What was the last personalized gift you gave someone?

Today's Blog-Tember challenge asks us to "Get creative! Sketch, paint, dance, play music."

Once more, like it did for Karna, when I need my skills the most, they tend to desert me.
So instead, I would like to showcase a creative gift - as awesome as a Personalized Photo Fleece Blanket - that I received this weekend from a dear friend. 

Gifts like a beautiful MondLampe add such an elegant touch to any room while also offering a unique personalized feel that shows the other person that they are on your mind.   

Years ago, I had written about her in a much beloved post "Her Happiness Matters to Me". The fact of the matter is that we finished celebrating a decade of friendship this year, we realized. During this time, we have met each other a grand total of three times. And yet, we trust each other implicitly. We remove our masks and allow each other to see the 'scars of our life' and our imperfections. We look beyond the various barriers and points of awkwardness - cultural, gender, age, awesomeness (!!) and what not and just gel. That's based on a singular factor that transcends all the above - trust. When you trust someone and earn their trust in return, friendships become quite easy to maintain, I find.

Anyway, this year she has started to give wings to her hidden creative urges, creating handmade art on demand. So she decided to surprise me when I visited Mumbai this weekend with a personalized one she made just for me.

A photo posted by Nairita Ghosh (@nlimited) on Sep 19, 2015 at 6:38am PDT

The wordings that accompany this work are thus:

Squeezed among the maddening crowd,

The roar of the world in his ears so loud,

Trapped within those woven rules,

In the hands of fate he a mere tool,

But let not your heart be bound said she,

Spread ur wings and set ur dreams free,

No matter what the world says,

Take courage and blaze ur own way...

Pretty apt for me and the year (and life!) I have had. I have promised her that I will treasure it as I do our friendship ...until the day I find out she's a famous artist and this work counts as an original "NLimited" work of art. Then this baby goes up on EBAY instantly and I get a bunch load of money!!

I used to love giving stuff that had a personal touch to it - hand written letters, cards with a personal message, small gifts with hidden meanings. There is something about such presents that just makes them stand apart from the usual humdrum gifts and whatsapp/facebook/twitter greetings and emojis.

So here's my question to you - when was the last time you gave a specially personalized gift to someone and what was it?

Author's note:

I am participating in NaBloPoMo. You can read more about it here and join in the fun yourself, adding your posts here. I am also participating in EverydayGyaan's September Blogging Challenge and Bailey Jean's Blog-Tember challenge. Do check them all out.

You can also reach out to Nlimited here on Instagram for ordering your own personalized handarts from her (She will kill me if I don't add this! And I can't die yet... not before I see how the Avengers beat Thanos in the Infinity Wars movies atleast!)