KaydeeKrunk
The Late Great Turt
It's the season of giving, so I wanted to make a thread to share all the fun gifts you're planning on, or have already gotten/made for other people in your life, sure we all want stuff, but isn't it just as, if not more fun giving the people you care for gifts?
I for one always go crazy around the holidays making and buying all sorts of things for my friend's and family and I love every second of it! (Well, besides being broke!)
This year I am doing a couple of neat things for the people I love!
I made handmade birdseed ornaments for my grandma, it was really fun, and kind of messy, but they turned out great! I always get her "bird" stuff because she loves feeding her birds and watching them out her window, and after the place I bought he really cute bird donuts was OUT OF STOCK this year I knew I had to make some of my very own! I know she'll love them because she has orioles that she adores, and I know the orioles will love the seed mix I got them!
For my mom I am making her a "puppy" book, I got a nice brown fabric photo album, and I am going to decorate the front with paw prints and print out a ton of photos of the last litter of puppies we had, as well as photos from this current litter and fill it with cute stickers and stuff as well! She is horrible at remembering to take photos and is always asking me to send her some of mine so I figured she'd love having hard copies of them in a nice little album! She's a total crazy dog lady so I know she'll really appreciate it.
I also went crazy making treats this year and I will be sending them off to my pen-pals and out of state family, as well as keeping some home for my family and I to eat. I made some amazing mint chocolate chip fudge that tastes dangerously close to the ice cream. FOUR kinds of truffles, dark chocolate, peppermint chocolate coated in peppermint bark, orange chocolate coated in cocoa powder and orange nonpareils, and my families traditional peanut butter go-for balls. I also have been thinking about making some holiday gummy lollipops since we have all sorts of molds for them and I had to buy some gelatin for the bird seed ornaments that we aren't going to use for anything else.
So what kind of neat things have you gotten/made for people this year?
I for one always go crazy around the holidays making and buying all sorts of things for my friend's and family and I love every second of it! (Well, besides being broke!)
This year I am doing a couple of neat things for the people I love!
I made handmade birdseed ornaments for my grandma, it was really fun, and kind of messy, but they turned out great! I always get her "bird" stuff because she loves feeding her birds and watching them out her window, and after the place I bought he really cute bird donuts was OUT OF STOCK this year I knew I had to make some of my very own! I know she'll love them because she has orioles that she adores, and I know the orioles will love the seed mix I got them!
For my mom I am making her a "puppy" book, I got a nice brown fabric photo album, and I am going to decorate the front with paw prints and print out a ton of photos of the last litter of puppies we had, as well as photos from this current litter and fill it with cute stickers and stuff as well! She is horrible at remembering to take photos and is always asking me to send her some of mine so I figured she'd love having hard copies of them in a nice little album! She's a total crazy dog lady so I know she'll really appreciate it.
I also went crazy making treats this year and I will be sending them off to my pen-pals and out of state family, as well as keeping some home for my family and I to eat. I made some amazing mint chocolate chip fudge that tastes dangerously close to the ice cream. FOUR kinds of truffles, dark chocolate, peppermint chocolate coated in peppermint bark, orange chocolate coated in cocoa powder and orange nonpareils, and my families traditional peanut butter go-for balls. I also have been thinking about making some holiday gummy lollipops since we have all sorts of molds for them and I had to buy some gelatin for the bird seed ornaments that we aren't going to use for anything else.
So what kind of neat things have you gotten/made for people this year?