My daughter got the neatest Christmas gift from her nephews last night at our family Christmas get together. The boys had added pictures of themselves with neat sayings to pages inside a recipe book. Examples of sayings were: "Can you cook fish?" taped to a picture of one of them fishing on a page with a recipe for fried fish. The gift was the hit of the evening and they'd only used about two dozen snapshots scattered throughout the book.
Who else has a great idea for a creative, inexpensive gift?
Who else has a great idea for a creative, inexpensive gift?
Speaking of recipes. One year my mom gather all the family recipes that her mother had handed down to her and new recipes that she enjoyed and put them together in a really nice binder with pictures cut out of magazines (this was before computers)and gave it to a daughter-in-law.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I make home made candy and put in little containers for gifts. My niece is making people in the family that wear glasses, glasses cleaners. She is taking baby diapers and cutting them into four pieces and heming the edges with a surger and making little glasses cleaners for your purse.
ReplyDeleteIf I could bake, I would make a batch of cookies or cake and give that as a gift. My cousin is great at making scrapbooks.
ReplyDeleteI've always given away jellies that I had put up that year, everything from stawberry to apple jellies. Tie a scrap of christmas material over the lid with a pretty little ribbon and there you have it.
ReplyDeleteGrreat ideas. My friend used to do the jellies and we loved getting them. I'm going to bake cranberry-nut bread for my neighbors. I make the small loaves, wrap in it clear wrap and tie it with a red bow with a sprig of holly.
ReplyDeleteAnd, remember, I'll be picking today's winner of a book before bedtime tonight.
Several years I made wine jelly and gave for gifts. The easy part was that it was made from wine, sugar, and pectin. The fun part was that I used wine glasses that I picked up at garage sales or goodwill. To seal I grated parrafin, put a layer on the jelly and wet in a warm oven to melt. With a pretty ribbon or a handmade beaded ring on the stem they were a big hit.
ReplyDeleteVirginia - I love your niece's idea of glasses cleaners. I never thought of using diapers to clean glasses.
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