My Favorite Handmade Garden Gift Ever Our family has a tradition of giving handmade gifts for the holidays, and this year my husband outdid himself! Homemade garden gift tradition
When you are a family of six, the holidays and everyone buying gifts for everyone can be a little much. When our kids were school-age, we started a new holiday tradition to cut down the amount of shopping (and money mom and dad were shelling out on sibling gifts). On the first day of December, we put our names in a hot cocoa mug and draw names for gifts. But…the catch is that the gift has to be something you make. You can purchase items to help you make the final product, like wood, yarn, accessories, or paper, but the real present comes from using your talents to create something with your own two hands and imagination.
Getting creativeOver the years, these surprises have taken some very creative turns, like when my son used his older sibling’s music recording equipment and recorded himself reading ten of his youngest sister’s favorite picture books. He burned it onto a CD, and voila…homemade audiobook for bedtime. Our middle daughter has taken her crochet skills to a new level when creating bookmarks in the likenesses of our two cats or a hat with matching mittens. To be honest, these are the gifts we are the most excited to open on Christmas morning. The level of secrecy and excitement all month while we’re working on them is top-level and really adds to the drama.
Last year, I won the jackpot of Christmas presents.
My husband is the woodworker in the family. He’s built our dining room table (with my help), a platform bed (without my help), garden beds, a puzzle tray for my mom that she gets complimented on all the time, and the list goes
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