Here's my handmade holiday roll-call:
- For the niece: A tulle tutu that's basically
this, but I didn't do more than one strip at a time.
- For my mom: I "handmade" a snapfish photo book (okay, so maybe that doesn't really count...), a
gift card holder, and some homemade biscotti from a recipe I found in a magazine.
- For my mother-in-law: I framed a newborn onesie that she gave my son. It says "Grandma loves me" and he outgrew it, so we framed it to remind her of how tiny he was. We included a photo of her holding him wearing that onesie and a set of his footprints. I also painted a sheet of cardstock with a gradient of the color green, stamped "A B C X Y Z" in white in several different fonts on it, and cut it into strips. I then arranged the strips into a "wavy" pattern just for some background texture. It sounds weird, but it turned out really cool, I swear.
- For various friends/extended family/coworkers: I needed a cheap gift that wouldn't take much time, so I made three batches of different kinds of soap and gave that in chinese takeout boxes. I actually have a photo,
woo. The labels should have been cooler, but I was broke and couldn't afford to buy the sheets that you can run through your printer, so I had to settle for using some individual ones that I already had. Thus I had to hand-write them.
- For my sister: Something awesome which I won't disclose because she's on this community. :)
Anyway, I'm a total loser and forgot to take pics of everything before I wrapped it, so I'll try to get some once the recipients open the gifts and post them after the holiday.