Tired of gifting folks the same things over the years? Well, do it differently this time, think funky, unique and personal. Here’s the lowdown on how you can make your gift truly memorable for that special friend/colleague/family member…whoever!
Funky Photo Collage
Don’t be fooled by the under-statedness of this one. Photo Collages are always good to go and it’s more fun when you leave meaningful scribbles all over the frame along with cute pictures and sweet memories. Get a bunch of your friend’s pictures, may be even ticket stubs from a favourite movie that you’ll saw together, a dried-up flower etc and collect them all and place them in your frame. Use colourful scribbles and personal quotes to decorate in between the pictures and on the sides of the frame. This will look totally neat! You can also always improvise on this idea, for instance, like frame the collage in your pal’s glass-top coffee table at work/home so that they will see it every day or may be get it done on a glass window in their room!
Home-Shot Movie of Memorabilia
This is another fun way to keep it personal and fun. Gather their home-videos or pictures and use them to make a movie or slide-show. Use movie-making software on your PC to make your job easier and include your favourite songs, funny moments, crazy flash animation etc. Keep it real, short and funny! Your friends are more than likely to appreciate a good laugh as well as a thoughtful present wrapped in to one.
Basket of Goodies
The Gift-Basket shall never go out of style. It’s most exciting to procure and even more exciting to gift it to someone! To make a perfect gift-basket for your pal, gather a combination of different things that they love. It could be anything like bath products, CDs, a Book, candles etc. For a guy-friend, you can vary the products and make sure you get a darker-coloured basket (may be even dark brown or blue) and add in items like a book, a fancy desk-pen, coffee-jar, socks etc. Ultimately, it’s your creation so you can even decide upon a certain theme of the gift-basket: like have all relaxing stuff, a food/wine basket and so on and so forth.
Hand-Made Personalized Accessory
Now, this is something that could be a lot of fun and be very cool. For your female friends, you can get a plain canvas tote, a normal canvas jhola or just any other really plain bag and decorate it with sequins, fancy buttons, chains or may be even if you’re good at arty stuff, you could paint funky designs on one side of the bag. Girls would totally dig this and would love flashing around such a pretty and thoughtful gift! As for your guy-friends, you could get a plain Tee and paint funny cartoons on them with witty quotes or make bold masculine patterns on the Tee, whatever you like (may be even paint their favorite bands, bikes or give it a Rastafarian look) because guys love stuff like that. Perhaps instead of T-shirts, you could even decorate their helmets or embellish a wallet with fancy boyish metal buttons.
Photo-Diary
This is also fairly easy to implement. Buy a hard-bound diary/journal and fill it with cool Polaroid pictures and may be along with the pictures, you could write down the memory associated with the picture there. Keep doing this once in every four pages or may be do it as a one-for-every-month feature in the diary and add little stuff as bookmarks (ticket-stubs, pressed flowers, scented notes, glitter, leaves, etc). This makes it exciting for your friend and is great for sentimental value. You can be sure that your friend will love you all the more for your thoughtfulness!
So what are you waiting for? Get cracking! Here are some stores in your city where you can find raw materials for these gifts and where you can even chance upon cooler ideas:
Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai.
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Wonderful ideas!
