I decided on photo gifts at the start of the month and started hunting the internet to find a company that had a good variety of gifts, I decided on photobox as they are based in Australia and the UK, so I could send things to family and friends in both countries and not worry about crazy postage! I was pretty happy to find a great variety of gifts from photo books and canvases to mugs, retro prints and phone cases..
For the mums I decided to create these hanging wall calendars filled with different photos. Thanks to Facebook I was able to even find some scanned photos of everyone as children- and gather photos of family members we haven't seen since they've had babies. I loved that I was able to chose the backgrounds, sizes of photos and even add in special dates throughout the year.
Photo gift mug - $17
For the tradie in my life (who's also a massive tea drinker!) I decided to get a photo mug. It's a bit soppy, and I'm pretty sure it'll never end up in the tea room at his work, but I think it's gorgeous. I loved that I was able to chose from a good variety of designs, and was even able to add colour to the inside.
Premium retro prints - $20
For everyone else, printed instagram photos! As much as I adore digital photography, we don't tend to print and display our photos as much as the previous generations...so every now and then I like to order print outs of instagram photos to pop on the wall at home. I've ordered these kind of prints from a variety of companies now, but these are by far my favourites! I love how the white part of the photos has been texturised and that there's a black photographic back - just like old polaroids.
What are your favourite kind of gifts to give and receive? Do you remember to print out and display your digital photos?
xo
this post was written in collaboration with photobox, but is 100% honest- I'm totally smitten with the quality and service.