YOU SHOULDA BEEN IN PICTURES
Digital photo freaks: Grab your cameras and rev up your computers ! Here are three ways put yourself in print and create major keepers for Mom (or Dad):
There's no place like home: Order America At Home online and have it custom printed with a glossy book jacket featuring your own family photo.
Inside, you'll find 250 cleverly edited images taken at home over a seven-day period by amateur shutterbugs, plus 100 of America's top photojournalists. You'll want to share this time capsule of today's home life in America with your great grandchildren.
One book with your custom cover costs $39.95 plus shipping and handling. Peek inside the book and order online. You can get your book in as little as 5 business days using the expedited FedEx option.
She'll flip: Let Moo.com turn your family photos, artwork, or words of praise and adoration into a deck of 60 minicards Mom can thumb through any time she starts missing you.
They come in a sturdy recyclable plastic box, or you can order a snappy carrying case. Step-by-step instructions make it easy. If you come up short of great images, you can import from Moo partners: Flickr, Bebo, Etsy, Facebook, Fotolog, Livejournal and Vox; $19.99.
Book of love: Wow Mom with a tidy little book of your most meaningful family pictures (and words, if you like). Scan and include the kid's first drawings. It's easy with a little help (and free software for Mac and PC) from Blurb.
You can create your own bookstore-quality, 7- by 7-inch, 20-page tribute to your family starting at $12.95 per copy. Your book will take 5-6 working days to print, and can be delivered in as little as one business day.
BY HAND, WITH LOVE
Hot tips for crafters and shoppers.
Silhouettes suitable for framing: Step-by-step directions show you how to immortalize kids, pets, and Mom herself in charming, cameo-like profiles at design*sponge.
Directions include easy, inexpensive ideas for artfully backing and displaying your masterpieces.
Hint: they'll look perfect in Ikea Ribba frames. Or maybe something recycled from a yard sale or your very own attic.
Here's my heart: Check out our blog, Home by Sunset, for a simple alternative to the store-bought greeting card.
This step-by-step valentine works equally well for Mother's day. Or ― clever you ― add a computer (or hand drawn) cut-out of the sublimely symmetrical word MOM to the pop-up heart.
Buy if you must, but buy by hand: Okay, you're not the DIY type. But you can still choose from hundreds of fresh, hand-crafted gifts at Etsy.com's Mother's Day Showcase.
Send for an elegant letterpress card from TallulahCards. Inside, write Mom a love note hinting about the custom necklace you've ordered for her. Then have words of love or names of loved ones hand-stamped onto brushed a sterling silver charm festooned with stars or fresh-water pearls from Hazelnut Cottage.
While it might not arrive by Mother's day, it will make the loveliest of late May bonanzas-by-mail.
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