How to make your own gift baskets. Haven’t you always wanted to give someone a beautiful gift basket, but didn’t have a clue how to put one together? Gift baskets are such a wonderful gift and can be given for any occasion.

Delicate miniature wraths make beautiful presents in themselves. Make a simple heart shape from florist's wire and decorate with any flowers you have at hand. Pierce rosebuds with a needle, and thread onto the wire. Glue rose petals onto a wire heart and decorate the top with flowers.

Half the fun of the holiday season is making things yourself, from cookies to gifts to decorations. Here are two projects to enhance your holidays

Sometimes gifts that you purchase are not as personalized as you would like. They do not quite seem to fit the idea you had in mind. For these times, the only thing to do is "do it yourself". You will have the gift exactly fitting the theme and the person that you want.

Filled with dainty pink roses, this lovely vase paints up quickly to hold a bouquet for Grandma or a special Auntie.

Gifts of candy and chocolate are always appreciated, especially if they are wrapped in an original way. Fill some cone-shaped cellophane bags with candies

To a large extent the holidays have come to be more about materialism than the original values of peace, harmony, and faith. Advertisers hit us from all sides with messages of greed and pettiness.