Page 38 2024 Home For The Holidays Lincoln Daily News This season, try your hand at homemade Christmas Gifts What is your idea of a homemade gift? Is that even a thing anymore? Does anyone remember the days when you’d get a gift of homemade jam or jelly with a cute cut-out piece of holiday material with a red or green ribbon around the metal lid? Or a basket of homemade rolled sugar cookies cut out into snowmen and trees, peanut brittle, fudge, or divinity? What about the cross-stitch holiday tea towels, knitted garland, hand-painted ceramic Christmas tree with little plastic bulbs, or a personalized ornament? Once upon a time there were even cookbooks with tear-out directions that were written specifi cally for the recipients of those homemade gifts. Most of those were geared towards using the ever-popular mason jars with the metal lids and with recipes for hot chocolate mixes, cookie and brownie mixes and various winter soups. Or could the thought of homemade gifts give you fl ashbacks to a horrible memory like a sweater grandma made and insisted you wear to the dinner table. Only grandma didn’t notice that one sleeve was longer than the other and the knitted Christmas tree ornaments were put on with large safety pins and placed in a humorous conversational position? With the ease of online shopping, gift cards, and money holders, does this generation even know what homemade gifts are? What is your memory of homemade gifts? As a youngster, memories of homemade gifts were everywhere, mainly prompted from Continued --
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