PERSONALISED CARDS

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I take a lot of pictures. Like, a lot of pictures. I rarely leave the house without a camera and some of my friends don't even bother taking theirs along when I'm around! A while back I thought that I should really put all those pictures in good use. I already told you about my birthday gift to my man this year but what I've also started doing is ordering my friends and family personalised birthday cards using those photographs I've taken along the years. It obviously takes a bit of time to go through all your pictures and to select the best ones but it's all worth it. Sentimental gifts (or cards in this case) mean something to people and I love giving them. This card here was one that my grandparents received from us recently. I use Moonpig. They have some seriously cheesy options but also a few great ones. (This is their product no PUE153.)

By the way I was looking back my posts in the last couple of weeks and against all my intentions it looks like I've become a "Mum Blogger"(oh dear...). My kids seems to be included in most of my posts. I planned to blog mainly about other things but I just can't help it. So I've decided to give into it. I'll certainly still mix it up and post about absolutely everything and anything that comes to mind but there will be times kids are the only thing I'll have something to post about. Hope that's okay with you guys! Have a great Thursday evening!

Minna x

SENTIMENTAL GIFTS

What to get as a birthday present for someone who doesn’t need or want anything? My other half’s birthdays are always a cause of cold sweat for me and so are Christmases… He is the most difficult person to buy for. This year it was the big four zero so it had to be something special. We need some new art on our walls, we even have a few picture lights installed but no pictures underneath them. So I decided that I’d look for pictures to fill those spaces. I’m into photography these days so I thought I’d look into some photographers’ work and try to find pictures that would mean something to him. Maybe of places that mean something to us to make the present about the sentiment more than anything else. I then realised that I have thousands of pictures on my laptop… so why not to use them? My own art, ha! (I’m so not arty or creative that the thought makes me smile.) So that’s what I did; I went through every single picture on my laptop and chose the ones that I thought would look good on our wall and in much larger size than your normal framed family pictures. I made them black and white and sent them off to be printed and framed. I was nervous about the result but they turned out okay. We now have pictures by my very own self to be hung on the walls. And best of all my other half was quite taken by his gift. If any of you have tips for presents with sentimental value please do share in the comment box, Christmas is coming up! ;-)

Minna x