Scrapbooking Ideas

Web sites that help people create one-of-a-kind gifts are reporting sizzling sales growth this holiday season.

Craft makers can use patterns from cartridges, software and the Web to make scissors nearly obsolete.

When I quit my job to work on a novel, my partner, Adam, agreed to support me which was great, until his birthday loomed on the horizon. I didn’t exactly relish buying him presents with his own money. I’d have to get creative, but my last artsy phase ended in college, notwithstanding a glass-blowing workshop that yielded a pair of dysmorphic paperweights. Then I remembered our collection of hotel notepads.

A photographer creates “The Obama Time Capsule,” allowing buyers to include their own messages and art in a book about the presidential campaign.

Google misses an opportunity with its Life magazine archive.