Best Homemade Valentine’s Day Gifts

Handmade is now widely spread… from jewelry to clothing items, so Valentine’s Day could be a good chance of creating something nice for your loved one.  A gift similar to “Blue Hearts on String” or “Coloured Stone Hearts” is very easy to manufacture and the message they send it’s easy to understand.

Let’s start: you can buy wooden boxes (or recycle some old ones) and decorate them with stones, sea shells, fabric or paint, depending on your taste and offer them to your loved one for jewel storage. Either making a bracelet or changing the watch strap with a handmade leather one, or designing nice clothing items for your loved one makes a hell of a gift this year. Cheap and original, that’s for sure! If you are into craftsmanship, you could to this together as well. You can even make your own matching T-shirts.

You want to tell her how you feel but really don’t know how? Try to find old cards that are lying around the house. You have to use your creativity for a while and your skills. Write anything that goes into your mind, any compliment or thought you want to share and glue it to the card. You could even use this idea to propose, if now is the time you intend to do it. After letting them dry, you should put them in a box and get prepared for tonight. Invite her over for a game and let the cards to their thing. She will definitely be amazed and maybe lucky enough to pick the right card to bring her the big ring.

Cooking session in two. For two cooking masters that you probably are, you could use this occasion for a small tryout. Make a competition for the best Valentine’s dessert or dish that you will enjoy tonight, at dinner. The prize is for you to decide but make sure you have fun doing it. For instance, you could suggest your partner cooking only heart-shaped meals or meals containing aphrodisiac ingredients. You can even mix up a drink created by you two. Get your favorite flavors and see what you get. Be inventive and have a taste of your work.

Make your memories alive. Browse the stores for a photo album box or cassette and decide together for the memories you want to put in. For example, the Photo Box Album For 100 Photos gives you plenty of space and ideas for your photo album in a wooden box. Our favorite thing for this box would be the exterior which is also created for inserting photos and therefore customizing the exterior sides of the box as well. Again, if you like to do everything by yourself, you could do some scrapbooks by yourself. Remember: everything is done together.

Another idea of a handcrafted gift is the date jar. Together with your partner, write down potential ideas for the Valentine’s date on small colored pieces of paper, and by using an old jar put the small folded papers notes inside. Decorate the jar anyway you like and on the V-day Eve decide which one of you will make the draw. Of course, this can become a yearly tradition. Keep the jar as a house decoration and when the time comes, use the jar again.

The possibilities are endless when coming to homemade items as gifts, and Valentine’s day gifts are not an exception to this. Find suitable materials and decide on various ideas to make this day memorable. Prepare for a treat!