Making Your Own Gifts - Be a Movie Star!

Making your own gifts this year can be fun. It is much cheaper than whipping out your credit card and this gets your creative juices flowing.

This is a great project if you are creative, or have something you would like to share as a gift.

If you make a great craft, that other people, including friends and family have been bugging you to make for them, then why not show them how to make their own? This could be a craft, or making bread, or creating anything!

Most digital cameras have a “create movie” tab on them, and you can create a DVD of you making this craft. Like your very own TV show.

Get all your supplies that you will need, and make a list of them. Then get someone to film your steps, or set your camera up on a tri-pod. You can then transfer this to a DVD through your own computer.

Get yourself a package of blank DVD’s and then burn your movie onto them. Then spend some time creating a great front cover for the DVD. You could personalize this for your loved one, and make sure you have the list of needed items printed on the back of the this cover page.

If you have a great selection of photographs, whether on your computer or in old photo albums, why not spend some time scanning them onto your computer and creating a great CD for them! I did this for my siblings, of old photographs, and created a CD, then printed one of my favorite pictures onto plain paper and cut it to fit the CD cover. They just loved it!

Making your own gifts, can be fun, and recipes are another great gift. If you have a bunch of great recipes, stuffed in a drawer, why not transfer them to your computer. Spend some time typing them in and then either put them on a CD for a gift, or print them on some decorative paper. Put them in plastic page protectors, and a decorative binder for your loved one. You could add personalized notes on each recipe, about what happened the last time you served this, or something to remind them of you...

Making your own gifts, is also a great way to avoid that fear in January, that we all have of the postman when he brings that bag of bills. Just think, you won’t have that this time!