Last year, I gave my boyfriend all the Studio Ghibli movies and a 10-foot panoramic photograph of the Highway 9 mountains in Santa Cruz. The panoramic picture took me forever to make... I had to take my Nikon up on 4 different occasions and fiddle with dozens of different filters to get the effect I wanted... and when I finally had a good set, it took me another week to perfectly graft 50+ digital images together seamlessly and get it professionally printed. I went through all the effort because the road was our special place... we'd always go for drives up there at 2 in the morning and drift around all the curves. =)

Lol, and this year for my mother's birthday, I gave her a ruby necklace... wrapped up as a coffin (she likes to joke that she's so old, she resembles a walking corpse) with a tombstone card. She laughed until she cried.