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How to prepare for Christmas gift giving



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Ok, so you love craft! That is great. Christmas is one of the holidays, where you can craft as much as you want and give as gifts.

If you work in an office: You could make gifts for your co-workers and boss. 

If you have a family: You can spend time making gifts for them, especially for children, extra gifts for their Santa sacks. 

If you have extended family that you may only see once a year at Christmas: you could make them home made gifts. 

If your children attend school: You can make their teachers a home made gift. 

Making home made gifts, is sharing your talents to those you care about, hoping to brighten someone's day. A home made gift is special and sweet. Most people, love receiving home made gifts.

So let's work on a bit of a guide on how to prepare for all these homemade gifts you want to make:

  • First off, write a list of everyone you want to make a gift for. 
  • Now choose what you will make. You might make different things for different people or different groups. 
  • Write down how long each gift will take to make. 
  • Write down when you need to finish each gift. As you might see some people before Christmas day.
  • Work out how many hours a week you will need to create these gifts before your deadlines
Now think about, is it too much to make before your Christmas deadlines? If you had to cut out people this year, who is left? And if you do achieve all the Christmas gifts to those who are most close to you, you may end up having time to make more gifts for the others who you thought you may not have time to make for. By the way, it is completely ok to not be able to make everyone a gift. I generally want to give everyone a gift, but then just choose about 6-8 people and focus on making them a gift. 

Time is precious and the last thing you want is to stress about making Christmas gifts. Gift giving is meant to be joyous not stressful. So don't overburden yourself with too much home made gift giving.

Ok now you have your plan on when and what to make those closest to you. 

Now you need all the materials for your gift making. Even when I wanted to crochet Christmas decorations for my home this Christmas, I realised something very important... I had no Christmas yarn. I had no red, green or caramel colours. The prime colours for Christmas. So yes do check what you have and then buy what you are missing. This may cut into your craft time, so you may need to add an extra hour or two to another day or night to complete your deadlines. 

If you do have some spare crafting time and looking to make the gift extra special. Buy my book, Melanie Toye's handmade Christmas crafts to learn how to create Christmas gift tags, handmade Christmas wrapping paper and more. Then wrap your hand made gift with handmade gift wrapping. Just to make it extra special. 

#christmasplanning #christmasgiftgiving #hobbies #meltoye

Also if you are a beginner in crocheting, you may appreciate reading my ‘The journey of crocheting for beginners’ ebook by Melanie Toye. You can purchase here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1808619


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