11 Easy DIY holiday gifts your family will actually like
The holidays are already among us and if you're still scrambling for the perfect holiday present for your family, you're probably shit out of luck, my friend.
But have no fear. It's time to finally skip those long lines and those pesky overdraft fees with a few simple DIY holiday gifts your family will actually enjoy.
1. 'How To Tell Time' Coffee and Wine Glass Holder
How to: You'll need an 18 by 16 inch dark-stained piece of wood, white paint, and attach sawtooth hangers. This is a funny but simple DIY gift that anyone can appreciate, cheers.
2. 'Key Fobs'
How to: In order to create such a helpful masterpiece, you must gather four key rings and a two-inch wooden printing block. Carefully screw a metal eye hook in the center and just link the key ring through the hook and voila!
3. 'Witty Gloves'
How to: According to Country Living, you'd need to slide one of the gloves onto your hand, and mark each knuckle with a horizontal line at the tip of each individual finger with a pastel chalk pencil. Then with the pencil, spell out the phrase that best represents that family member. Finally, using an embroidery thread, sew above the penciled letters. They might be branded for life but hey, at least they're warm.
4. 'Leather iPod Case'
How to: First you will need to choose an image and place it around a template depending on the size of your device. For the next part you have to take the image you've selected and then print it onto a transfer sheet. Place the transfer sheet with the image on top of the leather case and iron the image onto the leather. The last part requires you to sew the leather pieces together and then you have a fancy new phone case.
5. 'Ceramic Tile Coasters'
How to: Get some photos printed and cut them to fit the size of the white tile pieces. Make sure you cut out the image so it leaves a small piece of the tile visible so it looks like a polaroid coaster. For the last part get some type of strong adhesive to attach to the printed photo and tile coaster.
6. 'Photo Pillows'
How to: You will need to get your hands on a nice family photo and print it onto a ink-jet fabric sheet. For the next part get your hands one some loose fiber bill stuffing and stitch the whole piece together. Now you're cozy with an old school photo pillow.
7. 'Handmade Candles'
How to: It shouldn't be to hard to find some vintage tea sets in a thrift shop. The set will make a perfect place holder for some fancy candles. If you prefer to make the candle yourself you can find the wax online and then melt it and pour it into the vintage tea set for an exact molding.
8. 'Cutting-Board Tablet Holder'
How to: Grab a scrabble tile holder and attach it to a wooden cutting board with some strong glue. For the next part you'll need wood glue and a long wooden door stop to hold up the entire board.
9. 'Charming Bookmarks'
How to: Grab a velvet ribbon and cut it into nine-inch lengths. You'll also need ribbon clamps the same width as the actual ribbon. Use jewelry pliers to attach clamps to both sides of the ribbon for a finishing touch. You can attach charms, vintage jewels, and trinkets to your liking.
10. 'Marble Mugs'
How to: Dig out your mom's old nail polish because it's time to put them to work. Grab a disposable pan and and fill with with warm water and then add nail polish. Mix the nail polish in with the water to create a marble finish on the mug and finally dip the mugs in!
11. 'Dry Flower iPhone Case'
How to: Grab a few real (or fake since it's winter) flowers and plants, a blank iPhone case, and glue. Place the flowers on top of the phone case and carefully spread the glue with either a popsicle stick or cotton swab and dry.
Stick with this list and your family will surely be grateful you were born. Happy Holidays!
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