plantladylin said: 
A great christmas gift, birthday gift, mothers day gift or "just because" gift. I've made up a couple of gift baskets in the past ... very easy: take a rattan or woven basket, line it with pretty fabric, or filler of some sort (i.e. layers of colorful tissue paper, or raffia.) then add a few items like scented soaps, a candle, gardener's hand balm, tube of lip balm, a pair of gardening gloves, hand trowel etc; then tie a pretty bow on the side of the basket (or basket handle) and voila ... a gift anyone would love!
That's what I'm doing myself. I personally hate the smell of lavender, but I love home-made stuff to give away. To me, that tells that I cared about someone way more than buying some kind of junk at a store. Any schmoe can buy something at Best Buy or Walmart, but to get something hand-made? That takes thought as to what the person likes. 4 years ago, in '08, I was visiting my parents in upstate NY. We went to a Mennonite store in Philadelphia, NY and they have a little crafty-store next to the grocery store. In the store was a hand-made crazyquilt. For those who don't know quilts, a "crazyquilt" is a quilt made with no pattern in mind, just random pieces of fabric pieced together in a crazy pattern. This cost me almost my entire budget for being there, but it was well worth it, as when I saw it, I knew I had to get it for my mother in law for Christmas. She loved it! I also picked up a smaller lap-quilt for a good friend of mine, hand made.
