December is finally here and all around the yearly Christmas spirit is starting to show itself in forms as Christmas baking, music, family time, glitter, lights and of course number one for many, Christmas shopping!
There are all kinds of things one needs to buy to make the holidays complete, including food, decorations, drinks and the most important, GIFTS! For many, including myself this has always been a head scratcher. Questions as; Who will I buy for this year? How much money should I spend? What do they want? Is this gift going to be awesome enough? Are all things that go through my mind as I spend countless hours trapped in shopping malls with a million other people all wondering the same.
This year however I decided I was going to no shopping malls. I was not going to ask for anybody’s gift list and I was not going to care if the money I spent was too little or too much. This year I was going to customize all my Christmas presents with personal designs showing off some of my paintings from the last year.
Thou I chose to decorate the products this year with paintings, there is many cool things you can do! What about a cute photo? A special written message or the two combined? There is a world of options and usually a lot of readymade temples to help you get started.
So, why should you customize your Christmas gifts? Well here were my reasons;
- You are giving someone a one of a kind object that will remind them of you forever.
- You are turning everyday objects into something special.
- You can spend from as little as 3 £ to xxxx £ and get an awesome gift!
- You can design anything from a mug to a barbecue kit! Which means you can give everything from something practical to something decorative.
The page I used is called Vistaprint, thou you have a lot of different options out there. I chose Vistaprint because I have ordered from them before and knew they delivered quality products for a reasonable price. You can visit them here;
http://www.vistaprint.co.uk/vp/welcomeback.aspx?xnav=welcome&rd=1
They ship their products all over the world and at the moment they have a lot of good offers.
Here are some products I customized just as an example with my own paintings!
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