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Christmas may be tight for most families across America and the world this year. Rising fuel prices, a shaky economy, and food prices that are continuously going up here and there are just making things hard to catch up with. While Christmas isn’t always about the gifts, many families include gift-giving as part of their tradition though.

Instead of heading to the retail store to purchase your gifts this year, how about using our imaginations and creating gifts for those that we would like to give to this Christmas? A person doesn’t have to have some kind of special craft talent in order to create a gift either-all it takes is a little bit of instruction, some accessories and tools, and a bit of love to create a gift for the holidays.

Some ideas include making personalized coffee mugs, writing a heartfelt poem or note and putting it in a frame, making a piece of jewelry, or making a photo page. Read more below to see if you could use any of following ideas….

• Personalized coffee mug. Find a coffee mug from a store like the Dollar Tree or Dollar general. Make sure that it is a solid color so you can easily paint decorations and designs on it. Buy some paints -such as acrylic or anything that can work on glass, a paintbrush, and a few stencils of your choice. Get some lettering stencils also if you feel uncomfortable painting them yourself.
  For dads, you could simply paint the word, “dad,” and add designs to it-or mom, grandma, grandpa, friend, etc. Find out everyone’s favorite colors, and you can design them accordingly. This is a fun and simple gift to create. Everyone can always use a new mug!-Whether it be to drink out of –or to store stuff in-Warning: do not put into the dishwasher–the paint will come off.
  

For more handmade Christmas ideas, continue reading this article , to see what kind of creative gifts you can make this year….