Vanna White Quotes

Make gifts meaningful by putting the time in creating them, whether baking and cooking, or in making arts and craft. It will all have more meaning for the giver and receiver.

I'm doing a lot more handmade gifts. When I go to a party, I cook whatever it is I need to bring instead of just grabbing a bottle of wine.

Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.

Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

I like presents that a man has spent time on, doing them himself, like a card or anything that is made by hand and from the heart.

I love making things for people.

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.

I love getting anything homemade - anything that's from the heart. If you can make or craft your own something, that always goes above and beyond, like, a candle - which is great, but if it's homemade, that's so much better for me.

Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.

I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.

My love can't be purchased... Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute!

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

I'll tell you - there's no author that wants to give his mother an e-book of his new book. I think he wants to present her with - or she - wants to present her with something beautiful that he or she created.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.