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Bridesmaids Gifts – Handbags and Jewelry

When it comes to bridesmaids gifts, there is a lot of great choices out there, but handbags and jewelry pieces are perhaps the most popular choice of gift usually given to bridesmaids. These gifts are actually ideal because they can be reused after the wedding. Today, there are so many variety of bridesmaids handbags and jewelry available in the market. You can even personalize them with names or monograms of your attendants.

Bridesmaids handbags are available in different choices evening purses, tote bags, cosmetic bags and even travel bags. Evening purses are your best options if the type of your wedding is formal. Otherwise, you can have tote bags and cosmetic bags if your wedding is less formal or will be held outdoor. Travel bags, tote bags and cosmetic bags are also great if you will be having a getaway wedding where you bridesmaids will need to travel, and so those bags can really help them carry their numerous essentials.

If you are on a tight budget, consider personalized handbags as gifts for your bridesmaids. The best thing about personalized purses is that they are as beautiful as branded ones, yet at affordable prices. There are so many choices of personalized handbags to choose from. You can find beaded or crystallized bags which you can personalize with each bridesmaid’s name or initials. A few choices includes Laia Personalized Clutch, Adriana Personalized Evening Bag, Misha Personalized Evening Bag, Personalized Crystal Evening Bridal Purse and Marites Personalized Evening Clutch.

Jewelry gifts, on the other hand, are also a great gift suggestion for bridesmaids. Just like handbags, jewelry gifts come in different great choices to choose from. In fact, you may also opt to personalize bridesmaids jewelries by engraving their names or initials. Here are some great choices you may consider: Romance Pearl Personalized Bracelet, Personalized Triple Strand Heart Bracelet, My Heart Link Personalized Bracelet, Personalized Silver Heart Necklace, Personalized Bridesmaid Heart Locket Necklace.

Personalized handbags and jewelry pieces can be either purchased at local stores or jewelers, or online. Many people nowadays opt to purchase online because of some great reasons. First, you can shop fast at the comfort of your home. Second, you can find a more wider array of choices online because of so many web stores that offer so many kinds of bridesmaids gifts. And third, you can purchase great bridesmaids gifts at reasonable prices.

Aside from handbags and jewelry gifts, of course, you can also find other great choices to choose from. You may also consider choices like personalized shirts, robes, scarves, compact mirrors, key rings, picture frames and etc. There are also unique bridesmaids gifts you can have for your bridesmaids if you want to be a bit different. Choices are endless, so it is up to you what to buy for them. Just always remember to shop according to you friends’ preferences and tastes. And most of all, stick with your budget, for bridesmaids gifts doesn’t need to be very expensive. All it takes is creativity and thought – enough to make your friends feel appreciated and thanked.

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Baby shower gift?

I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE MY OWN BABY SHOWER GIFT- MY IDEA IS A BABY TOPIARY- I SAW IT IN WOMANS WORLD MAGIZINE A LONG TIME AGO AND CAN NOT REMEMBER ALL THE DETAILS- I HAVE A BABY NOVELTY CONTAINER FOR THE BASE AND WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE TOP WITH BABY SOCKS DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS ON THE STEM OF IT AND OR HOW TO TACK THE SOCKS ON BESIDES USING A STYRO FOAM BALL AND STRAIGHT PINS ALL OPINONS WELCOME THANKS

1. Select a twisted branching dry stick from a nature hike or a hobby store.
2.. Use thick glitter glue (Walmart, crayons/markers section). Buy red, yellow and green. On a glass kitchen plate, mix the glitter glues so that you have a pile of green, a pile of yellowish green, and a pile of brown-green (mix all three colors a little). Use your fingers and smear the twisted branch with the glitter glue. Start at the base with the browner color, then green then yellow green. The variety of color really enhances the look of this gift. Let it dry over night.
3. Cut out from yellow poster board tiny leaf shapes about the size of a baby’s foot. Make sure that the leaves have a bit of a stem part. On one side, place a pretty sticker and on the other side, in lovely handwriting, write a message of love for the baby, like little blessings. Use different colored glitter pens for this. Decorate around the edge of the “blessings” with green-glitter pen drawn ivy chains. The glitter pen ink is gooey and the artwork ivy and message can smear, so blot with a paper towel and let dry over night. Then, the next day, with a cheap watercolor brush, lightly coat one side of each of the leaves with white Elmer’s glue. Let dry. Turn over and coat the other side, taking care not to smear the glitter pen ink with too heavy of a drag with the brush. Let dry. When the leaves are all dry, use a single hand-held hole punch (Walmart) to make a clean, tidy hole at the top of the leaves where they will be attached to the “tree”.
4. Cut slender sage green and gold ribbons into ten inch lengths, a set of one green and one gold for each leaf.
5. When the leaves and twisted branch are thoroughly dry, slip a baby sock over each leaf. No matter what what color the socks are, the yellow poster board shows through a bit to give all the socks a unified look. And, the artwork and writing and stickers somehow give the leaves a realistic touch of texture.
6. Thread the sage green and gold ribbons through the hole-punched holes on each leaf. Draw the sock full on the leaf so that the cuffs extend past the “stem” of the leaf and then wrap and tie the ribbons around the stem, securing the sock and cinching it in to mold to the shape of the leaf.
7. Decorate your tree then with all the leaves by tieing them by their ribbons here and there in clumps of two and three pointing up and down and here and there.
7. Secure the base of the tree in a piece of styrofoam in the container and pack around it yellow and green fluffy tissue paper. Ta da!
8. The blessings or love messages or words of advice on the cards are really a nice surprise and people hang the leaves decoratively in the baby’s room.

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how do I start earning?

I’m 16 & I’m from India.
I love arts & crafts.
And I can paint walls,make handmade gifts & all !
My works are mostly Girly!
But I cant sell my work here in India.
Is there any website that offers people to sell their products? or if they hire designers (for example-for there clothes,jewellery or accessories) because I’m really good at designing clothes and all ! I can design for them,they can make it & sell it.

Good to see that you want to showcase your talent at a very early age. First get your self acclaimed to local market and than you can host your free site and promote them. http:www.ebay.com is another site where you can upload the photo of the product and allow the bid to take place. But it would be better if you could find local gift, handicraft dealers and strike a deal with them to sell your products in stores. You can search for such vendors in google you would find loads of them.

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A Magical Christmas in Germany

We arrive in Munich and our guide makes it clear this is Bavaria.  Bavarians favor autonomy from Germany and even have their own language.  I’ve been here many times but looking through sober eyes now, I find it more vibrant, clean and sophisticated.  We spend 2 days with Nancy, an excellent guide who has already emailed me to remain in touch.  I have a mini-group of just 26 so this is like a vacation for me.  It’s a first time abroad for some and I love to learn from them as they notice things with child-like enthusiasm that I don’t.  This is the hi-tech land of engineering.  We pass a 9 story Mercedes dealership with new cars stacked to the shape of an Advent tree.  We also see the BMW factory.  I wish I could work here with 7 weeks vacation per year, 340 different work schedules to choose from, a gym, spa and its many other benefits.  We stop for hot apple strudel and visit the well known sites.  Here is the 100′ Christmas tree with 2500 candles.  Our welcome dinner at Haufbrauhous is a delight with yodeling, alp horns and sausages of everything-wurst.  The group toasts their steins of natural beer made only of barley, water and hops.

It’s time to move on to the enchanting storybook villages.  This is a magical time to visit.  No country celebrates Christmas with more passion than Germany.  As we head to the alps, the morning sky looks like a pale bruise.  Soon a blizzard engulfs our coach but we have an experienced driver named Eno who we fell in love with by trips end in 7 days.

We arrive at Neuschwanstein and ride by horse and carriage up to the famous castle.  (This is the one Disney fashioned its own after.)  I’ve seen more castles than I can count around the world but this medieval knight’s fortress with gothic spires is spectacular.  Built in 1869, it looks brand spanking new with decorated rooms intact.  The 388 steps inside are well worth the climb.  There’s hardly anyone here whereas summer can draw 5,000 tourists each day.  In winter, this fairytale castle becomes dreamlike surreal.  That’s why I enjoy traveling off season.  

Pity poor Mad King Ludwig II who designed this worlds largest, most extravagant, expensive and opulent castle for himself.  It’s a sad story of the 6′ king who lived here only 4 months.  The people loved him as much as the German Tourist Board does today.  His family however, did not.  They sought to declare Ludwig insane and hired a team of psychiatrists to prove such.  Although he was prone to depression and insomnia, no doctor could find him mentally unfit.  After short rule, his body was found in the lake and the family stated it was suicide.  But the body of his psychiatrist was also found so most agree it was murder, particularly since an autopsy was refused.  Later it was determined that Ludwig was gay, so the “fairytale king” was truly a fairy.

We stopped in charming Oberammergau, famous for its Passion Plays every 10 years.  The wood houses are painted with fairytales: Hansel & Gretel, Red Riding Hood, etc. We then toured Nuremburg with an astute guide who brought the city to life before our eyes from 15th century to its destruction in WWII.  Some went off to the Toy Museum or Torture Museum while I set out to explore the world’s largest Xmas market.

With giant lit trees, double carousals, horses with bells, over 400 stalls of food and crafts, this is a s festive as it gets!  I graze my way through on white chocolate bananas, fruit breads, glazed grapes, dipped pretzels, pink marzipan pigs, licorice angles and all types of roasting sugar coated nuts.  Shaped gingerbreads are omnipresent and the aroma of warm sweet Gluh-wine fragrances the air.   I’m on a sugar high and head for the crafts.  Shopping is a blood sport here through narrow lanes but MasterCard is my armor and I find all my toy treasures.  There are giant nutcrackers representing every occupation, unique mangers and 29 trillion ornaments.  At dusk the illumination begins.  I pause for a dinner of 6 bratwursts, Bavarian cheese and a pyramid of sauerkraut to last me to 2012.  

In Rodenthal we toured the Goebel/Hummel Factory.  I anticipated boredom yet became fascinated to learn how precious each piece is.  From 1871 to today, 700 artists create these tiny non-useful figurines.  They are paid per piece and if a mistake is made, it must be broken.  The highest paid artists are the delicate “face painters.”  I met one woman who has spent 12 years just painting eyebrows, another on lips and a man who has worked 10 years blushing cheeks!  The eye strain must be like threading sewing needles for a lifetime and it takes 3 years apprenticeship to graduate to this level.  Initially our guide assumed we were a collectors club when in reality we can barely afford a 2” baby Jesus. Later in East Germany we visited Lauenstein Confiserie, a chocolate/praline factory that was so busy with the season, they hardly notice us.  I tasted from the chocolate fountain nearly having a cocoa orgasm and confirm again that America can never produce this product as purely or satisfying as Europe.  

The best of all towns was Rothenberg, population 2300 where our Hotel Prince was located right inside the fortified walls of Old Town.  Our guided walk here instantly awakened all my 5 senses and made me want to linger for days.  We tend to go over the top each year with our flashy decorations.  Among the half timbered homes here on cobbled streets, it is quieter and softer.  One is taken back to the Middle Ages with the pewter ornaments hand crafted and evergreens lit with candles.  Afterwards, our guide Claudia invites us all into her home.  I go to buy a “snowball” for which this town is renowned.  They are piled high like colored softballs in the windows.  For over 300 years, these pastries were frugally made from scraps of fresh pie dough.  Dipped in chocolate, berries or cinnamon butter, they melt in your mouth.  As the sun shines, I remove my coat to a balmy 50º.  How I wished it would snow.

We end our tour in the Student Prince town of Heidelberg with entrance to the famous castle and its 55,000 gallon wooden wine barrel.  That night I reflect on a great trip, my last one for 2005.  I write this journal so my wonderful little group will remember it all.  With pride, I’ll always remember them; on time, patient, no complaints, generous tippers, polite to locals and friendly with each other.  Perfect travelers I wish I could clone.  

After hugging Eno goodbye, we exited with so many shopping bags that he now thinks he needs a trailer in tow of his coach.  This December, it was joyous to be transported back in time.  It certainly brought me in touch with my inner elf.  What a gift!

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