For
Christmas gifts this year we opted to make gifts instead of purchasing them. We
made gift baskets complete with baked goods, homemade wine, and salt dough
ornaments.
My husband made a customized wine label for each family with different themes. Here are my favorite three.
My husband made a customized wine label for each family with different themes. Here are my favorite three.
My
grandparents have two of the cutest dogs ever, and one of them looks and sounds
a little bit like Chewbacca so we call him a “Wookie.” So we had to make Wookie
wine! My husband Photoshopped the little ammo belt onto him.
A cow for my father-in-law, and his new fiancé (so excited that they got engaged over Christmas!) They’ve both lived on farms in the past, so a cow label was very fitting.
I
had to put a picture of my sister and I looking our best on her bottle of wine!
This picture was when we had just started dating the guys were with now and we
were both really skinny. We used the name “hot bitches” for this wine, because
I lack creativity!
Here
are all 6 bottles; for my mom we chose a picture of her dogs, for one of my
Aunts we used a cabin theme, and for my other Aunt we used clovers because her
husband is very Irish and they celebrate their Irish heritage and I believe
their school mascot is “The Irish”. I think they turned out cute! It killed me
a little to give away 6 bottles of homemade wine though, it’s so good!
We included baked goods; my husband’s famous chocolate chip
cookies, sugar cookies, brownies with peanut butter cookie dough frosting
(recipe to come soon!) and snickerdoodle blondies (recipe here).
Here’s the finished basket! We got the baskets at the dollar store. You can see the saltdough ornament of Aliceana’s handprint! Our saltdough ornaments turned out so cute, and will definitely be a holiday tradition in our household. I might have even made a dog print ornament for us with Buddy’s pawprint, so cute!!
Here’s the finished basket! We got the baskets at the dollar store. You can see the saltdough ornament of Aliceana’s handprint! Our saltdough ornaments turned out so cute, and will definitely be a holiday tradition in our household. I might have even made a dog print ornament for us with Buddy’s pawprint, so cute!!
I
think overall it turned out really well, in an ideal world I would have made
the baskets prettier and baked a few more items, but it was hard enough to bake
what we did!
Did you make any homemade gifts? Tell me about them in the comments!
Did you make any homemade gifts? Tell me about them in the comments!
This is awesome! What a cool idea. Jason and I tried to make our own limoncello this year, but it just tastes like lemon flavored moonshine....
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome! What a cool idea. Jason and I tried to make our own limoncello this year, but it just tastes like lemon flavored moonshine....
ReplyDeleteI made homemade vanilla and knitted a scarf. My plans are always much grander at the beginning of the year.
ReplyDeleteThat wookie wine is too cute!
ReplyDelete-Sharon
The Tiny Heart
I made zucchini relish for our Christmas list :)
ReplyDeleteI just enjoyed my bottle of wine the other night It was fabulous! A little strong but delicious! Also I got to use some of your home made goodness when I had a few friends over for a Christmas party and did't feel like baking Best Christmas present ever!
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