Unusual Personalized Gifts
Personalized gifts such as engraved watches, imprinted wallets and monogrammed cuff links have been on the market for many years and have pleased many surprised recipients. But for even greater surprise, look for more unusual things to personalize for special gifts your recipients would not imagine receiving.
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Tiny Pocket People
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Tiny Pocket People (tinypocketpeople.com) are small handcrafted dolls whose faces are created from a digital photo of an actual person. The soft dolls, made of cotton stuffed with polyester and washed sand (for weight), cost, as of 2011, $48 for an 8-inch doll and $78 for a 5-inch doll (the smaller doll is priced higher because it takes more time to make) and have keychain tags. The customized dolls are ideal for birthday or graduation gifts. Alternatively, buy one of yourself to give to your sweetheart...tell him he can carry you around in his pocket!
NFL Engraved Pint Glasses
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Instead of drinking from beer bottles during football games, your gift recipient could be enjoying his beer in a pint glass engraved with the logo of his favorite NFL team on one side and a single initial or three block initials on the other, with an engraved football nestled in the base of the glass. Choose from all 32 NFL teams. The glass, 6-1/4 inches tall, holds 16 oz. It retails for $24.97 as of 2011. This gift could be given to family or friends, or to groomsmen in a wedding party.
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Personalized Monopoly Games
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Personalize one of the most popular board games in history. The board game Monopoly is an enduring classic whose format has been used in a number of ways, including as a fundraiser for local communities or schools with squares on the board personalized for and paid for by local businesses and agencies. Although these customized boxed games can be special ordered, they can also be handmade with a computer and printer through Make Your Own Opoly software, which retails for $19.99 as of 2011. For an individual gift, Photo-Opoly Board Game, which retails for about $30 as of 2011, is put together by hand, using your own photos.
Your Writing Talents
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Write and record a heartfelt personalized song for a cherished gift. If you have some talent as a writer or songwriter, create a unique gift for a special person by writing a poem, essay, short story or song featuring that person. Capture her personality and your perspectives of her in your writing. Use her name multiple times. In the case of a song, sing the song for the recipient and record it on a CD for her to keep.
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