Have you ever given a handmade gift?

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Have you ever given something handmade to someone as a gift? Maybe you did when you get for parents when you were young. If you have, what was it?

Rosexøxø · Accepted Answer

I have, plenty of times- to my mom and a bit of my dad, when I was a kid.

Arts/crafts/ love tokens.

Sometimes I would just give my toys or any items I had lol.. I’d be giving all my gifts away, until one figured out and said:

“NO (with a lighthearted laugh), you keep it!”

Just recently, I messed up my card count for Valentine’s Day, and left a birthday envelope to one of the birthday cards AT the store.

It left me at a compromise, and I simply used one of the top cases of the chocolate hearts ♥️ I had received.

(it was perfectly heart shaped with a cute saying on it); on the other side I put a sticky note- a thoughtful and heartfelt message, with best wishes. I took some glitter and adorned it. I say adorned but it was more like glitterbombed/ glitter puked 🤮 lol

and handed that as my “valentine,” with the candies I had given to my sister.

I don’t think she threw it away, so that may be a good sign 🪧👀😂

I know she liked the candy.

comekitty · Accepted Answer

Well - I'm not sure this is what you had in mind but I teach kindergarten and at Christmas the kids and I make keepsake ornaments for them to give their families. I buy plastic globe shaped ornaments in assorted colors (plastic because the glass could easily break on their way home), I Paint each kids hand white and make a handprint on their ornament - so they can remember how little their hand was that year. When the handprint dries, I let them use my sharpie markers to decorate each finger like a snowman - hat, eyes, carrot nose, scarf. When we're ready to send them home each kid gets to decorate a plain gift bag and write a little note to their family. They turn out super cute and I do them every year.

Sun_Kim-Ai · Accepted Answer

Recently, yes.  A calligraphed congratulatory letter - which means it's handwritten with a stylographic pen - on paper from the Andes for a friend who beat uterine cancer.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Accepted Answer

I always have, here’s one from last year.  Hoping to make s’more

melanieeeB · Answer

Very often... my mom received multiple drawings and art projects when I was a kid and one friend really liked the nightmare before Christmas movie and so she got a handmade sculpture from me when we were 15 and so on... I loved to do little sculpture with clay.
I have a big art piece/picture thing in my living room wall and my aunt wants one too when she moves out lol

Fireguy17 · Answer

yes.
I grew up in the jewelry business, so when I was younger all of my girlfriends received handmade rings.
That didn't change much as I got older, just the price tag of the item.
Rings, bracelets, pendants, earrings just all sorts of stuff.
My ex-wife still wears her wedding set that I made her a long time ago, and it is holding up just fine.
I think it is odd, but she still loves it.

Amy10223 · Answer

Yes. I have baked and sent out cookies, cake-pops, at Christmas to my family and given to my daughters. I also knitted a scarf for the boyfriend of one daughter. He really appreciated it, and it makes me glad. My family members were surprised and appreciated the baked goods as well, and they arrived safely (and cold).

thatshydork · Answer

I sometimes paint a shoebox and put the present inside the box. Most often people consider the box as a gift itself. Does that count? If so, then yes. I also used to write stories and give them when I was younger and had $0.00, but I was a kid then so I don’t think that counts.

WonderBell99 · Answer

Yep. I used to gift my family members handmade gift cards for their birthdays until I was about 12. I stopped making them because my mom started giving me pocket money when I was 14, so I figured it would be much more meaningful if I saved up a little and bought them something they would actually use.

I think my brother threw away most of my gift cards when he cleaned his cupboard (fully) before going to college, lol.

Horse-girl · Answer

I give handmade gifts very often, I've made spoons, crocheted throw, jumpers, gloves and scarves as well as baked goodies! 😊

Anonymous · Answer

I made a photo/collage album with pictures from the entirety of our relationship for my ex fiancée, I included hand written jokes between us that we had made at the time and other conversations we had with sentimental exchanges that was said scattered between the photos on the pages. I planned to update it every year but she decided to end our story at three and a half years when she cheated on me. Never doing something like that again lol

Nikki1989 · Answer

I painted a self-portrait for a friend as a request from her husband. I hated it personally, but it still hangs on their hallway wall.

NostalgiaSenpi · Answer

I draw. I gave my mom a few artworks, a friend an artwork of X-23 from X-Men and another friend an artwork of Delphinium from Darling In The Franxx.

SnowedIn · Answer

I have! :) Handmade ashtrays (for mom and grandmother). Made a coffee mug once and gave that to my dad. I like to bake gifts and consider that handmade.

Agape93 · Answer

Yeap. Mostly small things, like food or wood utensils lol

AsaKyo · Answer

I've made a drawing or some kind of craft project for my mother almost every year for Mother's Day

Blackcupcake · Answer

I have! I have made some funny and cute drawings with letters, baked goods, food…

talka20 · Answer

Yes the name frames for my sisters n cousin on their weddings... and also handmade (self made) leather mini wallet along w keychain to my another cousin

StormChaser838 · Answer

yes I do a lot of carpentry, and if you consider gardening, and thus a plant that I grew from seeds a handmade gift that too

England4eva · Answer

I made a valentines card for an ex once. I actually cringe thinking back about it. (If your not 14 it’s not cute 😂)

coachTanthony · Answer

No just a basket I made for my girlfriend that had a bunch of stuff in it that she liked. That is as close to handmade that I have gotten lol

AydenHazor · Answer

Does food count, cause I love to gift homemade treats

SecretsofKB · Answer

Yep! I've made a few blankets for family and friends!

DancingQueen16 · Answer

Yeah I made my best friend a bracelet for his birthday a few years ago and last August I made my boyfriend a necklace with his name on it

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