How to Make a "Why I Love You" Book as a Holiday Gift

Your sweetheart will be overwhelmed after opening this one-of-a-kind book filled with all the reasons you love him or her.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Calligraphy Inks
• Ribbons
• Printers
• Calligraphy Pens
• 2 Sheets Card Stock
• Pencils
• Spiral Notebooks
• Computers
• Word Processors
• Word-processing Software
• Rulers
• quality résumé paper

1. Write down all the reasons you love that person. If, for example, the book is for your husband, you might include things like "You know just where to scratch my back," "You kill spiders for me" or "You're such a great father."
2. Come up with as many as you can; you'll need at least 25 to make the book a decent size.
3. Enter them all into a word-processing program. Hit Return after every four or five words so that you end up with three to four lines of text.
4. Insert a page break after each reason so that you end up with one per page. Center the text both horizontally and vertically.
5. Select an attractive, easy-to-read font, and then increase the font size to somewhere between 18 and 24 points.
6. Create a title page that simply says, "Why I Love You," in 36-point type.
7. Print it all out on your printer using the best print quality.
8. Draw crop marks lightly on the title page showing where you want the pages cut. A good rule is the crop marks should be 2 inches from the text.
9. Take your printouts to a copy center (such as Kinko's) and have them print out all your reasons on high-quality résumé paper. Ask them to copy the title page and a blank back page onto heavy cardstock to create a cover, and then have all of it tape bound and cropped according to your marks.

Tips & Warnings

• Give yourself several days to compile your list because more ideas will occur to you after you make your initial list. Remember that no reason is too small or silly.
• If you have splendid handwriting, you can write out the reasons in calligraphy and then have them copied to give the book a more personal touch. It's better to use copies because the ink on your originals might smear.
• You can use ribbon to bind your book instead of having it tape bound, but this will make the book more fragile.