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.



A photo album
It's moderately easy to make, and ends up looking fantastic! Go to an art store and pick out a style of paper to go with the theme of your photo album. I made this one for my mom using paper with dried flower petals pressed onto it. Cut the paper to your desired size, mount the photos and then write captions underneath them. Bind the pages together (this one uses ribbon), and you're done!
—Andrea Domanick, 14, Harvard-Westlake School
It's moderately easy to make, and ends up looking fantastic! Go to an art store and pick out a style of paper to go with the theme of your photo album. I made this one for my mom using paper with dried flower petals pressed onto it. Cut the paper to your desired size, mount the photos and then write captions underneath them. Bind the pages together (this one uses ribbon), and you're done!
—Andrea Domanick, 14, Harvard-Westlake School