Godchildren

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AIBU to ask your thoughts on what to give for the christening of a godchild? Especially on an unreasonable modest budget. I'm very creative so AIBU to make something or do parents expect the usual silver bracelets etc?

I got my friend's little boy a Royal Mint set of coins from his year of birth:

www.royalmint.com/our-coins/gifts/christening-and-baby-gifts

Yes a beautiful painting of your godchild, that would be fantastic.

If you're good with a camera, take some really nice photos of the christening and put them into a scrapbook or memory book afterwards. Black and white shots can look particularly nice and different

Gave bible to my god daughter. Bil gave a light up trunk which was great fun in the day (for the adults) As a child myself i was given a silver bracelet and a pottery peter rabbit china set. X amount if money into childs account...

Nursery rhyme book also given to me and i still treasure as an adult. Lots of good pictures...

as a professional artist I'm sure the parents are expecting a lovely handmade gift
If you can do it, then go for it.
I have several godchildren but have given them all different things - but no silver or engraved things

I bought my godson the complete AA Milne in a nice hardback edition..

That sounds lovely OP. Fab idea, and really original.

Slightly off topic.

My (late and lovely) MiL and FiL had 20 godchildren between them. They married in their mid 30's, were both solvent (pre-marriage!) and loved children. That seems to have made them good godparent material.

They ended up sending 20 birthday presents on MiL's birthday because they could not deal with remembering nearly 2 a month. The godchildren loved this eccentricity.

I love that idea, grovel.

Ok, I've nearly finished the christening gift; really pleased so far so worth the late nights! I have another question; should I paint the baby's full name and her date of birth or would just her shortened first name by itself be ok? Or should I put the christening date on it? What would you put on something if you were getting it engraved for example? I'd like it to last a long time rather than look outdated with dates maybe? Thanks!

Full first name, and then on the back, "To "complete-full-name", who was born on date of birth, on the day of her Christening "date-of- Christening" from XY with love"
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Would love to see a pic (if not a highly guarded secret!)

Thanks Musical; that sounds nice and won't mess up the front with too much text! I will take a photo once it's been given to her this weekend and upload here if I can work out how!

Here it is for those who wanted to see it! I think they liked it!

That is lovely.
Im not a lover of home made stuff usually but I do like that

Thank you (love the user name btw!)

I named a star after mine.

That is beautiful, op.

I have just bought a copy of When We Were Very Young (A.A. Milne) as a christening present (which is one of the things DD got).

that's lovely. Where did you get the little drawers from?

Oh that's gorgeous! Well done.

Very lucky Godchild!!!

The drawers were a Christmas advent calendar from Hobbycraft then I cut the ply back board to shape/size. It took forever to paint the base coat especially on the white boxes and I used a technique similar to gold leafing on the edge trim that took a long time to apply but I think it goes nicely with the white/bronze and mint theme. Defo a labour of love though!

Wow that's lovely OP.

I got my god daughter an angel teddy. It's sits in her bedroom and watches over her while i'm not there (not in a creepy way, in a loving way).

I gave my god child a key to my house, on a key ring with a little angel on it. I was trying to find a symbolic way of saying that they will always be welcome in my home. And that my home will be a shelter to them if they need somewhere to go.