Crafty People please help me

katiecoodle

Hello all - I'm looking for inspiration for Christmas presents for a hard-to-buy-for couple who are seriously minted (:mad:) and related to me (:D)
What do you buy for the person who has everything? A few years ago I thought of buying them some nice pens, but then after visiting them I realised that even their biros are £100+ !
So it has to be something home-made. Last year they got a hamper but now they've moved abroad (try to stem the jealousy people ) so it's going to have to be something easy to ship, or small enough for a visitor to take with them.
I'm going to give an oxfam gift but wanted something for them to open that was homemade. But I'm a craft novice - any ideas? (PS I love the journal in a jar ideas but I don't think they'd go down too well)
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C_J

Hmm .... tricky

I recently had to put together a birthday gift at very short notice for someone's 30th. I spent a day searching the internet for things which had happened on the day they were born - news items from around the world, records in the charts, sports results, what things cost, who else was born that day, who died etc etc. I even managed to download copies of the cover of the Radio Times from the appropriate week (the BBC site has loads of helpful things for this kind of project).

I then cobbled it all together into a personalised scrap book, tied together with ribbons. The person absolutely loved it ..... maybe you could do something similar for each of your relatives, or a joint one for the day they got married? It's cheap and easy to do, but people are generally knocked-out that you've spent so much time and effort in putting something like this together.

smileyt_2

Do they read? Could you make them bookmarks? Maybe macrame or lacework, or with quotes from their favourite authors. And a book token. OK, so they're minted, but just a cheap book token with a note saying, "this gives you permission to spend all day in a bookshop"? I don't know - everyone I know is as hard-up as I am so I've never had to buy anything for anyone who has money!

sandy2_2

So they live abroad, somewhere hot I assume, so there will probably be a lot of flies....
Make them some old fashioned lacy covers to go over glasses, jugs, sugar bowls etc. to keep the flies out. I live in Spain and do these myself using thinnish lacy doillies found in second hand shops or market and finish them off with decorative beads round the edges to weight them down, everybody admires them. Another thing would be those large covers a bit like umbrellas without the hand;e to put over food while eating outdoors (lakeland do a version http://www.lakeland.co.uk/pop-up-food-covers/F/C/christmas/product/50522_50521

or even decorative bottle covers or stoppers(always tricky getting the cork back in the bottle)

sweetnskint

how about a personlised calender! x

whatatwit

The calender could have pictures of local interest, or favourite places.
Have you asked them if there is anything that they can't get over there, maybe a shower gel or some item of food