Fellatio's Poncetastic Christmas Thread 2011 is.....

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open for business. Knock yerselves out.

Oh Squitch that's fab! Well done you.

I have made nothing except a lot of lists and I'm making CDs for my sisters - tonight I've been mostly spending a small fortune downloading extra songs from iTunes ready to make the playlists.

And I have started some pinterest boards. Thanks to Pinot for the invitation.

Ooh, thank you for sharing the Cox and Cox codeGiganticus. I am going to spend this afternoon perusing and purchasing some overpriced and unnecessary festive ponciness!

Right I have completed the Christmas shopping for the children, and now have time to dedicate myself to frillier offerings so this thread has the honour of being first ever bookmarked link on my new Goggle Chrome bowser.

Ponce away.

More Xmas shopping done here too! Still totally behind on decorations front. It does not help that here there will be no Xmas stuff around until after All Saints.

Definitely want to make a wreath for the table though - the Austrian type, with the candles for advent etc etc. and one for the door (berries? Still undecided).

Have bought twin niece and nephew their Xmas gifts this week and have lists for the others - DD almost bought for, YAY!!

Made one of those advent table wreaths last year, well it was on a plate with the holly and ivy entwined around the candles - looked lovely so will def do again. Also decorate the fireplace with ivy and holly which looks gorgeous but makes lighting it a bit difficult - things we do in the name of ponciness

Halloween decorating is foremost in my mind atm tho as go overboard for that too

I am now on Pinterest ! and seem to have wasted most of my afternoon browsing it. I am now far too excited

Squitch that looks brilliant. Ive only got five more gifts to buy then i'm starting on some felt decorations and food to freeze. Ive bought a steak suet pudding and it has a hefty plastic pudding basin.

How do i make xmas pud in it? I mean so its done and warmable for xmas?

Pinterest is fab; am collecting dieas and want to get some of my own stuff on soon too

I have been invited to join Pinterest now as well, thank you Pinot.

Unfortunately, I have had no time to actually join or do any more Christmassy shopping so far this week. Harrumph!

I did do a bit at the weekend though:

• Ordered some red and white baker's twine and plain white wrapping paper to go with the red and white striped paper I bought last year and still have 20m left of.

• invested in a couple of metres of red felt for craft and card making purposes

• mulled over the idea of making felt-bead jewellery presents for a few of the ladies in the family, plus possibly some felt garlands for decoration purposes.

Haven't bought any big presents yet, but have quite a few stocking fillers for the dcs. Planning to order the bulk of the dcs presents at end of October when dh gets his bonus - if the boys will ever settle on what they want that is.

Dd (2.6) is a little easier, as I want to buy her a beautiful dolls house across Christmas and her birthday (which is in January). Problem is, I want to buy every single one I see and every room set and accessory too!

Squitch, I love your gingerbread men. Your sewing is much better than mine.

Ok, so I have finally found five minutes to sign up to Pinterest and have just tried to pin a couple of things to one of my boards, but all I'm getting is a little box showing my description of the item and no image. If you click on the little box the whole picture and text is shown, but you can't see it on the overall board.

here

Basically, to look at my boards, they all look blank, despite one of them now having 2 pins on it.

I used to be good at this sort of thing, honest, but it would seem I have now turned into my mother and become technically incompetent.

Oh, Madhatter, how annoying for you. Are you getting the choice of which picture from the webpage you want to choose? How about when you repin someone elses pin - does that work?

Oh, can I join in please. I've just had the happiest 15 minutes reading every post. I LOVE Christmas but after four here in Oz have been tempted to (whisper it) do the Aussie seafood thing thing year (surely lobster, crab, oysters etc. qualifies as suitably Poncetastic) but now I have seen the error of my ways and it's back to Delia, Nigella etc. I love the idea of Heston's brined turkey but don't know how the hell I am going to find anywhere cool in December!

Sunnyd we do the seafood thing on Christmas Eve usually (probably not this year after ds1 decided to rehouse an intact prawn in ds2's bed last year...), it is indeed poncetastic.

Not sure if we are eating turley or reindeer this year but either has suitable ponce value I think, doesn't mention I have a groupon voucher for posh mayfair butchers

Hi Orientaltation, it works if I repin from somewhere else on Pinterest, but not if I pin from another website.

The whole process of pinning appears to work right. It lets me choose the picture I want, type in a description etc and pin to the board I want it to go on, but then if I look at page of all my boards it looks blank. If I click on the board I've pinned to, the description is there but no picture and if I click on the description it launches the full page, completel with picture.

As far as I can tell, I did everything right, but it still didn't work. Am wondering if it might be something to do with being on a mac rather than a pc, or because I use Firefox. That doesn't explain why I can repin from other people's boards though.

Haven't looked at it yet today, so am going to go and have a play around and see if it was just some sort of error last night.

Hallejula, its working this morning. I was feeling so disappointed about it last night as the whole Pinterest idea is just what I've been looking for for a long time to help organise my thoughts on lots of different projects.

Has Pinterest broken on the iPhone? Or is it just me?

Hi all! I am preparing to make a tester limoncello today, which may form a large part of my hamper Christmas pressies this year, depending on how it turns out. Has anyone tasted their fruit vodkas that are on the go? I know loads of you are doing them.

Pinterest seems decidedly dodgy to me, it keeps working then not working, especially on the iPhone app version. Nevermind, it's worth it as it's so fab!

First poncey Christmas task here is mini Christmas cakes for teachers. Must come up with a theme. Any suggestions ?

I think these look lovely.

I always think less is more with little cakes. Last year I did plain white icing, edged the cake in red and white gingham ribbon and iced each person's initials on the top in red. I think you can see two of them in the hamper on my profile photographs.

Just looked. I forgot I decorated some of them with plain white stars as well - like the ones in the photographs. I preferred the ones that were completely plain other than the intials though.

Ah - not quite that mini, moose - 4" squares. I have done figures on the top (1 per cake - angel, FC, rudolph, snowman, etc) - I have done dark blue with stars and reindeer, and I have done plain white with snowflakes. Oh, I did baubles one year after inspiration from MN.

stealthsquiggle, they sound lovely. I neeeeed pictures! I love cake decorating, although am very amateur at it myself, I can waste hours perusing examples of other peoples work on the net. Cake porn!

moose - all my cakes are on flickr here - I don't have the energy to transfer them anywhere more useful, sorry...