Homemade Presents

It was my longest friends 21st birthday just in the middle of march and I hummed and hawed for ages on what to buy her, because I wanted to make it something special, meaningful and something she could keep so for some inspiration I logged on to good old facebook on to her page and looked through the photos of the two of us and then my brilliant idea just came to me!! I had photos in a box in the loft from when we were kids and I thought of making a collage scrapbook from when we were babies right up to the present day. Combined with a nice bottle of alcohol we could get tucked into to celebrate together!

There is nothing more I love than homemade, well thought out and personal presents and my friend Lindsay is just like me so I knew this would be something she would appreciate. Apart from making it a wonderful present my main motive really was to make her cry, and this I managed successfully, and not only did I get some tears from her I got her mum reaching for the tissues too! All happy tears tho.

After a few late nights and several trips up and down to the loft, morrisons photo centre and sneaky meetings and calls with Lindsay's mum to collect some good photos my book was finally complete and in the end turned out to be a very successful present. I was so happy when I seen the look on her face as she read through all the pages laughing and reminiscing of our 20 year friendship and of course when I seen that all important tear running down her cheek! So here is a small selection of photos of the book...