Treasured Heirlooms
Photo Albums and Photo Books Gifts

Photo albums and photo books are truly unique gifts that last forever, treasured heirlooms for family and close friends.

Several years ago a few of my best friends made me an album gift; they placed their pictures and added personal letters from each. It's been 15 years since I got it and I still treasure it.

Depending on your budget and your crafty skills, you can handmade your own photo album or to digitally turn your photos into a stunning photo book in seconds,it is fun and easy.

Either way, to create a sentimental gift, you may want to decide what the focus of your album / book will be. Gather photos, mementos and items of interest to be placed in the album adding poems, letters, dedications, history, or any other things you think will enhance it.

Here are some great ideas for your album gifts:

If you are making a gift for your grandparents, you may want to dedicate a page to each of their children and grandchildren and having each one of them to write a personal latter or a note, a family tree can be also a great addition to it.

You can compose albums focusing on one's life story, with photos from birth till today marking all important landmarks in his life accompanied with stories, quotes and history for each photo.

A wonderful idea for a parent who's turning 50 is to create an album with photos of all their friends and family, having them all to write something personal to accompany the picture. The focus can be funny moments or nostalgic, depending on your receiver.

Other themes could be: personality, select photos and items that describes your recipient's personality, what he likes, dislikes, favorite things, people, places and times, hobbies, funny facts, his wishes, dreams, thoughts, and hopes or everything you can possible think of that tells the story of who is your recipient.

Birthday photo albums, photos from birthdays over the years or a yearly album, 12 months of memories and what happened that year.

For the sports fun, you could make an album with his favorite sports, photos from special games, sport moments, tournaments, or his favorite team. If he practices sports himself then add photos of him in his golf game, playing basketball or any other sports he does (or a photo of him watching sports on TV.)

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Tip: If you want to add something extra to your photos, that is if they are stored in your computer, before you print them you can add digital frames with this cool tool. Just upload your photo, choose the frame you want, save it on your computer and print it.

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