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Homemade Gifts
by Libbi Volert
http://www.fecgifts.com
Homemade gifts for family and friends are a great idea.
They give a personal touch to your gift-giving and save
you money in the process. If you have more time than
money, setting aside some time to created homemade
gifts created especially for their recipients can have
far more impact on those who receive the gifts, and far
less impact on your checkbook, than just about anything
you could shop for. Some useful tips for creating
home made gifts are given below:
1. Can you use stuff you have lying around the house? Try
making some edible goodies with staples from the pantry
that you have too much of. Take those bits and pieces of
cloth from your sewing and fashion a unique quilt or
clothing item. Take that scrap wood and build a new
planter. Are you missing some items to complete those
gifts? Which is easier and cheaper, buying the extra
stuff at the store or leaving your stuff be and spending
the time and money on more expensive, ready-made gifts?
2. Keep the tastes and interests of the recipient in mind
when deciding or designing. How can your gift cater to
those tastes and interests? One example of something like
this would be to go through your recipe collection, find
favorites that you're certain are unique to you and your
family, and package them in a gift box or a hand-decorated
binder as a gift for a friend that enjoys cooking.
3. Do you have a friend that admires a skill you posess
but lacks that same talent? Try making that person a kit
that merely requires assembly. Let's say you're an expert
woodworker. You have a friend who is mechanically inclined
but not so good working with wood. Try making a kit for
a deck chair, a picnic table, or a planter that your
friend would only need to assemble. By doing something
like this, you honor the friendship with a joint
creation that relies on both of your strengths to
be fully realized.
4. What kind of "junk" do you have lying around that could
be fashioned into an attractive, desirable, meaningful
gift for someone else? Partially used stationery kits
could be combined, put into a hand-decorated box, and
wrapped tastefully as a new, complete stationery "variety
pack" for someone else. What similar ideas can you come up
with from the stuff in your house?
You don't even need to wait until the next special
to get started. Search your home thoroughly now, collect
everything that you believe could be fashioned into a gift
into one place, then indulge your creative side and see
what wonderful gifts you can fashion from your castaways!
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