If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies, please do it here so folks can hide this if they want to.

EffiePerine, you can wrap stocking nuts like this HTH

My DSs are getting both cereal selection boxes AND toothbrushes in their stockings. Had not intended them to employ them immediately though.

The more recent fiddly thing for the palace was getting the big dress on the doll thing - it was such a pain to match u the holes so it stck together.

Policywonk: You know what you need, don't you. You need a spare key. You could leave it with a neighbour, or in a safe place in the garden.

oh did you?

i apologise for that but thank you

i havent even got dd2 any birthday gifts, i will be dashing about madly in between xmas and her birthday picking up a few bits for her

then it's my birthday, but thats generally something that is overlooked due to the fact i am an adult, and the time of year it comes

I want to get into it - the Ds's are getting really excited, and even their enthusiasm isn't helping me

anyway MUST get some sleep, night all

onebat how bizarre

hot or cold?

Needlepoint?!?!?! eah, if someone else akes it and sends it maybe! Then I;d put itin loft in January and like everything else I;d forget it was tere til decoration day next Dec, and still not fill it!

It's the pressure to feel christmassy that makes me not feel christmassy, if that makes any sense. There's nowt on the telly custy.

Pink palace here too! DS's calendar seemed much easier to assemble, but perhaps that was because DH did it and it didn't have tiny flowers.

What goes inside stockings?

This year:

Strange reedy pipe things that we will regret buying on Christmas morning but liked the seller's dreads patter
Bracelet
Sweets
Tangerine (always ignored)
Stange german wooden puzzle things
Harry potter things
A couple of books
CD
Toy car
Make up thing
An eggcup with their names on

All vv small

i dont feel xmassy either, i think not watching telly has really helped me not get into it this year

I know Lou - I started a thread on the 27th to wish you DS and my DS a happy birthday - bumped it a few times but think you missed it

My mother's birthday is on boxing day. My brother's is 2 days after that. My father's is at the beginning of january.

Is a pain in the arse - and have just realised that forgot to get birthday card for my mother. COuld just cross out "Happy Christmas" couldn't I? Have got her a present. THanks god.

hula, I would have thought you'd be a candidate for a nice needlepoint stocking. Not the big red fleecy stockings though, they're 'orrible.

bloody hell breakfast in a stocking is fab! Like soap on a rope!

We have pork pie for breakfast. NO idea hwy.

FC could also bring a toothbrush etc for the really slatternly parent. I'm loving this idea.

well I'm trying to get Christmassy - just not happening at all.

Maybe when the DS's get to pick something (quicky and easy that I can just chuck in the oven for 1/2hr and forget about) for their lunch on Christmas day I'll start feeling it...........

Yes, 20 minutes is very unrealstic! DD has the pink palace thing this year - lots of fiddly flowers. Thin the winter wonderland last year was slightly easier perhaps??

i always wanted smelly rubbers ( i know what you mean) my mothers considered it a frivolity. The mean girls at school used to steal them from WHsmiths, i just looked, adoringly at strawbery icecream rubbers

faq, my ds1 was 10 on the 27th nov too

also i have dd2 turning 12 on the 29th of this month

Oh dear. You should have come round here. (Long way to carry 30 bags of shopping though I suppose.)

You know what you need, don't you. You need a spare key. You could leave it with a neighbour, or in a safe place in the garden.

DD and ds have the playmobil ones. Didn't realise some sel=assembly required. 20mins my arse.

Those tiny fiddly flowers. And the boxes!

AW FAQ - I've been feeling so unchristmassy this year but this thread had cheered me right up!