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 It's that wonderful time of year once again where thoughts turn to the holidays and the simultaneous fun and stress of finding gifts for people. When I got out of college and was crazy broke, I started to make homemade holiday gifts because I had no other choice. Over the intervening 25 years, I've still intermittently made homemade gifts when I had time and energy (with a near decade break when our kids were little). Now my family are all older, nobody really needs anything, and we've got enough nieces and nephews to shop for that it's nice to just make something for the adults. Because neither my wife or I are particularly crafty, most of what we end up making is food/booze. Some things we've made over the years:
I also make homemade chocolate truffles almost every year and hand out little gift bags of them. This year, we're thinking about making everyone homemade spiced rum, and need to get on that soon if that's happening. So let's share inspiration (and recipes and plans)! What have you made that people loved? What did you make that people hated? What were your spectacular successes/failures?
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Not my exact project since I didn't get any good photos before giving them, but I think some of my best received handmade gifts were these crochet miniature hanging plants, similar to this: I too have had good luck with gifting homemade hot chocolate mix I'm looking for inspo on what to make this year since I'm drawing a blank lol
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Sep 13, 2023 18:31
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Killingyouguy! posted:Not my exact project since I didn't get any good photos before giving them, but I think some of my best received handmade gifts were these crochet miniature hanging plants, similar to this:
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Sep 13, 2023 19:11
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:This is cute af
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Sep 14, 2023 12:47
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