Thursday, March 11, 2010

DIY Gift Idea :: Bread-of-the-Month Club

At our house, we try to make the majority of our holiday gifts (birthdays, Christmas, wedding, etc.) ourselves.  In 2006, we made a pledge to reduce the number of plastic, anonymous gifts that were leaving our house.  Since that time, we've come up with some creative and one-of-a-kind gifts.

We also make all of our own bread.  A few years ago, we took an all-natural baking class and eventually purchased our own grain mill.  Once a month I have a marathon baking day: milling wheat, baking bread, rolls and pizza crusts, and freezing the yumminess.

This past Christmas, I thought we'd combine our priorities to create an all-natural gift club for our relatives.


As you can see, we promised a homemade loaf of bread to be delivered every other month to my Grandmother and Great Aunt.  I created a printable card and customized it with monthly selections that each one would like.  You can download a PDF of the blank version of the card here.  Feel free to customize it with your own baking specialties.  You can handwrite or run the printed card back through your printer in order to apply your own type.

We boxed the card up and sent it off wrapped with a beautiful grosgrain ribbon.  For a more hefty gift idea, you could purchase a wooden breadbox like this one I found on Kmart.com.

Purchase some custom vinyl lettering like this that I found on Etsy, apply to the lid, and you've created a family heirloom in which your recipient can store their handmade bread gifts for years to come.


Linking to:

http://www.thethriftyhome.com

2 comments:

  1. Wow, what a great idea! Now you just need to post some of those bread recipes Sara :) Although I can't seem to use them anyway - those high altitude recipes don't work down here...

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  2. Many of these aren't high-altitide, Susan. I got most of them out of King Arthur Flour's "Whole Grain Baking" cookbook. It's become my baking bible. I haven't gotten brave enough to try the whole grain croissants just yet, but the other recipes have all worked pretty well in CO and in IN.

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