmas as budget is a bit tighter this year (esp. for the fun tree presents this year)

[gillyp]

Brilliant thread, great ideas. The battery one will be done here too!

Not funny or quirky but fun anyway - ma couldn't afford cake and crackers at Christmas so she got enough little gifts for the people present (a bar of choc, stuff like that) wrapped the little gifts and tied each with a long length of ribbon. The gifts were placed in a cake or sweetie tin that she'd decorated with a paper frill that goes round a cake, the 'tails' of the ribbon were left to hang outside the tin and the top was a Christmassy paper napkin so the whole thing resembled a Christmas cake. Everybody grabbed a length of ribbon and on the count of 3 pulled so the gifts exploded out. Sounds tame but we kids loved it.

[USA2UK]

This site gives instructions on how to do photo transfer onto a plain bauble to make it an "heirloom Christmas ornament" ... I don't know if "Magic Bubble" is necessarily required... any of the gel medium stuff that people use for altered art would probably work

[mandijane55]

Bookmarking

[scrap-happyuk]

We are on a budget christmas so these ideas are just fab! I made mini christmas cakes for my family last year...you know the steamed sponged pudding tins? Just cut the top off (not both ends as it asks for eating the pudding inside!) and use them - they don't take long to cook and get the kids to decorate if you don't have the knack yourself

[Lesley Florence]

Some fantastic ideas ladies.
I am thinking of doing some for a friend as he has everything you can imagine and is so hard to buy for at xmas.
Thankyou
Lx

[Ali M]

wow...so many fab ideas!!!!

I remeber seeing one somewhere for a ..was it a weather worm???A plait of wool with a verse..if its wet -its raining...etc...anyone know the full thing???

[LME]

thanks for that, have put it into my favourites............

Sorry I went to bed early

Thanks Caz

[allyf]

These are all great ladies- especially Cal.

I did some of these a couple of years ago for a fete I did a stall at.

Put a hot chocolate sachet, a mint candy cane and some mini marshmallows in a bag and then fasten with a snowman tag, I cant remember the verse I had on mine but there are several here http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/ch...wman-soup.html

:-)

[Binky]

Fab ideas! Bookmarking!