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Handmade Gift Ideas

Making handmade gifts for the holidays is a great way to show your love and appreciation for your friends and family. It’s also a wonderful way to personalize a gift by making it to the liking of the recipient: whether that means using their favorite colors, using their birthstone gemstone, a personalized charm of their initial or a hobby they love, or another way of showing that you really thought about them when making the gift. The nice thing about handmade gifts is that you can really make them into anything you want!

Another great thing is that handmade gifts can help you save money during this time of year. It’s not always the way of course, but often it costs less to make a gift then to buy one. You can buy a pack of 10 earring hooks and make 5 pairs of earrings with them. That is often the case with the findings too, you can spread one pack of findings out to make multiple pieces of jewelry.

Bookmarks!

So many people love to read. A wonderful gift that is universally loved is a bookmark. What's nice about bookmarks is that they are very fast to make and use charms which you can easily personalize. Check out our selection of bookmarks and our wide selection of charms!

Wine Charms!

Wine charms are another gift idea that is easy to personalize since you add charms onto them to tell the difference between the different wine glasses. Wine charms are easy to make using ring sized memory wire. Here is a great video showing how to do it:

Featured Video: How to Make Wine Charms with Memory Wire

Jewelry!

How could we not add jewelry to this list! You can make so many different and wonderful types of jewelry gifts. Here is the time when you can add in a personal touch like representing the recipients birthstone in either gemstone or crystal. We have a handy birthstone guide to help you figure out what that color/gemstone will be. This is also the time where you can really make your supplies stretch and make multiple pieces of jewelry out of just a few supplies. Below is a project that shows how to make 6 different pieces of jewelry out of a single strand of gemstone beads.

Ornaments!

What goes hand in hand with Christmas? Ornaments of course! And giving an ornament is a lovely gift for a special someone. You can create brick stitch beaded ornaments or something totally different like a beaded wire snowflake. For the snowflakes, there are easy-to-use wire forms that make beading a breeze.