It’s official! Christmas is one week away!
Are you ready? Well, regardless of the gifts that you think you don’t have yet, you are ready to show love. If your money is funny this Christmas, consider the beautifully homemade gifts. I have a few tips below:
1. Since you have pulled out the cameras since you read Let’s Make a Memory, you probably have plenty of pictures by now 
. Consider cropping and framing the best of them as gifts.
2. Or maybe you are an excellent singer (note the word excellent) or a hilarious performer, then make your family a cd single of their favorite Christmas song, then they can add it to their Christmas season playlist (and if you do a great job, it will set the season off next year).
3. Can you cook? Then let your gift be a feast. Or if you want to put it under the tree, then create tiny, tasty, delicacies and wrap them up.
4. Consider playing around with that vacation footage and make a movie using the software that automatically comes with most computers (movie maker for PCs or iMovie for Macs–with the mac it’s not automatic, but the download is 79.99 and comes with a whole lot of extra stuff that makes the price well worth it, plus online tutorials).
So, we’ve ‘got’ movies to make, music to record, cooking to do, photos to work on and any other creative idea that you come up with. Think of it this way, while everyone is trapped in the chaos of the largest shopping days of the year, crowded and locked in mall traffic, you get to be at home, creating your ‘masterpiece.’ Have at it.
-MizJAI-
