Making Your Own Gifts - Star in Your Own Movie

Making your own gifts this year can be fun. It is muchthe this cover page.
cheaper than whipping out your credit card and thisIf you have a great selection of photographs, whether
gets your creative juices flowing. This is a greaton your computer or in old photo albums, why not
project if you are creative, or have something youspend some time scanning them onto your computer
would like to share as a gift.and creating a great CD for them! I did this for my
If you make a great craft, that other people, includingsiblings, of old photographs, and created a CD, then
friends and family have been bugging you to make forprinted one of my favorite pictures onto plain paper
them, then why not show them how to make theirand cut it to fit the CD cover. They just loved it!
own? This could be a craft, or making bread, orMaking your own gifts, can be fun, and recipes are
creating anything!another great gift. If you have a bunch of great
Most digital cameras have a "create movie" tab onrecipes, stuffed in a drawer, why not transfer them to
them, and you can create a DVD of you making thisyour computer. Spend some time typing them in and
craft. Like your very own TV show.then either put them on a CD for a gift, or print them
Get all your supplies that you will need, and make a liston some decorative paper. Put them in plastic page
of them. Then get someone to film your steps, or setprotectors, and a decorative binder for your loved one.
your camera up on a tri-pod. You can then transferYou could add personalized notes on each recipe,
this to a DVD through your own computer.about what happened the last time you served this, or
Get yourself a package of blank DVD's and then burnsomething to remind them of you...
your movie onto them. Then spend some time creatingMaking your own gifts, is also a great way to avoid
a great front cover for the DVD. You couldthat fear in January, that we all have of the postman
personalize this for your loved one, and make sure youwhen he brings that bag of bills. Just think, you won't
have the list of needed items printed on the back ofhave that this time!