Would your kids be disappointed to receive a homemade christmas gift?

[Songofsixpence]

DD loves her Build A Bear and asked for some clothes/accessories for Christmas. The stuff is quite expensive for what it is, so I thought I'd make her some.

I used to do a lot of product photography and I had one of those old fashioned suitcases that I used as a prop stashed in the loft, so I got it down and have been making Build A Bear clothes over the last month or so and it's now full. I have bought a couple of pairs of actual BaB shoes to put in it, but the rest of it is homemade.

I've had various phases of being into sewing and crafting over the years, so had tonnes of knitting wool, fabric scraps and bits and bobs festering away in my junk cupboard so a suitcase full of stuff really only cost a few pounds.

I had thought she'd love it

Anyway, chatting to friends about Christmas and what our DDs are into this year, etc, pretty much all of them have said their DDs would be really disappointed to get a homemade gift, and gutted that the clothes weren't actual BaB clothes

So, I'm panicking about it now

Would your kids be gutted?

She has got other gifts, but this is one of her main ones to go under the tree.

I have made many things to give away as gifts, more so when I hadn't got two pennies to rub together. I found that a lot of them were sniffed at by the parents of the children, but the children liked them (and they were lovely too btw).

I need to get a lot of half finished projects finished. Dd keeps asking for the 'pollunshow' (poncho) I started earlier this year .

The first toy I made was under the guidance of my Grandma. It was a knitted bunny rabbit for my Aunts expected baby in around 1976. No idea if she still has it, but I was very pleased with it.

I think that sounds absolutely adorable!

Never mind your friends. They're over thinking it.

You're daughter will be thrilled. It'll probably be the Christmas present that sticks in her memory when she's older.