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Have you ever considered giving mini scrapbooks as gifts? Many of us would probably think of scrapbooks as memory holders for ourselves. Few would probably have considered the possibility of mini scrapbooks as presents for any occasions.

In a world of fast food and quick services, who would ever consider of presenting a homemade item as a gift for any occasion? However, in times of recession or depression, a scrapbook may well be the best gift we could ever receive. Nothing beats the thought of having someone pour their time over a gift for us. It would be more valuable a gift than the millions of items one just grabs mindlessly off the gift racks.

Over the past year or two, however, creative teenagers have turned to scrap booking as a profitable hobby. Many enjoy the relaxing time spent on arranging and rearranging items of pictures, photographs and even book markers on colored paper, doodling and coloring sentimental patches on empty spaces uncovered by the items.

Do we need to have artistic fingers to make a scrapbook fit to be classified as a gift? Enterprising craftsmen come up with scrapbooks of all shapes, sizes and thickness. Included in the package are little decorative pieces we can paste into the pages among the pictures and photographs and of course a considerably massive amount of glue or adhesive.

For the more nimble fingers, a mini-scrapbook can be made from scratch from a few pieces of paper, poster cards or even felt material of every color on which laminated pictures and photographs can be carefully sewn on.

These are but a few of hundreds of unique ideas we can garner for making mini-scrapbooks as gifts. We can always mix and match the ideas and change certain details so that every mini-scrapbook becomes a personal gift which will be treasured for the rest of the life of its receiver.

MINI SCRAPBOOK GIFT IDEAS:

Angelic Faces: Children are a gift from God. Nothing can win over those angelic smiles and cherubic twinkling of their bright eyes! Catch them at their cutest moments and put them all into a mini scrapbook. It will make a wonderful sixteenth birthday gift.

Best Moments: Have you ever taken photographs of a person's best moments at the tracks, receiving a much coveted prize, being congratulated by a distinguished guest of honor for an accomplishment of a life time? Make a mini scrapbook and fill it with poignant snapshots of those occasions as a memento of those occasions or present it to the person on his next birthday. It will definitely

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