homemade gifts for girlfriend
More specifically, girls like to get gift from their friends, particularly males whom they may be romantically interested in. And as we also all know, the buying of stuff can get rather heavy on the wallet or the credit card bill. In order to make things a little simpler (and cheaper), a few homemade gifts for girlfriend that will make that girlfriend smile, but will not make your pocketbook dead.
Go ahead and humble yourself to the point of baking her favorite cookies,force you to do things you’ve never done before, like reading a cookbook and shopping in the baking goods section of the grocery store, she will be pleasantly surprised.
homemade flowers, flowers can be made out of different materials: paper can be used to create beautiful origami flowers, tissue paper can be crumpled and combined with various materials to create delicate roses, and even duct tape can be twisted and rolled to create roses.
Most towns have craft shops known as pottery kilns where you can go and paint a piece of pottery for a reasonable price. Go into such a shop and find a small, but nice piece to work with and go ahead and paint it for your special girl.
make something. go to the diy shop and look for interesting things to put together and contruct sometrhing
. the raw materials can be bought quite cheaply. then , be creative. work towards making something she’ll be happy to show her friends when they come over; and something that’s unique. no one in the WORLD has something like it
How about take some pictures of the two of you and make a kinda mini scrap book. Write in little love notes from you. You could download some of yalls “songs” together on a cd.
if you’ve been together a long time you could make a scrap book of memories. or figure out how to make a nice picture frame, and frame your best shot of the two of you together.
Quick Banana Chocolate Chip Bars
1 Medium Ripe Banana, peeled
1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
¾ Cup Brown Sugar, packed
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
½ Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
¼ Teaspoon Salt
1/3 Cup Olive or Vegetable Oil
2 Tablespoons Milk
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 Egg
¼ Cup Chopped Nuts
½ Cup Chocolate Chips (or what feels good)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray small rectangular or 9×9 square baking pan with non-stick spray.
Chop or mash banana. Combine with flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, oil, milk, vanilla and egg in large bowl. Stir in nuts and chocolate chips to this mixture OR save them to add as topping, sprinkling on top of mixture after poured into the pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Isabellas (Oatmeal Cookies)
1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 cups oats
Dash salt, optional
Powdered Sugar
Cream butter and sugar until light. Mix in vanilla, then flour, oats and salt. Chill thoroughly. Shape into small balls and place 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Flatten with a fork, crisscrossing. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-18 minutes (depending on your oven). Sprinkle with Powdered Sugar