DIY Gifts for your friends to show them you care

Receiving a care package from a BFF would mean the world to your friend. A care package could include some of the things your friend loves such as candles, cookies, photographs, cherished memories, cards with positive messages, lilacs, staycation bookings and more. It might seem like a small gesture but it would mean the world to your best friend. Making these care packages are quite easy as you can learn to make a basket out of jute online or you can purchase the same on Amazon or your favourite online partner listed on our website, along with the other contents of the package.

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Here's a fun DIY gift that you can get for your friends since you cannot meet them right now. Work from home has surely made life more hectic instead of easy. The thin line between personal and professional life is blurring as the days go by. Taking care of yourself has become rather challenging. However, you can always pack up an interesting gift and remind your friend that taking the "me time" is necessary. A large mason jar which is filled with beauty and skin care products such as mini body lotion, bath bombs, nail polish, a pumice stone, facial scrub, etc, are some of the things that could perk up your friend's day. In fact, this is probably the push your friend needs to take a break from work and focus on their health.

Do you have an ardent tea lover in your friend? Do they go on and on about the flavours and types of teas that are exquisite and worth trying? Well, you can do a small experiment of mixing up a tea bag set for them. Pick out some of the diverse flavours of loose tea along with some empty tea bags. Use these bags to mix up a flavour that your friend might be intrigued by. Interestingly, there are many tutorials that you can check out online before indulging in this. A personalised brew would certainly give you extra brownie points from your best friend as it shows that you've taken the effort and time to do something special for them. You can further decorate the bags with small and cute messages and send it over to their place.

You can make candles at home! You will only need some wax or you can use an old candle for it. Melt the candle down to a double broiler and add some of your favourite essential oils that would bring forth a phenomenal scent. Let the wax cool a little and pour it into a jar. Do not forget to add a wick while the wax is soft. Let is set and harden and voila! You've got your friend a lovely scented candle with an assortment of aromas that they would enjoy.

A plant is a symbol of life and hope and also environment consciousness. When you get to work your plantsy hands and gift your BFF an aesthetically pleasing terrarium that is personalised- this doubles the joy! It carries your personalisation as well as blessings for your friend making it a DIY pick me up gift for any occasion. There are several videos online- to show how you can get to do this quite easily. Imagine the joy it would spark!

Sometimes all your friend needs is to be reminded that "You'll be there for them when the rain starts to pour"! While a phone call could do the trick, as can a personalised gift. You could whip up some anecdotes that the two of you share, maybe some favourite movie line or even a famous phrase that the two of look up to, can be turned into art work. You can make a proper art piece, frame it and send it across to your friend. It is an adorable gesture that shows how you remember some of your moments together and that you'll always be around even if you cannot visit as often as you did in the past. Your friend would cherish something like this and might also find motivation to work while looking at it.

The concept of a happy jar is quite nice. You can take a jar and fill it with some cute and happy notes that would put a smile on your friend's face. You can write up a lot of small notes about your friend. It could be an array of things that would make your friend laugh or feel happy. From some funny joke that's only between the two of you to some words of wisdom to ponder over, there are many things that you can fill up in the chits. You can send across the happy jar to your friend and be certain that your friend would wake up every morning feeling happy. Try it out and probably incorporate the same at your place too to put a smile on the face of the people you live with.

Pictures speak volumes that words sometimes cannot express. It's probably why people choose to take so many pictures with their favourites. You can collect some of the cute and fun moments snapped from Instagram and make a calendar out of it. With each picture, you can write a small message that could be about the picture, about your friendship, about something random, basically something that would definitely put a smile on your friend's face. It would light up their day and make them feel special. You can also list out some of the important dates including your friendaversary!

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