To ask if you’re a grandparent would you like this

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For x mas?

handmade x mas ornaments from dcs at one of those glaze your own pottery places, baubles that have a hand or foot print sometimes made into a picture. Dc1 desperately wanted to do it, it’s a handprint, name (transfer of handwritten, they’re 3 so joined dots) and age. So it’s one from 3 year old and one from baby. They weren’t cheap, and when I saw them they looked sentimental and the kind of thing you’d hold on to. Personally I’d love it. But my dm is notoriously hard to buy for and a friend said it sounds naff… does it sound naff, I’m worried now lol?

we’ve got a fragrance and chocolates for her too but this was the gift from the dcs

does it sound ok?

Christ I wouldn’t get her anything at all in that case

Ffs!

That's manipulative. Especially since it was used anyway.

I’d like that even more, because it’s “her”!

who says a mermaid can’t go on a tree?

My Mum who is a Grandmother would love this as a present, I as a mother (maybe a Grandmother one day?!) would not 😁

I have a cookie jar with my children’s hands and footprints on them and it’s the first thing I would grab in a fire.

I’m a DGM, not at all sentimental and don’t do knick knacks or anything like that. I adore my DGC and would treasure something like a naff badly made bauble from a 3 yr old 😆.

I wont lie, it was horrible and I got quite upset about it as I thought it was the most thoughtful gift ever! I’d seen the ad for the singer in the back of the paper and saw they were playing at the closest city. I was in uni and didn’t have a lot of extra cash and used 4 weeks wages from my holiday job to pay for it.

she was cross i didn’t buy the ticket for a group of friends, but I couldn’t afford it

I would love & appreciate anything my dgs personally chose or made himself as a present to me, even if it does look like tat. Its chosen out of love & should be treasured

I got a frame with the footprints done with my youngest for my parents. They are not sentimental and their house is perfect. It was never seen again!

They do always like photos but prefer to fit them in their scheme etc. My in laws would probably be more open to the idea.

I'm not a grandmother but I would love it, I know that my mother and mother in law would have loved it too.

I'd absolutely love it! I'm a bit of a sucker though, and would love scribbles on some paper if it was from my DGC 😂💞

Keep it for your own tree!

I get them, some I keep, some don’t survive…things made with cotton fluff glued inside a cut up egg carton don’t store well year upon year.
the pottery cups with handprints we’ve kept and used, one recently broke.
my point, don’t expect them saved for eternity (dough art molds).

I am a young grandmother 52yo two DGC 11yo and 7yo. My DD has done many different Christmas themed gifts for me from DGC over the years and I love each and every one of them. Baubles, painted hands decorated as Santa, hand painted tea towels, plaster stars for the Christmas tree, paper mache reindeers for display, snow globes with the latest school photo... I also get a new 8x6 Santa photo every year which goes into last year's picture frame (so that all their Santa photos are in the one place, with the current one on show).

I am a grandparent. And I’d say those things are tacky, sentimental tat with all the aesthetic appeal of a car air-freshener and the emotional resonance of a sucked rusk.

And I’d be absolutely delighted to get one.

You sound very caring OP! As a grandma, I would love this. You have also been generous enough to give other gifts as well so all in all I would consider myself very lucky and valued.

I am really fussy & most of the decorations on my tree are expensive.

I would treasure those & put them on the tree every year (especially if they didn't have words on them. I'm not keen on gran/nan/grandmother etc.. or the date in big writing, but I'd still love them - I'd just put them to the back of the tree).

I would hate it if they were photo baubles though, as I think all the things with photos printed on them look tacky.

I'd say this is the case for a large majority of grandparents. Most probably see this type of thing as the tat that it is, but would never hurt feelings by letting that opinion be seen.