Xmas pressie ideas....

Hiya Nadine,

You don't say what type of age group, any children, elders.

Anyway, I bought 2 this week. My nieces have those build a bear toys, which have one out fit each, one is a pirate and one is a bride, sweet.

I bought them a new outfit for each bear, the pirate will have a purple wizard outfit, and the bride will have a witch outfit with bat wand, sooooooo cute.

I know they are topical for halloween coming up, but I thought they looked so cute, and I am sure their bears would love a new outfit for Christmas 😉

Oh no! I just typed pages of ideas for gifts and just quickly wanted to check a relevant website, thinking it'd open in a tabbed browser (Windows Vista styley) but it didn't, and I lost all my words!!!

Okay, a less wordy version now:

I like to make personalised gifts which a) save £££'s b) help the environment (presents that can be used rather than have no purpose) and c) show that you've given them time and consideration which makes up for (a)! Plus they're fun and different.

Home-made scented soaps and candles wrapped in jewel-coloured tissue paper presented in a gift box or other re-useable container (take a look around you for ideas - a pretty cake tin or terracotta plant pot, perhaps?) A food parcel of home-made goodies like Nigella Lawson's honeycomb recipe (see BBC website - I'm not going to try to find it again...)

Personalised memory box with decoupaged photos or ticket stubbs, coated in crackle glaze. Or start up a photo album or scrapbook for them to continue. A CD of favourite/meaningful tunes. Scan photos and put them as a slide show on a DVD with background music.

A small tree to plant or window-boxes ready-planted with winter blooms or evergreens. A nice idea for someone you love is to fill a pretty jar with 52 scrolls of paper, each one stating a shared happy memory or message of gratitude so the recipient gets a feel-good glow every week for a year.

I can't remember all my other ideas now but I'll post again when inspiration strikes if anyone is interested.

Cat x

A nice idea for someone you love is to fill a pretty jar with 52 scrolls of paper, each one stating a shared happy memory or message of gratitude so the recipient gets a feel-good glow every week for a year.

Cat x

what a beautiful idea Cat..........I have someone I could use that one for 🙂

What i do is i go to £shop they have lovely things (sometimes) last year found 3 fairy plates cost £9.99 each but cost me 3 pounds saving of £26.97!
also no harm in going to charity shops for nice things too.new things often for sale that people give awayI am surprised sometimes!

also book shops sometimes have boxes of reduced prices of books.

hope that helps,

Amethystfairy:)

How about contacting an organisation like World Vision, they do a gift catalogue where you can purchase chickens, seeds, etc to help those people they are working with in developing countries.

I usually ban the mention of Christmas in my house, but I recently went to a mind, body and spirit fair. I bought 3 identical gifts, its the Louise Hay (Heal yourself) calenders, but its the one that you rip each page off. On each page was an affirmation, so thought it would be lovely to keep the ones that resonate, ie keep it and put on fridge or stick on computer monitor. Also their birthdays, etc might be relevant to them too.

The other year I bought 3 of the same books, (gonna run upstairs to see what its called, as I already owned it myself):

(puff, pant) Simple Abundance a daybook of comfort and joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach. its written by an American so some of its a bit twee, but its a page for each day of the year and she writes things to do, or what she has done on this day,

heres an example

November 6th In real life, serenity depends on coping and coping well. Rising to the occasion. Consider the following scenarios. You have a flat tire on the way to an important business meeting. You find yourself locked out of the house. You discover your, etc, etc.

If anyone wants ISBN numbers, please pm me.

Some lovely ideas for presents but I'm still very much at this point with regard to Christmas :hidesbehindsofa:

well i am giving a lot of people this year a christmas cake,i did it last year and it went down very well. i have started to make them this week so i am spreading the cost over a few weeks, and people love a proper christmas cake

Gift ideas

Hi Nadine
I'm with you - I'm doing a Holistic Therapies course as a full-time student, while trying to work as well to support my credit cards! Anyway this year I'm going to do a combination of things for the family, and to make use of the training I'm getting I'm going to do some IOUs for them: IOU one aromatherapy massage/reflexology session/Reiki session/Indian head massage session. I'll probably do a sort of book or sheet of vouchers for them.

I've also got some beads and findings and I'm going to try making jewellery... as well as knitting and crocheting angels!

I'll look back here to see what other people come up with.

Thanks for posting in the first place!

I would say stroll through the malls to get an idea of what you are getting this early.

thanks for all your suggestions.... only 70-odd days to xmas now argh!!!!!!!!! i'm definately not leaving it till last min. this year. doing it all online to avoid the crowds and the queues. 🙂
i'll check back to see if there's any more ideas
thanks 🙂

Each year i think 'ill have a theme' buy everyone the same thing, such as all pj's or all perfume or all books, i then get waylaid by all the lovely things in the shops, but it all ends up the same, gift sets, smellies etc....this year i either have to send by post or over the internet, do you know of any internet shopping sites that deliver with something different, all adults, if all else fails i think it will be books....

Hi

I have to do a lot of my shopping on the internet, so I do get a lot of books as they deliver. But the Yankee candle shop is a great place to get something a little bit different as is Crystal Well being website also Thorntons have a website which is useful for yummy chocs, these all deliver and I've found them very good, but order early this year because of the postal strike!

If I think of any more I'll let you know!

Happy shopping!

Love Scrivo x

I Find having a box under my bed and putting gifts in throughout the year helps. (but as the year has gone..)
ABE (american book exchange) does really good cheap books ONLY do read the write up about it b4 ordering.
Moorplan in London has paper bags instead of wrapping paper,they can be re used the next year or for other things.
I like to get some greenery and make wreaths for the door or table or decorations for people
(just call me Marther Stewart) maybe not, she went to jail...:eek:
The ivy that is terrible around tree's and has those little clusters of bobbles is great to spray gold or silver and add some red (ribbon/bows) its great.
The Heritage seed library is a wonderful presant for green fingered people and they are protecting our old variety's.
I think its nice to go back to the way presants used to be made,they are such a treat especially food ones (unless like me you are a bad cook and by doing that you may have no friends next xmas,therefore no presant worries)
Helen
🙂