Personalized Gift Ideas By Mike & Renee

This personalized Christmas ornament is hand crafted from salt dough and painted and personalized to your liking. You can include from two to six stockings with names on them! The ornament will serve as a keepsake that your friends or family will cherish and use year after year!

To have your personalized message imprinted on this ornament, simply enter your personalization information when you check out. And there is no extra charge for this personalization! Note that the ribbon is not included.

Click Here For Ordering Info On This Personalized Christmas Ornament

This personalized desk sorter holds scissors, pens, markers, and a grade book! This desk sorter measures 10 inches wide by 8.5 inches high and may be personalized with your teacher’s name.

This is a fantastic way to show your appreciation to the teacher that works so hard to teach your son or daughter. Also, this would make a nice welcoming gift! More Info On This Personalized Teacher Desk Sorter Here

It’s beach time! And what a neat gift for the child on your gift list: a personalized kids sand pail! This pail comes in  nine different colors and 26 different designs including cars, football, ladybug, lipstick, ballet, fish, dragonfly, and many more! Also, you get to add your own personalization including name, nickname, or message! The sand pail has a white handle and includes a 9″ shovel. This bucket will make the child on your gift list the envy of the beach!

Make the kid on your gift list a happy beach goer! Click Here To See More Details on these unique and personalized sand pail.

If your father or grandfather is a woodworker, this unique wood branding iron will allow him to place his signature on each item he creates! These branding irons are available in both electric heated and torch heated. These wood branding irons have proved to be one of the most popular personalized gifts for men.

There are a variety of different styles available and several even allow you to submit your own custom signature or artwork. Click Here To See More Details on these unique and personalized wood branding irons.

Give Dad a gift that he will remember for years on Father’s Day with this personalized bait and tackle plaque! Your father’s last name is placed on the front of this plaque that measures 15 1/2 inches by 10 3/4 inches. Also, the first name and the “Year Established” is included.

This plaque would make a unique personalized retirement gift for a man with the “Year Established” being the year of retirement! Also, this would be a unique personalized gift for any avid fisherman (or fisherwoman) on your gift list.  Click Here To See More Details as Well as Other Personalized Plaques Available.

Give your Mom a poem in a personalized photo frame this Mother’s Day! You have your choice of four different beautiful poems to place on this photo frame. You also are given up to 20 characters to personalize with your own name or greeting.

This personalized Mother’s Day frame measures eight inches by ten inches and will hold a standard four inch by six inch photo. Add your own photo (or your Mother’s favorite photo) and you have a really nice present for Mom! Click Here To See the Available Poems For This Personalized Mother’s Day Poem Frame.

Does a young lady on your gift list want both a music box and a jewelry box? Give this special girl both with this very nice personalized kids musical jewelry box! This is really a mini armoire with a handy necklace hanger and drawers. The girl recieving this will be thrilled!

This personalized kids musical jewelry box is fairly large, with dimensions of 9 inches by 7 1/4 inches by three and one half inches high. There is a carousel storage hanger for necklaces and each drawer has a lining in pink velvet-like material. The song “It’s a Small Small World” plays on this box as it is opened. There are over 50 different beautiful designs available - you choose one upon checkout.

You may personalize with up to 12 characters and the personalization is FREE! This would make a perfect birthday present for the young person on your gift list! Click Here For Ordering Info On This Personalized Musical Jewelry Box

This personalized kids music cd features six songs about animals. But better yet, your child’s name is sung over 30 times within the songs!

These songs are happy tunes about animals that will bring cheer to your child, especially since they will have your child’s name sung within the lyrics! The songs are individually recorded with your child’s name, not dubbed over, so they are of high quality. This will get your child interested in music and bring joy to your household.

Besides this For the Love of Animals CD, there are also Superhero and personalized holiday music CDs available.
Click Here For Ordering Info On This Personalized Music CD

Buying a “mushy” Valentine’s Day gift for a man can be quite a challenge! Flowers? A romantic poem on a plaque? Uh, well, no. Most men don’t go for that, even though women would like them to! But here is a gift that even the most “macho” man would like - a personalized dog tag. Yes, like the dog tags worn by guys in the armed services. This will be a hit with just about any fellow, trust me!

This dog tag is nickel plated and may be engraved with up to 3 lines of up to 20 characters per line and the personalization is free! The best part is that this gift sells for under $20! You can find more information on this personalized dog tag at this link.

Mike

Is a Gift Card The Right Gift?

A very easy and quick way to give a somewhat personalized gift is to give a gift card to the recipient’s favorite online store. The recipient can pick out what they want at their leisure. Sounds good, but there is a problem: According to the report posted on TMG Strategies Blog, the average person has nearly 6 such gift cards that are unused!  This is up from 3.7 unused cards in 2007. I have a theory as to the reason for the unused cards - Our world is faster paced, leaving little time for “extra activities” like redeeming a gift card.  We are rushing off to work, running to meetings, taking our kids to school activities, downloading software, readjusting our retirement plans, paying our bills, getting our pets vaccinated, programming our remotes, etc., etc., etc.  And it seems as we are given more technology, we are given more tasks to complete with that technology. It’s maddening!

Gift cards are nice, if you feel that the recipient has the time and motivation to actually use them. For example, I gave a gift card to my teenage son, knowing that he would use it to purchase downloaded music - And he did!  Otherwise, if you feel the gift recipient may be too busy for such matters, perhaps a traditional gift is in order. And, if you want to give a gift that will have meaning for years to come, consider a personalized gift as featured at Shoppingmatchmaker.com.