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Five Valuable Handmade Birthday Gift Ideas to Make Your Mom’s Birthday Special

Giving a gift to your mom is a great way of showing her your appreciation for all the things she has done for you. The present for a 75th birthday should be especially personal and special. There are many 75th birthday gifts you can consider giving. Maka the gift yourself to show you put some thought into it The following is a list of home crafted gift ideas for youto create:

You could make her a scrapbook

Scrapbooks are considered to be classic handmade gifts which are full of memories and sentiment. So as to honor your mother, the scrapbook can be something that can be made jointly with the joint efforts of yours and your all family members. Request everyone to contribute a keepsake like the photographs, old letters, post cards and news clippings of events which happened during your mom’s life time. You may ask your family members to write personalized messages with their signatures wishing a good and happy life for your mother. Watch your mother enjoy browsing the pages of this thoughtful present.

Create artwork of her

If you are fond of creating visual arts such as paintings and drawings, why not make a portrait of your mom for her birthday? Or, if photography is more your style, you can also take a picture or a series of pictures of her together with your father and other dear family members. You can make a collage of the pictures you have taken. And, because silver is the symbol for 75 years, you can have the images you made framed in an elegant silver frame. When children use their art skills to create a masterpiece, mothers everywhere will treasure the creative gifts.

Writing something unique and personal for her is something she will treasure forever!

If you enjoy writing, you can write a sincere poem or letter that will touch your mom’s heart. Find a beautiful piece of stationery paper to write on to make the gift more beautiful. You can write a poem by hand or print it out for a more formal presentation. Also you may frame the gift so it is easy for your mother to hang it somewhere she can look at it daily so she can think back to her lover for you.

Treat her with a basket of homemade delicacies

You can start off your mom’s birthday by treating her with a basket filled with goodies you made yourself. Make up a gift basket filled with different foods that you baked. Put in some treats such as muffins, cake, a pastry or two and some freshly-squeezed fruit juice. If you mom prefers a certain food, you can prepare it for her and put it in the basket.

You can make her a video tribute

Create a video on your own just for mom to enjoy. Collect messages from the whole family and your mother’s best friends sharing their love and happy memories. You can also ask them to say their heartfelt messages and birthday wishes.

When it comes to your mom, handmade gifts mean more to her. Just make sure that the gift effectively reflects your love and affection for one of the most special women in your life.

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Alternative Uses For itunes Gift Cards

Itunes cards are a popular gift right now, I am always receiving itunes cards as rewards at work, for filling out surveys, even my grandma gave me a itunes card for my birthday. Everyone thinks it’s the perfect gift and for some people it is, after all who does not like music, movies and television? While everyone would agree that they at least love some form of media not everyone is into the digital format itunes delivers media in and of course not everyone is into the whole concept of paying for their music, movies and television shows. After all there is plenty of indie music out there for free, streaming websites also offer a good deal of free music from popular bands not to mention that thing called the radio. For television you can always watch shows for free, with a dvr that is nearly standard on cable boxes these days you can even record your favorite shows to watch later. While movies are not free there are services like Netflix that provide them for a very low cost. Some people reading this article may now be thinking that I am ignorant of the thousands of bit torrent and file sharing sites out there. Of course this is another reason, possibly the biggest reason why people may choose to sell their itunes gift cards. Why use their itunes card at all when they get their media for free? Most people don’t and the itunes cards just sit around gathering dust for years. That’s why I have come up with some alternative uses for your itunes cards.

 

The first alternative use and most lucrative is to simply go online and sell the card. There is a website that will let you sell itunes gift cards, they will give you cash for your unwanted itunes credits. It is the easiest way to sell itunes gift cards and it takes only about 5 minutes to turn your card into cash. It is important to note that in order to sell your card it must not have been previously loaded onto your itunes account. If you load the card on your account the balance will be stuck on your account forever. We still have a number of alternative uses for the card if you have already put it on your account so be sure to read on.

 

If your balance is already stuck on your account and you own an iphone, ipad or mac computer you can always use your credits to purchase software apps. There are literally millions of apps available so you should be able to find something you like. Even if you can not find an app you like consider investing in a productivity app or purchase a issues of a magazine you like. Still not convinced this is a good use of cash? Then read on for our final suggestion of alternative uses for itunes cards.

 

Consider donating the balance on your itunes account if you do not want to cash in or use it on some media or an app. How can you donate your itunes balance? Just look for an app or song that is donating all proceeds to a charitable cause. There are always lots of options available as developers and musicians aim to promote their music by attaching their product to a worthy cause. Also you can try to think of any friends or family members who may have developed an app or put their bands single on itunes. Why not help them climb the charts and put a little bit of money in their pocket? Of course Apple takes its cut on every transaction but this does not detract from the good created by your charitable donation.

 

Many people leave their gift cards sitting around for years, some get lost, some even get thrown out. If you are not using the card do something with it! Look at your itunes card as an asset that is wasted capital if it’s just sitting there unused. sell your gift card, buy something nice, invest the money, and donate to a worthy cause. Don’t let that asset sit ideally by, do something with your itunes credit today.

About the Author

Fred Redding is a freelance author based in Toronto, Canada. He writes for a variety of publications with a focus on Personal Finance, Prepaid Payment Cards and Credit Cards.

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Gift Exchange?

I really neeed help here, I have searched and searched but cannot find anything online…
My classroom will be doing a gift exchange in our class for holidays, and I wanna write a letter to inform the parents about the gifts, and to let them know that there is a budget, and who they will be responsible for the gift… I know there is letter template, you just put the name and amount…

Please help me

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