When choosing gifts for your beloved aunt for a birthday, it is important to avoid platitudes and dust collecting trinkets. Better to bet on something practical and often used in the future. Of course, one cannot do without some personal information, for example, what a relative is interested in, in what style her apartment is decorated and whether there is a need for any particular gift.
What can you do with your own hands?
You can give a birthday to your aunt a variety of homemade items. Women at home often absent key hanger in the hallway, and this element is really useful and pleasing to the eye. Create a place to store keys, some trifles, and maybe mail can be done with wooden elements, various fasteners and wicker baskets. Another simple homemade gift is panel or suspension for photos.
You can use ready-made wooden frames, which are fixed among themselves according to a certain principle and decorated with paints or three-dimensional elements.
A more stylish solution will be creating a frame of wood, between which a rope or other material is pulled, and photographs are hung on clothespins. Of course, you should print the best shots yourself and fill them with frames. Knowledge of handmade techniques will allow you to create a picture or other decorative element for decorating walls, a candlestick on a table, pillows in unusual covers or even handmade pottery.
Pretty easy to do photo album using scrapbooking, but the emotions from its receipt are always the most pleasant.
Multifunctional will be handmade cushion and roller filled with dry fragrant herbs. If you make the composition correctly, the pillow will create a calming effect and help you fall asleep faster.
Solutions like knitted blanket, shawl, lace fan to decorate the wall or even decorated handmade umbrella. If a niece or nephew own a cottage or garden on the windowsill, they can grow and dry various herbs, and then present them in convenient containers as seasonings for cooking.
To complement such a gift is appropriate wooden spoon or spatula handmade.
Of course, speaking of homemade gifts for your beloved aunt, you can not ignore such a sphere as cosmetics. On the Internet there is a huge number of master classes, which will study make your own bath salt, shower gel, cream, massage oil mixture, scrub or lip balm. Such cosmetics will not only benefit the body, but also bring additional pleasant emotions to a relative, who will understand how much effort was spent to create this gift.
A skilled craftswoman can make a stylish accessory - from earrings to a bag.
Always bring pleasant emotions a variety of goodies, cooked with his own hands.
A gift can be a as a finished product, for example, a cake or a set of cupcakes, and originally designed ingredients. In the second case, a neat jar is meant, inside which layers are placed the products necessary for making cookies or hot chocolate. Of course, the addition of any gift will be an unusual card made of paper and filled with spiritual wishes.
Original gifts
On the anniversary of my aunt's niece, it will be very nice to receive a gift "for beauty", such as perfume or a set of personal care products. If financial opportunities allow, then you should bet on certificate to a beauty salon or spa. Peeling, massage, face masks or even fresh manicure - all this will surely please a woman. Certainly my aunt will also like a certificate for a photo session with a famous photographer. Good and always appropriate small piece of furniture or decor.
As an option, the apartment will decorate the aunt an original shelf or flower in a pot, a beautiful vase or picture, a set for the desktop or a composition of high-quality candles with a pleasant aroma.
With regard to technology, it is unlikely that a relative lacks such basic elements as a microwave or kettle. But waffle iron, yogurt maker, juicer, sandwich maker or modern multifunctional blender sure to take a worthy place in the kitchen.
The same applies to the “for beauty” technique - a good gift, a hair dryer, or a facial massager can be a good gift.
The number of gift options for the home is really extensive. The kitchen will find their place heat-resistant baking dish, porcelain tea pair or homemade roll set. Perfectly perceived and food packs packed in beautiful wooden boxes. For example, it can be cheese platter, exotic coffee beans with a coffee grinder, a few unusual flavors of honey, tea in beautiful jars or ordinary sweets.
My aunt will probably want to use items from the "cozy" set, includes a warm blanket, LED garland, a beautiful candle and funny socks. The mistress of the “home jungle” will benefit from a flower pot with automatic watering, a stylish watering can or a plant care kit.
Always relevant and non banal hobby items.. If the aunt is actively engaged in knitting, then a set of expensive yarn will like her, and if she likes to cook, a set of molds of unusual shapes and sizes, cookbook and modern ancillary accessories. By the way, the needlewoman clearly will like the opportunity to visit some Master Class and master the new skill. Exotic cuisine, polymer clay decorations, macrame, clay modeling, the creation of floral compositions - you will get an option for every taste.
If the aunt has not lost her youthful spirit and continues to learn with pleasure, then it is important to support this with her hobby.
This could be an online course of interest or a seminar visit, a fitness club subscription or new flamenco shoes. Sports ladies it makes sense to give a stick for Nordic walking, exercise bike or cute dumbbells. A pet owner is allowed to present a gift not personally to her, but for her pet. A cat's house, a leather leash, a set of stylish plates, ecological toys, or even a set of all the above mentioned amenities along with food - all this will be accepted with great gratitude.
Many today are moving to a more eco-friendly lifestyle and strive to follow the philosophy of Zero Waste. Such people will fit fabric bags for grocery shopping, reusable water bottle, canvas shopper bag, eco-friendly goodies and household goods.
Cheap options
Inexpensive options should still be thought out, so as not to give the impression that they were bought at the last moment in a corner kiosk. For example, it may be fortune cookie boxwhich is inexpensive, but always gives a lot of emotions.
Any woman will be pleased to receive as a gift any hair ornament, for example, a set of decorative hairpins or even a tiara on the way out.
Of course, always please and various accessories to complement the image. Choosing a headscarf, you should either first ask about the preferences of the birthday girl, or study her photos on social networks and find out what suits her.
In the event that a relative is often in the church, the accessory is better to take a neutral shade. Scarf or LIC indispensable in the cold months. Conveniently, if they are presented complete with a cozy hat. It is better to give a belt from genuine leather - other variations look too cheap as a gift. Choosing a model, you should be guided by what shades the aunt prefers, buying bags, clothes or shoes.
In order not to lose the solution, it is recommended to take a classic black model.
Cute and cute looks Topiary made from coffee beans or artificial flowers. There is such a homemade trinket is quite acceptable. The kitchen will fit tea house which houses tea bags, coffee or cocoa packaging. Handmade soap is useful to any woman, and the opportunity to acquire any fragrances allows you to make the best choice. For jewelry is useful small wooden box decorated using decoupage technique.
It is worth the budget The book is the best gift for most people. If the aunt belongs to book lovers, then she can present a novelty of her beloved author, a book on a topic of interest, or a luxury notebook for records. In case of lack of confidence in the choice of more logical to purchase certificate to the bookstore.
Of course, it's easier and more budgetary just to give a birthday girl bouquet of flowers. They can be both purchased and collected in their own garden.
Presents with a surprise
A rich aunt, who, in fact, has everything, is worth presenting those gifts that will surprise her. For example, it may be her portrait, written from a photograph. You can order as a normal, real image, and a picture in the style of pin-up or created using other techniques. Always surprise and delight cause gifts-events, the choice of which is based on the personal qualities of the aunt. One will be delighted with a flight in an aerotube or even a parachute jump, another will be happy with tickets to a concert of your favorite group, and the third will obviously enjoy a spontaneous visit to a restaurant.
It's always nice and unusual to get a birthday a trip to a sanatorium, a neighboring town or even to another country. In the event that aunt has a large family, she will surely rejoice at the opportunity to just spend the night at the hotel all alone, visit the pool and spa there, and in the morning have breakfast buffet. A memorable gift will be and surprise party with a certain theme and original decorations, to which all close relatives will be invited.
It is worth considering the option of purchasing gift editions of books, albums of favorite musical groups, rare disks or reproductions of paintings.
Perhaps a relative will appreciate the acquisition vintage gramophone for listening to music in a live sound. If the aunt has been playing for more than fifty years, then it’s just the right time to acquire something memorable, family, capable of becoming a heirloom. For example, it can be a family tree, decorated in a good wooden frame, a memorable poster on canvas or even an ornament, which will then be inherited.
The accessory must be made of noble metal and with precious stones, elegant and in a classic style. Better to choose earrings, chains or bracelets - the most versatile jewelry options.
If you don’t know what to give to your aunt for her birthday, see the selection of ideas in the video below.