Haas anyone else cleverly decided to make Christmas presents this year?

[FillyjonkthePumpkinEater]

If so are you also panicking mildly?

I have decided to make dd a waldorf doll
and dp a board game
and because I am making stuff for everyone else, will have to make something for ds

aaargh but not cheap rowan?

ok off to start cheap wool thread

Just started a sparkly poncho with pom poms for dd...

thinking of trying these knitted cotton washcloths

Going to make some chocolate fudge and peppermint creams. Also was thinking of making the normal Christmas cake, but chopping it up into smaller cakes and having those as gifts too.

Made DD a doll last year (from Martha Stewart's KIDS magazine), but she's not so interested in it, as it's not a rabbit doll.

Oh, oh, and I've always made my cards. Got to get started on them soon...

I'm making my 98 year old grandmother (who wants nothing for Christmas!) a box of handmade cards so she doesn't have to ask my mum to buy them all the time.

My dad has made BabyDragon a solid oak stool with a little carry slot in the top - despite the fact that it's solid oak and she will be unable to lift it!

ds1 has just put his salt-dough tree decorations in the oven, he has made trees, stars, moons, fairies and a lightening Mcqueen(from the lastest pixar film, cars!) We will paint them then box em up nicely and give them out just before christmas.
hoping that I will be the lucky recipient of the car though. as much as I would love to make prezzies, I am not as talented as my boy and would suffer serious present anxiety apon giving them out if I did.

I bet the Lightning McQueen will be fantastic, thankyoupoppet! Your ds1 is so talented.

Glad to hear you've been having a nice relaxing time and I hope you're not going to come home to a House of Horror (as I did this evening after only one day away - my dh had been home all afternoon and hadn't even put his coat away....)

ok am starting a new doll now

the other one looked like it was made from playdough. it was not right in the head

Filly, have you seen these ?
Beyond cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh whoah, that is cool.

ds likes to bf his waldorf doll...pref in his mini coorie...I wonder if it would be too recursive to make for Max (the doll) a sling and a baby doll...oh no but max is def a boy doll...but max could pretend to bf like ds...oh this is confusing.

my kids like nothing more than a nice dollies pushchair also.

(post the picture tick, gwan gwan)

Tried to put the pic on Filly, but it was the wrong type or the wrong size or something.
You made your ds a doll? My ds1 wanted a doll when he was little but I couldn't find a nice boy one. Didn't thinkof making one. I felt vulnerable and conspicuous enough living where we did then and was too cowardly just to say "sod everybody else" and get him one. Probably scarred him for life. Still, he makes up for it by loving dd2 to bits, so maybe it's okay.

lmao at the sound of Greensleeves Victorian Christmas.
Even the most redoubtable of Turkish housewives would not dream of making her own Turkish Delight.It is bought from the local pastane

GS,I salute you and your bravery.

My Turkish Delight is bloody lovely, I'll have you know, moondog!!

It was all a bit too much like hard work though, I don't think I'll be quite up to it this year

lol I know GS!
Living in Turkey on and off for three years has taught me that.They call it lokum
I can't wait to tell the Turkish women I know.

Reminds me of the time my sister (blushing new bride of 24) bravely prepared a foie gras for her French dh in her first year in France.

His colleagues were outraged that a foreigner would even dare to try.

It was damned fine though so the laugh was on them.

moondog - intrigued to hear you've been living in turkey. whereabouts and why?

(my father's side of family are turkish, hence my interest)

tick

here are franny's wise words

"Post the words bit first, then add a photo after you have started the thread

you have to resize the image and make sure it is a jpg, I think "

does that help at all?

I can't do resizing and I think I've got flu or something. A month of period-type pains suddenly worsened today and now I'm aching and shivering all over and pitifully hoping for a bit of sympathy. It's ds2's party tomorrow....
Going back to my blankets to drink lemon and ginger tea and stop hijacking in such a shameless way.

aw

can't you take some eye of dragon or summat? (only half piss taking)

that is crappola though

Smitten,my dh works in Van in the far east so I come and go fairly regularly and have done for three years.
I love it,andloveTurks (and Kurds) Such an ace place.
My dh works in agricultural development.
Whereabouts is your dh from ???