02 October 2019
Selected Christmas Gift Ideas – Which are Truly Unique
Christmas
has become the feast of the gift trinity: Give, Take, Return
When
during Advent the smell of cinnamon cookies reaches our nose, it
becomes clear that it is time to think about Christmas presents.
Giving is a way of expressing love, compassion and appreciation.
Giving also makes a statement like "I love you" or
"I am thinking of you".
Give
time instead of money
"To
find a good gift
idea,"
says the sociologist Dr. Holger Schwaiger (Erlangen and Aberdeen),
"you
have to empathise with the other, and to feel their feelings and
needs by constantly fine-tuning your understanding of the other’s
personality. To perceive these signals, you usually have a full
year’s time. If you do, you can forgo the lazy option of giving
money."
The style consultant Ann Green adds, "with
a well-chosen gift, the recipient won’t think about the price.
"
Cash
makes a bad present
“When
we buy gifts, we remove the price tag, to make it clear, that
friendship has no price. Gifts of money are the opposite,” so
the sociologist Schwaiger, because “they
give the
social relationship an economic value.”
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| Photo Calendars are a popular gift at Christmas |
Celebrate
common experiences
If
you have spent time with a person, you may want to preserve the
memories of common experiences in a photo gift. With pictures of
celebrations, holidays and other special events, you can make
beautiful, personal photo books, photo calendars or Advent
calendars
- ideal gift ideas to celebrate the most cherished moments of the
year.
If
you have at least twelve images that you want to show throughout the
course of a year, a wall calendar is a great option and can be
created easily in just a few steps. You will find more hints &
tips in the article Create
a wall calendar.
For
Advent, there are photo Advent calendars with own pictures and
optionally filled with chocolate from Ferrero® or kinder® or
"filled"
– sugar free – with 24 pictures. In addition, some online
services print "craft
photo advent calendars for self-filling"
with your individual image.
If
you have more pictures - for example of a joint trip - it’s a good
starting point to create a holiday photo
album,
to give as a present. The article "My
holiday photo album - how to start?"
provides practical tips and examples to help your photo book project
succeed and to bring joy for many years to come.
A
photo gift is the opposite of a money gift.
Well
achieved pictures deserve a special place at home, for example as a
large format print. Such enlargements work particularly well as a
photo canvas print, a gallery poster or a multi-panel. The CEWE®
photo poster
and wall-art range expanded again this year, with the addition of the
innovative Hexxas® system. Hexxas®
are hexagonal photo tiles (18 x 15.6 cm or 27 x 23.4 cm in size) that
can be arranged flexibly due to their magnetic suspension system.
Real
gifts to unwrap, touch and see
Professionally
managed web shops from A like Amazon®
through F like FotoInsight®
to Z like Zara®
offer - at a supplement - a gift wrapping service. This ensures that
the unwrapping helps to create a positive surprise. Only things that
can be touched and felt are real presents!
Instagram
at your fingertips: Art Prints "Square"
The
Instagram-friendly trend of the year are square prints, bringing the
colourful world of digitally recorded experiences into your home.
They can be enhanced with frames and effects. As a box set, the
square prints (with a 5 inch side length) are a great gift idea.
Art
Prints "Retro" - reminding former Polaroids®
Retro
prints are sets of quality prints on solid 300 g/m² paper in size
5”x4” (10.2 x 12.7 cm). Retro prints can be edited and decorated
with frames and filters. In keeping with the vintage style of former
Polaroids®,
the print area is 9x9 cm (3 ½” square) in size and has a
high-quality layer-effect vanish. As a set of 16, 24 or 32 prints in
a pretty storage box, the Retro prints make a joyful surprise.
Your
own picture as a fine art print
Decorative
prints from own photographs make a very personal present. In its Art
Prints range, FotoInsight offers high-quality prints on matt fine art
paper in the sizes 13x18, 20x20 and 20x30 cm (approx. A4), starting
from just £5.
A
picture pairs game with your own pictures: the Photo Memo®
A
great gift for the family is the personal Photo Memo®. To print a
personalised
picture-pairs-game
with your own pictures is as easy as ordering prints online. An
individual Photo Memo® game with 50 cards (25 pairs of pictures)
costs only £12.99 at
https://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts/toys---games/picture-pairs-game.html.
The picture pairs game is suitable for children from 4 years of age
and is an entertaining, memory
training game
for the whole family.
Cinnamon,
the Christmas spice
As
mentioned earlier, the aroma of cinnamon is part of the Christmas
season, just like the Christmas tree, candle light and gifts.
Cinnamon
invigorates the senses and stimulates our well-being, especially
during the dark winter days. Cinnamon has a positive effect on the
blood sugar level and can help to reduce belly fat and obesity. Since
most households do not own a cinnamon grater, cinnamon is sold mostly
in powder form. When ground, the Cinnamon
cassia
quickly loses many of its essential oils, its stimulating effect and
part of its aroma. Maybe Christmas
is a good opportunity to give a special cinnamon grater, so cinnamon
can always be freshly grated to match the quality of rolled Ceylon
cinnamon sticks. Cinnamon
graters
are available from Cinnamon
Hill
as a grater starter set, which includes one rod of Saigon and Ceylon
cinnamon each from just £25 or €30. For more information on Cinnamon graters: https://iitm.be/CinnamonGrater
When
well-being and friendship come to the fore, the expectations for
gifts change. A list of Christmas gift ideas from various online
providers are published in the article "Christmas
gift? practical, useful and personal"
by the style consultant Ann Green.
Labels: Advent Calendars, Ceylon, Christmas, Cinnamon Cinnamon grater, Cinnamon Hill, gift idea, Money Gift, photo book, Photo calendar, photo gift, photobooks, Polaroids, Square Prints
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