My friend/university housemate has recently moved into a new home with her boyfriend, so I decided to buy them a few small presents to make one big hamper/parcel. Normally, I would have got her one big present, but seeing that I used to live with her, I know she pretty much has everything she needs. Plus, I just love the idea of making hampers.
I started off the hamper by buying some cards. Obviously, one card had to be a 'new home' card seeing that this is the reason why I am making the hamper. And the second card happened to be a 'Congratulations' card as she has recently passed some exams and got into Brighton University to do her PGCE for primary education. So proud of her!
Let me just mention here, me and my friend are obsessed with Cath Kidston. In our University house, you would have found it so hard to go into a room without finding something by Cath Kidston. We had teapots, cake stands, cutlery, the lot. So to keep with our old University theme, I got her a Cath Kidston keyring as I believe with every new house key you get you also need a new keyring to hang alongside it. And the Cath Kidston travel tag will be useful for her whenever she flies back to her homeland in Southern Ireland.
Here are the things I actually bought for the house. The first, which you may find a bit random, is some hand wash. Hand wash as a present you say? Well, when it smells like strawberry laces it is totally understandable, especially when my friend went her whole University life munching on the sweet laces. Plus, hand wash is always guaranteed to be used. So yeah, I've convinced myself it's totally a good idea to include this into the hamper. I may also have to buy myself some, as well as the coca cola and orange chocolate scented ones.
The second homely item is a porcelain milk jug in the shape of a milk carton. So cute! As soon as I saw it I just had to get it for the hamper....and one for myself. I thought she could either have it as a decoration in the kitchen, or use it for milk whenever she uses her Cath Kidston teapot when guests are over.
These two gifts were cheapies from Primark. £1 for each of them. And for the price, I just could not leave them. Seeing as it's summer coming soon, and I know she is a huge fan of a BBQ gathering every now and then, I knew these would be the perfect addition to the hamper. I thought the ice cubes would be a great idea seeing that every time we used to have a BBQ we'd always forget to make ice, so now she can just simply put these away and not worry about warm cocktails.
The ice cream scoop speaks for itself really. It just looks amazing, and even though my friend hardly ever has ice cream I know she'll still love this and will most probably buy ice cream just to try it out. I got to admit I can't imagine it being very strong seeing as it's plastic, so I just hope it doesn't snap straight away.
This small watering can decoration is a bit of a joke. My friend recently sent me a picture of a bit of flower planting she had done in her garden which came as a bit of a surprise as I never knew my friend had green fingers. So yeah, this cute watering can is included so that it can be placed in the soil amongst her pretty flowers.
The heart shaped decoration is made out of loads of small bells, which actually really annoyed me as I walked around the shop with it. It's just so noisy, but so pretty. Plus, you can't have a hamper without a small decoration for the bedroom or lounge.
This pretty paisley lunch bag was actually bought for my friend as a well done present for getting onto her PGCE course. On this course they are required to carry out a placement in a school, so I thought buying her a lunch bag will allow her to keep her sandwiches fresh during those long work days. Even though this is a well done present, I thought I may as well include it into this hamper.
And finally the chocolate. You simply cannot have a hamper without some sort of food, and in this case it is all chocolate.
To finish off the hamper I wrapped up every present in brown paper, and then tied up a few with some pretty string to give it that old fashioned parcel vibe.
Now all that's left to do is to send it and wait for her surprised reaction. Let's hope she likes it.
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