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I tend to suggest ways of turning photos into gifts, but I've never suggested the most obvious: putting a picture in a frame. Why skip this obvious choice? Because most of the time when people give photos as gifts they're a little boring and unoriginal.
Neither of those things is true about the picture my friend Elizabeth gave me today! The picture she chose is both funny and original and I'm grateful to her for giving me such a great slice of our life to treasure.
How can you get the same results she did? Follow her two simple (but not always easy) steps: 1) find an unusual picture -- not a posed or smiling picture -- that tells a great story (like this one of me and my guy being frustrated by the size of our first tiny kitchen), and 2) put it in a really nice frame, something with character that is a piece of work in-and-of itself. If you can manage to do it right, your gift will become as much of an heirloom as any picture of your sweet-sixteen or your senior prom.
Posted by georgia to Gifts on September 28, 2005 02:00 AM | permalink | Email this post
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