| Whether their birthday is quickly approaching | | | | create the box you would like to receive. |
| or Father and Mother Day are holidays you | | | | Give them a chance to travel back in time and |
| prefer to forget due to your inability to | | | | smile to your ingenuity. |
| find something which can be a valuable | | | | |
| present, a gift that you will craft yourself | | | | - A Photograph Album: The photographs they |
| and will portray your own personal touch can | | | | have been eager to take every summer are |
| go a long way into their hearts. Here are | | | | scattered around or placed in boxes that |
| some easy craft ideas for those capable to | | | | nobody has time to open up and see anymore. |
| open your computer and put it to work. | | | | Visit your local art or bookstore and |
| | | | purchase a couple of albums that can host |
| - Personal Music Compilation: You have heard | | | | most of the pictures you know they cherish. |
| them one thousand times. That Frank Sinatra | | | | Arrange the pictures in chronological order |
| song they were dancing last Christmas is | | | | or just grab them from the box and place them |
| engraved on your brain and you are catching | | | | in the album while adding your own comments |
| yourself singing the lyrics every time you | | | | or imaginary dialogues. You can also create |
| see a couple that resembles them crossing the | | | | the album yourself on your computer and bind |
| street. One of the most appreciated gifts you | | | | the pages together with string and ribbon. |
| can easily construct is that of a music CD | | | | Embellish the photograph albums with your own |
| containing all their favorite songs. You can | | | | taste, like black and white copies of |
| even create the CD cover and labels on your | | | | photographs and experience how it feels to |
| computer and your gift can have a personal | | | | have something truly valuable given to them. |
| touch that will make tears fall from their | | | | |
| eyes as they open the wrapping paper. Add a | | | | - A Card Box: They are always searching those |
| romantic photograph of them on the cover, put | | | | small pieces of paper with those old recipes |
| their theme song first and last, arrange the | | | | or sports scores on them, which seem to have |
| music according to their pleasing, and think | | | | disappeared since you remember yourself. They |
| of a good song that they do not know but will | | | | are always complaining and thinking they are |
| love when hearing. Improvise as much as you | | | | now really old and incompetent for not |
| can and you will be glad you did. | | | | remembering where they have placed their |
| | | | favorite cards the last time they used them. |
| - A Box Full of Memories: Last summer they | | | | Save them the trouble of trying to locate |
| have decided to visit Spain, but their | | | | their "valuable" pieces of paper and create a |
| tickets, photographs, beach shells, and | | | | box which can have a title and display their |
| museum passes have been inside a bag since | | | | favorite colors. Add some paper labels inside |
| then. Surprise them with a "Box from Spain." | | | | and give them the chance to feel organized |
| Arrange their favorite photographs and create | | | | and prepared when the time to use them again |
| on your computer a collage that will cover | | | | comes. |
| the sides of the box. Print and place the | | | | |
| year and their favorite Spanish phrase, which | | | | Creating the perfect gift for dad and mom is |
| they have been using since, on top. Place the | | | | not that difficult. It needs some imagination |
| tickets and passes on a transparency paper | | | | and time to invest. We know you got both; you |
| and glue them inside the box, organize the | | | | know it too. Good luck and happy crafting |
| box according to days or places, and try to | | | | times! |