Homemade gifts from the heart
A flower, a photo album, a mix CD—sometimes it’s the homemade gift that means the most. Relatively easy-to-do, inexpensive gifts you can make for your friends and family.
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A metal flower
One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten was from my boyfriend, Sean. He made me a metal flower. You may think that real flowers are better, but they only last a couple days, and this one will last the rest of my life.
My boyfriend braided his electric bass strings for the stem and took a sheet of metal and cut it to make the petals. Then he soldered the petals onto the stem and stuck nails facing downward as the center of the flower. I love it because he spent a lot of time on it and it's not just like a rose that dies. I keep it wound around the post of my bed.
—Jennifer Gottesfeld, 16, Beverly Hills HS
One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten was from my boyfriend, Sean. He made me a metal flower. You may think that real flowers are better, but they only last a couple days, and this one will last the rest of my life.
My boyfriend braided his electric bass strings for the stem and took a sheet of metal and cut it to make the petals. Then he soldered the petals onto the stem and stuck nails facing downward as the center of the flower. I love it because he spent a lot of time on it and it's not just like a rose that dies. I keep it wound around the post of my bed.
—Jennifer Gottesfeld, 16, Beverly Hills HS
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