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By MAGGIE BLOOM 3,509 views
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5 Ways to Personalize Your Items

Personalizing your items is one of the ways that show that a relationship or solid connection exists between you and your beloved items. Moreover, personalizing your items can be seen as a means of raising your status quo since personalizing these items lets people know you took the time to have it made especially for you. Personalizing also goes a long way in ensuring you keep an accurate record of the things you own since it aids in the retention of information. In this blog, we present some ways you can use to personalize your items in your day-to-day life.

1. Use Stickers

When you think of a sticker your mind probably goes to the pieces of sticky paper you peel off of a page. A sticker can also be thought of as a label that can be printed on a piece of clothing, furniture, or any other product that you may want to personalize to your liking. It is important to note that while using stickers to personalize your items, you must account for the durability of the item you wish to personalize. 

It is recommendable to use stickers in personalizing items that require temporary personalization so that you can easily adjust such items in the future. You don’t want to be stuck with a sticker you can’t take off if you need to. Some of the best stickers that you can use to personalize your item include the vinyl stickers and the satin labels, which have great benefits like being water-resistant and will thus have a longer life span on your items. 

2. Engrave your Items

This is a process that you can use to personalize your items by making incisions on items that have hard surfaces and thus leaving a printed image or word on your item. The process is also commonly referred to as inscribing, inscription or etching. This process can take some time but the end results are worth the wait.

There are various methods you can use to personalize your items using the engraving process, such as the inside ring engraving that allows you to make an incision that contains your message and the etching engraving that involves making unique shapes on the items that you want to personalize. This can be a beautiful gesture to give your significant other as a gift. Some of the other items that the engraving method can personalize with ease include glass, wood, metal, and even bricks.

3. Make Photo and Clothe Quilt

Believe it or not but you can create photo quilts from your photos and your clothes. Some of us might be lucky enough to have a blanket that is filled with joyful memories and still cherish it to this day. Basically, a photo quilt will carry numerous photos you have had at various stages of your life. On the other hand, clothe quilts are made when you sew clothes made from the same fabric and have the same pattern. The clothe quilt will therefore help you personalize some of the fabrics and clothes that you treasure the most, while the photo quilt will help you personalize your photos and help retain memories that you have had throughout your life.

4. Tag Your Items

This is probably the most popular personalizing strategy that most people have come into contact with. It differs slightly from stickers because it can be used on a wide variety of items, unlike stickers you might not want to put them all over your valuables. There are various methods you can use to personalize your items using the tagging strategy, such as through the use of personalized memo pads, note cards, and labeling items in your house while at the same time coloring or painting some of your things with unique colors.

Tagging is a straightforward personalization strategy and only requires you to pay attention to specific details and you will want to have the right equipment to do this such as pens, ink, and ribbons to get the best outcome from tagging your items.

5. Personalize Using portraits

Pictures are a good way to make your items unique to who you are because you can have as many portraits as you want for as many different items that you want to personalize. As you walk around the streets, you might come across portraits of heroes and things that people value the most. These portraits are personalized symbols since human beings tend to personalize the things they love the most. 

As such, you can also have portraits of your house, spouse, children, and other items that you may want to personalize. When making a portrait, it is essential you pay attention to the size of the portrait that you want and the materials that will be used to make the portrait. One of the advantages of personalizing your items using portraits is that portraits tend to convey information in a pictorial form which can be interpreted to reveal the intended meaning.

In general, there are various methods that we can use to personalize our items, and the sections above provide just a small description of some of the main ways you can use to personalize your items. The personalization method outlined above can be used practically in the personalization of the things that you value the most, and you do not want to lose their memories.

Maggie Bloom
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MAGGIE BLOOM

Maggie graduated from Utah Valley University with a degree in communication and writing. In her spare time, she loves to dance, read, and bake. She also enjoys traveling and scouting out new brunch locations.