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Tuesday 18 December 2012

Are you hanging up your stocking on the wall?

My friends literally amaze me. Take one of my old friends from school for example. We set a £5 limit for Christmas presents this year to save a few pennies and give ourselves a bit of a challenge to see what we could actually come up with on such a small budget (A fiver really doesn't go very far these days it seems...). And voila, this is what £5 can get you if you think a little creatively. 




Such a simple idea spending £5 on chocolate but I know I'd never in a million years have thought to present it like this! If you're stuck for last minute ideas for a Secret Santa present or just are looking for a little stocking filler for somebody then give it a go and try your hand at one of these. Grab a selection box, a couple of candy canes, a jolly looking santa and some other delicious bits and bobs and you're sorted! I'd been adamant that I was going to make one for whoever I pulled out of the hat for Secret Santa in work, and then I pulled out the one person who doesn't like sweets and chocolate (crazy woman...) so had to go back to the drawing board on that one. 

I was given this back at the start of December and I'd been showing incredible willpower not digging into it all, instead just making full use of it as a cute little Christmas decoration. It lasted until I got back from my work Christmas dinner the other day when for some inexplicable reason I decided that a three course meal hadn't quite filled me up and so I NEEDED to munch on a box of Malteasers afterwards. 



5 comments:

  1. Aw this is a really cute present! I love the way it's all wrapped up too, looks really pretty. I'm impressed you managed to resist for so long to be honest, I would probably have had it all munched within a few days! xx

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  2. Such a nice present- so thoughtful and much for exciting than the 'cheapie' stocking fillers most shops sell of stuff you'd never even use! Amazing willpower you haven't eaten them yet! xx

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  3. Gaaah i am a stickler for prettily wrapped presents too, this is just beautiful xxxx

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  4. lovely i like this entry a lot, great idea


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