An excellent gift for a new bride in the family would be a cookbook of all the family favorites.\u00a0 Add some stories and maybe old photos of family gatherings to go along with the recipes.\u00a0 Put together some dry mixes of some of the recipes to get her started.\u00a0 Wrap it in a nice apron, maybe even one that belonged to a relative.<\/p>\n
For kids, a great gift that can be added to is a Dress Up Kit. Get an old suitcase or two and fill it with old clothes that you don\u2019t wear anymore.\u00a0 Include hats and shoes. Now and then, add more items to the box. Ask other relatives to contribute to it as well. If you have pictures of family members wearing the clothes, print them out and decoupage them on the outside of the suitcase and then coat with a clear finish.<\/p>\n
Do you have a flower garden during the year? Save the petals, dry them and make your own potpourri.\u00a0 You could buy cinnamon sticks to add another scent and texture.\u00a0 Put it in small containers or mesh bags.<\/p>\n
Everyone likes to snuggle up with a soft blanket on a cold evening.\u00a0 You can make a blanket and never sew or crochet a stitch.\u00a0 Purchase a piece of fleece the size that you want your blanket (the clerks at the store can help you figure out the right amount).\u00a0 Simply cut fringe in about two inches from all the edges about an inch apart. You can either let the fringes hang loose, or tie knots to make a pattern around.<\/p>\n
Homemade cookies, fresh from the oven, are a great treat.\u00a0 A lot of people just don\u2019t have the time to make them.\u00a0 You can make a frozen cookie kit.\u00a0 Mix up a batch of their favorite cookies. Roll them out into balls and flatten them slightly.\u00a0 Flash freeze them by putting them on wax paper on a cookie sheet until they are solid.\u00a0 Remove them from the sheets and place them in a freezer bag.\u00a0 Bake for two to three minutes more than the normal time or until golden brown.\u00a0 They can be baked in small batches, even in the toaster over, or all at the same time.<\/p>\n
Another nice handmade gift could be writing a poem for a family member.\u00a0 Poems don\u2019t even have to rhyme.\u00a0 Print it out in a nice font or in calligraphy if you know how, and put it in a nice frame.\u00a0 It\u2019s a gift someone will treasure for years to come.\u00a0 You can have kids help write one for different family members.<\/p>\n
An easy poem type project is to take someone\u2019s first name, write it along the left margin and then think of a word associated with that person for each letter. For example, Sue could be Sweet, Upbeat and Energetic or Bob could be Brave, Outgoing and Baseball.<\/p>\n
No matter what your homemade gift, be sure to include lots of love in the making and it will sure to be a hit with it\u2019s recipient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Everyone loves getting gifts that come from the heart.\u00a0 What shows this better than gifts made by hand?\u00a0 While this may make some people panic at the thought of trying to make something arts and crafts, it really isn\u2019t that hard to make a nice gift for someone. An excellent gift for a new bride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-holiday-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}