Showing posts with label Gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gifts. Show all posts

15.2.10

An Ideal Personalized Gift Is A Photo Pillow

Photo pillow is an ideal personalized gift for a friend or family member. You can include a photo of the receiver of the gift on the pillows and blankets. You may even include a picture of the couple, if you are presenting a wedding anniversary gift.

These days, we need better gift ideas to please the receiver of your gift. Rather than giving a predictable gift, that may not be used or re-gifted to someone else, you can make an effort to arrange a personalized gift that will surprise the receiver of your gift.

It is easy to arrange for an ideal surprise gift with a combination set of photo pillow with a photo blanket.

The usual gifts on Christmas Day and other social occasions are rather dull and predictable. Examples include ill fitting shirts, socks, underwear and other predictable gifts.

These are gifts receivers may not use and are often taken back to the store to exchange for other items, or re gifted to someone else. If the effort is made to arrange for a personalized gift, then it will be much more appreciated.

Another way to ensure satisfaction, is to discreetly enquire on the needs for a gift, without giving reasons for your enquiry. For example, you can ask about pillows and blankets and the need to increase the variety and replacement of old pillows and blankets for the long cold winters and hot summers.

Everyone likes to sleep in comfort with photo pillows.

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24.1.10

Surprise Your Best Friends With Photo Mugs

Photo mugs are ideal personalized gifts for any special occasion. Each photo mug, includes an individual photo and some text.

The photo can be an image of the receiver of your gift and the text may be a favourite saying. For example, one friend may like to drink a cup of delicious coffee every morning, with his family.

You may like to add the text, Good Morning Dad, with his picture on the photo mug. You may like to get photo mugs for the rest of the family with their pictures and text for each family member.

This year, you are sure to surprise with your thoughtful personalized gifts. They will realize the time and effort you put in customizing the gifts, including specific photos and text, relevant to the receiver of each gift.

For example, you may notice the mug your wife uses every day, needs replacing. You can surprise her with a pair of personalized photo mugs.

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5.1.10

Better Personalized Gift Ideas With A Portrait From Photo

Portrait from photo is a popular option these days. There are many artists who can create a fascinating portrait from photos. All you need is to supply a series of images and indicate the look of the final portrait to the artist, settle on an estimated price, before you commission the work.

As an example, you may be looking to provide a portrait to your wife on your wedding anniversary. You can take a few images in her favourite environment, telling a story about her life.

She may be a high powered executive, so you can look at taking images in her office. You may even take images of her away from the office, when she is not under the pressure of having to make executive decisions, in a more relaxing environment, at home or on vacation.

In another example, a portrait may be a surprise gift to your father. You may have taken an image of him in his favourite environment and used that image for a portrait to be created. The portrait can be given on Christmas Day to show your appreciation of the efforts he has made to help you through your life.

If you are looking for ideas to create a portrait from photos, you need to look at the story of the person in the photo. For example, if the person is a gardener, and loves to work in the garden every day, then you should take a number of images of him in his garden. His image should dominate the photo, but still able to see aspects of his garden, when the eye wonders to other parts of the photo.

To get more ideas, you should look at professional work from portrait photographers, where you can see the ideas they use to create portraits to satisfy the customer. You can find many of these images online and in photography books.

Using these ideas, you can include your own ideas to create interesting images to use when creating a portrait from photo.

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1.7.09

Custom Picture Slideshows Make Fascinating Gifts

If you are looking for a really great way to show someone just how special they are to you, then consider making a custom picture frame. With only a little time you can create a wonderful, thoughtful gift that shows exactly how much they mean to you, making the effort very worthwhile.

Finding a special gift for the proud parents of a new baby can be accomplished by having a silver picture frame engraved with the baby's initials or their name and date of birth. Or you can choose to create a custom picture frame by painting one the same colors as the baby's room and then placing their baby announcement inside. Or you can simply decorate and personalize a frame that they can add a picture to later on.

If you are in need of a great gift and creating a digital, custom picture slideshow sounds like something you would enjoy doing, then all it takes is a little bit of time and some digital photos. A really great Christmas gift for the grandparents is an LCD photo frame that you have pre-loaded with pictures of the grandchildren and perhaps you can even add sound to it.

For your parent's anniversary, nothing will beat a digitized frame that you have loaded with family pictures that have been taken through the years. Perhaps you can even add some music or personal comments from everyone in the family. Get creative and let your imagination soar with this new kind of picture framing equipment.

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13.3.09

Pleasing Your Best Friends With Personalized Photo Gifts

Personalized photo gifts can be found online and in gift shops. You can also create your own gifts and then include a photo of the recipient in the gift. The recipient will appreciate the efforts you made to create the gift and to include their photo as part of the gift. A custom made gift shows you really value your friendship.

If you do not have crafting skills, then you can choose from the wide range of gifts online or in gift shops. You need to know what the recipient really likes, in order to give them a gift they will use. If you know he likes gourmet foods, then you can place an order for a gourmet food basket with his favourite gourmet food. You should include a gift card with his photo.

If you have crafting skills, you can create your own personalised photo gifts. The only limit is to give yourself enough time to create the gift. If you know you are creating the gift for a birthday, and the event is months away, then you have enough time to create the gift.

If the birthday party is tomorrow, then you may not have enough time and your options are rather limited. Your only solution may be to search for a personalised photo gift online and hope to find the perfect gift.

There are a large range of gifts you can buy and then personalize. For example you may buy the ever popular fruit gift basket and include a personalised photo gift card, with a photo of the gift recipient on the card.

You may need to find out the favourite fruit of the recipient, so that the choice of fruit are included in the gift basket. This will be a fantastic gift as it is a personalised gift basket with the recipients’ favourite choice of fruit and the a personalised photo gift card.

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7.3.09

Better Ideas For Gifts Crafts

Making homemade gifts is a great way to show you care, and a great way to be more economical all year round. People will appreciate your thoughtfulness and admire the handiwork of your art and craft projects. In this article, we have some simple and elegant ideas for gifts crafts that will be perfect for any occasion.

No one can have enough candle holders in their home. Even if you don't light the candles, the holders will add a decorative flair to the decor. These gifts are not only beautiful and festive, but they're also environmentally friendly. Save your Christmas and birthday cards, and some small bottles. You can also purchase cheap candle votive jars.

Go through the cards and cut out pretty scenes, flowers or shapes like stars and squiggles, and glue them to a jar. You can even collect letters to spell out names for really personalized gifts crafts. Gold, silver and sparkly or glittery objects look especially beautiful when the candlelight shines through the jar.

It really is the thought that counts, so tap into your inner artist and make special, personalized presents for your loved ones. Scope out the discount stores, look for end of season sales on items to use as materials and get creative with them.

You'll be amazed at what you can make with very little time and money. Most importantly, your friends and family will appreciate the thoughtfulness of your gift.

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24.11.08

Creating Your Own Photo Christmas Cards

Photo Christmas cards are available online and from many printing services. You can supply the images you want to use on the cards and the cards will be produced to your specifications. You may even create your own designs using Photoshop, adding your choice of special effects and text to the images, to make the photo cards much more interesting.

Once you create your images, then place them on a CD or DVD and take them to your favorite printing service, to give you professional quality prints. You may take your chances and print your own cards, but your time and costs may not end with satisfactory results.

I always send my photo Christmas cards to be printed by my favorite printing service. Even though I have a printer with my computer, I always see better quality prints when using a professional printing service, printed to my specifications.

Showing time and effort to create your own custom cards, is much more appreciated than purchasing 100 generic Christmas cards from the store. Adding photos to your cards, makes the photo Christmas cards much more inventive.

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17.7.07

Baby Monitors To Ensure The Safety Of Your Baby

Baby monitors are quite common nowadays. Parents cannot be in the baby room all the time, the mother may be cooking the family meal, the father may be doing the laundry.

With all that noise in the kitchen and the laundry, the parents cannot hear the baby calling out for them. The solution is a baby monitor with a camera and video.

This way you will always know if the baby needs you. A lot of the baby monitors have now progressed from just a sound to a camera and tv monitor, just like cctv.

You can put a little camera facing the baby and place a little monitor in the kitchen and any other rooms you frequent around the house.

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24.5.07

Cameras for kids - custom designed for easy to use

Cameras for kids are designed to be used by nimble fingers and are quite rugged so that they can survive simple falls.

The tiny compact digital cameras for kids have attractive colours and are built to survive rugged conditions. They do not have too many bells and whistles as children would not have a need for too many expensive add ons.

As a result a lot of these digital cameras for kids are a lot cheaper than the cameras designed for teenagers and adults.

The cameras for kids are sure to please just about any little one on your list. These digital cameras are easy to use and you can make prints using your computer.

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23.5.07

Glass picture frames to display your photographs

Glass picture frames hold your photographs and display your images for all to see.

These photographs may be images of your family you have taken, places you have been, birthday parties of the past and graduation of your child.

You can take care of your treasured images, with glass picture frames and place the frames on the wall, on the bookcase, on the nightstand.

The last image you see before you sleep.

The glass frames guard my photos against damage and display my photographs to visitors to my home.

As I love photography, I have a house full of glass picture frames.

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13.5.07

Photos of people can be used creatively

Photos of people is a common reason to take digital photographs. You may go to a birthday party or any other social event and you want to make a recording of the event by taking a series of digital images.

Digital photography has given us ample ways to preserve memories and specific moments in time. To photograph your child from a baby to a full grown teenager and beyond.

To capture those moments. When a child outgrows her clothes. She graduates with a University degree. Starts her own family. Takes her own images.

All can be done with a digital camera and the images burned to a CD or your hard drive and cherished forever.

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