Your options are endless and I'll include some of the ideas I have done:
- Gather old photos of a loved one (i.e. father/mother) and create a story book. I created one for my father-in-law last year of his father who was a WW2 veteran. I included his Marine photos, statistics of the various islands he fought at, pictures of the various campaigns he was involved in, old war posters and so forth. I will state he had some of this mostly created so all I had to do was retype it into the Blurb photo software package, organize it and add to it. It induced numerous tears!
- My mother-in-law has a family photo blog site (after loving mine, she got one). Without her knowledge, I was able to download a few of her pictures and one in particular of her and her sister with Santa was touching. I had that picture turned into a ceramic keepsake Christmas ornament through Kodak.
- Through Zazzle, I created a personalized photo calendar for my oldest daughter. Each month had a picture of her sisters in it as well as pictures of all three. She loved it!
- Another year, I made her photo cosmetic bags that still sit on her dresser as she refuses to use them as she though they were too pretty. I purchased those at Photoworks.
- I alternate on the Christmas cards as two year's before, I used Kodak as I love the accordian style cards where you can have multiple photos in one card that spans out for a lovely display. Last year, I used Zazzle to create my cards, matching postage stamps and matching stickers. They were gorgeous! You can go here to see some of my Zazzle projects.
- This year, I just purchased a personalized photo book from YourPictureBook.com. I was provided one to review and liked it so much that I had one created for my other daughter. They will have matching books personalized with their photos. Want to see the review, read here.
- TrendyPrints.com is another soon-to-be Christmas shopping stop as I was able to review their scrapbook and loved how easy they were to create and they beautiful quality. Want to see the review, click here.