I agree that you can create amazing gifts using your personal skills. My husband is a budding photographer. Last year, he had prints made of some of his favorite photos from a recent vacation. He bought a collage frame, and filled it with his photos of London and Rome. It made me cry.

This year, we are using the same concept to create gifts for others. We found frames on sale and are filling them with photos that are meaningful to each person on our list. The ladies are getting collages of flower photos in their favorite colors while guys are getting cityscapes of Chicago (our home town) with a photo of their favorite ball park (Cubs or Sox). They are turning out to be spectacular gifts!