small preserve basket for friends

I made up a small basket with 3 different flavours of homemade jam made by myself with some roses to give it some colour. I then wrapped it in some lovely foil paper and wrapped it in cellephane with some curling ribbon a homemade tag and a couple of little balls

My friends Preserve basket for Christmas

This is my friend marys christmas present. I have been very busy making different types of chutneys and jams and wanted to make something personal for my friend so i made up this basket with about 10 jars of preserves, matchmakers, oatcakes, crackers and shortbread.

I also put in 2 long handled spoons to reach the bottom of the jars so that nothing is wasted.

I also made a pair of lovely blue stone ear rings and i made a red beaded bookmark which i wrapped up so she has a couple of more pressies to open on christmas morning.

The basket was a nightmare to wrap i wanted to wrap it in cellophane but i didnt want her to be able to see what was in the basket so i wrapped it in christmas paper first then wrapped it in the cellophane.

I added as couple of bows, gold ribbon which i curled and added a couple of baubles . I then made a couple of homemade labels using my bookatrix board and that as they say it that.

Now i have one for my parents to do and one for another friend.....not looking forward to them as they are longer baskets

ear rings for a friends xmas

Just sitting here trying to wrap pressies and thought i would make a pair of ear rings for my friend mary to pop in her basket of preserves for xmas. I also just finished a bookmark for her too which i will wrap seperately and pop into her basket. I made Mary a basket of all the preserves i have made over the last few months along with some crackers and sweet etc. I will post a pic when i eventually get it wrapped....not going to be easy.

4 pandora style bangle

I have not done pandora at all before

I got the lovely beads and bangles from hong kong and attempted to make some bangles

What do you think of them?

Anyone interested?

4 new necklaces

Had another play with beads this week and came up with this 4 necklaces.

now i'v'e made earring boxes

Now i have made some small earring boxes for the earrings i have made.

They were suprisingly easy and look so sweet. I added in some cotton wool for the earrings to sit on.

now i've made christmas tags

This is my effort for sunday i embossed all the tags using the glitter girls bookatrix board then cut then out and added some foam pads and layered them. I then added some peel offs and some wooden xmas embellishments

and then finished it off with some silver string.

This is just a selection of the tags i made today i sat and made 26 before i got fed up.....lol