treat vouchers
(page updated dec 2013)
here’s what i wrote last year. an ideal last minute present, and perhaps even better this year as we’re all creditally challenged ?
We’ve made some ‘treat vouchers’ for our girls for christmas, and it struck me these are a brilliant last minute or additional christmas present for a friend or family member. Best of all, they are individual and needn’t cost you any real money if you don’t want !essentially you print off the voucher, cut them out and staple to produce a cheque book of lovely treats, such as:
- For younger children:
- A trip to the fun park
- A day out with just mummy or daddy (your choice)
- A free room tidy
- Stay up 30 minutes late
- Use mummy’s nail varnish
- Trip to feed the ducks
- Free bag of sweets from the supermarket
- For older children
- Dinner of their choosing
- Lift in to / back from town
- Pamper evening at home for them and a friend
- Video evening with friends
- Trip to the cinema with a parent/friend of their choice
- For Adults
- Luxury home restaurant evening (you’ll organise food/drinks/family waitress etc)
- Luxury home spa (you’ll organise the candles/bathstuff/music etc)
- Trip to the cinema (you’ll organise the babysitter etc)
- Home wine tasting with 2 friends (you’ll get a few bottles in and create a DIY wine tasting experience at home)
- I’ll do the housework this week (new idea!)
- I’ll do the supermarket shop and put it all away (new idea!)
- I’ll do the laundry and ironing and put it all away (new idea!)
If you want to download my template, i’ve put it in my flickr account here . it’s a 2MB download, which you can get to via the ‘all sizes’ then ‘original’ above the image here
There are 5 on a sheet – we’ve made cheque books of 10 vouchers, so that’s 2 pages (for those who are mathematically challenged)
Let me know how you get on and the kinds of things you put on the treat vouchers and i’ll add them to the list
UPDATE (after last christmas): just to let you know, jane says it was her bestest friend julie who gave her the idea of the vouchers, so credit to her excellent self is due. And the vouchers themselves went down a treat and esther says they are amongst her best present ! huzzah.
hassock of the week
a nice festive one this week. i’m a bit low on hassock stocks, so unless i find a church with a rich seam, hassock of the week might have to retire mid 2009 !
catching the christmas tree
so, yesterday morning, the girls and i went to cut down a tree at the local tree chopping place. it was twice as expensive to chop a tree down than to chop your own, but it’s a tradition now so we have to go through with it
unfortunately the stock of trees seems to be reducing each year so it took us quite a while to find one we wanted. we also did more checking for dead branches after last year’s ‘dead stick’ look.
here’s kezia at work with the saw
eventually the beast was felled
and then it was back home to get it decorated before it had realised it had even been dug up.
and this year, just to prove we’re especially holy, we’ve got three angels (that’s a triangle)
bike on railings
i walked my old route to my old office yesterday and it was great to pass the old ways and see the things that used to inspire my pictures. like low sunlight through railings.
dive
i wasn’t sure whether this was pointing at a particularly poor nightclub, or whether i was meant to jump down a drain. so i did neither and went about my business.
xmas lunch
i had my last work christmas lunch yesterday. here it is
lots of christmas songs all at the same time
ever wonder what happens when you sing 11 christmas songs all at the same time in a fish restaurant ? here’s the (noisy) answer.
merry christmas
classic british christmas lights display.
