Christmas is the season for gift-giving. Every Christmas party, may it be in the family, school, or offices, is not complete without gift exchanges, which could be pretty expensive especially if you are one of those who have a closely-knitted family, and countless friends and colleagues. To bridge this predicament, we thought of giving something useful, functional, and creative. But it should be something inexpensive and unconventional. So for this Christmas, these are the gifts we prepared.
- Perfume. Yes this is expensive. But hear me out. I received three big bottles of V.S perfume from my husband on my birthday almost a year now. I am still on my first bottle. So I thought, why not share some of these, with his permission of course. All I needed to buy are some pretty spray containers, placed some ribbons, and a personal note, and voila!
- Body Scrub
1 cup salt
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup baby oil
Few drops of vitamin E (optional)
Dainty jars or recycled jars
Ribbons and glitters
In a bowl, mix salt, sugar, and oil until they form a fine sandy paste-like mixture. Put this in a jar, seal well. Decorate with ribbons, some beads or glitters
- Homemade chocolate pancake specially made by my 4 year old daughter for the aunts. She learned how to make pancakes from school. Her teacher let each of them do the mixing and frying. She was inspired by this, and wanted to do it at home by herself with my help, as operating the gas stove could be dangerous.
Here it is,
2 cups chocolate pancake mixture
2 pieces of eggs
½ cup brown sugar
Some chocolate chips
In a bowl, mix all ingredients together until the mixture reaches a smooth texture. Set this aside for 15 minutes. Then fry. Pack them in beautiful boxes. Write some personal notes on the box with glitter pens.
How was your Christmas 2013?
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I love your idea of innovation. Personally, I find more effort in people making personalized gifts, of course, it’s fun and nice to receive store-bought items for gifts, but gifts like these tells you that the person really thought about you and took the time to make you feel loved and appreciated.
For Christmas, I bought proudly made Filipino products to gift our family and friends with. Nothing beats buying local here. It’s also affordable and fits the budget!
I love the body scrub idea. Thanks for this!
Thank you. I’m glad you like it.
Great ideas! I especially love the body scrub recipe. I am obsessed with bath products! 🙂
Great gifts and they are perfect! After all it is the thought that counts 😀
I want to try your body scrub recipe! 🙂 These are great ideas. I try my best to make handmade personalized gifts whenever I can. Usually it’s something that I crochet or make with felt. 🙂
I super love your ideas! I love giving personalized gifts and much more, gifts on a budget! I’ll definitely make some of these. =)
I’d better start collecting jars now!!! ^__^
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I love your recipes and gifts and will book mark this for reference…
They are simply beautiful
TY!
Eliz
Thank you
we had a wonderful Christmas! You are so creative, sis!
This surely a nice gift idea. It’s way special because there’s a personal touch! 🙂
Thank you
Thanks for sharing that body scrub DIY tip.
these are indeed good ideas! happy new year and all the best for 2014!
The same goes to you. Thank you for dropping by
Oh, I love your children in action, reminds me of my own kids.
Oh, that’s a great idea. Honestly sis, I still have plenty of body sprays from VS, Bath and Body Works. I can probably do that. 🙂
I like the homemade body scrub idea too! All great way to save and make your personal gifts.
I like the body scrub idea, too! I will keep these suggestions in mind when I prepare my 2014 Christmas gifts 🙂
I love those do it yourself ideas! These are indeed budget-friendly gifts.
That looks fun!
I love homemade gifts! These are great! Thank you for sharing!
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I love these gifts ideas! I myself appreciate receiving personalized/homemade gifts over commercially-bought ones. The effort and personal touch given on the present really means that the giver values the receiver.
awesome ideas! did you put glitters in the perfume?
No, I didn’t. This kind of V.S perfume has a glittery look.
I gave the members of my family some paintings I made for Christmas!
Gifts doesn’t really have to be pricey! And you can never beat personalized gifts! (except for iphones HAHA)
Check the paintings here : http://karvic.tumblr.com/post/71110557759/merry-christmas
Love your ingenuity. I will also think of a way next Christmas to make my own gift ( or i might just copy what you did :-)).
Sure Sherlane, you can even improve them.
It’s fun having the kids around to help you with your home made goodies:-)
The DIY Body Scrub is a good idea. Since I’m a beauty blogger, it really makes sense. 😀 What I gave naman my ninong and ninang for this Christmas is a gift pack from a Philippine branded organic beauty and home care products. They have prepared gift packs perfect for Christmas plus super inexpensive so it was awesome 🙂
xoxo,
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I love the home-made body scrub idea! I’ll do that next Christmas. 🙂 As for our Christmas, we spent it mostly at home since my husband is on duty on holidays (since that’s when they are on red alert). I don’t mind, though, because I got to spend the day with the kids.
We also spent Christmas at home. We like it that way. It’ bonding time for us. Thank you for dropping by
Very creative! Love the pictures!
Thank you for dropping by Suzanne.