21 Dec 10 Ideas for Personalized Gifting

Gifting is an age old process, but a gift always brings a smile on face of the recipient. Perhaps that’s why the gifting concept has evolved and has remained evergreen. Have you ever thought how to make your gifts memorable and eternal? Rather than gifting same traditional clothes, cutleries, jewelries, books, toys, flowers why not gift your beloved one something special and customized which will be different from others?

Here are few ideas about customizing gift items.

Customized coffee mug

You can customize a coffee mug as per the taste, preference, and personality of the recipient. If the recipient is quite close to you and you have shared special moments with him or her, you can put such photos on the coffee mug. Add a nice line to it or a poem. Further decorate the mug with designs like flower petals, leaves, stars and different shades of colors. Recipient would love to keep such mugs all his life. You can also make such mugs interactive. The mug may have your picture in grayscale, but will turn bright and colorful when hot drink is poured into it.

Customized bed spread

When you are in a loving relationship with someone special and close to your heart you can gift a bedspread with photographs of both of you, some love quotes, hearts floating on the bedspread. A nicely designed bedspread will make the recipient store it with great care and love, forever.

Customized desktop calendar

A desktop calendar not only reminds about date, but also beautifies our desk. If you can ideate a nice desktop calendar with personal pictures of beautiful moments and nice lines below it, it will not only beautify the room but also find a place in heart.

Customized dummy publication article

You may publish a dummy article exactly like newspaper or magazine article with you and your beloved one’s picture and a nice write up of your love story. Many designers make such dummy publication articles. It should look exactly like the original publication release. You can present the same to your beloved one on anniversary or Valentine’s Day. It’s ultimate romantic possession which will proudly display your love story.

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29 Oct 10 How to Write a Romantic Novel?

A romantic novel is the best gift one can ever dream of, and it delights not only teens but even a man or woman of 80. A good romantic novel always comes as a gasp of fresh air, with intoxicating charm and vivid imagination. One just can’t resist it. But even if romance comes to you naturally, penning it down isn’t so easy. Here are some tips about writing a romance studded novel.

Characterization

It’s the romantic characters of a novel that we live with, breathe in, fantasize and admire. Thus characterization is very important part of romantic novel writing. Infuse life into your characters, make them real, throbbing with energy. Even if the characters are like ‘dream come true’, make them appear real and close to life. Build them carefully, pouring your heart into it. Their thinking, nature, appearance, talks – everything has to reflect in your story. Make characters so real and romantic, that your readers fall in love with them.

Get inspired from reality

Real people should be your inspiration. If your characters belong to countryside, go and interact with the people there. It will help you in weaving characters, close to reality. If your character is a complete romantic person, talk to a romantic person in reality. Spend time together, watch him or her, and find out his or her story. The more you mix up with people in reality, better your characters shape up.

Make a perfect ambience

Get into detail of situations. If your hero falls in love with a coffee shop waitress, create such situation. Create an ideal coffee shop in your novel. Describe everything – from aroma of coffee to the story of corner table – always occupied by couples. Since romance will bloom in the setting, make it appear real. A love story can bloom even in a cemetery. Love stories need not always sound like a fairy tale.

Build climax slowly

Make your readers wait patiently for the right moment. Don’t give them the scoop of ice cream so easily. Let it come slowly, teasing the reader bit by bit. Build drama, conflict, climax, suspense. Don’t let the steamy scene come so easily. Don’t let the story rush. Remember, true love doesn’t unveil overnight. Let it bloom slowly yet steadily.

Finish with an impact behind

Sign off your story with grace. Finish with a deep impact behind. Make ending so impactful that it stays in your readers’ heart forever, burning with passion. Good novel readers swear by and give example of that love, everywhere.

Go for it!

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12 Sep 09 Google Did It Again

From the day when I started using Google.com for my searches – my love story with Google goes way back to the time when Altavista and Lycos were the big daddy, Yahoo a rebel teenager and Google the toddler learning to “crawl” – I seem to have forgotten what Yahoo and rest of the search engines are all about. I was sold to the simplicity of Google.

The clean, no-nonsense homepage of Google brought storm; it was not just the homepage that created a furor, but it was all the under-the-carpet innovations by Google that amazed all of us. Unlike many start-ups, Google did not go on the roof and shouted about its better algorithm or Page Rank system. It was left for us to find out and get excited over the things, and thus we all fell in love with Google.

Google’s penchant for under-the-carpet innovations is what has always excited me. I feel the ownership of the information when I find something exciting about a topic on my own, and Google gave me a lot of space to feel like an owner of the search engine.

Google has this uncanny ability to control the excitement over its products or its feature. Contrary to going over the top and telling us what to do and how to do it with its products, Google maintains silence, and let us explore. The company lets its products take life of their own.

Let me give you an example: have you tried the time zone feature of Gmail? Or have you used Google’s wonder wheel for keyword research or relative search?

Or,

Have you noticed the super-size search box?

Yes, Google has increase the size of search box that you see on Google.com. Well, you may say, so what, and brush this innovation aside. You might not feel any real difference, but I am sure you will agree about the symbolic value of this change.

The new, big search box suggests, no matter what, Google is still all about search. Happy Goggling!

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