What present have you bought that you are secretly chuffed with, share here.....

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Well got my dd a playmobil magic castle from e-bay with LOADS of extras which was fab but just found some alphabet cufflinks on www.hotcufflinks.com (are cufflinks hot?..... ) so you can get your dp or any other male in your life their initials, you can buy them separately and they only come to about £14 for the pair.....there you go thats mine...

thisis why I thought the rainbow in my room was too expensive! Grrrrrrr!

Wallace - that is the sort of thing my Grandma would have loved. She will also know it took some effort to get for her and will be all the more special Much better than lavender soap

Made me remember my Grandma.

The moon one looks great, DD has just started sleeping without a BF and goes to sleep for DH a treat - me she hates now! Perhaps a moon will help as she loves it

i got dd a plain dolls house from Toys r Us, i had a coupon so it only cost 45 quid and i got a £10 voucher when I bought it too. It has all the furniture and people included. Today i painted it. it has gone from drab to fab. it looks great and I have saved myself at least £100 on a ready painted one.

oh- gemmie- what colours and paints did you use?
I bought the same one for DD!

well we have done complete renovation to our house this year so I had loads of leftover pots of paint. i have painted the main house blue with white trim and pink for the roof and door. It looks like a giant cake!

xbox 360 elite with rock band game and kit

it has been the top of xmas lists from all 3 dc's last year and we couldn't do it..have saved all year and this year is going to be the year!

it is still top of all three kists.. ds2 even wrote to share in a pleading manner..

it will be to share though !

A chunky knit wrap from Blooming Marvellous for my pg sil, was half price, also used MN discount code - so a bargain!

A Polar Express Brio train set - have ordered it from the US. Ds2 will be in choo choo heaven.

got my dad a book. i couldn't think of anything to get him this year. It's an obscure book about the founding of the oil industry in the north sea. It was my dad's life yrs ago, being offshore, and he often talks about it in it's heyday,i think he'll enjoy it.

i hope.

we got my parents a really cool gift.

they like wine. months and months ago we were in a wine shop here in the UK and we saw a gift box of 6 bottle of wine. each individually wrapped with tasting notes for each. the idea is that you drink the wine then open the tasting notes. BUT my parents are in Canada. you can't ship alcohol to Canada. SOOOO we contacted the only specialty wine shop in the city they live in and they are doing up a box for us! and because the canadian dollar is worth half of the pound we can get REALLY nice wines! We are so excited about this gift!! They had better damn well like it for all this effort!

Oh wow weblette where did you get the polar express train from, my ds obsessed with it?

Argos are doing all the moon in my room, rainbow in my room stuff dead cheap at the mo.

look here

DD already has this overhead light in her room.

We have bought her this light to put over her bed.

Netto were doing doll's house for £30 + loads of furniture last week - don't know if thye've still got any left

Oh! and we got DS a bean bag chair. here
he's going to LOVE it!!
i have to highly recommend the company as well. prices were great and delivery was quick! and the bean bag chair looks really sturdy (and it's spill proof!!)

gemmie - it sounds gorgeous!
We haven't even built DD's yet, as we have nowhere to hide it she nearly found the box the other day when I was reaching something from the closet it's hidden in... but I have very firmly banned her (on grounds of 'it's dangerous- things may fall on your head) from there, so hopefully there will be no sneak previews.

these slippers for my mum, she's loaded, got everything, has lovely clothes and a gorgeous house. She is the original impossible person to buy for, but I think she'll love these because their kitchen floor has got flag stone tiles which are perishing cold in winter!

dd2 is getting a mini (electronic) grand piano from John lewis - cannot do link too techno stupid, she loves to bang on our piano especially when dd1 trying to practise and keeps asking for a piano of her own ...it just loos so cute, i am going to have to put a candleabra on top just to finish off the look.....

ds (4) was very specific about what he'd like: a castle, a rocket and a frog throwing a ball into the castle .
Good old ebay came up trumps, dh has been happily occupied pressing buttons and sniggering whilst buying various collections of mad looking knights with bonkers accessories from Playmobil, and I have even managed to rig up a stuffed frog (50p from Ikea yay!) so that it looks like its firing the trebuchet. All for very few pennies. Am loving ebay. Did I mention that?

I'm chuffed to have got my mum a tray with a beaded cushion for £7.00. Two pretty note pads for friends (one said she wouldn't buy her self those things but like them as gifts) all from Wilkinsons. My DH won't step foot in there so I'm pleased I didn't wait until we went Christams shopping together on Saturday

Oh! A dolls house for god daughter from GLTC that is now almost half price. I've been yes/no about this for over a year. So I'm glad I waited

Mamma Mia for me!

scifinerd - look on ebay, it's being shipped from the US but you may just have time.

2 handmade personalised picture frames made my very clever friend for my neice and nephew. They in box frames, have their names on, one has a fairy and one has a train.
They are gorgeous, my friend is very clever.

Gawd, awful typing below, sorry