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Christmas gift for my mom to remember her dad.
About 4 months ago, I lost my poppop to cancer. As it has definitely been hard for me to lose him, it has been exceptionally hard for my mom because she was very close to her dad. Long story short, I want to make her something very memorable for her this Christmas that she'll love to have forever to always remember him. I remember her looking at something where I could sew a flannel shirt of his on to a pillow so she would still have a piece of him always. She already was gifted a quilt of some of his clothes and pictures of all of us so nothing quite like that, please. I'm just looking for memorable, cute DIY gifts to make her smile and remember the good times with him instead of his last few days suffering. Any help or ideas is greatly appreciated!! Thanks!
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You were given great gift ideas for gifts that are around all year long. My idea is one focused only on Christmas season, a time when it is hard to enjoy the Holiday now without loved ones for the first time. It is hard, it won't be the same and yet you want to hang onto somehow including them still in your Holiday celebrations. When I lost my parents, mom first....I didn't to purchase ornaments where you can insert a photo of the person and then hang it on your Christmas tree forever after each Christmas. My Mom was born in Germany and the Gingerbread house photo ornament I saw reminded me of her, I added a photo and have enjoyed bringing it out every Christmas. Selections aren't great for store bought photo ornaments as I discovered 10 yrs later when Dad passed. SO a DIY is perfect. I did a search online for 'DIY Christmas photo ornaments' and you can do the same to see what appeals to you. Here is the easiest one I am posting link to:
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If Mom has a set theme for tree decorating that does not include a hodge podge of differing ornaments, then it might not work for a tree. Instead you may want to create a Christmas themed photo frame that can stand on a table top as part of her Christmas decorating stuff. It can be a regular photo of Poppop or perhaps a good one of him where someone you know who's good with photo shop adds a santa hat on him if you don't have a good holiday pic of him in a santa hat or Christmas pullover. Or if you think she'd prefer a framed photo of him for all year around, make two, one especially for Christmas. If he liked beach combing, fishing, its easy enough to glue shells, beach glass and mini toy fish of items from the scrap booking section of craft stores onto a frame with a photo of him at the beach. Carry out the theme of the photo onto the frame. If doing so, go to your local craft store, mention what you make to make. And ask for suggestions there. I hope this helps.
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There are any number of things I can think of you could make for your mother. The one I like the best, if it is possible would be a photo album.
Hopefully popop kept photos from when your mom was a child and your family has photo's of you and your family with poppop. IF these photo's exist you would start the album of mom and poppop and places and things that were special to her as a child. Then build into places and things she did with you, your family and poppop.
If you know anyone that is good with photography and can then take the album and put it on a DVD for you. Then you can enhance the gift by setting the pictures to music as the photos move past on the screen.
This is the type of gift that can last a lifetime one mom can pull out anytime she thinks of her father and later you can pull out when thinking of your mom and poppop.
The album can also be added to by you for mom as you get older and have a family to add memories for mom to cherish. You may not always be just down the hall or across town. Once you have a husband and family of your own life can take you to the four corners of the world. A photo album always keeps you close for mom.
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ok this is a little tought because we dont know the memories that you, your mom, or her dad had with each other and i think the quilts and pieces of his clothing ARE a great start.
Heres the thing, you want to make her something she can have forever right?? what about a bracelet with some charms on it that are unique to places and things they did together?
You can do kind of what KAY jewelers does where they sell individual charms to put on it for super cheap if you go to walmart or a good arts n crafts store where they sell jewelry making supplies, and then based on the memories you KNOW they had together and find some charms to add to it slowly over time?
you can buy a jewelry making kit and then slowly make or buy things to add to the bracelet even AFTER you give it to her. the gift itself would be just another charm to add to the bracelet. ; )
also check out pinterest for more ideas.
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