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| Homemade Love Tokens & Valentine Gifts |
You never need a reason to give a thoughtful token of your affection to your beloved. Just the fact that you want to let your partner know how much you love and appreciate them is enough. With these few ideas you'll never run out of ways to express your feelings or gift that perfect "just because" gift.
1. The best gift I have ever received was when my girlfriend and I were sitting in her house and she just looked at me and told me she had a surprise for me. I was stoked! She leaned over to me and told me to close my eyes. So I did...and then she told me to open them and she had her hands folded. I asked her what was in her hands and she told me open them up. I opened them and it was empty. Confused I asked what was up and she said that her gift was her love. Being so materialistic I was shocked and humbled all at once. That was the most romantic gift I have ever received. And the most special one too.
--Salt
2. I've never made a romantic gift before :( But, the best idea I've ever seen is someone who planted their love's name in flowers in their yard, and drew a heart around them with rocks.
--Sarah
3. Nude oil painting of her.
--Weej
4. I once made him a book. Ever since we started going out I kept every memento in a shoe box. I wrote a little story starting from our first date, till our 10 month anniversary. I made everything smaller so it would fit in the book. I had poems that we had given each other, movie tickets, put putting score sheets, letters, cards, and pictures of us together. In the back of the book was an index and a glossary. He loved it so much!!!! And we are still going out to this day!!!!! He looks at it everyday.
--Courtney
5. I made up a basket filled with all of the things that he loves, filled with love notes and "redeemable coupons" to be redeemed at his pleasure. -Sassy
6. I spent several months secretly writing poetry about my other half late at night, and, when I had enough, I made a book and filled it with all of my work, as well as quotes from some brilliant love songs too. Not only did he love it, but he was so proud of it that he showed it to his friends, and treasures it still.
--Anonymous
7. A beautiful handmade dream catcher with colorful feathers, hand-painted beads, and creations that you would just love to see.
--Pammie Sue Armstrong
8. A picture calender of all the months we've been together. For instance, I had January, a picture of us doing something we did together in the month of January, such as skiing. He loved it!
--Candi
9. I made him an embroidered blanket. It had silver stars all around it, and it said "These are my arms holding you tight, keeping you warm all through the night." He loved it.
--Brittany
10. I made him some love rocks: clear rocks with things like love, kiss, dream, goodnight symbols on the back. :)
--Taylor
11. I made my boyfriend a personalized journal, each page filled with a romantic quote. On every other page, I gave a reason why I loved him. I filled up the entire book within an hour!
--Nicole
12. When I was newly married my wife and I had a small apartment. My wife had always wanted to have dinner by a warm fire, so I made a fireplace out of paper, colored and decorated it so that it looked nice. I got about 10-15 candles to represent the fire. I've been married 14 years and she still brags to her friends about that night.
--Trevis
13. For Valentine's Day last year I made my man a pair of boxers. I took plain white boxers and some fabric paint, and spiced them up by adding handprints to the butt and lip prints to the front area!
--Shan
14. For Valentine's Day I made heart-shaped sugar cookies and decorated them with pink icing and little red cinnamon hearts.
--Michelle Steel
15. For Thanksgiving I made a jar labeled "MY THANK YOU'S" and inside, I had typed up everything I was thankful for and scrolled them up. Now, I just keep filling the jar to show my appreciation.
--Ivette
16. In art class I made a ceramic plate that had our names and our anniversary on it. I painted it and made it shiny. It was actually very pretty and looked professional. He loved it and said it was the sweetest thing he had ever been given.
--Stephanie
17. The most romantic gift I've ever made for my love was a frame I made with adorable stickers and colorful writings and such. Inside of the frame was a picture of us together that was taken when we first met.
--Tiffany
18. One time it was our anniversary and I had been out of work. I wanted to give my wife a gift, but we were broke. So, I taped a penny to a piece of paper, named it "A penny for your thoughts!" and wrote down my romantic thoughts of her.
--Don
19. I wrote a short book about our "Top Ten" dates/nights in our relationship up to that point. One page for each memory. I included a picture from that date/night where I could and put in a few extra pages of photos (we have a ton!). The memories were from my point of view and why I thought they made our top 10. I had it laminated and spiral bound... He loved it.
--Maggie
20. I took a picture of myself and had it printed on a pillowcase for my love!!
--Loree
21. I made a pillow that had "I love you" embroidered on it in Chinese.
--Janna
22. I made my boyfriend of one year a story book of how we first met, and included all of the things that were special that we did that year. I did it on my computer so I scanned pictures, and made funny drawings. He loved it! It made him get all teary-eyed.
--Melissa
23. I gave my love "tweetie coupons." The idea was to allow her to utilize the coupons when in need. For example, if she wanted the dishes done, a coupon could be used to ask me to do them. Another was to surprise her in any given week. Another was to make love to her on demand. One was to take her out to dinner. The beauty of the coupons was that I could not refuse them.
--Steve
24. I put chocolate M&M's in a bottle. I divided them into their respective colors and put them inside for a layered effect.
--Mei Ting
25. I made a homemade puzzle out of one of our favorite pictures from the summer.
--Emily
26. A hand-made red-and-white beaded necklace with a key on it. It was supposed to represent the key to my heart.
--Jason Johnson
27. I am currently in school studying to be a teacher. I was making a word search for my students and thought that it would be fun for my boyfriend too. I took words that described my feelings towards him as well as fun inside jokes. He loved it!
--Megan
28. I stitched his name + my name = love on a pillow and gave it to him.
--Erin
29. I made a mini mailbox with 100 little notes that state all the things I love about him. So now for the next 100 days he has something to start a good morning.
--Nanc
30. I went to a craft store and bought a shadow box. I then painted it and bought as many miniatures (doll house furnishings) I could find that represented something in our first year together. I included things for important memories such as a picnic table for our first date, a jar of spaghetti for the first meal he ever cooked for me, etc. I filled up all the niches and he has it hanging in his apartment. Whenever he walks by it, he recalls some great memories!!!
--Phyllis |
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