Christmas present for dil

This thread has popped up in the Daily Mail.

I saw a post here that suggested a weekend break at centerparcs what great idea! Then I went to get it....as they have a 3 and six year old school holidays have to be accounted for. Researched half terms at her primary got the dates and prices had shot from £600 to about £1600. So no.
Perhaps I will buy her slippers.

As I understood from your message, she has everything materially but you can just choose an other type of gifts for her. I really recommend you to look through various experience gifts, it's such an unreal type because they're very interesting and give such nice memories! For example, my daughter got them for me not for once, I really liked that certificates for spa-salon, massage and art masterclass for quilling, I found a new hobby for myself after visiting it
Also what about her hobbies? Does she like anything except cool clothes and jewerly? You can get her for example an interesting book, tickets for concert/art exhibition, cooking gadgets, music CDs, cool pencils or wooden models www.kickstarter.com/projects/1469570445/wood-trick-0 if she's a creative person and likes art, good coffee or tea, also various handmade gifts like postcards, they're very beautiful and many people adore them too
And of course the last idea can be just money, in this case she can buy later what she wants, however is she has everything materially, I'm not sure if she really appreciates such gift...

i bought two sons and their wives similar joint presents.

One was a wooden bowl with a very rustic finish including a hole in the side. On the bottom is carved who made it, the date, and where the wood came from. Example ..... This bowl was made from an elm tree that came down on the xxx xxx Road following a storm in March 2016.
The second joint gift has the wood shaped into a beautiful lighthouse. It stands about 15" tall and the base has the polished root of part of the tree. Also stating the history of the tree.
The country roads where the trees were sourced are local.

Although expensive they worked out cheaper as a joint gift.

Another son got a leather coin / keys dish. It is made out of very thick hide leather and the corners are held together with rivets. Only cost £12 but would be impossible to guess a price. For his wife i got a hat and scarf made of finest llama wool, it feels as light as a cobweb and was crafted. It cost £45, a bit more than I'd wanted to spend but it is so lightweight.

We usually spend around £70 on each person close family but it was getting out of hand for 4 offspring, their wives and 6 dgc.

This year we've tried to make it around £35-ish and overall doing quite well.