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Best Personalized Holiday Gifts
Published 11.25.2008 | Permanent Link | Comments (1)
Do you love personalized gifts? Yeah, we do too. I think the only recipients that don't are re-gifters and tweens. (Too bad for the former and stay tuned for some great insight later this week into the minds of the oh so elusive tween girl.)
Back to our favorite personalized gifts for the Holidays:
Personalized Gifts for Kids
This Handprint Cookie Cutter makes for a great stocking stuffer. And, if your kid gives you any lip because it's not a My Little Pony or Power Ranger, just visualize how happy she or he will be as a grown-up when it dawns on her/ him that they now have an souvenir of their childhood. (4 to 6 weeks of lead time.)
I Spy Bags are great for traveling and the creations by Those Greathouse Women are amazing. They started making custom I Spy Bags as teacher gifts (great idea), but we love the thought of filling the hidden photo tiles with pictures of your kid's friends and family members. Along with the photo tiles, Those Greathouse Women will throw in some relaed items for extra surprises and added color. (1 to 2 weeks lead time).
CraftPudding makes these glorious hand-carved stamps of your kids. The shop has been deluged with orders and is taking orders for the Holidays starting the first week of December. Get in line. (2-3 weeks lead time)
We are often on the lookout for great personalized bookplates. These library card-inspired bookplates are our recent favorite and can be customized as well. Just make sure you don't get confused and return the book to the school library. These make for awesome stocking stuffers.
This is a splurge item, but we couldn't resist including this personalized sled on our gift guide. For older kids, there are personalized flyer sleds and toboggans available.
Personalized Gifts for Family
These wooden sculptures have been around for a while but don't get as much attention as the cut silhouettes that are so popular now. The negative space of this Pirolette is just that, a silhouette of your child. Very innovative. (3 to 6 weeks lead time, so get crackin')
We saw this on Shelterrific and thought the idea would make for a great stocking stuffer. A picture of your house or another treasured item (like a child's artwork) would make for a great custom stamp. Order yours at PictureMyStamp.com.
In a similar vein, take a beloved child's artwork and turn it into a keepsake that the grandparents are sure to love forever. These "doodle tags" are brilliant and as moms we would love to have a charm bracelet filled with sketches made by our kids. (6 to 8 weeks; so order FAST).
A laptop sleeve is an oh so necessary level of protection when you've got kids. This one takes utilitarian to the pretty level.
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About this column
This is a year-round Holiday column. Kids love Holidays. As parents we have come to appreciate how Holidays seem to help structure our lives. Plus, any excuse to have fun sounds good to us!
We'll admit it, now that we're parents, we secretly look for Holidays to celebrate and between National, Secular, Unofficial and Bizarre Holidays, we think there are enough days out there to keep us inspired every week.
This column will be a place where you can get inspiration for how to enjoy time with your kids. Crafting projects and ideas will be posted on Thursdays by our brilliant contributors (see below). Other fun ideas will be posted here throughout the week as the inspiration hits us!
About our Craft Contributors
Ellen Luckett Baker is the author of the long thread, a blog about handmade goods. She has always enjoyed making things, but the flexibility of staying at home with her two daughters along with the creative inspiration they provide has led her to craft on a daily basis. Combining her love of graphic design and sewing, she has created an Etsy shop selling machine embroidery designs and sewing patterns.
Ellen lives in Atlanta with her husband and two young daughters. She holds a B.A. in Art History and a Master's of Public Administration with a focus in Non-Profit Management.
Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor's Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has continued her love of art and is now passing her creative skills on to her three children. Cindy's family and friends are the beneficiaries of her passion for fun and meaningful creative projects. Cindy's personal blog, Skip to My Lou, has taken her love of a project to new levels. Postings keep the family busy -– from testing new recipes for holiday treats to designing and building floats for a neighborhood parade to making fabric rolls to hold crayons to creating themed parties. Cindy seems to have an unending supply of ideas for gifts, parties and rainy days.
Marie LeBaron is a 30 something stay at home mom in Utah. Before life as a mother, she graduated with a teaching degree in Early Childhood & Elementary Education, after which she taught four years of Kindergarten. After her first child was born, she decided to read books and sing silly songs at home. She misses the classroom, but she now gets to bring the fun and learning into her home and ours. You’ll see her kids a lot in these projects as they are her guinea pigs and for whom she's creative. You can follow more of her projects at her personal blog Make and Takes.
Brenda Ponnay is a stealthy secret agent who juggles parenthood to her adorable daughter by day and freelance graphic design by night. Whether it's painting, baking, drawing, making castles out of card board boxes or just doing the laundry with flair, Brenda Ponnay has finally discovered (at the ripe old age of thirty-six) that what really makes her happy is being creative every single day.
Brenda lives in Southern California with her husband, daughter, three cats and thirty-seven pet birds. You can read about all her crazy adventures on her personal blog: Secret Agent Josephine.
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Comments (1):
Musings of a Housewife said:
So many great ideas! I love seeing what everyone came up with.
I linked to you in my post on Gift Guides around the net. http://www.musingsofahousewife.com/2008/11/works-for-me-wednesday-gift-guides.html
Posted on November 26, 2008 00:04