While it is quite typical for daughters and sons to get spa booking for mom as the perfect gift for the occasion, you can surely give mom the spa pampering treat a twist and a touch of you!

You can choose to spend for the perfect gift of a spa day with her. Even, you can choose to bring home the spa and do the spa stuffs for her! Isn’t that just a perfect experience that mom and you will never forget?

While a perfect gift for her this time is home spa pampering, you might be shivering at the thought of spending for the huge home service spa bill. Chill- there are always ways to deal with that.

First of all, the internet may have been you best friend at finding gifts, you can leverage the internet once again for home spa treatments. There are always home spa recipes which you can do for mom on that special day.

As these home recipes constitute of natural ingredients, be assured that your venture of giving mom the perfect gift of your home spa will be nothing but a relaxing time.

It is quite easy to find home spa recipes for just every treatment you figure mom needs- from facials to scrubs, to rinses and all that.

Take this time to do for the perfect gift you can ever pamper mom with. While you save on spa bills, the best spa experience that mom will never forget will surely be among the best moments you have ever shared together.

Treating your wife to shopping, that is accompanying her throughout her spree, will just be very memorable!

Here are some ways that will ensure you of a great hopping time with her, while she gets her perfect git for the occasion:

1. Seek-out thrift shops and bazaars around your place before actually announcing to your wife that you are taking her to shopping. this will do away with you spending too much on the spree. Of course, perfect gifts need not be expensive and surely she will find a good bargain.

2. Seek-out stuff in your found shops and bazaars which will suit her taste. Remember that scarf she has on her online shopping wish-list? Try looking for something that is as close to it in quality and in look in your found shop and bazaar. It will mean a very nice a thing from you, even, it can a perfect gift aside from whatever she could find there.

3.  Take her shopping! Of course, know and remember that his is her day. Wherever she pulls you, just go and appear as excited and as jubilant you can possibly appear to be. Help her find stuff that looks great on her, help her sort out things. Simply be in the moment with her and surely you will find your share of the joy too. Of course, never forget to buy her your find.

The effort you placed in putting the whole spree together will give her the best shopping she has ever done for. Of course, the experience will not only mean her to have more stuffs to stuff on the closet, but the perfect gift of your time can mean to her the world.

A daily-dose-of-love box is basically a neat case, preferably a handcrafted one, which contains little pieces of paper that further contains short love messages or quotes or just anything you would want to remind her or let her know of. A piece from these little pieces of paper will be read by her each day for other daily dose of love from you.

You may choose to give the box a monthly fill or a yearly fill, or just whatever would suit your preference best.

Also, this perfect gift will be made into so much more if special messages will be allotted for her to read on special days.

What makes this an ultimately perfect gift from you is the love and effort to place in the making of it. While almost everyone had done away with love letters and had them exchanged for e-cards with predefined messages, this perfect gift is sure to have come from your heart and thoughts.

Cheesy? It’s okay, that is what it is for anyway and besides, stuff that bursts of all that sweetness never fails to make perfect gifts!

Your first task to finding the perfect gift is to make sure that whatever you’re looking for is absolutely what’s in your heart. It wouldn’t be the perfect gift if it weren’t from the very depths of you, now would it? Once you’re sure you know what you want to say and how you want to say it, you’ve got to make sure that you’re earnest in your aims. Giving a diamond ring can send the wrong message and more than anything else, it’s cliché –something a perfect gift can never be.

With all the poetry in the world, you still have to be able to give your loved one something that will physically show them that their heart is in yours. If you’re looking for the perfect gift to express your undying love for someone, get her something that represents her to the fullest. If she’s a dolphin lover, find her a simple pendant to place on a necklace or a charm to fit around her wrist. You never want to go the route of bigger means better because, quite frankly, bigger sometimes just means big.

If you want to get the perfect gift that plays to your loved one’s talents, make sure that you’re involved in what makes him feel complete. If he’s a writer, there’s nothing more thoughtful than a tasteful journal. Keep in mind you don’t have to go exceptionally expensive or high-brow. Remember, keep it simple and keep it meaningful. The perfect gift could be something as simple as a beautifully penned expression of your affection for your loved one.

Though words are lovely and can sometimes be the perfect gift, you’ve also got to consider getting that special someone something that will remind her of you for always. If you want the perfect gift that keeps you in your loved one’s heart, lockets are always exceptional. To some it may seem a bit vain; however, a simple locket with a picture of yourself next to your loved one or even a picture of someone that’s especially important to his or her life will most certainly be the perfect gift worthy of someone’s unconditional affection.

When it comes right down to it, there isn’t a formula for the perfect gift. You’ve got to be able to read your loved one’s heart. The perfect gift could simply be the look in your eye when you express how much you care for him. The perfect gift could be the way you put your arms around her when she’s in need of a shoulder to cry on. Probably most important, the perfect gift could be your love.

by William Laumentach

This is going to be fun. The super gift we are about to discuss here will drive you down the memory lane to the destination, rather, to the source from where everything started. It has been many years since, and lots of memory got piled up; some sweet and some not so sweet. Take the opportunity presented by this special occasion to inject again the freshness of a honeymooner to your relationship.

The gift idea we are talking about is quite simple, and I warn you, do not let the deceptive simplicity of the idea cast you down. This gift will be very powerful in inducing the right emotion from the recipient. The perfect gift will not only make her day, but it will be with her for really long time.

I am talking about gifting a lovely satin bed sheet. A satin bed sheet with a custom print made from the photographs that will convey the story of the wonderful time you spent together on your romantic honeymoon. I am suggesting you to use bed sheet & the accompanying pillow covers as a medium to convey the very first chapter of your love story. Every night, the bed sheet will make you relive the moments on which time has put a thick layer.

Great for Wife or Husband

Although, this gift has been conceived with female partners (wives) in mind; this can be gifted to the male partners (husbands) as well.

This gift idea is designed for the couples who are married for at least 4-5 years. You can give this perfect gift on the day of your marriage anniversary, may be on the 5^th marriage anniversary or the later one.

Anatomy of the perfect gift

I am happy that till now I have been able to hold your attention. Without wasting any more moment, we will move forward, and learn how to make this Perfect Gift. To make this gift, you will need a plain satin bed sheet, some sweet honeymoon photographs, a little knowledge of Photoshop or any image enhancing software (click here to see a list of photo enchancing software), and the willingness to give your love a precious gift.

We start with selecting a good quality, light color bed sheet, preferably white. The second step leads us to our digital photo album. If you did not click pictures using digital camera, you can also use printed photograph; just scan each of them on at least 300 dpi, and enhance the photographs in Photoshop. If you still have the negatives of the picture then I will suggest you to get the negative scanned using a good quality negative photo scanner.

Start selecting the images you want to put on the bed sheet, but before doing that decide a theme for the bed sheet. Depending upon your personal taste, you can either choose pictures of cozy and intimate moments, or the time you two spent riding a boat, watching the beautiful sunset, walking hand in hand, screaming on a joyride etc., or you can consider using a blend of the two. I am not setting any rule here because this is your gift, and you need to put your own feeling in this perfect gift.

Arranging the selected pictures will follow the picture selection process. Use the picture that you feel was the defining moment of your relationship in the center of the bed sheet. For example, you can use a picture of your first kiss, your first day on honeymoon, your engagement or the time when you proposed her at the center.

Make a montage using this picture in the center, and arrange rest of the pictures thematically around it. You can also add scanned copies of greeting cards, love letters or the digital version of each one of them in the montage. Use a clear handwriting font to retype the love letter you sent or received through e-mails, e-cards that you sent or received, or the transcripts of sweet chats that you had. Based on your preference, you can also add some design elements to the montage. The central picture of this montage will be quite big. It should take up the whole central area. Anything in excess of 20″X24″ will do.

Once the montage is ready send it and the bed sheet you selected for printing. Be careful in selecting whom you are going to give the responsibility to do the printing work (click here to see a list of the best bed clothes printing company). The printer who specializes in creating custom printed bed sheets or cloths should only be chosen for creating this gift. If you don’t know one already then search the Internet and business directories for such printers. Finding a printer can be a bit challenging, but this will be worth the effort.

Who can Give this Perfect Gift?

A husband and also a wife can be the one who should consider giving this gift.

Other Occasion

This perfect gift can also be given on valentine day, but the valentine day should not be the one that comes immediately after the marriage. Wait for at least 2-3 years before this gift can spell its magic.

What’s the idea?

The gift idea I am going to discuss here is aimed to achieve that goal only. We are discussing here about gifting customized office stationary to your dad, granddad, husband, boyfriend, or to any loved one. The idea is to make your loved one’s office space look more personal by making small changes in the environment in which he or she works. I am asking you to gift a set of personalized office stationary. This gift will always keep you at the back of his or her mind while she is busy creating that important presentation, or churning out the last quarter’s sales report. Customizing the office stationary is not going to be very difficult.

What to brand?

Let’s start the process with customizing the mouse pad then move to personalizing paperweight, passing through a personalized coffee mug.

How to do it?

To create a customized office stationary, all you need to do is to create the design, and the rest of the work can be outsourced to the company specializing in creating customized stuffs. There are many such service providers on the Internet, just Google it and you will get a list of companies that will help you create a customized coffee mug, mouse pad, and even paperweight. You can locate these custom printers in a shopping mall as well.

Custom Mouse Pad

To create a custom mouse pad, you need one or more photographs: multiple pictures, if you want to make a collage of pictures reminding the recipient of the wonderful time he spent with you in the years gone by, and one picture, if you want to elicit just one emotion by reminding the recipient of any one particular occasion.

The first step in the process of creation is to optimize the picture using Photoshop, or any similar software, after that resize the image to size of the mouse pad. You can also include the message that you want to convey, or some design element to make it more beautiful. You can consider using some vector floral borders, or may be consider using some abstract border to beautify the mouse pad.

Custom Paperweight

I will suggest using minimalistic design for the paperweight; rather no design at all, just a small message and a very light, engraved border at the bottom of the text. I will suggest you to use a stainless steel paperweight for this purpose; one that has velvety base. You can go for any shape: square, round, hexagonal, or you can also use heart-shaped paperweight. Write a one-line message using calligraphic font, and add a very light border at the bottom of the text. The message can be anything, you may want: “Love You Dad,” “Miss You,” “Thinking about You,” etc. The only consideration should be the length of the message. It should not exceed 4-5 words in length. Do not go for the obvious one that I wrote above, be creative and let your personal touch be felt through the message.

Custom Coffee Mug

Personalizing a coffee mug is the easiest of all as lot many companies and even small shops in big shopping malls offer such services. I will suggest using a picture on the coffee mug, rather two pictures. One of the person whom you are gifting the customized office stationary, and the second one will be your, or may be of the person the recipient likes most. Use a three-word message as well, and that’s it. But before sending the pictures off for printing on the coffee mug, optimize it for quality and size using Photoshop.

I will eat whatever you cook; I will sleep wherever you prepare my bed; and I will wear whatever you make for me! This is the kind of emotion the gift idea I am suggesting here is going to elicit in the recipient. This super gift provides you an opportunity to make your partner or loved one realize how much you care, and to what length you can go to make him feel special.


One of the best ways to make your partner feel special is to create something especially for him. What about designing a t-shirt with a personalized message printed in a cool looking font? Sounds good, isn’t it? This is the super gift idea I am suggesting here for your partner or loved one.

Perfect for Female and Male

This gift can be given to a person of either of the sexes. You can give it to your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife. You can even give this gift to you father, or mother. A possibility of giving this present to your best friend, son and daughter can’t also be rules out.

Gift for Every Occasion

Ideally, I will suggest giving a personilized t-shirt on the person’s birthday, but again it is not bound by the occasion.

Great Design with Simple Equipment

To make this super gift, you will need to have an eye for design, an ability to come up with a nice, clever line, one or more clip-art images, an ability to do some basic illustration, and on top of it, some free time to devote. This gift will not require any fancy equipment; all you will need is age old pen or pencil, ruler, sharpener, eraser, and paper. If you are comfortable working with illustration software like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw then you can consider using it as well.

First Step: Conceptualize the T-Shirt

The first real step in the process is to conceptualize the t-shirt you want to make, but the process starts with learning about the anatomy of a t-shirt. If the recipient of your gift is a man then there will not be much complicacy about the design, but if the intended user of the super gift is a woman than the measurements and cuts will require more careful consideration.

Once you are home with the anatomical details of a t-shirt; now it’s time now to come up with the design concept. You should have a clear idea about what you want to convey through the t-shirt, before looking for the design elements. The design concept will give you an inkling of what you want to show, what you want to say, and what means to use to do so. This knowledge will work as an anchor, when you search for an image, clipart, or when you carve your personal message in a sentence – use maximum five or six words for this as the space is limited.

Take the design elements, and put them on the appropriate places on the t-shirt and you are done. Getting your t-shirt printed will not be difficult as there are many web-based services that provide custom t-shirt printing services. Just upload your design and place an order. You can get your t-shirt printed in any color you like, and in any size you want.

Who Can Give this Gift?

As this gift is unisex in nature, this can be given by anyone. Your willingness to devote time to create this super gift is the only prerequisite for giving this super gift.

Other occasion

In my view, birthday is the most suited occasion for this gift idea to be given, but this is not the only occasion you can gift a custom made t-shirt to your loved one. You can even choose friendship day to give this cool gift to your best friend.

Gift Idea

The year in which a person turns 18 is the most exciting time of the person’s life. He or she has just taken the first step into adulthood, and this custom gift will thrill him/her to the bones. A personalized newspaper will make him/her feel special. It is his day, and let us make this day memorable for him.

Print excites people and everyone like to see him or her in prints. This indeed is the idea behind crafting this authentic looking personalized newspaper, and gifting it on the recipient’s 18^th birthday.

Content

The first step in the creation process is to make a layout for this custom gift. The first step in the process is to gather information, and pictures you want to include in the newspaper. I am using the word gather because like almost all of us, you were busy working when your kid was growing, and chances are you have missed many things, and occasions that are valuable to him/her. This is the time to payback. Gather information about the important incidence that has happened to him/her in last 18 years.

The next step is to synthesize the information and the images collected for the customized newspaper into a series of articles. Each article will be talk about one aspect of his or her life. Keep the article short, simple, and exciting to read. If you cannot write an exciting article on your own, hire a professional to do this job. I will suggest against using a serious tone to write any of the articles; remember no one likes preaching. You can convey the exact same meaning in slightly less serious words. I will suggest giving the reader a comic relief while conveying the message you want to convey. Fun is the best way to convey any meaning.

As for the images, you need to shortlist one primary image, which will work as an attention grabber, and couple of secondary image to support the articles wherever it required. You need to optimize the image for print using Adobe Photoshop or any other graphic designing application. You can hire someone to do this job as well, if you are not good at handling image enhancement applications.

Layout

Once all the content is ready, it is time to put them together and make a front page of the newspaper. We begin the process with creating a wireframe that will get filled with the content (articles and the images) created above. In this layout, you should also have a space for solus advertising. This space will fulfill two functions. On the one hand, it will make the newspaper look more authentic, while on the other hand it will give you a space to do some direct communication in the form of advertisement. The message posted in the solus advertising can be a direct message from you wishing him a happy 18^th birthday, or it can be any other personalized message. Get this message designed by the same person who has done the Photoshop work.

Creation

Once the articles and images are placed in the layout your newspaper is ready. It is time to get it printed. This isn’t difficult; any printer in your locality will do this job. You can also search the Internet for assistance. The printer might ask for a specific file format to print. A page layout made in Quark Express is widely accepted. You can also use other page design application for the purpose. As for the name, I will suggest using, “The Birthday Times”.

Distribution

It’s a decision time. You can either use the regular newspaper delivery channel to get this newspaper to your kid, or you can frame it in a picture frame and gift it wrapped in a shiny piece of birthday-gift wrapping paper. In my view, you should adopt a mix of both. Talk to your newspaper delivery guy couple of days in advance about your plan, and give him the newspaper to be delivered on the day before the birthday. The custom newspaper should be packed in such a way that your kid’s image remains visible from a distance. In the morning of the D-day, ask your kid to go out and bring that day’s newspaper.

You can get one more copy of this personalized newspaper printed and framed using a classy black photo frame. Give your kid this gift right after he cuts the cake. The newspaper used for framing should be bigger in size than the one you got delivered in the morning. The newspaper should be visible from a distance as your kid is going hang it on his bedroom’s wall.

Fostering love: The idea behind the gift

From Bengali Aamee tuma ke bhalo baashi to Farsi Doset daram to German Ich liebe dich to Gujarati Hoo thunay prem karoo choo to French Je t’aime and Je t’adore to Dutch Ik hou van jou to Slovak Lu’bim to Yiddish Ikh hob dikh lib, each phrase speaks volume about your love. The idea is to create a custom t-shirt with a heart filled with I love you written in 1000 (or as many as you can, but at least 100) different languages. This give will give him/her more than one reason to believe how much you love him/her, and will remember it every time he/she stands in front of a mirror wearing the t-shirt you gifted.

Creating this perfect gift is not difficult, and it will be more fun than you think. To make this gift, you will need a pre-shrunk t-shirt, preferably white, a collection of I love you in different languages, a little bit of knowledge of illustration, and enthusiasm to see this work through.

Finding love: Research & explanation

Begin with researching the Internet for different ways to say I love you. Just typing “I love you in different languages” in Google will fetch you the result you are looking for. Use Microsoft Excel to make a list: in one column write the name of the language, and in the second column write the way I love you is written in that language. Keep this list handy.

In explaining this custom gift idea, I have used a plain white t-shirt, but you can take the creative liberty and experiment with color and design. You need to keep in mind that the text written on the t-shirt should contrast with the color of the t-shirt. For example: if you choose a black color t-shirt then you can consider writing the “I love yous” in florescent green, white or neon colors. If you want, you can play with the design as well. In making this gift, you are limited only by your imagination.

The next step in the process is to illustrate the design you want to put on the t-shirt.  You can either use pencil, eraser, sharpener, scale and paper to draw the design concept that you have in your mind or you can use illustration software like Adobe Illustrator, or Corel Draw to get the output.

Crafting Love: Creating the custom t-shirt Design

Begin with taking measurement of the chest-area of the t-shirt. For the measurement you can use a t-shirt of the recipient. Mark the measurement on a sheet of paper, in case you are using paper and pencil, or create a new page of the size you got from the measurement if you are using software to do the illustration work. This step should be followed by creating a wireframe that will be filled with the “I love yous”. You have two option, either to create a big heart with a 2.5-pixel border and fill the “I love yous” in it. The second option is to make any primary shape and write all the “I love yous” in it using black font. Make a second layer on top of it, and draw a heart with a 1.50-pixel border on it. Keep the fill part of the heart blank and paint the border with cherry-red color.

Now, select all the “I love yous” that falls within the boundary of the heart, and change its color to red. You can also delete one or two “I love yous” from the center of the heart, and write a personalized message to the recipient. If you want, you can use a different color to make this message prominent, or else you can write the message using same font and same color. This will maintain the subtlety of the message, which can also be very powerful.

Getting a custom t-shirt printed is not a big deal, nowadays. If you couldn’t find a good quality custom t-shirt in your locality then search the Internet, and you will get many options to choose from. There are online services that not only print custom design on a standard t-shirt, but they also give you an option to design t-shirt from scratch for printing.

Custom magazine cover demystified

It has been many years since you have met for the first time, exchanged smiles, looked eyes into eyes, and then there was a perfect Kodak moment. The time stopped, sun dimmed, the stars glittered throwing away brilliant light, and the wind blew lovingly. It was a perfect Kodak moment. What if you could freeze the time there? What if you could make it last longer? What if you could…?

The gift idea we are going to share will make “your perfect Kodak moment “eternal. This gift is neither for her, nor for you, but this gift is perfect both of you. We are asking you to gift her a custom made magazine cover for this anniversary. She will be more than delighted to see this gift as well as the sparkle in your eyes and smile on your face.

Custom magazine cover explained

To create this custom magazine cover you will need a working knowledge of image editing software like Adobe Photoshop or Gimp (open source), and page designing software like Adobe PageMaker or Quark Express. To come up with creative lines for the cover, you will need free-flying imagination, and a deep desire to gift your wife a highly personalized creative gift.

The first step in the process of creating this personalized gift is to search for an ideal magazine cover on which you will base the layout and the design of your super gift. Create a base layout for the magazine cover by putting appropriate place-holders for the title, date, month, year, issue, volume, price, featuring attractions, titles of imaginary articles, and the cover image.

Now it’s the time to find an appropriate picture for the cover image. I will suggest you to use the portrait picture that was clicked on the day of your marriage or engagement. Use any image editing software to remove the background from the selected cover image. The image editing software will further be used to optimize the cover image for printing.

The next step is to think of a name for the magazine. Show your creativity and come up with an attractive name that should not lose its charm after a year or two “Our Wedding”, “Marital Bliss”, “Wedding Bells”, “Big Day” etc could be used.

The date, month and year of your wedding should be filled in the appropriate placeholders. Volume for this magazine cover will be ‘one’, and issue will also be ‘one’. In the placeholder for price write ‘priceless’ and besides that write ‘not for sale’. Write ‘Fifth Marriage Anniversary’ or ‘Five Blissful Years’ in the main attraction feature placeholder. Your love message for her will become names of the imaginary articles. An imaginary page number should be placed beneath each imaginary article (love message). Choose a background of your liking and give the final touch to the magazine cover.

Custom magazine creation

Getting this custom gift printed will not be difficult, nor will be framing; still, you need to be careful in choosing the printer and the photo framer. Finding a good quality printer and a photo framer will not be difficult. Enter the appropriate keywords, and any of the major search engines will fetch a huge list containing names, addresses and websites of printers as well as photo framers. Ask for the price-list and samples from each of them. Ask each of them to send you printed samples.

The size of the magazine cover should be at least 20X24 inches, if you want it to be visible from a distance.