Hi Lisa

Very sweet ideas! All those things take a lot of love and time, your family must adore you! Many years ago when my Mom was strong and healthy i had her give me all her receipes and i made up books for her children and Grand Children so everyone would have her loving receipes. It was well received by all.

Great idea, Thank you.
Hugs
Lori

There is this website called etsy. People make things and sell them. My friend sells her jewerly on there. It may give you some artsy ideas. I was looking for a gift for my friend.
Some things I thought of was
Handmade cards or stationary
Painted pottery
My friend quilts or other like chrochet

I would love to have the patterns to cut angels, santas and trees. I have cut hundreds of snow flakes, but the paperdoll chains sound great! Could you post them here or would you mind sending them to me alsp?

I used to do a lot of counted cross stitch and one year made Precious Moments ornaments using wooden hoops and ribbon. There are several books at Michaels of simple cross stitch patterns you could use. The ones I used were actually center blocks to a quilt, but they were the perfect size for ornaments so I made a bunch of extras and gave them as gifts. I'm not sure what I'm going to do this year, maybe I will cross stitch or crochet. I love to crochet, I tried knitting but just couldn't get it, someday maybe I will that again.

Wasn't it neat to see how many people do creative things? I really enjoyed it. My first mosaic was a stepping stone for the garden. There are no mistakes in mosaics, most all of it can turn out good. The thin set joins it into a picture. You can look in your library for an idea or two. ginnie