FabSwingers.com forum: Hand made gifts/cards

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Do these mean anything to you?

Is the sentimental value of someone sitting down and creating something specifically for you, of a lesser, greater or equal value to a gift which has been purchased?

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By *irtyGirlWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Yes. I love homemade stuff. The thought that someone has put into it beats a shop bought card every day of the week.

My friend made me a packet of fruit pastels for my birthday. Black ones. He took apart several packets and made me a whole packet. Best birthday present ever.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Always better than the bought ones. They could be the worst looking thing ever but if made with love it means so much more.

I keep the handmade ones, the rest go into the recycling.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love handmade.

Im always making gifts for people. Luckily I do have creative talent but even if I didn't I find people appreciate effort over value

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I've had some right bollocking this year for not making my own cards.

But nothing is better than something handmade

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I love handmade.

Im always making gifts for people. Luckily I do have creative talent but even if I didn't I find people appreciate effort over value "

Mostly. I did hear one child beg a relative for a proper shop card and present to give to her friend and not something lame and homemade.

I was trying very hard not to laugh out loud.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to be really creative with drawing/painting/pastels, making cards/pictures for people..

then i just started making cards with a spunk splashes inside..I blame FAB!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I love handmade.

Im always making gifts for people. Luckily I do have creative talent but even if I didn't I find people appreciate effort over value

Mostly. I did hear one child beg a relative for a proper shop card and present to give to her friend and not something lame and homemade.

I was trying very hard not to laugh out loud.

Awe haha with kids it's different!! My son has them bought from shops.

But I make things like the scrabble frames etc and of course the cakes x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love handmade stuff. It could be the fugliest piece of crap to the rest of the world, but someone made that fugly piece of crap for me, and I'd love it

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By *trawberry-popWoman
over a year ago

South East Midlands NOT

Love handmade. So much more creative.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We get ours done by a friend. She's great at Art & Craft I tell her how I want it and she does it. She even made baby George and Charlotte a keepsake and she got a letter from Buckingham palace thanking her. I think it makes all the difference but it would be for close loved ones not everyone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes how can a corporation card be more loving than a handmade one

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

"Yes. I love homemade stuff. The thought that someone has put into it beats a shop bought card every day of the week.

My friend made me a packet of fruit pastels for my birthday. Black ones. He took apart several packets and made me a whole packet. Best birthday present ever.

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i still have the card you made me

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I love knowing that someone has crafted something especially for me and have done so for others.

I've made ceramics for others that have sometimes taken many weeks, so know how much effort can be invested. They can be great memorable gifts for special occasions.

I've had things given to me that have become valuable but wouldn't dream of selling them, as they were personal gifts. Not everyone may appreciate that art but I certainly do.

It's lovely to encourage kids to do it too but not stop at childhood.

I now mostly grow plants and give them away but they're always personally cared for first and an incredibly individual gift as they reflect me and will be grown for a specific person.

Even a bunch of my flowers will be hand picked and chosen for someone, so I'd definitely say that personally crafted gifts are wonderful to give and to get.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yes. I love homemade stuff. The thought that someone has put into it beats a shop bought card every day of the week.

My friend made me a packet of fruit pastels for my birthday. Black ones. He took apart several packets and made me a whole packet. Best birthday present ever.

That would mean more to me than a diamond ring.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That made me smile

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love it when a child makes something for me. I wouldn't think an adult would put much love into anything hand made,most do it as a hobby or to make some money.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school "

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes. "

Are they made out of love ?

Or are they made by teachers telling them to sit down and make a card / drawer a picture ?

Either way, my fridge door is clear of such modern artworks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes.

Are they made out of love ?

Or are they made by teachers telling them to sit down and make a card / drawer a picture ?

Either way, my fridge door is clear of such modern artworks

My rather hyper young nephew spent hours making me a get well card, even if it were my sister's suggestion. It's the only card I still have almost 2 years after the op.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like hand-made stuff from kids. But from adults i get the sense from them that I don't understand the efforts that went into what they made, so I'm not appreciative enough.

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By *ivemeyoursoulWoman
over a year ago

Easter just around the corner!

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes.

Are they made out of love ?

Or are they made by teachers telling them to sit down and make a card / drawer a picture ?

Either way, my fridge door is clear of such modern artworks

Misery guts,when your child has made it surely that makes it special,even if it a wonky piece of pottery

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I have done hand painted ones for my family for the last few years.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I love hand made cards and gifts just as much as I love thoughtfully chosen shop bought ones. My appreciation is for the sentiment because I know that not everybody has the time or ability to hand make things.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cards I do like. But I'm not really into "stuff" so if someone makes me an ornament or whatever, while I'm grateful I'm also thinking where the hell am I supposed to put this. But I feel this way about shop bought trinkets too, I'd rather spend time with people I care about instead of them buying things. Unless I don't like them, in which case I'd prefer they bought me alcohol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Handmade requires way more thought, time and effort, and usually money, than shop-bought.

I try to make as much functional stuff as possible. Cards, candles, cakes, bread, jam, curtains, cushions, blinds, quilts, socks, jumpers, pickles, chutneys, confectionary, balms, lotions and furniture polish! It feels.....nice to give someone something that's taken so much time and effort. And it's appreciated more.

Just because it's homemade, it doesn't mean it was cheap!

Shop-bought is the easy option.

Xxxx

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes.

Are they made out of love ?

Or are they made by teachers telling them to sit down and make a card / drawer a picture ?

Either way, my fridge door is clear of such modern artworks

Misery guts,when your child has made it surely that makes it special,even if it a wonky piece of pottery

Absolutely, I mean come on, no one is expecting a masterpiece off a little kid, but how exciting to see that little person you had a hand in creating, is now creating things themselves, and watching them gradually get better and more sophisticated over the years...I don't have kids, but when I finally do, if one of them takes a piece of paper, draws a circle, a couple of dots for eyes and a line for a mouth, and writes 'daddy' next to it, you'd better believe its going straight on the fridge, and later into my folder

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Handmade requires way more thought, time and effort, and usually money, than shop-bought.

Just because it's homemade, it doesn't mean it was cheap!

Shop-bought is the easy option.

Xxxx

Shop bought is sometimes the only option. I do both depending on time, funds and inclination and if somebody looks my gift horse in the mouth they don't get another.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Handmade requires way more thought, time and effort, and usually money, than shop-bought.

Just because it's homemade, it doesn't mean it was cheap!

Shop-bought is the easy option.

Xxxx

Shop bought is sometimes the only option. I do both depending on time, funds and inclination and if somebody looks my gift horse in the mouth they don't get another."

I don't have the skill or time to do homemade. Shop bought doesn't have to mean thoughtless or inferior.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes.

Are they made out of love ?

Or are they made by teachers telling them to sit down and make a card / drawer a picture ?

Either way, my fridge door is clear of such modern artworks

Of course they are made by someone who loves you. Don't you remember making things for your parents? I've had things made for me that weren't on the orders of an adult and still have them. Your heart is as cold as your fridge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's what a person writes in the card that means something to me. My ex husband wrote me a poem once,previous to that I'd only ever had one card from him that his sisters made him buy me. The poem made me cry.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes.

Are they made out of love ?

Or are they made by teachers telling them to sit down and make a card / drawer a picture ?

Either way, my fridge door is clear of such modern artworks

OK, OK, I give in

I think I may have had a case of the morning grouches earlier

Normal service has now resumed

I'm not a baddie (all the time) just a cynical moody fucker

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes.

Are they made out of love ?

Or are they made by teachers telling them to sit down and make a card / drawer a picture ?

Either way, my fridge door is clear of such modern artworks

OK, OK, I give in

I think I may have had a case of the morning grouches earlier

Normal service has now resumed

I'm not a baddie (all the time) just a cynical moody fucker

What if one of the elves made you a snow globe out of a jam jar, some glitter and a pic of you stuck in a chimney

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By *ivemeyoursoulWoman
over a year ago

Easter just around the corner!

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes.

Are they made out of love ?

Or are they made by teachers telling them to sit down and make a card / drawer a picture ?

Either way, my fridge door is clear of such modern artworks

Misery guts,when your child has made it surely that makes it special,even if it a wonky piece of pottery

Aw I hope that happens for you,I've kept all my kids pictures they've done for me,it's funny looking back at them. It's kinda stopped now though,homework has replaced them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do these mean anything to you?

Nope, especially the shit that kids bring home from school

It's not shit. Its lovingly made keep sakes.

Are they made out of love ?

Or are they made by teachers telling them to sit down and make a card / drawer a picture ?

Either way, my fridge door is clear of such modern artworks

OK, OK, I give in

I think I may have had a case of the morning grouches earlier

Normal service has now resumed

I'm not a baddie (all the time) just a cynical moody fucker

What if one of the elves made you a snow globe out of a jam jar, some glitter and a pic of you stuck in a chimney

My elves are generally well behaved.

DO NOT be giving them ideas !

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By *ighting17thMan
over a year ago

Bodmin

I might be going over the top, but I'm halfway through building my dad a hollow body electric arch top guitar ( styling it like my Gretsch 6120 )...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yes. I love homemade stuff. The thought that someone has put into it beats a shop bought card every day of the week.

My friend made me a packet of fruit pastels for my birthday. Black ones. He took apart several packets and made me a whole packet. Best birthday present ever.

MHO - it should be termed "handcrafted" if there's been a lot of thought and consideration given to the the object and recipient when crafting it personally. I've always been into crafts and I can appreciate the time and thought whenever someone presents me with their work of art and I can honestly say they are the best gifts/cards I've received compared to some of the factory made stuff I've given as they are more personal.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Is the sentimental value of someone sitting down and creating something specifically for you, of a lesser, greater or equal value to a gift which has been purchased?"

Greater value

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By *ighting17thMan
over a year ago

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By *ighting17thMan
over a year ago

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"Is the sentimental value of someone sitting down and creating something specifically for you, of a lesser, greater or equal value to a gift which has been purchased?

Greater value

So True!!!

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