How to respond when someone doesn’t like your handmade gift

So you’ve spent hours making the perfect handmade gift and you’ve given it with love to its recipient — except instead of the gift being the hit of the party and all your hard work validated, you can see that it’s not the perfect gift you thought it would be. Perhaps it doesn’t fit, or perhaps the recipient just doesn’t appreciate handmade. Whatever, the cause the moment can be awkward and a little bit heartbreaking. But don’t let it stay that way. Katie from Bite Sized Biggie has some good advice for how to respond when someone doesn’t like your handmade gift.

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They Hate My Handmade Gift, by Bite Sized Biggie

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