Do you make Christmas gifts?

[JanaBanana]

This year I made homade jellies to add to gift baskets for family and friends
Decorated the lids up with Christmas fabrics....Apricot and Raspberry preserves...

[JanaBanana]

This year I made homade jellies to add to gift baskets for family and friends
Decorated the lids up with Christmas fabrics....Apricot and Raspberry preserves...

[JanaBanana]

oops sorry about the double post

[Minta]

This year we are making yearly calendars for the grandparents. The pictures will be of the grandkids.

I am also doing basket gifts and will include homemade hot chocolate mix, homemade chocolate mint cheese ball mix (it's a dry mixture that they will have mix with cream cheese), I am making rice cripsy treats in the shapes of Christmas trees and snowmen and I am still debating if I will be making orange cranberry muffins. If I do I will add come to each basket too.

For a few other (non-baking)friends and neighbors I do bags of homemade cookies and muffins.

[peavey]

I made calendars for the whole family one year, with everyone's birthdays and anniversaries on them. That was a project! I have a large family and finding all the dates took forever. It was very well received though and they wanted me to do it every year. I told them we could take turns, but no one's taken me up on it yet.

[Chillywilly]

I will be making Christmas Stockings this year along with my family for our friends.

[MerrySouthernChristmas]

I always make something for my grandparents. Last year it was Birdhouses. One of my grandmothers live on the coast so I bought the bird house from micheals and made it look coastal. My other grandmother I got a cabin bird house. On both, I hot glued miniture christmas lights (I found them in the Miniture Christmas Aisle at Micheals) and bought Puff Paint for snow. They both adored them! For my teachers, I always write a lovely christmas story. (And a little $5 Starbucks gift card... just enough for a Venti Hot Cocoa.)

[joyfulheart]

As much as I can, I craft. Just depends on how busy kids keep me, son's health is, etc..

This year, I made a denim quilt for my husband's grandfather. He's homebound now, sits in his recliner all day long, every day, but is always cold. He likes to put a blanket in his lap. The fabric is from his great-grandkids (my boys) old outgrown jeans, and they picked the fabric on top, which explains the superman, spiderman, batman, flamingoes, etc.. LOL Makes if more special that the boys participated.


All neighbors, co-workers, friends, will gethomemade food. The men get homemade jerky, and everyone gets some form of chocolate fudge or pumpkin fudge.

The boys and I do some kind of homemade ornament project every year to hand out, our tree is loaded with homeade ornametns they've done.

The teachers get homemade chocolate and macadamenia (sp?) nut caramel apples. If I didn't do that every year, theyve threatened to flunk my boys. LOL

I've made stockings, tree skirts, quilts, ornaments, wreaths, mini-christmas trees, garlands, anything I can "copy" inexpensvely I try to do it. I'm poor. Cant afford the fancy-schmancy stuff so I just copy it and do it myself. LOL

[gennifyr]

We have been trying to get away from the buy, buy, buy mentality of Christmas by making more of our presents.

Over the past two-three years I've made; fudge, hot drink mixes, cookies, boxer shorts, flannel lounge pants/pj's, rice bags, baby clothes, felt books for toddlers, scarves etc.

This year my daughter (turns 2 on dec 21st) will be getting clothes (value village) and books for Christmas. For her birthday my dh will be making her some wood toys and I'll be sewing her some diapers and clothes for her baby doll.

[Mumof2]

I make homemade items all the time,lotions,soaps,chap sticks,pillows,brownies.my family loves it,and its alot of fun to do plus it comes from the heart.