The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide

You know what time of the year it is: your decorations are almost out, and you’ve got your holiday shopping boots on; it's nearly the holiday season. And like every year, you have to get your thinking cap on to find meaningful gifts for your friends and family that express gratitude, celebrate their uniqueness and are cherishable for a lifetime.

With Mixbook, you can find presents that preserve memories for all your family members, giving them custom souvenirs that never go out of style. Here is our ultimate holiday gift guide so you can get a head start on gift shopping as you begin the countdown to the jolliest time of the year! If you’re looking for custom holiday gifts, check out our guide here.

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Gifts For Your Parents

What do you give the people that gave you everything?

Finding the ultimate holiday gift for your parents can sometimes be overwhelming. But, we believe you can never go wrong with preserving family memories. Here are some ideas:

Ancestry Photo Book By Martha Stewart

Celebrate your family’s past, present, and future with the Ancestry Photo Book from our Martha Stewart collab.

Bring out those vintage photo albums and savor the best memories from your parents’ past. Don't forget to add stories and unique family traditions.

With a little effort and our totally customizable design, you can create a book of memories that marries the past with the present that your parents will hold dear forever.

Acrylic Photo Blocks

Acrylic Photo Blocks are a great way to display a family picture or our kid’s goofiest memories (always a winner with grandparents) at home and office.

These 6x6” blocks add bold accents and vivid colors anywhere - the perfect way to showcase your parent’s favorite memories without needing a hanging space.

Family Recipe Cookbook

Family recipes passed on from one generation to another are always special.

Surprise the cook between your parents by printing out their delicious signature recipes in the form of a classic recipe book, all complete with pictures of your time cooking together. This is the perfect thoughtful holiday gift to preserve family memories and pass on family traditions, something your parents will definitely appreciate.

Gifts For Your Partner

Partners exchange gifts often, which makes the holiday gift choices pretty bleak. However, you can never go wrong with custom photo books and prints that capture and immortalize your best times together. Nothing like a nostalgic road down memory lane or freezing your favorite moments together in time.

Classic Family Memories Photo Book

Our Classic Family Memories Photo Book is the perfect canvas to assemble your most noteworthy moments as a couple or with your kids in one beautiful bind. This customizable photo book comes in a variety of styles and finishes.

We recommend you splurge on the premium luster paper for the holidays to truly treasure your precious time.

Canvas Prints

Want something your partner can proudly display? Choose a goofy family moment or a couple’s only portrait for our coveted Canvas Prints.

You get all sorts of artistic freedoms (size, frame) to decide how the canvas print ultimately looks like so you can curate something you know your partner with love. In addition, our Canvas prints come ready to hang so your significant other can put them up with no additional hassle.

Vacation Travel Adventures

If you took a dreamy vacation this year with your special someone and made memories for a lifetime, gift our Vacation Travel Adventures book as a catalog of your sweetest (or most daring) moments.

You can turn it into a recurring gift every time you take a holiday to look back on all the good times, and your adventure memories never fog up.

Gifts For Your Kids

Kids appreciate thoughtfulness as much as any adult, recognizing loving, kind, and caring gestures as early as 4. And you can show gratitude and pride for them through gifts that serve as reminders of your love for them. Sure they’d love toys and bikes too, but showcasing their art and using pictures to celebrate their uniqueness can be pieces to treasure long after they've grown into mature adults.

ABC Book By Ampersand Design Studio

Let your kids know they are amazing in 26 ways using the ABC Book on our website. Choose the goofiest, silliest pictures of your kids mixed with their achievements and big days to spread them across the pages.

Each letter of the alphabet signifies a quality or theme (think adventure, brave, cheer). Use pictures to match the word on the page; voila, you have a gift for the ages.

Arts and Crafts Book

If your kid loves to draw, show them you are proud of their creations and supportive of their passion by gifting them our Arts and Crafts Book.

Mix and match bright pictures with their most prized art and bind it all in book form so they can show it off whenever they desire.

Superhero Photo Book

If your kid is a fan of superhero movies, make their dreams come true with our quirky Superhero themed photo book.

The comic book style layout adds just the right pop of color and magic to make this photo book your kid’s prized possession.

Gifts For Your Siblings

There are a plethora of memories you share with your siblings. From duty photos in old albums to blurred digital camera memories from your pre-Insta soirees, there is no lack of shared adventures. With Mixbook, you can journal it all in a photo book to reflect on the years you spent together and cherish how far you have come.

Siblings Family Book

Our Siblings Family book makes the perfect gift for your brothers and sisters. From current hobbies to favorite memories to family history, you can add everything that makes your relationship unique in a book that can be passed on to generations.

Gifts For Your Friends

Show your friends you value their company and the times you spent together by sending them custom gifts.

Custom Calendars

Create custom calendars for your best friend, complete with pictures, birthdays markers, and stickers highlighting other important dates.

Our calendars are a really creative way to commemorate your friendship while giving your BFF something they can use for a whole year - the perfect cute-meets-perfect gift!

BFF Friendship Book

Or, you can go the tried-and-tested photo book route with our BFF Friendship Book, specially designed to honor the best of your friends. The quirky design and Insta-worthy layout are the ultimate way to celebrate your friendship.