25 thoughtful gifts under $25

Uh oh...We are exactly 2 months from the most wonderful time of the year!
When it comes to Christmas, I always say that gift giving shouldn't be stressing, and more than anything, should be meaningful.
It doesn't really matter if your gift was expensive or not, what really matters is the thought  you put in it.
If the gift is also within your budget, well, that's a bonus.
Here is a list of gifts that you can create for less than $25.
Some of them are also under $10, so have fun discovering them!^_^
Some I already blogged about, some I am going to blog about, so bookmark this blog post as I am going to add more links as I think of them! I am probably going to have even more than 25 gifts under $25!

Here is the (ever growing)  list!

14x11 posters:

 24x18 posters

Keepsake Christmas tags

Mini family tree
Subway art:

Calendars (if you are a club HM member)

3+ generations in a cube:

Family folds

CD/DVD covers

Playing cards

Mini calendars

Cookbook


Set of bookmarks

Family history desktop calendar

Frame-able inspiration 

Place mats

(double sided kids family tree mat with games doming soon!)
Versatile greeting cards

Family tree advent calendar:

Scrap pages (including the frame!)

Soft bound books (with CLUB HM membership)

Swatch books 

Photo tumbler

 Magnetic family tree game

(more possibilities on the magnetic family tree here!)
Heritage blocks 

Kids blocks

Photo Clock

Family-faith-friends blocks

Count Down Blocks

Photo holder

 

Notebooks covers

Home decor tiles

 

Whatever your choice is, remember that your loved ones will appreciate this gifts because not only they are so beautiful, but especially because every time they will look at them, they will know that you have given them the best gift... The gift of time! 

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8 minutes scrap page

As another proof that using our Studio online software is just so easy, I choose a cute scrap page that seemed it would be perfect for my boys, with just a couple changes.
From my website, I looked in the Template gallery, and chose this Template:

As alway, I clicked on details, selected the premier box, and clicked on "get this template.
Once in my project and templates, I clicked on start my own, edited, and customized it.

I dragged and dropped my kids pictures,  changed the brown in red, to make it match with their clothes, and changed the wording.

In less than 8 minutes, it was done!
Take advantage of the FREE PREMIER weekend, and make your own page too!

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You can get a free Publishing account by signing up at http://www.preservemyheritage.com and start creating unlimited projects at once!
Love my Creative Genealogy templates and ideas? 

My HM club members can have their favorite template transferred to their account for personal use, or  can have it completely personalized by me for them  for a reasonable fee.

Want more for less? Check out our incredible host rewards and My Club HM!

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Kids family tree placemat: keep their appetite for family history growing!

As you know I am always looking for new ways to get my kids interested in genealogy, and have already created various project that they love, but every now and then they need something new to keep the interest alive.
I was thinking of a way to "feed" them family history and I came up with a family tree place mat!
This will surely give them an appetite to know more about their ancestors and will hopefully start nice conversations at the family table.
I decided to use the 11x14 page format, which I will then laminate to protect it from water and any inevitable mess.
The boys have helped me pick some of the embellishments like the moon and the dogs, but what really caught their attention and got  them all excited was being put on the swing under the tree!
They couldn't wait for me to finish creating, and my 4 year old just wanted me to hurry up and make his, since I started with the one for my 6 years old!

Once I made the one for my first born it was pretty much a breeze to just swap pictures, name and background, (even the dogs as they wished), to personalize it for my other children.

As you can see I added leaves to Jacob's tree. I am not sure yet if I like it better with or without leaves...
What do you think?

My children  are eager to have them on the table, as soon as I will have published them and after I will have laminated them once they are here.
I didn't make one for Mattia yet, since he is so little, and I think it would be more appropriate to use a picture of him when he is at least a toddler, and he can actually sit at the table and eat.
My children are so spoiled when it comes to their genealogy!

I am thinking to make it double sided, I am trying to come up with some fast fact genealogy games, maybe tic tac toe,  matching pictures with names, or places or jobs, matching couples or a game that we can all do together as a family, like bingo with family faces, a variation of guess who... 

If you have a different idea of a family game, maybe one that you are already playing in your home, or one that you would like to play that uses family pictures, I would love to hear it!

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You can get a free Publishing account by signing up at http://www.preservemyheritage.com and start creating unlimited projects at once!
Love my Creative Genealogy templates and ideas? 

My HM club members can have their favorite Creative Genealogy template transferred to their account for personal use, or  can have it completely personalized by me for them  for a reasonable fee.

Want more for less? Check out our incredible host rewards and My Club HM!

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