Christmas Gifts ? 3 Top Tips for Home-Made Christmas Gifts to WOW the One's You Love!!
Copyright (c) 2006 Bernadette Dimitrov
During the Christmas festive season there is nothing more personal and cherishable than to give a home-made Christmas gift. It shows you have taken time, care and effort. It really is the ultimate in gift giving ? something made by you. However most people are stuck for ideas for home-made Christmas gifts but not any longer! Here are 3 top tips for great home-made Christmas gifts:
1. Gifts in a jar - make some Christmas cookies (there are many easy to make recipes available.
Martha Stewart has easy Christmas Cookie recipes for free at squido.com). Make, bake then place them in some spare jars you have in the house or you can purchase some lovely inexpensive ones from department stores. Add some red Christmas ribbon, stick a couple of Christmas tree ornaments on the lid and add a Christmas label with "For ? Christmas Cookies made by ?.." Everyone will love this gift, young and old and it is great for unexpected visitors to have some on hand too.
2. Home-made Christmas cake in a box - mark out in your calendar one whole day about 6 weeks prior to Christmas to make, bake, gift wrap and label your own Christmas cake. Get a really good traditional Christmas cake recipe, one that adds some brandy to the recipe for extra flavor.
Once cooled cut the cake into slices about the size of a business card. Purchase small gift boxes ? a size that would fit about 2-3 slices into it. Cut slices of foil twice the size of the slices. Now wrap 2-3 slices and place in the box. Add a red or gold round sticker to hold the foil in place for each slice wrapped and add a home-made Christmas label and write "Merry Christmas - indulge in my home-made Christmas cake ? especially for you! Love ?..".
Now place the lid on top and add a Christmas decoration to the lid. This is a super gift that will be really appreciated and lovingly remembered while indulging over the festive season.
3. All natural relaxation gift - everybody loves a warm bath and there is nothing more relaxing than some salts to add to the water to really relax those muscles. Make gifts of your own unique bath salts. They are so easy yet a really sensational gift that is natural and good for you.
Purchase 3 bags of coarse sea salt, 3 bags of baking soda and buy a couple of your favorite essential oils eg. lavender and orange and same small jars or containers approximately 4 oz. Mix equal parts of sea salt and baking soda into the jars then add a few drops of your aromatherapy oil and mix gently. Add your own home-made label and decorate the jar with green, gold and/ or a red ribbon. Add instructions on the back of your label "Relaxation Bath Salts ? add contents to running bath water and relax, made especially for you by ?.."
So now you have some great ideas you can prepare well in advance that will knock the ?Christmas socks' off the ones you love and care about this festive season.
Really wow the ones you love with a home made Christmas gift. You'll be so glad you did as your gift will be remembered and talked about with loving and warm thoughts of you.
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How to wear Capri Pants ? Summer 2006
Capri pants are a style of trousers that end somewhere near the mid-calf and above the ankle. They are designed to show off the ankles and calves. They are comfortable, look good on young girls through to older women. They can look casual or elegant depending on the top and shoes worn with them. As capris make the legs look shorter, petite females should go for a longer style capri.
Capris should be close fitting, but not skin tight, and are straight legged or with a slight flare.
Do not wear capris where the leg gets smaller or which have too large a flare. They should be made of lightweight material.
For the elegant look choose capri pants made of silk, linen or cotton.
Capri pants look best with flat shoes or shoes with very low heels ? no high-heels and definitely no socks, and as capris are lightweight, trainers are out.
For the capri pants casual look on holiday or on the beach, wear canvas flat shoes or flip-flops.
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How to wear Capri Pants ? Summer 2006
Capri pants are a style of trousers that end somewhere near the mid-calf and above the ankle. They are designed to show off the ankles and calves. They are comfortable, look good on young girls through to older women. They can look casual or elegant depending on the top and shoes worn with them. As capris make the legs look shorter, petite females should go for a longer style capri.
Capris should be close fitting, but not skin tight, and are straight legged or with a slight flare.
Do not wear capris where the leg gets smaller or which have too large a flare. They should be made of lightweight material.
For the elegant look choose capri pants made of silk, linen or cotton.
Capri pants look best with flat shoes or shoes with very low heels ? no high-heels and definitely no socks, and as capris are lightweight, trainers are out.
For the capri pants casual look on holiday or on the beach, wear canvas flat shoes or flip-flops.
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Dyin' From Vacation
Dying From Vacation (From the book Spider's Night on the Boom)by www.abciowa.comMy parents visited from Oregon this summer, and we saw more of Iowa than we'd seen in all the years since our own arrival. It was a perfect excuse to visit places we'd been meaning to see, but somehow had never gotten to. But the pace began to take a toll on my kids and yesterday my son began to complain. In my "philosophical father" voice, I said, "Just relax and enjoy yourself. We're on vacation.""I can't," he lamented, "I'm DYING from vacation!"I instantly flashed back to my own childhood, and I understood exactly what he was saying.
There are times when every kid feels like he's dying from vacation. For me, those times usually began about three days after school was out for the summer.I joyfully kicked off my shoes after I'd leaped off the school bus for the final time. Except for church and an occasional trip to town, those shoes and I would remain strangers the rest of the summer.During the first...
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Baby Shower-Novel Way Of Arrangement
Baby shower games.Photo matching - enticing baby shower game- all the guests should bring the baby picture of themselves.
Arrange
all pictures on a board.
Give each picture a number.
Each guest has to match the adult guest name with the corresponding baby picture.
The guest with the most correct matches wins.
Top Baby Songs- entertaining baby shower game-divide the guests into teams.
Ask them to write down as many songs that have the word baby in the title in 3to 5 minutes.
The team with most song titles wins.
The losers can sing a baby song chosen by the winners. Baby shower invitations.Baby Shower invitations can be as formal or informal.
The baby shower invitation can be simple or complicated.
We can decide that.
However, it is worth putting some time and effort into baby shower invitations, because it sets the mode and tone for that special Baby Shower Party.The invitation must...
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