I’ve had a couple of questions as to what ‘Thrifty Christmas’ is about, so here’s what’s happened…
I was on Twitter the other night chatting to some of my fellow Mummy Bloggers and we were swapping ideas of cheap thrifty Christmas presents to make for family and friends. This year money is tight for most people and we wanted to be able to make nice, simple heartfelt gifts. After about 20 minutes we realised that it might not be a bad idea to pool all the ideas we’d had sweets, flavoured vodkas, chutneys, candles etc
As a result of this brainstorm, I’ve offered to host a ‘Thrifty Christmas’ Carnival from the 9-12th November. That should give you all a month to get ideas together and write some posts and then it’ll give other bloggers time to make the gifts. So have a think, any crafts, recipes, cards, sweets anything you make for family or friends and would like to share with other bloggers. One of my examples is these Tea Cup Candles I made last year for friends and as a teacher’s gift.
I’ll be putting up a Mr Linky on the post, so no need to send me anything just add your link when the Carnival is on.
I look forward to seeing what you all come up with! xx
(PS. If you’d like to add the Thrifty Christmas badge to your site, the code is on the left hand side of my page, just copy it all and add it to your site.)
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Hi Liz,
What a wonderful idea! I love it and I am joining in! Have a great weekend.
~Corinne
I am having trouble with the badge on my site….maybe it’s just blogger and I will try again later!
All fixed, thanks for letting me know Corinne xx
Hi,
It’s now just under 3 months until Christmas and I’m always looking for ideas for Christmas presents. This weekend I’m going to make a batch of Chilli and tomato Chutney to use up some of the bumper crop of tomatoes we’ve had this year. This will be great a Christmas with cold meat and also makes a great gift if you put it in a nice jar.
Linda
Fab idea as I’ve been thinking a lot about thrifty xmas ideas recently.
Great idea! I shall look forward to using some ideas.
P.S Those candles are lovely!
ooh what a fab idea.
Yay! Well done you! Glad you’re doing this.
I set up the hashtag: #EasyCheapXmas on twitter to capture some of these, see: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23EasyCheapXmas
I’m going to think of something if it kills me!!!!!!
there is an award waiting for you over at mine http://snafflesmummy.blogspot.com/
Christmas is coming fast and for those who are looking for a great gift for friends and family, go to Amazon.com or Barnes&Nobles.com and pick up a copy of my new fantasy novel, “Gateway to DreamWorld.”
They will curl up to a warm fire and enter a fantasy world filled with excitement and suspense
What a brilliant idea!!
My thinking cap is on and I hope to think of something or two!!
xx
callie
Great idea, Liz. Look forward to it very much. x
Just looking at this again. Wonder if I could do coffee & vanilla scnted candles in espresso cups…hmmmmm,
x
What a great idea! can’t wait:)) ohh, and love the candles! xxx
Count me in for sure!! Maybe this will inspire me to do a crafts for each of the four days (though as soon as I typed that I realized I was being a bit ambitious for me, lol!).
brilliant idea
definitely count me in, I’ll get my crafty thinking cap on
I have linked to this. I think it is a fab idea and we too are going to have a thristy, mum made christmas. PS love the new look.
Thanks so much! Can’t wait to see what you come up with for the Thrifty Christmas!
Fabulous – what a great idea! I’ve JUST started having a go at crafting and am determined to make my own presents for DD who is 8.
I’m rubbish at crafting, but am going to give it a go anyway and I might even branch out to some grown up presents too.
Can’t wait to read other’s ideas – thanks so much for setting this up!
My Mother In Law helped me out. She liked the Buttercup purse I made myslef from Made by Rae’s pattern and asked for one. She’s getting a Buttecup bag and I decided to make them for the other ladies and girls on my list. I made all but two from fabric I had in my stash too – yahoo! Now I just have to figure out something for the guys.
Hi – I have something that I would like to send you as an alternative to expensive crackers for the Xmas dinner table. Good luck with it, sounds brilliant and a great amount of support and interest so far – go you! xx
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