How to make gifts on February 14 with your own hands.

Today we will talk about how you can make gifts for yourself on Valentine's Day. But before that I would like to recall the history and traditions of this holiday. This custom arose long ago, Europeans celebrate the day of all lovers since the thirteenth century. In the eighteenth century this holiday reached and America. In pre-revolutionary Russia Valentine's Day was not celebrated, as the Orthodox Church in every possible way prevented this. However, the ladies of the nobility class on this day were preparing romantic confessions for their beloved, to secretly put them in a coat pocket or hand over with a servant. Of course, the name of the author of such a valentine was kept secret.

A lot of traditions are connected with the day of lovers . For example, Japanese women give chocolate to men this day. The Italians give sweethearts sweets, and the inhabitants of Denmark - bouquets of dried flowers. In the American tradition, on Valentine's Day, to make loved ones gifts in the form of marzipan figurines.
The British on this day are trying to please more and their pets.
The loving French on the day of St. Valentine always write a half of her poetic confession.

Dear presents on such a holiday are not accepted, but to make gifts on February 14 with their own hands is considered a good form. After all, in this souvenir there is a piece of tenderness and warmth of the person who made the gift.
The traditional symbols of the holiday are the hearts and angels, the best presents are flowers, sweets, soft toys.

Valentine's Day. Gifts for our loved ones.

Postcard - a valentine is not a gift, but a small supplement to it. But if you show your imagination, a small postcard may well become a pleasant surprise.
Present your favorite more than one valentine, and a whole bunch of wishes.
In order to make such a gift, you will need red cardboard and green paper, a felt pen, gold or silver, straight smoothies, green corrugated paper, a stapler, PVA glue.

From the cardboard with the help of a stencil we cut out an odd number of hearts (5 - 7 pieces) and on each write a wish or a confession. From green cardboard we make a small leaf size. We cut the corrugated paper with a strip of small width, spread it with glue and tightly wrap it with a plastic tube
Obliquely. Connect the hearts to the "stalk" with a stapler, glue will be more suitable for the leaves. Before gluing, give the leaf a curved shape so that it fits snugly against the stem.

For any girl who knows how to sew, weave from beads or knit, gifts for February 14 with their own hands will not be complicated. Suffice it to recall that the most popular presents on this day are hearts in all kinds. Of course, presenting a young man with a keychain or a scarf with this symbolism does not make any sense, but a pillow - a duma or a flower - a heart in a pot is quite suitable for this purpose.

I must say that today, gifts for February 14 with their own hands make it a pleasure, because you can buy any materials for work in the store.
For example, with the help of paints for stained glass mural, you can easily turn an ordinary glass mug into a pretty present. Drawing skills in this case are not required at all. Simply stick the picture on the inside and copy it onto the glass. Do not forget to degrease the surface.

On the day of lovers it is traditionally customary to please close ones with sweets. If you yourself do not know how to cook at all, you can make a cake from ready-made cakes, having missed them with condensed milk. To give the confectionery a festive color, make a paper with hearts or angels from the paper and apply a pattern on the surface of the cake with powdered sugar, cocoa, coconut shavings. In some supermarkets there is a marzipan mass on sale from which it is possible to make three-dimensional decorations for a cake.

With the help of small shapes in the form of hearts, you can easily make the candy yourself. Melt the chocolate, fill the molds and allow to cool. Ready-made sweets can be packed in a homemade box made of cardboard, decorated with romantic confessions. Design a suitable title for your culinary masterpiece.

If you have time to make gifts on February 14 with your own hands, try to build a bouquet of toys or sweets. It is done at all is not difficult, although without special skills will have to sweat. Believe me, even a child can make a simple composition. But your second half will appreciate such efforts.

As you can see, making a gift with your own hands is not at all difficult and very pleasant. Such presents, although not worth the money, are always accepted with love and gratitude.