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craftygoths but my comment ended up getting really long so I decided to make an entire post about this instead since someone else might be asking themselves the same question - what to give to your goth (or goth-minded) friends on christmas without ending up pennyless.Some things that make excellent christmas gifts and decorations for the holiday season include..
- Christmas-gone-bad cards using selected christmas colours (red,black,etc) to create visions of murderous gnomes, cute goth dolly gnomesses/elves. Perhaps even butchered gingerbread men?
- Gothy cupcakes are a guaranteed hit for gifts and you can make them in larger numbers to lots of people without much effort. Perhaps they might feature a bloody surprise (think dark red jam) under the crust? Black and red candy are cheap and easy decorations.
- Chocolate sweets in romantic colours are the easy way to go. Choose a package with gothy colours or perhaps apply your favourite wrapping paper to the box with some glue? The folds are easy to hide underneath the trays, making your package look really original. Don't forget some lovely satin ribbon in black or red.
- Red wine, for the ones you love more. You can create a simple gift by wrapping up only the part with the labels around the middle of the bottle, still making the wine a surprise until the wrapping is opened. Perhaps even make your own label - I'd love getting a bottle of "Fine selected virgin sacrifices". Again - ribbons!
- Paper fold cuts - you know, you fold paper and cut it into a shape so it forms a ribbon of these shapes. Many use this technique to make "snowflakes" but it can be used for anything from wandering zombie silhuettes to skeletons. Buy hobby paper on a roll for longer pieces.
- Exotic vintage glasses - there's nothing like drinking the "vintage blood" you just got out of a set of fine lead (crystal) glasses. And they make for excellent decoration around the year! You can find them cheaply in thrift stores. Decorated tea cups are also a nice goth gift.
- Homemade stuffed toys. Small, simple designs can be made quickly (even sewing by hand) from cheap fabric of your favourite colours. The simplest type is to just create a stuffed ball and decorate it with buttons, ribbons, screws and the likes to form simple faces and hair.
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Also coming up with a guitar-print "bass" hat for my step-dad with a bass-guitar shaped scarf to go with it, since he moonlights as a bassist.
My mom will get something artsy because she's an art teacher & just an arty person in general. On top of that she loves it when I make her things. She still uses the basket I wove mismatched bits of ribbon through, when I was 3, for her pot holders. lol I'm almost 23 now.
December 2 2009, 23:07:06 UTC 2 years ago
Anywho! I drew them as horses (her as a black horse because they're her favourite, Dennis as a palamino because he's blonde) & framed it for them to hang up. They loved it & thought it was cute & it hung in the hall for a very long time after christmas. (Even though it was a holiday-themed piece)
Art is also a good gift, especially for friends & if your family's into that. Frames are easy enough to find, you can always get gaudy interesting frames from stores at reasonable prices. Or you can do the standard 8x10 ones from the dollar tree.
Photos are also good if you don't draw. Put a gothic spin on frames (red gems, deeper purples, blues, greens, blacks, silver with paints, glitters, false flowers) and put photos in there from good times. Give them to your friends &/or relatives with your own artistic twist on an old tried & true gift.
IF you're one to get doubles of photos Make a photo-collage.
Those are always neat.
December 2 2009, 23:08:45 UTC 2 years ago
oop, left out a word.. >.>
**I meant thrift stores! oops! X3December 3 2009, 02:00:26 UTC 2 years ago
Black paper boxes (with white insides) and red ribbon can be found easily in craft shops. I've tried putting chocolate pieces in small, black paper bags, sticky-taped closed, and they work fine.
December 3 2009, 03:36:04 UTC 2 years ago
A few of them have already been covered here, but there are a couple of other unconventional ideas (they have a LOT of suggestions for what you can do with your old vinyls, for example!). I hope they help someone!
December 14 2009, 17:20:37 UTC 2 years ago