Handmade gift for christening. AIBU for not doing?

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Christening next week for 6mo. Parents have requested handmade gifts for DD.

Clearly they want lots of unique and personalised gifts for their DD, which is lovely. But I'm shit at crafts and also find the request a bit . If I was to go for it, I really would turn up with something monumentally shit that would get chucked away, and would be a waste of my time and effort.

I suggested to DD's mother, my friend, that I bring something else and she choked through the words 'something shop bought is fine' and 'precious DD has everything she needs'. Clearly it's not.

AIBU to think cheeky, ungrateful fuckers?!

A MIXTAPE! (or a CD cos we're no longer in the 90's)

Do mean a Spotify play list? :o

A wooden window box painted and planted yourself,maybe with the little girls name on it too......

It's a nice idea to want handmade stuff, handmade is lovely but I think it's a bit cheeky to actually ask! Not everyone has the time or the skill or both. I knit, and I always knit gifts for friends who have babies, but I do it because I want to.

I'm very old SoupDragon

I've only just graduated to a cd player in the car

What about your local FB selling pages? You could get a custom made glittery bottle of blossom hill.

Could you knit a finger puppet? Just one colour and then add hair and eyes with thread?

Very simple

Buy a nice childhood book. Hand-write a message in it. Job done.

Handmade stuff is great, when lovingly and willingly crafted by someone who has the talent, tools, materials and motivation.

If not, her house is going to look like an advert for the Facebook selling shite threads on here.

In fact, op, why don't you just dunk a baby bottle in a load of glitter?

I don't think they've thought this through.

Maybe they think handmade will be cheaper for people? If so they are also deluded.

Press some flowers- flowers from the summer that she was born.

Buy a flower press and add a load of flowers now for her to look at when she is an adult. Maybe some from her garden (leave a space for parents to add them)

Or....or...

Blow up a balloon, stick some cardboard tubes on it, cover with newspaper and pva and shit, paint it, and viola! A papier-mâché dinosaur!

If you have a laptop and a printer you could make a word cloud picture and put it in a nice frame. Someone made one for me and I love it.

You could shove all sorts of crap into a basket and label it a "Treasure Basket". These are actually a thing, commonly referered to on MN as a Wnakey Basket due to a typo.

It's an odd request as usually handmade is a decision made by the gifter not giftee!

I would do as the others have said an go on Etsy, or do you have a ceramics cafe near you where you could go and paint something?

Was it pat sharpe or was it Neil Buchananan? Who presented art attack?

Loaf of bread. Job done. Pfffft.

I like the pressed flowers idea.

You could buy a nice flowering plant and decorate the pot with glitter

Or exact revenge

Give a gift that will require a lot of work from the parents

Maybe a blank journal into which you write the first day and then write in the front that her parents will add something everyday until she is 18.

Neil buchanan is art attack, pat sharpe is fun house.

Have my first no is a complete sentence op. Grabby toddlers.

I meant tossers. Autocorrect does not want me to swear....

Does build a bear count op?

I'll email a link to a Spotify playlist 😁

Finger puppets might be manageable. I'll see what The Works has later

Have they got a garden? Buy a small tree or shrub and put 'handmade by mother nature' on the gift label. Practise your smug face for when you hand it over.

Babyzilla aside, I do know an easy handmade gift. Buy an attractive notebook and write half a dozen recipes inside. (Leave PLENTY of space for recipes to be added over the years!) For friends I have done ones we've eaten together, or on a theme relevant to them or the occasion. For a baby you could pick some useful ones for growing up.