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Photo finish

Transform your digital  vacation photos into perfectly personal souvenirs.

By Nick Fawell
Published: April 28, 2005

Boxy lady
A sleek, dark-wood jewelry box gets personal when you top it with your favorite photo on a ceramic tile. The inside features a removable tray with three jewelry compartments and ring storage. This chic container is a far cry from the homemade hand trap you constructed every Mother’s Day in kindergarten, though it’s every bit as personal. $70 at photoworks.com.

Special delivery
Who says you have to be famous to be on a stamp? Give the mailman a treat by plastering your own face all over a set of custom stamps. Drop your photos and text onto blank stamp templates, and the resulting stamps work as legal U.S. postage. Set of 20 stamps, $18 at zazzle.com.

Take note
Turning your favorite photos into a set of notecards is as easy as uploading and cropping them. The cards can be customized with up to six lines of text, and they include envelopes—so you can send them out to friends who still use snail mail. Set of 16 cards, $25 at moo.com.

Book it
Control freaks will love blurb.com’s extensive customizing options for creating the perfect “Remember that time…” photo book. The easy drag-and-drop application provides templates for novices, and allows design geeks to lay out their own pages. Shipped within a week, the high-quality books make perfect pieces for your coffee table. 80-page hardcover book ($35 and up) at blurb.com.

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