I'm trying to come up with christmas ideas - I am making quilts, cookbooks and mini photo albums for some people- I would like to come up with more crafty ideas for home-made presents. Any ideas?
2007-06-12 08:37:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Ok, some ideas. Well, you've already talked about a cookbook. Back in 2005 my family did a kind of computer cookbook disc. Basically just collected online recipes, mostly from Food Network's website, and placed them in various folders depending on the type of recipe. Some of the folder labels were things like Beverages, Breads, Fruit and Vegetables, etc. so you'd know what to expect to find in each folder. Gave the disks out as gifts. However, I did one for my second cousins that was a PDF 37 page cookbook that they could just as easily print the whole think off the computer and have it bound as a regular book.
Another idea would be to make your own candles. There's plenty of types you can make. Of course you've got the typical votives, pilars, and tapers, which can be jazzed up in a variety of ways (like multiple colors and fragences). And with gel wax you could also produce drinks and ice cream candles. You'll want to get a hold of some candle making books for ideas and instructions.
A gift that you could use in conjunction to the candles would be etched or painted glass. Get an etching or painting kit from a crafts store, along with the type of glass you want. Then just put some designs on the glass. The glass can then be a container for the candle (kinda like a jar candle), a holder for the candle (votive holder or candle stick type of thing) or something to place around the candle ond down on it's holder (kinda like a oil lamp's chimney). Or the glass doesn't have to be combined with a candle. You could etch/paint a mirror, drinking glass, desert dish, ect.
Think about cooking as a gift. No, not necessicarily you cooking things like cookiees and breads and then giving them as gifts. You can certainly do that, and it is a part of this suggestion. But also, think about making flavored oils and/or flavored vinegars. Make cookies in a jar, bread in a jar, cake in a jar. (In case you don't know, I'm talking about basically layering all the dry ingredients in the proper portions for however much the recipe makes up and give them both the jar and recipe so they can make it up themselves.) Make up jams/jellies and they can spread them on their breads. Homemade pasta may not keep as long as store bought, but you'll not only be giving them something you made but also they won't have to buy it themselves for a little bit. Make up some homemade pesto and give it to them for use in soups, pasta dishes, etc. Heck, any and all of these could be used with some others in this suggestion.
Make up some soaps. Craft stores sell stuff for making "designer" soaps at home. Books on making it, molds for making it, scents, etc.
2007-06-12 09:59:37 · answer #1 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We do this for people we work with every year:
In a mason jar, we put all the dry ingredients of brownies or cookies or some kind of desert like that, and we layer them. All the person you give it to has to do is add the milk or eggs or butter in and stick it in the oven. After we put the lid on, we tie some Christmas-y fabric around the jar and print out the recipe for the desert, hole-punch it and tie it to the fabric.
Hope I gave you something different!!
2007-06-12 08:48:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some nice ideas recently - filling up glasses with festively coloured pebbles or lightbulbs around a candle?
Making models of trains with lots of artificial snow
As seen here - >
http://www.christmastimeuk.com/display_details.php?action=details&code=3802800&cat=6&subcat=>artificial
makes any scene festive.
These christmas angels are pretty fun
http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/feature/famf117gift/famf117gift3.html
2007-06-13 00:25:58 · answer #3 · answered by MarkeD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make selfmade cookies, candy and placed it on a 99C platter wrap up Christmas ornament that represents the guy (ex: if the guy likes music in line with danger placed his/her photograph on a music notice ornament) take a seem around the craft save, in line with danger you may make a pillow or something ornamental which may be hung. good success!
2016-10-09 01:47:36 · answer #4 · answered by brook 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why don't you go to Michael's arts and crafts and take some lessons in frame decorating, candle making, etc.
They also show how to do mosaic art.
2007-06-13 20:18:57 · answer #5 · answered by Primadonna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crochet....tree skirts & matching stockings.
2007-06-12 08:45:37 · answer #6 · answered by Bindy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what are you.... out of your tree?
2007-06-12 08:42:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋