For Christmas I want to give the joy of music to my niece. But in my true fashion, I couldn’t just give her a plain ol’ ukulele. I had to customize it.
First I bought this relatively inexpensive ukulele from Amazon. Originally I had planned to cut out vinyl decals to add to the body of the ukulele. But George, my super talented husband, really liked the idea of customizing the ukulele and volunteered to hand letter it. He used a white paint markers for the base, then created texture with a black paint marker.
It’s kind of adorable. Maybe my niece will be the next Dolly Parton. I’m at least going to win best aunt award this year.
How are your handmade gifts coming along?
love,
melanie
One of my nephews asked me to teach him to fly fish when we moved back home to ETX a few months ago. So at least once per month, I’ve been teaching him private fly casting lessons and at least once per month, I take him fishing. For Christmas, I’m tying him his own set of bream and bass flies and giving them to him in a custom fly box. I actually bought my wife a handmade Christmas gift: a pirate nutcracker to add to her Holiday nutcracker collection. She loves both pirates and nutcrackers, so I figured I couldn’t go wrong. Other than that, it’s books and boxes of chocolates and stuff like that.
Ken, those sound like great gifts! I love when gifts are personal and thoughtful. Those sound like both!