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Wise Elder
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 8,403
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Wise Elder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 8,403
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Frank - Just an idea . . .
Ever since we were really little we picked names about a month before Christmas. The rule was you had to make the gift. As time went on, we got married, had kids, jobs, etc. some got away from it. This past Christmas, more of us made the gifts than not.
One of my brothers spent days in the kitchen cooking a months worth of meals from my brother and his daughter. He packaged them up and frozen them so all my brother had to do was pull it out of the freezer and microwave it and dinner was done. (Trust me, I was over there when he was cooking and he made some dang good food!!!)
One of my sisters made fleece blankets for another sister, her husband, and her 3 sons.
Another brother made a poster size "picture" of himself as one of my sisters was complaining she had no recent pictures of him. He took a picture of a some good looking hunk, put his own face on it, brought it somewhere and had made in to a life size poster. lol He did something else for her, I just can't remember.
I painted a painting for my brother.
My older brother made me the most awesome domino set out of wood. He cut them all sanded them, drilled the little dots on them, stained and sanded, stained and sanded until they were perfectly smooth. Absolutely beautiful.
One year one of my sisters tie dyed and/or dyed pajamas for the girls and I. They were great and we loved them.
The girls and I have made clay (salt dough and/or Fimo) finger puppets and "paper dolls" for their little cousins.
These handmade gifts mean so much more to me than anything else. I actually still have one that my little brother made me 20 something years ago.
Your photography is so awesome you could certainly make some fantastic gifts with those.
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