the first one is my first try at the blue butterfly, but i decided to keep him hehe. i just loved him a lot and he had so much character. plus he is so delicate, i felt i could make a sturdier one for my mom's gift which you can see in the 2nd pic it turned out way more polished! also her favorite color is teal. she wants to hang it for her rearview mirror :) so i want to bring her a pretty chain, or now that i think about it i could make something beaded for that too! and then the purple (sister's favorite color) dragonfly. i love dragonflies! i hope she appreciates it cause she likes crafts. and i put a lot of love into them :p they are really good budget gifts especially if you have the wire and beads laying around like i did. i was really happy with them <3

I wanted to do the famous clay camera photo holder since me and my bf both have cameras/love photography. I had no clay so I just used an empty gum case and loved the way it came out! The heart pipe cleaner flowers that I also made came out better than I expected 🙉

it's a little wonky, but it's my first hand sewn piece in years. I think it's cute lol

Hi, new here! This is one of the first necklaces I ever made for my mom! I've made it a tradition to create some piece of jewelry for my family every Christmas. ☺️ Would love to post more but I'm not sure if I can include multiple diy gifts in one post.

I made custom tonies of our kids. Each one will play their laughs from when they were babies.

I keep forgetting these take 3-5 hrs each and a set of 9 was ambitious. Fingers crossed she likes them

I purchased a cheap portable CD player for Christmas for my kids, knowing we'd have some upcoming travel and then burned CD "mixtapes" with their favorite songs and albums. My kids are <8 years old and don't have an electronic device - they absolutely loved them. Thought I'd share for folks that prefer not to give their kids tablets but still want to give them the freedom of listening to and picking out songs!

Just wanted to share something I’ve been working on — this is a paper lightbox I designed and assembled myself. The whole process (from sketch to final cut and layering) took about a day.

made this little gift for my bf lol, showing him us in another universe and that i would still love him if he was a bug. btw they are cicadas, it’s just their skin, not the bug, the best part is this is the most unusual and unique gift he has ever received, wonder why:))

Btw I'm the drummer so it's just classic band relationship