The Lost Art of Handmade Gifts and Why Now is the Time to Bring Them Back Do you remember how meaningful it used to be when someone made you a handmade gift? It could have been a blanket that your grandmother made you when you were a baby. It might have been a scarf that your Aunt Fern knitted you when you were in kindergarten. Regardless of the item, handmaking gifts has become a rare occurrence. Signs There's a new company in town, Life Expressions Décor . They specialize in handmade wooden and vinyl signs. You can either host a sign making party at your home or order from there catalog . The company was founded in September 2012 by two sisters-in-law, in Holland, MI. They quickly outgrew their garage operations and turned their business into a direct sales company that just recently grossed $1M in sales. Life Expressions Décor ( LE for short), has about 600 independent consultants around the country, making it a small but growing company that focus