DIY Gifts

11/05/2026

Wanted to remember gifts I've made, but seem to be lacking. I don't have pictures for all of them hence the list. Though if they inspire others that would be nice too 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️. Or any suggestions

Birthday Gift

DIY Scroll Box Card

I don't know it's exact name. But it looked sort of like a phone (as they wanted to lessen their phone usage) and when you scroll (using the scrolls) different images come up. So I made a 'gallery' like page, a tinder page with their crushes, a calendar page etc.

Art Gallery Love Letter

But shifted it to make it open up like a museum of their favourite art. The outside is written on like a letter though 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Bluelock Jersey

Liked the anime bluelock so got a similar bluelock jersey made for them with their name on the back and the day of their birthday

Clay Chess piece

They like chess and hello kitty so out of clay I had moulded (at least attempted to) form a queen chess piece with the head of hello kitty with a crown and a cape

DIY Playing Card

Made playing cards with their favourite ships, TV shows/movies and characters. Really fun to make.

Anime Light Box

To be fair, I forgot to add the strips of LED light 😖. But added a layer of black and white anime manga stripes, then some foam board (for the jump out effect) then a full body photo of tengen jumping.

DIY Cassette Music Book

Added with lyrics that I had liked from their favourite artists. Formed a short story with them too

Cardboard cutout (Gojo)

As it was their favourite chaarcter

IPod/ MP3 player

They like music and filled it with their favourite songs and a couple of my (horrendous) vocals to brighten their day

Astronomy

A picture of the starry night the day they were born, since they liked Astronomy

Minecraft figurine of Me

They liked Minecraft and had made it from clay

Poster- 'I love you'

Framed poster that says 'I love you' in Hozier quotes as they loved Hozier

Cookbook

Made a cookbook for them with my face and random recipes as they didn't know how to cook

Poster of their favourite book

They shipped themselves with an MMC from a book so made a poster of them two with their favourite quote from the book

DIY Postcards

They didn't like taking pictures but travel loads so got the list of countries and made postcards for each of them like a souvenir of sorts

Clay of Miguel O'Hara ass

It's self-explanatory 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Polaroid Photo

Not DIY but I feel like its my signature move

Scrapbook/ Album book

Loved Godzilla so made an album of edited photos of them with gorilla. Added some poems written from Godzilla to them and stories etc

DIY Necklace

Two chained silver necklace with a sun on one chain and moon on another. They think I’m the Grumpy and their sunshine hence the necklace (but I'm the sunshine). So the necklace is for them to have a piece of me 😌

Handwritten Story

They're a suckered for romance so wrote them a nice meet cute story

Annotated Book

They liked this series so annotated the next book of the series (though it mainly consisted of me swooning for the MMC)

Photo Waterfall

Filled with pictures of their fictional crushes

Crochet Koala

They were going to Australia so as a mini gift made a keychain crochet koala as their little helper buddy

Valentine

Coffee Stained Letter

Sealed with a wax stamp

Victorian Valentine Card

Searched it up on Google then edited my face onto them (for the comedic effect). And laminated them while adding a quote to the back of it

Victorian Folding Letter

Really cool project!! Outside was pretty, opening the first layer it had a short line for a 4 sentenced poem on each flap. Then inside in great Victorian English I bare out my heart (platonically)

Crochet Rose

Crocheted a pink rose as it was for a victorian like valentine. And they were really into flowers. Pink roses to them meant admiration, love, friendship etc.