handmade gifts for christmas and celebrations 2011

barbeka

Another one coming (briefly) out of lurkdom!

For your OH's advent calendar you could get a wine foil cutter - we got one from a supermarket & it works really well & is small, flat rectangle so should fit in a small pocket. On a similar line you could get him a fancy wine stopper (perhaps with a top which reflects one of his other hobbies).

You could make him a beaded keyring (topic on here somewhere) or do a version with a clip so it could be fastened to his fishing gear or similar.

Fridge magnet (bought or homemade) which reflects one of his hobbies.

Help for Heroes wrist band.

I made a fabric advent calendar for my mum last year & found it difficult to get small enough things to put in it - kept collecting freebies & hotel mini moisturisers etc & ended up with too many! Mixed success - but the beaded keyring was very popular! Won't tell you most of the things I put in as too feminine for you OH! :rotfl:

Enjoying this thread but not making much - not appreciated by most of my in-laws so have stopped.

Laura_D_3

Barbeka thanks for the ideas they're brill. I ended up cheating slightly for my two January items as I didn't make them - I got wine bottle head sleaves (for when he makes homemade wine), and a stamp which says I love beer so he can stamp his homebrew (I guess that ones vaguely crafty ) Although I have been making valentines days presents so that's my excuse.

I think I saw somewhere about making your own wine stoppers - I'll have to delve through my archives.

It's rubbish when you spend a lot of time making something and then it's not appreciated, luckily so far my receipients have appeared grateful and as I'm recycling a lot of old material it means it isn't costing me much apart from time. I'm a bit more dubious about making for my inlaws I think I'd have to know they really would want it first, they're not as into homecrafty things as my family.

LJM

loving the chalk board dizzytina

housewifeintraining

I've just finished making a gardening apron for my mother in law's birthday and am quite pleased with it. There's a picture on my blog if anyone wants to see it (not quite sure how to put a picture on here yet)

Laura_D_3

Housewifeintraining - Your gardening apron is lovely, might have to try making one myself I just put up this how to on the shabby chic forum of how to put your piccys up here, hope it helps;

Photo

You will need the photo saved in flickr/ photobucket/ facebook/ your blog or somewhere on line.

Firstly right click on photo > select properties > click to highlight the whole Address (URL) > right click again > select copy

Then in your message on MSE select the picture that looks like two mountains (Insert Image) > paste your URL in here (right click & paste - check you don't have the http:// repeated twice at the beginning though) > then select ok

And hopefully your piccy should then appear in your message

PootleFlump_3

housewifeintraining wrote: »

I've just finished making a gardening apron for my mother in law's birthday and am quite pleased with it. There's a picture on my blog if anyone wants to see it (not quite sure how to put a picture on here yet)

Just right click the photo on your blog and hit "copy image URL" then paste (CTRL V) into the add image button on here (the yellow one with mountains and a sun)

housewifeintraining

Thanks for the advice on how to get pictures on here - seems to be quite easy when you know how - same as a lot of things in life i guess! Anyway here goes here is the apron. I think this would be a good gift for crafty people too.

Miss_Piggy_2

housewifeintraining wrote: »

Thanks for the advice on how to get pictures on here - seems to be quite easy when you know how - same as a lot of things in life i guess! Anyway here goes here is the apron. I think this would be a good gift for crafty people too.

I love that apron, housewifeintraining. Am currently saving for a sewing machine and may try something like that when I do eventually get one!

LolaLemon

im loving all these pictures, they all look fantastic!
and give me too many ideas i dont know where to start with them.

ive not made much recently, i started back at uni, so tend to be studying more
and ive gone and gotten the flu
had it bad last week and now im just run down, i know if i could just get a few days in bed id recover real quick, but i cant, got no one to run after son, dropping him off at nursery n stuff, so i just need to suffer with lemsips and early bed times for now.

also i got a job!!! woohoo!!! in a pub weekend nights, means i still get to spend time with my son and do fun stuff till i drop him off at my parents, only down side is both my parents work in the morning, so i have to go pick him up at 8, last night i got home at 2am and was back up at 7... and i start in pub at 6pm tonight... but gotta think of the money to pay the bills (and craft stuff! lol)

think im going to really give the silver clay a go. can i ask those that do it, do u use one of those cooking type flame burners? and what do u use underneath it?

hope everyone else is well

need to go, got an apple and cinnamon loaf/bread in the oven, and its making me hungry as it smells soooo lovely

NiceGuyEddie_2

Hi all,

I'm toying with the possibility of making either a wooden shape-sorting cube or lift-out shapes puzzle for a couple of babies birthdays I've got coming up. Has anyone made anything similar before? Or have any other ideas for handmade gifts for babies/toddlers?

Thanks x