Well i FINALLY started my Christmas shopping. I am so far behind this year. Usually my cards are made and everything. I have not even made a Christmas card list yet....yikes!!!!!
Well at least I started my shopping. ↓
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| Name: Christina | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:22 PM |
| wow you're one step ahead of me. I'm usually out busy shopping for christmas gifts and what not, but i have a 4 week old daughter and simply don't have the time heh heh or the cash to buy gifts for anyone this year. It kinda sucks, christmas is my absolute favorite time of year too. Ah well what can ya do, I got my baby girl to make memories with. ↑ |
| Name: Layne | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:32 PM |
| I need to get with it. I just have no idea what to give my oldest son and his girl friend. They live together. I was thinking something for the kitchen. she has nothing. no canisters, nothing. I dont think she's into it. but I think my son would like those things. Its so hard. ↑ |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:33 PM |
| I have bought 2 gifts for my oldest girl. BRATZ stuff of course, and then I am making my mother-in--law a shawl with a really pretty purplish colored yarn. Then I am making a serving tray with pictures of the kids on it for my grandmother, my grandmother-in-law, my mother-in-law, my mom and one for my dad's girlfriend. I really need to work on the shawl thought, because I made one for my mom for her birthday and it took a month to make. ↑ |
| Name: Layne | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:35 PM |
| christinat you can do all the baking and if you arent into that get that frozen coolis dough. also microwave fudge is wonderful and easy. you could give a plate of cookies to friends or family. ↑ |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:35 PM |
| As for christmas cards, I always take the time to do them and then forget to send them out!! ↑ |
| Name: Layne | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:37 PM |
| I think I'll make a wreath for my moms door. she has been on me for a couple years to do it and I havent. I have the coolect santa ribbon to use and I want to find a old world santa to put in the middle. Or something on that line. It would be inexpensive to do and she will be thrilled. ↑ |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:39 PM |
Oh Christina, there are a ton of cute homemade things you could do for people. Especially because you have the new baby and all. People love things like that. My friend that just had a baby, I am making her baby her "First Christmas" ornament. She doesn't know it yet.
You could make people bath salts, or you can do cookies in a jar. Where you layer the dry ingrdients in a jar and then attach the recipe to it, so all they have to do is add the wet ingerdients and bake. If you want some more Ideas let me know! ↑ |
| Name: Layne | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:39 PM |
| I love to send out cards. I buy them when they go on sale the year before. so Im good to go . Im in the mood today to start. I have my christmas music on and am wishing I could nest instead of go to work. darn it. ↑ |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:41 PM |
| Call in sick!! Everyone gets sick! ↑ |
| Name: Layne | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:42 PM |
| good idea's thankyou. I saw in walmart where they had cookies in the jar and they were not cheap. they always have those santa jars or snowman ones that would work. Those would be good teacher gifts and my kids could do them. I think I'll do that.:) ↑ |
| Name: Layne | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:44 PM |
| Oh I couldnt Its truck day and they are so busy. But I only work until 3 so I'll be home in a flash. The trouble is I get out of the mood when i leave the house. ↑ |
| Name: Christina | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:44 PM |
| momof3~ I would love some more ideas, that's a cute one for the cookies in a jar. The one thing in particular i'm having trouble with is I don't have the slightest idea what to get my fiance for christmas. I was originally thinking I might get him a really nice wallet, considering his is crap. But I dont work right now so i don't have much cash and well any ideas would be great. ↑ |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:47 PM |
| Do you have a digital camera ↑ |
| Name: Lizzi | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:48 PM |
| I'm only gifting my son this year and he's getting cash. ↑ |
| Name: Christina | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:50 PM |
| yeah I got a digital camera ↑ |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:53 PM |
| Okay take some pictures of your daughter and her daddy, you know candid ones. Take puzzle pieces or cut out puzzle piece shapes on paper. Then glue all the pieces onto a cardboard picture frame, and then put the picture of the 2 of them or of just the baby and write out the words "Daddy I love you to pieces" He may like that being a new daddy. For everyone else do what I am doing. Go and get some cheap wooden serving trays, paint them then glue pictures of you little girl on it, put something on the back so that they can hang it on the wall and then when they need it they can use it. ↑ |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:54 PM |
| I wiil think of some other things that you can do. Do you knit? ↑ |
| Name: Christina | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 2:55 PM |
aww that's so cute.
Well I kinda knit..i'm not the greatest at it tho. ↑ |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 3:00 PM |
Well make a few scarves, they don't take much time. See with the new baby, people would love things like that. Just sit and think about what kind of crafts your good at, and then do a search on the computer something like "Free tips on homemade gifts"
Last year, I got some for rice packs. My grandma loved that. You just take a new sock, fill it with rice, put some scented oil in it and you have a neck wrap like they use in spas. Or buy some pretty and cheap material and sewing a rectangle and stuff it with rice. ↑ |
| Name: winnmom | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 3:02 PM |
| well today I can get a little more done. ↑ |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 3:04 PM |
| Christina, I could give you the recipe for beads and you can make them and them paint them and make braclets for some people, ↑ |
| Name: Christina | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 3:04 PM |
| ahh cool, thanks for the tips. I'm sure i'll think of something. ↑ |
| Name: Julia | Date: Nov 17th, 2006 5:01 PM |
| I am almost done! I got a lot of family and my husband done already. I started on everyone else though. I have to say, this is the first year I have completed this much, this time of year! I am normally one of those VERY last minute shoppers. Although when it comes to me, I can shop for a hundred people in one day! I love to shop baby!!! hahaha. ↑ |
| Name: saxton_emma | Date: Nov 20th, 2006 3:28 PM |
| Name: winnmom | Date: Nov 20th, 2006 11:50 PM |
| Name: momof3 | Date: Nov 21st, 2006 1:59 PM |
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