Thursday, 12 December 2013

Christmas #1

This year, as a looking-for-a-job-with-no-money-for-Christmas-gifts person, I decided to make my own gifts.

I had always wanted to make my own gifts but I often found a lot of excuses to go through the easy-way (=shopping): "I don't have time", "I'm too busy to do it on my own", "I have money, so I can buy something useful". And as I love to do personalized gifts, this year I decided to spend as less money as possible while spending most of my 168 hours doing nice things to my family and friends*.

So, if you are at home and still looking for an opportunity, take some time to do something that will make you feel happy and realized: do your own Christmas gifts to the ones you care about. 

Ideas? Try to re-use old-empty food bottles by painting them or decorating with candles, make some origami, do your own Christmas postcards, inspire yourself from your surroundings!

Here is an example of what I have been doing:
This is an egg box, and it turn out into a...*

*After Christmas, I will show you the gifts I made!

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