Homemade gifts.

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Homemade gifts.

Homemade gifts.

I usually enjoy doing these, but this one has been ~bleeps out~ impossible.  So, I'm making two birthday gifts for some really good friends, B and A (NO TELLING, EW!!!!!).  I've got some black t-shirts and I'm decorating them with their names in fabric iron-ons and decorative stitching and stars and hearts (B gets stars, A gets hearts).  The thing is, the iron-ons are homemade, so I had to cut out the fabric, then cut out the sticky stuff, then iron them on (the 't' on B's name was a pain).  Now I'm putting on the decorative stitching and I'm using embroidery floss and it is obnoxious!  It takes FOREVER.  My sister is having to help me.  Oh yes, and on the back of each shirt is a half-heart and the two halves together say 'Best Sisters' (like a friendship bracelet) because they are really nice to each other even though one's turning 15 and the other has just turned 12.

Anyway, homemade gifts.  Good experiences?  Bad experiences?  Horrible mistakes that turned out great?

 

The shirts sound really special, Charlotte. Your friends will love them and appreciate how much work went into them. If it's getting to be too much for you, can you cut down on the amount of decorative stitching on each one? That's nice of your sister to help you.

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submitted by Charlotte, age 12 11/12, Lost in my mind
(January 9, 2011 - 4:30 pm)

back to the Down to Earth

I would love to have enough concentration to do that... I don't think I've ever made a homemade gift. 

submitted by Elizabeth M , age 11, LaLa Land
(January 10, 2011 - 1:06 pm)

Hmm, I rarely have enough money to buy a gift.

Mr. Spamman says iefm.  He's saying i.e fm...radio something?

submitted by Charlotte, age 12, Lost in my mind
(January 10, 2011 - 11:22 pm)

Ooh!  I love making gifts for friends!  I really have never bought a gift for anyone, it doesn't seem as unique.  :)  I've made scarvs, doodled and written poems, made notebooks, jewelery, drawn dragons, made fuzzy necklaces, made hats and decorated them...  A whole lot of things!  It's so Über fun!  I love them a lot, and so do my friends.  :)

submitted by Meadow, age 12, Deep In The Fol
(January 11, 2011 - 12:48 am)

"I really have never bought a gift for anyone, it doesn't seem as unique." 

Stop trying to make the rest of us feel guilty - it's not our fault that we (by which I mean me) have no abilities in the realms of arts and crafts! XD (This year, I got a book on Shakespeare for my dad, an iTunes gift certificate for my mum (don't judge me - that's what she asked for!), and a t-shirt and fabric markers for my little brother (the original idea being that I decorate the t-shirt for him for a gift, it was my grandparents' idea, but as noted above I fail at artsy stuff, whereas my little brother loves to draw, so I just gave it to him and let him draw stuff himself. =P))

submitted by ZNZ, age 13, Thulcandra
(January 12, 2011 - 8:09 pm)

I wasn't trying to make you feel guilty.  I'm sorry if it upset you.   :D  I've gotten wonderflastical gifts that were bought (Borders giftcard, coin counthing machine  thing [which was very interesting.  I didn't have to use my lazy mind to count every single penny.  And I got to take it apart after it broke because a coin that was slightly to big for it had been shoved in, and fail at figuring out how it worked  xD], many many many many many many books, notebooks waiting to be filled, CDs, and many more things that I'm too lazy to type about...)  all of which are somewhere hidden under piles of random things that are floating around in my room.  And seven books were absolutly wonderful, seeing as they were the full HP series...  I was jumping off of walls.  Or....  my eyes onto a page, and onto a page, and then to the next page, and the next...  And I also got The Book Thief...  :) 

submitted by Meadow, age 12, Deep In The Fol
(January 12, 2011 - 10:57 pm)

Just wondering: What are some nice gifts to make?

submitted by Elizabeth M , age 11, Germany
(January 11, 2011 - 2:35 pm)

If your friend writes in a diary, for instance, you could make her or him a notebook for when their current one runs out of blank pages.  Or you could make stuffed animals for your friends, if they like stuffed animals.  Or, some sort of clothing accessory thing that they may like, perhaps fingerless gloves.  Or drawings that you drew that you feel they would like, or...  There are many many possibilities.  First, you have to have your friend's interests in order and find something that they would absolutely love...  :)

Or that's what I do.  You could do something completely different than that.  :)

submitted by Meadow, age 12, Deep In The Fol
(January 12, 2011 - 2:57 pm)

@Meadow:  Oh!  Oh! I want a stuffed animal!!

Good Grief!  Yesterday Spammler told me dogi, now he says puup.  I think he knows I like the canine species.

submitted by Charlotte, age 12, Lost in ym mind
(January 12, 2011 - 10:39 pm)

@Elizabeth M:  Draw pictures, make jewelry, decorate t-shirts, knit (if you can) scarves, hats etc.  There's all kinds of stuff you can do!!

Dogi says dyay.  Day Yay!

submitted by Charlotte, age 12, Lost in my mind
(January 12, 2011 - 3:23 pm)

I don't handmake gifts often, but I once made a stuffed elephant for my grandmother, and I sometimes give her pictures I draw.

submitted by Ima, Planet Terra
(January 12, 2011 - 10:50 pm)

I got it done, and they loved the shirts.  A (as in one of the people I mentioned, not the aricle, a) wore hers to bed last night.  These were for the slumber party I mentioned in the thread that starts with Ungh...remind to... on DtE. 

submitted by Charlotte, age 12, Lost in my mind
(January 15, 2011 - 2:19 pm)