What Christmas Gotta Do with It? Any Time of the Year Gift Ideas..
Splended Last Minute Gift Ideas & Advice, You Can't Go Wrong!...
by Terry Clark
Table of Content
1. Gift Giving: All Dried Up!
2. Gift Giving: Antique-styled Books
3. Gift Giving: Art Prints – The Ideal Gift for the Art Enthusiast
4. Attain some Comic Relief with Comic Book Classics
5. Gift Giving: Breezy Nostalgia
6. Buying Gifts for Canine Friends
7. Buying Gifts for People You Barely Know
8. Gift Giving: Candy Creations
9. Give a Dinner Party as a Gift
10. Gift Giving: Christmas in July
11. Gift Giving: Classical Compositions
12. Colorful Reminders
13. Gift Giving: Cook's Delight
14. Gift Giving: Crazy about Westerns
15. Gift Giving: Expand your Horizons with Education
16. Gift Giving: Fabergé-Styled Eggs
17. Gift Giving: Fifties Date Night
18. Fleur de Lis Accessories Add that Special Edge
19. Gift Basket Ideas
20. Buy Wholesale and Lavish the Special People in your Life with all Kinds of Stylish Trinkets
21. Gift Giving: Historic Field Day
22. Gift Giving: Old World Style Maps
23. Gift Giving: Vintage Watches
24. Give the Gift of a New Hobby - Collecting Stamps
25. Gift Giving: Good Earth Fundamentals
26. Gift Giving: Buy Jewelry Wholesale
27. Just a Little Domestic Responsibility
28. Gift Giving: Mixing it Up
29. Gift Giving: Money in the Bank
30. Gift Giving: Moon River Revisited
31. Gift Giving: Nested Treasures
32. Pet Portraiture — Gives You “Paws” for Thought
33. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
34. Gift Giving: Pocket Size Mysteries
35. Gift Giving: Postcards from the Past
36. Gift Giving: Purchase a Puppy for your Child
37. Gift Giving: Radio Replicas
38. Gift Buying: Retro Relics
39. Gift Giving: Rhinestone Treasures
40. Roses and Chocolates
41. Gift Buying: Tales from the Deep
42. Gift Giving: Tea Time
43. Gift Giving: The Autographed Item
44. There's Nothing Quite Like a Good Cigar Box — Purse, That Is
45. Gift Giving: Timeless Links
46. Gift Giving: T-Shirt Mania
47. Gift Giving: Victorian Bliss
48. Vintage Style Jewelry
49. Gift Giving: Where Do We Go from Here?
50. Gift Giving: You Light Up My Life
Resources
Gift Giving: All Dried Up!
Many persons do not realize when they visit mass retailers nowadays there are very beautiful designs available in towels. Some of these towels are so wonderfully adorned you can't believe the price on them.
Most women, when shopping at such a store, are in there to either: a) Replace linens or bedding; b) Buy clothing items for the family; or c) Will go to the house wares section and peruse pictures and other decorative accessories. No one ever thinks of going to the towel section, unless of course, they are in need of towels. Therefore, these beautiful towels go unnoticed.
Gifts are usually purchases which the receivers generally will not make for themselves. However, if supplied with the items certainly will not say no to them. Towels are good purchases for young people starting out in an apartment. There are so many cool towels available with decorative embellishment, at reasonable price points, you can purchase several. The decorative towels also go well in guest bathrooms.
When purchasing towels as a gift, you need to match the decoration to the personality of the party receiving it. A person who has a New England style going in their apartment will appreciate a plain white thick cotton number over something that's beaded or embroidered. The towels with all the adornment are possibly best suited to persons who are a) Highly creative; and b) don’t really have one decorative theme going within their abode. In other words, beaded and blinged towels are appropriate for the highly eclectic. Also there are towels that are embroidered as well as all kinds of looks.
The truly fancy towels can be used as coverings on seats of chairs; although in order to effect this look you need to know what you are doing. The artsy, eclectic type person who receives it as a gift may try using it as a chair cover.
You'll find towel at mass retailers who sell name brand items for less - and the fanciful towels can be purchased for around six dollars each. You can buy one a week until you have a good bundle assembled that you can give away.
Gift Giving: Antique-styled Books
Persons looking for something original and interesting to give the person who appreciates books would do well to look in the direction of antique-styled books. This doesn't mean to infer the books are antiques; but rather they give the appearance of antiquity. There are many books bound in this manner providing some of the best of the old classics. Needless to say, the classics are always a welcome addition to anyone's library. Even if the person who enjoys books hasn't formulated a library per se, antique-styled books of some of the best stories of all time will be appreciated.
Many of the Sunday newspaper classifieds offer places that sell classic antique styled books. Generally the books have gold-look edging and wonderful bindings. The name of the classic is found on the spine of the book. Normally, however, you are required to purchase a book per month, so you'll need to do this for a while until you have several to give the receiver.
What is nice about antiqued-styled books, is you can appreciate a classic story without worrying about the ravages of age. It is still the same story told one-hundred times before, except in an appropriate traditional style binding. If you were to purchase an antiquated version, this may involve a certain restorative effort in order that the person could enjoy it.
The antique-style books are new pages, new bindings and classic stories. They may serve as just the inspiration the gift recipient requires in order to start his or her own library. And if he or she already has a nice library the beautiful books will be appreciated all the more as they can be incorporated with other book treasures.
If you are looking for this style of book the best place to locate them is through book-of-the- month club arrangements. You won't find such book offers all the time. However, keep your eyes open and you're sure to run across the offer. Once you find them you can secretly horde them each month until you have enough to wrap up nicely and offer in the way of a prized gift: books the recipient can appreciate for a lifetime.
Most persons do not think of taking the book-of-the-month club classics on as gifts for someone else, therefore, in so doing, you will be employing a truly original approach to gift-giving.
Gift Giving: Art Prints – The Ideal Gift for the Art Enthusiast
Do you have someone in your circle who appreciates the finer things in life? Does the person have occasion to visit galleries and pause whenever you pass an art exhibit at the main library or cultural center? A good gift suggestion is possibly an art print. However, in this area it is best to tread with caution because when giving a gift such as a print you want to make certain it is a print the person likes and something the individual can display in his or her house.
First, it is important to determine what artists the person likes. Do they prefer the old masters or are they more tuned into pop culture artists such as Andy Warhol? Do they have any interests in up and coming artists? Also, another area you need to address is what style of art they prefer. Generally, if they've been able to afford to decorate their dwelling the way they like, you'll see their art preference expressed in their interior aspect. If they like contemporary, then you'll see a great deal of geometric, round and square shaped art forms. Obviously, if they prefer the old-masters they may employ the old-style European decorations into their environment or items with a provincial style.
However the best way to learn the person's art preferences is to take them to gallery events. Come right out and ask them what artists they like. But do not purchase their art print in their presence. This will take away the element of surprise. Just keep track of their likes and dislikes and when the time is right and they are not expecting it present them with a print by an artist they appreciate. Again, the design must be right for their home's decoration.
If they like artists that don't match with the decorating aspect of their home, you may wish to put the idea of an art print on the back burner for awhile. It may be their home is decorated in such a way that they yet can't afford to decorate it relative to their own liking; or they may be living in a roommate situation. The ideal candidate, therefore, for an art print is a person who has their dwelling decorated according to their own preferences; and where you have a good idea of what type of art appeals to them.
Attain some Comic Relief with Comic Book Classics
Remember when you were a kid going to the five and dime and purchasing your favorite comic book? Well — maybe not the case for some. However, regardless of your age, this can be a great gift giving idea especially for people who are into super action heroes and those who like animation. Old favorites are still around, plus a good many vintage comic books fetch fairly high prices.
Needless to say, those who are more accustomed to animation and have never been introduced to the old-style comic book may enjoy the sentiment. They'll additionally appreciate the sentiment if they find the comic book you purchased them fetches more than a month's worth of wages. However, you needn't spend a fortune in order to give a comic book as a gift. The uniqueness of the gift holds a great deal of value in the mind of the recipient.
You can go on-line to various sites and purchase all kinds of comic books. Try to match the comic style to the person you are giving the gift. If the person likes super action heroes then purchase some Batman and Robin, and Superman vintage comic books. Whatever you believe best fits the individual's personality is the type of comic book you'll wish to purchase.
You also might want to cut out pages from new edition styled books and create a framed representation of comic book pages. This can be thrown into the comic book collection mix. Make certain you purchase a fairly big frame in order to get the theme across to the recipient. If you can manage a poster size so much the better. Incorporate different pages of a newer book since you will not want to cut up a book that is a vintage classic. Keep the pages in sequential order, reading left to right. You needn't cut up the entire book and include all of it—just enough of it to tell part of the story. Again, the point of the framed print is to illustrate the person's interest in animation and in comics.
Include with it a nice size bundle of comic books. This is one of those gifts a person doesn't receive every day and, in effect, the gift has a way of growing on the receiver. Your recipient who likes comic animation will appreciate the uniqueness of the traditional theme.
Gift Giving: Breezy Nostalgia
One item persons often overlook, even those who enjoy or collect antiques, when gift giving is a good old-style standard fan. These are the round fans on base. Many of the old-style models fetch a substantial amount of money and it may be said some collectors have found themselves paying more than a month's worth of wages.
Certainly, most of us are familiar with the little round fans with obedient blades that blow air in order to keep otherwise stuffy quarters full of circulated heat. However, in many of the person's homes where these little fans are placed—it isn't so much for practical application as it is for the fact such fans are collectible items.
Many individuals are of the opinion every person who enjoys antiques and collectibles should own at least one of these little gems. Sometimes you'll find the little round fan on base reasonably priced at thrift and charity shops—however, you'd best snatch it up quickly if you see one as it will soon be gone with the wind (so to speak).
Even individuals who know about the fan as a collectible, rarely give it consideration as a way of introducing another individual to the collectible sport. The fans are unique little items and are charming as are the old style phonographs. Owning one reminds you of days when air conditioning was not an available option, and you might sit it up on a bureau while you worked and it did its job of blowing about hot air where you worked. Further, it prevailed in lifting papers off desktops and probably “masterminded” in someone's thoughts the idea of the paperweight. Yes. Owning one of these little treasures will not go unappreciated by the person to whom you present it.
It is ideally situated in a den and if still workable can be switched on from time to time just to hear it hum and play a tune that is decades old: it's one of those soothing types of hums you never tire hearing. If you haven't done so consider giving it as a gift to the person who, if not yet a collector of all kinds of practical relics, will appreciate the nostalgia and charm it brings into his or her home.
The best places, besides the charity shop, to locate one of these collectibles is on-line, and brick and mortar antique establishments. Once you do, better hurry and wrap it up or you might fi