Earlier today my walking buddy and I were talking about the holidays. We both love giving photo gifts and realized now is the perfect time to get started planning and creating. Preparing ahead of time makes the projects go faster and the season so much more enjoyable. Maybe these ideas will be helpful to you!

• I always start by making a big list of the family and friends I plan to give a gift to. Some are small “friend” gifts while others are to my beloved family. I love giving gifts so I added all the people rather than just a few!

• The next thing I did was look through my 2021 calendar to remind myself of the important family events and holidays: weddings, new babies, anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, family reunions, etc.

• Then, in my FOREVER account, I created an album called "2021 Holiday Gifts". I will take a few minutes each day to look through my 2021 photos and add the special ones to the 2021 Holiday Gifts album. Sorting my favorite photos into this album makes creating gifts much simpler!

• Consider joining FOREVER Club! I’m already a member, and I can tell you that FOREVER Club helps me budget for holiday gifts. I love that I can join any given Club for a few months then drop out or change levels as needed. I even added a second Club for the next few months. In addition to budgeting, a Club membership will gives me an extra 5% off most anything in the FOREVER store and free Storage after three months in a given Club. It’s like Christmas for me with all these perks!

• While I’m watching TV in the evening, I will multi-task and look at FOREVER’s print projects and designs to see what jumps out for those on my list. I will also gift Permanent Storage and FOREVER Boxes to certain special people.

• Design & Print and AutoPrint allow me to give personalized gifts that are created quickly and easily! These are beautifully designed and take just minutes to drop my photos into the photo boxes. My elderly mother loved the canvas I gave her last year with photos of my son’s wedding! And, each year I make my kids an ornament for their tree.

• Once all this prep work is done, I begin putting my projects together whenever I have time! They can sit in my account under Print Projects until I am ready to order them (and they don't take up space in my storage account).

Now, no matter the occasion, I’m confident I’ll be ready with personal gifts that will show my family and friends just how much they mean to me!