As you've come to expect from HappySnapGifts, we specialise in the manufacture of photo uploaded personalised gifts and by far our most popular warming Winter and Christmas Gift is the Collage Photo Hot Water Bottle and similarly the same design where you upload many photos to our Collage Photo Microwave Heat Pack. I put my toothbrush in my metal mug of water after brushing my teeth and the brush was frozen in within a very short time before I had a chance to pack it away. The next step is to finish the raw edge of the pocket using bias binding, fold a 10″ bias binding in half encasing the raw edge of the fleece. Extra Long Hot Water Bottles whether they are for adults or Long Hot Water Bottles for Kids are very popular and create lovely character friends for your children at bed time.

This is about using a hot water soft bottle to provide sustained supplementary body warmth for those brave souls who dare to enjoy backcountry skiing (or snowshoe trekking). Once you have worn it once you will have your neck strap to the right level so all you need to do is tie one bow, perfect for cold fingers. Place so the right sides face each other, then sew up the side edges and an inch in from each corner on the bottom edge with a fractionally wider seam allowance.

DIY soft funnels made from simple Cotton shirt cloth that has been impregnated with diluted RTV silicone rubber.

Before we get down to the nitty-gritty, let’s play a game and decide which of the following you would cuddle up to in your sleeping bag to provide the most supplementary heat on a freezing alpine night. The few remaining items get jealously used to stuff my dry bag to make a pillow with nothing to spare. This wheat-filled bottle-shaped heat pad comes in a range of fabric and colour choices and can be personalised with a photo and name or message making them a great personalised gift. Change country: -Select- Albania American Samoa Andorra Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil British Virgin Islands Bulgaria Canada Cayman Islands Chile China Colombia Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Estonia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Iraq Ireland Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Maldives Marshall Islands Martinique Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Romania Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Sweden Tajikistan Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Virgin Islands (U.My preliminary observations under field conditions, while ski camping, showed that the below-freezing nighttime temperatures caused the soft water bottle to cool down at twice the rate as in my cold bedroom.

I also use a wine cask bladder in a DIY polyester bag with sewn tubes for forming carry handles with bush sticks. Using a specific heat value of water (4,182 Joule/Kg/K), I calculated the heating power of 2kg of water at 100C as it cools to 50C over 8 hours is only about 5 Watts.

Then they would come back to the safety and comfort of the high altitude tent and wait to summit other peaks when they chose. I experimented with burning drips of cooking oil in a tiny wood-burning stove by using the wood sticks as oil wicks.