I can highly recommend making your own fruit flavoured gins (can even add fresh herbs etc). Its not too late to make them now ready for Christmas. You can use shop bought fruit. Strawberry or peach gin only take about a month to make.
While looking for bag hardware on Amazon, i found quite by accident, blank cufflinks for men, they were super cheap $14 for ten pairs but they were just a thin metal disc that you could add your own thing to. In the reviews I saw people had used little beads, glass cabochons, and coins or even made things out of clay and used jewellers epoxy to glue them on, I was thinking I might add a small circle of the thicker cork like the kind I use for making bags and make some for my husband. Recently his fingers have gone numb and he is struggling to fasten buttons on his shirts for work so he started using cufflinks but they clatter on the desk and it annoys him, if I put a small patch of cork it might not make so much noise.
You could make fudge, men always like fudge, it's very easy to make and you can make it in different flavours and then if you package it up nicely it makes a great gift or even some cookies or popcorn. Also trail mix or your own chex mix, I don't remember if you get chex mix in the UK, I'm not sure if you get Chex cereal, they do it in several varieties, you mix up some of each variety and then add whatever you like, small crackers, mixed nuts cashew nuts try to find things that are small and quite plain, oyster crackers are good, pretzels work well too. Then you melt some butter in the microwave, add some salt, I always hear people say to use seasoned salt but i have no idea what seasoned salt is, isn't salt seasoning? I just use salt, add some worcestershire sauce, mix it all together in the melted butter then pour it over your chex mix, mix well, spread it out on a baking sheet and bake for 30-40 minutes in a cool oven 300 f I think thats 150C . If you can't get chex mix you might have some similar cereal, chex are light and airy. crispy rather than crunchy.
One I did with Alia a while ago for her dad was I used an acrylic block like you use for stamping and some clear sticker paper, then I just printed a photo out onto the sticker paper and stuck it to the back of the acrylic block. It looks like the picture is on or inside the acrylic because the sticker is hard to see if you get it to the exact same size. I think i made it very slightly bigger so that I could trim it to size. Also use the 'best' or 'photo' setting on your printer to get a really bright image because paler colours get lost with the transparent block.
I can highly recommend making your own fruit flavoured gins (can even add fresh herbs etc). Its not too late to make them now ready for Christmas. You can use shop bought fruit. Strawberry or peach gin only take about a month to make.
While looking for bag hardware on Amazon, i found quite by accident, blank cufflinks for men, they were super cheap $14 for ten pairs but they were just a thin metal disc that you could add your own thing to. In the reviews I saw people had used little beads, glass cabochons, and coins or even made things out of clay and used jewellers epoxy to glue them on, I was thinking I might add a small circle of the thicker cork like the kind I use for making bags and make some for my husband. Recently his fingers have gone numb and he is struggling to fasten buttons on his shirts for work so he started using cufflinks but they clatter on the desk and it annoys him, if I put a small patch of cork it might not make so much noise.
Great ideas. x
Lisa, I have been thinking and I'm going to add this to the challenge group page, for people to post any gift ideas they have at all,
You could make fudge, men always like fudge, it's very easy to make and you can make it in different flavours and then if you package it up nicely it makes a great gift or even some cookies or popcorn. Also trail mix or your own chex mix, I don't remember if you get chex mix in the UK, I'm not sure if you get Chex cereal, they do it in several varieties, you mix up some of each variety and then add whatever you like, small crackers, mixed nuts cashew nuts try to find things that are small and quite plain, oyster crackers are good, pretzels work well too. Then you melt some butter in the microwave, add some salt, I always hear people say to use seasoned salt but i have no idea what seasoned salt is, isn't salt seasoning? I just use salt, add some worcestershire sauce, mix it all together in the melted butter then pour it over your chex mix, mix well, spread it out on a baking sheet and bake for 30-40 minutes in a cool oven 300 f I think thats 150C . If you can't get chex mix you might have some similar cereal, chex are light and airy. crispy rather than crunchy.
One I did with Alia a while ago for her dad was I used an acrylic block like you use for stamping and some clear sticker paper, then I just printed a photo out onto the sticker paper and stuck it to the back of the acrylic block. It looks like the picture is on or inside the acrylic because the sticker is hard to see if you get it to the exact same size. I think i made it very slightly bigger so that I could trim it to size. Also use the 'best' or 'photo' setting on your printer to get a really bright image because paler colours get lost with the transparent block.
It's a lot harder - I'll be following this with interest!