Christmas and St. Valentine's Day were celebrated not long ago but new holidays are already on the way, for example Women's Day/Mother's Day. During several months you have to generate a bunch of ideas on what to give your dearest and nearest ones. We will help you in that!
"My girlfriend has her birthday coming soon but I've got no idea what to present her with. She's got everything!", "And what should I do with these goblets?! I've got too many of them already!", "A nice thing but there is no space on the shelves left… but I can't just put it into the garbage", - we are sure such contemplations are known to many of you. At least, they were known to us.
One eight-years-old girl was asked what to do to feel joy. One of the answers suggested by her was the following: "you may give presents". As for us, we cannot say what brings us more joy: to give or get presents. But we know for sure that most joy and a great sense of content we get from making presents.
First, it is interesting to make presents with your own hands. Not long ago, there were ribbons, beads, and pieces of cloth on the table but now they have turned into an elegant handbag, a nice hat or a fur toy-mouse.
Second, it is a good way to express your individuality. Exclusive things can be bought either for much money or done by you. In the second case you'll get the colour, size and style which will fit and match exactly you.
Third, making something with your own hands you put one special thing into it which can not be bought for any money - you fill it with your love.
And fourth, you may involve children, from babies to teenagers, into the process! A child who has not reached 3 years old will only watch and touch the "ingredients" but at that time the creative images will be leaving their trace in his visual memory. Moreover, when the thing is ready, he will have a feeling that he has taken part in the creation of "beauty"!
What is so special about the present? The thing we give is not as important as the attention! Thus, handmade presents are considered the most valuable.
In the past, the idea that a present can be not only bought but also made somehow skipped our mind. It took us much time to, finally, invent what to give a person for that thing to be useful and not commonplace. And now we simply do not have such a question - ideas come long time before the event (if not - read further 
). All you need is a little bit of imagination and creativity.
When we make presents, we, usually, either paint, or take pics with a camera, or write, or knit, or everything mentioned and something else .
What else can be made with one's own hands? Judging by our own experience and the experience of our friends, one can:
- write a poem, a fairy-tale or even a book and then, having decorated it with illustrations, have it bound;
- make a card with an appliqué from dried flowers and then put some lacquer onto it;
- model a toy from clay and special plastic material and then colour it; Read the rest of this entry »
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My husband and I have a very nice approach to holidays: the holiday should be not only on holiday days but - every day (at least, one should strive for it). Frankly speaking, I adopted such an approach years ago from my future husband when we had just got acquainted. In practice, it turned out that it really works! First, when you are unexpectedly given a present you know for sure that it is from the bottom of your dearest's heart and not because it is a holiday and one HAS TO give presents. On the other hand, we exchange pleasant surprises on holidays as well.
