Holiday Gifts

Here are a couple of DVDs that are loaded with all sorts if vintage rocket launch/abort footage, some with audio commentary. I’m thinking that this would make a nifty birthday gift for anyone that likes the historic side of space exploration. Better yet, buy one and donate it to your local library!

Meanwhile, my Christmas gift to them of a stereo sits in a box in their house, and they've yet to say anything about it in the four months they've had it. I thought I was actually getting them something they could use, as their old stereo dates back to the stone age. I know they both listen to music, and they have old records and new CDs that could be played (it's a combo record player/AM-FM tuner/CD player).

JB gave me a belated birthday gift which moved my heart to tears. A piece of art she made herself, including a hand written copy of prose by "Judy Chicago" with a beautiful heart image in the center. So stunningly beautiful, especially in the clarity of her view of me it displays. She also gave me $40 to go towards my robes fund. I am looking for lay robes to wear when I am at the center.

Here are the top five wedding gifts at this time:

1. Money – Yes it’s true; while it may seem impersonal or uncreative, money is my number one recommended wedding gift. Most young couples are saving for something big – a house, a car, a piece of furniture, or are still paying back their student loans. Money may also help them have an extra-special honeymoon or let them order that extra photo for their album. While it’s rude for a couple to ask for money, it is never rude to give cash. If you still want to give a personal wedding gift, combine the two: attach a check to a beautiful...

It’s brand new. I got it as a birthday gift about five years go and I never used it since I had a jewellry box already. It still plays music too. So go bid. Thanks.

I brought The Shrine in to be framed this weekend. This is actually the first time that I am picking out my own framing. In the past my dad took care of it for me as a birthday gift or an xmas gift. The good part is that it meant I didn't have to pay for it... but the bad part was that it was all to his taste and not to mine.

Occasionally gift companies will ship frozen mangosteen in for use in exotic gift baskets. These companies charge a premium price for the fruit. It is rumored that the famous Harrods department store in England brought mangosteen in and charged the equivalent of several US dollars for each piece of fruit.

I was using it on Sat in the car while driving around to pick everyone up for dboat. I remember putting it in my pants pocket and that's the last I ever saw of it. I figure since we had to change pretty often on Sat (from swim trunks to running pants) that it probably fell out and I didn't notice. Damn, I originally got the Shuffle because it's so lightweight and small and now it looks like those very same advantages have lead...

A Bordeaux style with an Argentine twist blend of Malbec with equal amounts of Cab and Merlot. Grown on 50 to 80 year old estate vines this is a huge wine full of concentrated fruit, lovely velvet mouthfeel, and unbelievably well integrated tannins for a wine in the under $20 category. I will definitely be putting a few cases of this away in the cellar... this beauty is has the structure and depth of character to be enjoyed over the next 10 years.

Valentine thus become a Patron Saint, and spiritual overseer of an annual festival. The festival involved young Romans offering women they admired, and wished to court, handwritten greetings of affection on February 14. The greeting cards acquired St.Valentine's name.

In itself, this cocoon with a scary face protruding from it is pretty weird. But we're more interested in the fact that it's a prop from a movie called Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Now that's a film we want to see... "Props from this movie are next to impossible to find," says seller 'killerklowncrazy', and something tells us they're probably not kidding. An ideal christmas gift for... well, we're not sure who, but we're...

When buying greeting cards, I tend toward the high-tech gimmicks: The buzzers or snide quips that blare when the card opens, or, better yet, the pop-outs that do everything but hit you in the face with a pie.

The society is selling lauhala gift baskets tied with ti leaves that include fresh coffee from the society's own farm. The baskets can also include macadamia nut oil by Oils of Aloha, snacks from Kona Kay's, fruit butters by Kilauea Trading Co., jams and jellies by Ohia Cottage, salt seasonings by the society staff, custom-made palaka napkins and a variety of maps and books including, "A Guide to Old Kona." Prices range from more than $125 to as little as $58 depending on which items are included.

This artwork was given to Mark Viduka as a wedding gift.

A great advantage of transferring images to a computer is the use of software to edit and enhance your images. You can adjust tones and even add special effects and characters. Some allow you to create and organize photo albums. On special occasions and holidays, you can create greeting cards using stored photos. What you can do is only limited by your creativity.

Gift experience vouchers are perfect, these are things you would never buy for yourself such as a champagne balloon flight, driving a fast car or scuba diving lessons?

Of wired seniors, 69% go online on a typical day, compared with only 56% of all Internet users. Silver surfers report using the Internet to stay in touch with family and friends, using e-mail or sending online greeting cards. Seniors report several other key reasons for using the Internet, including:

This beautiful work of edible art was created by the wife of one of my son's co-workers. She has her own cake decorating business and does quite well. She has made every cake for my grandson's birthdays and several for other special occasions. I've seen a lot of special-occasion cakes but this woman really is an artist with the frosting, as well as with the added thematic touches of chocolate coins and candy beads. And, from the response of the 15 kids and 20 adults at the party, the cake inside the frosting was pretty...

Have you ever wondered what the top British shoe designers look like? Well, wonder no longer, here they are. How we would have loved to be a fly on the wall when Viva La Diva's 'Brit Pack' posed for this shoot. The beautiful lot are l-r Adele Clarke, Olivia Morris, Georgina Goodman, Rupert Sanderson, Jane Brown and Beatrix Ong, also known as 'the six people I hope put me on their Christmas gift list this year'. Click the image to see a bigger picture, or click here...

Bush received the iPod as a birthday gift last July from his daughters. His songs are downloaded by personal aide Blake Gottesman, who purchases them from the iTunes online music store."

Her birthday gift this year was a Plasma Car. If you haven't seen one of these before, check it out. I think it's almost better than the Green Machines of my younger days. :)

now, with the second cousin getting married, it’s finally a chance for sweet retribution! sure, you’re registered likewise at the normal places, but who says i need to buy you what you want? maybe a wifi ambient bunny or a hello kitty camcorder is what you didn’t know you really needed? or even better, how about true images, the bible for teen girls, when you need to talk about oral sex with your thirteen-year old daughter, but in a biblical context?

alas, after being there and seeing her so happy on her big day, as well as her being so touched that we attended, i realized that wedding days are not days to exact petty revenges for christian ceramic figurines.

enjoy your hand blender, second cousin and second cousin-in-law(-in-law?)!

The husband brought me two dozen gorgeous tulips this afternoon and gave me $400 in gift certificates for the new gourmet restaurant supply store. The kids gave me all manner of kisses, hugs, homemade cards and some fab Nigella Lawson measuring cups and spoons.

Then we thought it would be kinda cool to see what the bugs would look like on greeting cards and t-shirts, and we opened up our first CafePress store called SnuggleBugs. We did it just for fun, but the baby onesie sure is cute! I think I'll get some for some friends of mine!

I love my iPod and I love iTunes but I can't stand the Canadian iTunes music store. The selection and special features are brutal. I am extremely happy that I have a sister who lives in the U.S. and sends me gift certificates for a store that actually has some product.

The trip was Thursday to Sunday and was a 50th birthday gift to my dad.

My in-laws got me a bag full of Hanukkah gifts! The ironic thing is that I'm not even celebrating Hanukkah this year, but we didn't tell them that. I think this is the first year in...oh, just about forever...that I haven't lit candles for eight nights. I do miss it, but I've been so distracted lately that I just didn't drag the menorah out in time. I am hoping to at least make some latkes from a mix - okay,

Anyway, though, her parents did get me some nice little presents. They got me a bunch of Hello Kitty-branded food, including chocolate dip biscuits, strawberry dip biscuits, Lips candy, and Dream Cakes (which look kind of like moon pies). They also gave me a mezuzah (I guess they didn't notice we already have one at our front door), some fruit-shaped marzipan treats, a whole box of fine marzipan with Jamaican rum, and a big bag of really cool gelt. The wrappers are sparkly, hologrammy, or whatever it is that makes that cool rainbow effect. It's so cool I don't want to eat them! I've never seen gelt wrappers like that before.

Easter gifts are truly wonderful to receive.

Along with the usual chocolate bunnies and decorated Easter eggs, a well thought out gift is especially appreciated.

I was just blessed with such a surprising Easter present.

A spurtle.

Started off with an Easter egg hunt for the girls. They were so great finding the eggs. Still needed some coaching though. Then opened Easter gifts. I have a hard time with Easter turning into Christmas. The wife enjoys it and it makes memories. We do focus on Easter being about the resurrection of Christ and the girls know that. Then off to Crystal Springs golf course. I shot a 97. Not bad for seven weeks of rust. Had a few great drives and a couple of fantastic chips. One came within a few inches of the cup. There were deer on the fifth as usual....

So, you've met a girl and you've got to know something about her. Perhaps you met her in a bar, or maybe you've only talked via e-mail or over the phone. It doesn't really matter - the key is you've made contact.

Anyway, you've asked her to come on a date with you and she's accepted. Most likely, this will involve you going out for a meal (the #1 choice of most people today) - I'll leave it up to you as to whether you pay or you go Dutch. That's not important.

So, what's the big tip? Bring her a gift. That's it. Simple, and oh so effective. This one act will set you apart from about 95% of other guys.

This blanket was a Christmas gift to my brother. The pattern came from the first issue of Crochet me. I think I made it a bit bigger though. As far as I know he really liked this blanket!

I hate Swensen’s. Why are we here

Dude, don’t say that - Swensens has a special place in my heart

What the f87k does that mean?

When I was a kid, I only got to eat at Swensen’s on special occasions. Like when I got good results for my exams.

Ohhh… for me it’s Pizza Hut. I only got to eat there when I did well in my exams.

Thanks EMI for this nice protection, who made me lose 30 minutes. Not being a geek, and using some basical software, I can imagine that your protection only bothering regulare person without advanced knowledge in informatic: like grand parents trying to listen to their christmas gift on their nice computer (the one to play card during winter).

I gave him his present on Saturday. It was on his amazon list. The Return of the King, Tree of Gondor watch by fossil (see image below). Very nice and it even came in an awesome leather, round case. He loved it, but will only wear it on special occasions because he doesn't want anything to happen to it. He's more of a watch collector than wearer.

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We recently got new cordless phones for the home, thanks to my best friend, Mark. It was a belated birthday gift. Now, we have a main unit with an answering machine (and call waiting!) plus two additional cordless units. The system works really great, so we love our newest technology addition to the family. Thanks, Mark!

So I’ve got two weddings this weekend and I haven’t bought anything for either yet. I think I’m going to do the BJC3 Special Wedding Gift and grab some gift-cards. I’m a guy, I can get away with that. As soon as I get a steady girlfriend then I’ll have to put more thought into things (or have her do it), but until then I can revel in my masculinity!

What I mean is I love looking at words in the context of design. Ever since I was a young girl I would collect things that have word designs: greeting cards (such as this "Happy" card, brochures, postcards, magazine clippings, labels. Something about the curve of a J simply appeals to me. Words provide intricate details that just draws the eye.

A picture paints a thousand words. in this context, personalized greeting cards speaks more than words in a way as what the sender has created for the recipient(s) has special meaning to it. e-greeting cards are getting more and more popular not only for long distance relationship but also a way of expressing your love or care for your loved ones like family members, friends or someone special.

hence, me and my group mate, eugenia has come up with the idea of extending the greeting cards ideas by creating a site where users not only can send pre-designed or pre-made greeting cards but they can even upload their own creative images which might have meanings for the sender and the recipient(s). therefore with the drag-and-drop utility, creating your own personalized card is made much easier and you will have fun doing it. as soon as we have get our designs together and the layout of the website, hopefully the prototype will be available soon.

All entries received are also entered in a drawing for $100 gift certificates to buy books at the WVU Bookstore. Three gift certificates will be awarded in May.

Surf4theEarth is running a shopping contest through the end of April. The member who spends the most at Surf4theEarth’s shopping center, bookstore, and/or site merchandise will win the contest. The top prize is a whole year of upgraded membership to Ranger account ($60 value). You can earn site credits on most purchases and these credits can be used for advertising, given to charities, or saved to cashout for paypal or gift certificates. Check out the link on the member’s page for more details.

I spent some time looking at other dog gift basket making websites this morning and here is what I found. It appears that there are many low quality dog gift basket sites out there.

1. We will offer the best, most well thought out dog gift baskets on the internet.

2. We will donate 15% of our good dog gift baskets profit to our chosen charity to keep us honest.

What do you give the person who has everything? Well, even if he or she doesn’t have everything, provided they enjoy wine, Natalie Mac Lean from Nat Decants has put together a brilliant list of gift ideas for the wine lover. My favorite (in case my husband is reading this) is the Wine Atlas of the World.

Just last week, she decided to give me 15 balls of her GGH Scarlett in Chocolate and Blue! She claims it was a belated birthday gift/Christmas gift, etc., but it's a really generous gift and I could only accept it by either giving her some money for it or making her something. So, I'm making her some Estonian mittens. Yes, THOSE mittens. A fair trade, no?

My shirt and I...we were quite the topic of conversation. I loved it...but it definitely has to be reserved for special occasions, like cd release parties.

Some credit card companies will take things one step further and even pay you to take their cards. These payments will take the form of gift certificates, bonus cash back, and/or bonus credits. There is one minor catch in that most companies will generally require that you use the cards at least once each to get those benefits. That's never a problem for me as I will use them once to get the benefits and then toss them into my "inactive" drawer.

Oil prices reached a new high today. One expert says gas could be four bucks a gallon by December. That’ll take care of the Christmas gift problem. Give everyone a siphoning tube.

It was Beverage Tasting Weekend here at Albertellicious. First off, the Jones Soda Holiday Dinner pack, a birthday gift to Guy from Felicia (who demanded a full report of our tasting. This is for you, Felicia). This 5 pack consisted of the following soda flavors: Turkey and Gravy, Green Bean Casserole, Cranberry Sauce, Mashed Potatoes, and Fruitcake. Guy and his co-workers decided that the warm dishes should be tasted warm and cold, although this idea was abandoned halfway through as it tended to just dull the flavors (although in some cases dulling the flavors was a good thing). We tried ranking them on a 1 to 5 scale, comparing them to our entire soda experience. Here are our notes, so you can experience drinking a turkey dinner without actually having to do it:

I got