pjlla
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My extended family pulls names for Christmas. We have one couple (my aunt and uncle) who NOBODY wants to get because they are impossible to buy for. Well.... I did the noble thing and OFFERED to take their names, thinking I would come up with some GRAND scrapbooking-related idea that I could make them for Christmas. And here it is, OCTOBER, and I have come up with NOTHING!!
Here are the stats.... they are in their 60s-70s... no kids. They owned a travel agency for many years and have traveled the world. They don't spend a lot of time with us (my family and DB's family) other than holidays. I would have NO way of accessing their photos to do any sort of personal scrapbook for them.... plus I wouldn't know where to begin.... as I said, they have traveled the world extensively.
The few ideas I have been playing around with are.... a calendar (but not sure what the "theme" would be and what photos I would use), an "all-about-me" album.... make a blank album for each of them to add their own pictures and journaling (but honestly, I'm not sure that they would care.... they don't have kids to share it with and their cat can't read
). And I would HATE to put all that time and money into something that got stuff into a drawer. Another idea was to make up a bundle of blank cards... condolence cards, get well cards, birthday cards, etc for them to have on hand. But in this day and age, I'm not sure that they even send much by snail mail.
So HELP!!!! Any ideas out there?? BTW, the "criteria" for our gift giving is that it has to be handmade by the giver or bought second hand. Dollar limit is about $35 and under.
While you have your thinking caps on.... any ideas for DS to give his 9 y/o cousin (female) or for my DD to give her 16 y/o cousin (male)?? I do have a few ideas for them, but I am certainly open to more!!
THANKS so much in advance for your help....................P
Here are the stats.... they are in their 60s-70s... no kids. They owned a travel agency for many years and have traveled the world. They don't spend a lot of time with us (my family and DB's family) other than holidays. I would have NO way of accessing their photos to do any sort of personal scrapbook for them.... plus I wouldn't know where to begin.... as I said, they have traveled the world extensively.
The few ideas I have been playing around with are.... a calendar (but not sure what the "theme" would be and what photos I would use), an "all-about-me" album.... make a blank album for each of them to add their own pictures and journaling (but honestly, I'm not sure that they would care.... they don't have kids to share it with and their cat can't read
). And I would HATE to put all that time and money into something that got stuff into a drawer. Another idea was to make up a bundle of blank cards... condolence cards, get well cards, birthday cards, etc for them to have on hand. But in this day and age, I'm not sure that they even send much by snail mail. So HELP!!!! Any ideas out there?? BTW, the "criteria" for our gift giving is that it has to be handmade by the giver or bought second hand. Dollar limit is about $35 and under.
While you have your thinking caps on.... any ideas for DS to give his 9 y/o cousin (female) or for my DD to give her 16 y/o cousin (male)?? I do have a few ideas for them, but I am certainly open to more!!
THANKS so much in advance for your help....................P
) - cover a box with pretty paper and add in scissors (maybe a fancy blade pair), fabric, glue, sparkly bits and pieces, beads etc.. Or a scrapbook kit - I did this for my niece and if you're anything like me all I had to buy was an empty scrapbook - I had plenty of spare papers, brads etc to make up an interesting selection. DS could decorate the box and help choose the contents.
but as that's against the rules how about making a knotted blanket with fleece? (No sewing required) Or something to do with his hobbies - how about a shadow box to mount pop memorabilia?
) Maybe some sort of cookies that he could freeze a portion of to save for later in the year. He has a HUGE sweet tooth. The problem will be timing it right so that we aren't rushing to do this at the last minute, but so that the items are still fresh. 
it unfolds into a star shape that you can then hang on something if you want. very cute, super easy... uses 6 wallet size (or just a tad bigger) photos... I know I posted a link to this a few months ago.
