Clever Christmas Gifts Made From Home

What are you giving your friends this Christmas? The easiest thing to do is to go to a sale and buy whatever they might like which falls within your budget. Generic gifts you can give everyone include tins of biscuits, chocolates or shower gel.

If you want a more personal gift, or if you are really broke, you could make something for them using what you have in the kitchen or from the odds and ends you might find in the attic.

Here are some doable home made Christmas gift ideas.

1. Christmas food gifts are always a hit and this is something you can make in your own kitchen. Get your family recipes for cookies, fruitcakes or brownies. Cookies Christmas gifts are a hit with young and old alike. Bake several batches of cookies and present them in air-tight containers as Christmas gifts. You can cut them into Christmas shapes like Christmas trees, snowmen or whatever might capture your fancy. Here's where you can get the necessary Cookie baking equipment, recipes and jars to keep your creations.

2. Home made Christmas gifts are still possible even if you are the sort of person who might set the kitchen on fire. Just stay out of the kitchen and ransack the attic. Can you find old beads that have no other use? From long discarded bead curtains, perhaps. Or maybe old Christmas ornaments that don't look right on your modern Christmas tree. Get a length of elastic. Cut up those bead curtains. Mix and match the beads from the curtains, old necklaces and loose beads that you have found. String them together on elastic strips to make one-of-a-kind bracelets that would make excellent Christmas gifts for the girls (young and old) in your gift list.

3. How much time have you got to make the gift? Can you knit? Sew? If you have the time and patience, you could do a cross stitch picture on a square piece of cloth and sew that onto a cushion cover. Pick a design you know he or she would like and stitch away. Or you could knit a scarve, or a sweater, depending on your skill and the amount of time you have to make that gift.

4. Are you better at wood work? If you can make a magazine rack, well and good. If not, a photo frame might be an easier task. With 2 thin pieces of wood, a saw you can make a simple frame to hold a photo that captures a precious shared memory.

5. Not too good with any of the above? How about making a book of memories? Take a journal and let your artistic side run wild. Paste photos onto each sheet of the journal, depicting past moments that matter to the recipient. Write a little message on each page, in line with each event.Decorate each page to your best ability.

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