Looking to make your own presents this holiday season? If you’re not up for oddball projects like macquariums or vacuum-bag dust houses, craftmaster Genevieve Sterbenz offers a hands-on workshop on beautiful handmade gifts.

Not looking to get crafty? How about spiffying up the packaging at least? Sterbenz also offers a class on unique gift wrapping. It may not be wrapping a book in ziploc sunk in a jug of water dyed opaque (as one of us did), but it’s not the Sunday paper either.