Love the parrot purse and the step stool especially! Beautiful work on all counts!
I, too, made many homemade gifts for Christmas and for birthdays that come near Thanksgiving and Christmas. All were well-received, I am happy to say! I hope that I will be remembered long after I am gone by those hand-made gifts. I still have pot holders and doilies made by my great-aunt and my mother-in-law's mother (whom I never met) and a tablecloth made by my grandmother---all are very special to me, and hopefully will still be appreciated by my offspring one day.