DIY Christmas Gifts They Will Love

DIY Christmas gifts are special. Someone was thinking about you and took time to make a special gift just for you. Here’s a selection of food & wine, spa & beauty and home decor gifts you can make that everyone will love receiving. DIY wrapping ideas are included for inspiration.

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Food

Herb Infused Vingars

What a delicious, practical gift. Include recipes for salad dressing or a meat marinade on an interesting notecard to make sure your recipient knows how to use your gift. Find recipes for a variety of infused vinegars at evermine. This includes Parley, Rosemary & Sage; Fennel & Citrus and Tarragon & Garlic. Just think of the possibilities!

To get started, here are a few supplies you will need:

Personalized Cutting Board

It’s so fun to create a personalized gift for a family member or friend. This cutting board is great for serving cheese. Depending on your budget you can really keep this gift simple or ‘dress it up’ with cheese knives, cheese, or sausage. This fantastic inspiration is provided by Ashley Hackshaw at Little Blue Boo.

To get this project done, here are a few items you will need:

Wine Connoisseur

Personalized Wine Glasses

I love the idea of being the friend who doesn’t just gift a nice bottle of wine, but includes a couple of fun, personalized wine glasses. Here’s a simple project from That’s What Che Said.

Here are the supplies you will need to get started on this project:

Glitter Wine Glasses

Glitter is a must for the holidays. These glasses from Creative Green Living are easy to make, but you do need to plan ahead so the dishwasher safe glue has plenty of time to cure. Create a set using holiday colored glitter in gold, silver, green and red. Here’s a list of supplies.

Wine Charms

Wine charms are a great way to keep track of your wine glass at a party. Super handy. You can specialize these for any occasion and tailor the charms to the personality of the recipient. The project outline at Cut Out and Keep provides simple instructions to create this gift.

Here are a few supplies you will need to complete this project. You can use a skewer to make hole in the cork for the jump ring that connects the cork to the charm hoop. Please be careful! You can also use a Sharpie to add the year, a monogram or other design to the cork.

Spa and Beauty

Lip Balm

This is a lovely recipe for lavender lip balm provided by Grow Forage Cook Ferment. You can use other essential oils to vary the ‘flavor’.

Here’s a list of supplies you will need to create your lip balm gift.

Milk & Honey Soap

The instructions to prepare these charming and soothing little soaps can be found at Happiness is Homemade. What a lovely gift and how cute they will look in pretty soap dish.

Home Decor

Stove Top Christmas Scent

Everyone loves a warm cozy house that smells great. Not only does this stove top simmer potpourri from The Mama’s Girls smell great, but it looks beautiful in cellophane gift bag with a custom label and ribbon.

Supplies to prepare a Stove Top Christmas Scent gift:

Candles

These candles from Live Simply are simple to make and are a fantastic gift. You can personalize the scent by using different essential oils or mixtures of essential oils. You can also personalize the container; use wine glass, old jars, whatever it takes go give it your signature touch.

DIY Wrapping Ideas

Nature-Inspired

This beautiful, simple gift wrap idea from A Piece of Rainbow is perfect. It even allows you to forage in nature to collect the greens. Get out and take that winter walk.

Modern

Who doesn’t love a little sparkle around the holidays? This simple gift wrap idea from Holly at My Pinteresting Life allows for endless opportunities to personalize the sparkle for the recipient.