My friend Angela has an amazing new blog, Something Green. Learn all about the tricks and products to help make your event more green from holiday stockings to renewal candles. Don’t miss the Green Glossary and Green Directory. She has been involved in the event and writing businesses for years. She’s the expert you’ve been [...]
Archive for the ‘Gifts’ Category
Something Green: A Green Guide for the Modern Hostess
Posted in Finds, Flowers, Gifts, Holiday, New Jersey, New York, tagged angela graziano, going green, green directory, green glossary, Green weddings, hostess on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chilean Chocolate Treats in A2
Posted in Ann Arbor, Cooking, Finds, Gifts on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I first came across Maitelates (my-tay-lah-tes) at Comet Coffee (in the Ann Arbor Arcade) with a friend who had spent some time in Chile. She had a huge smile when she saw the chocolate dipped alfajors. She said she’s never seen them available in the USA. I had never tasted anything like these treats. The [...]
Sticker Ideas from My Mom Shops
Posted in Finds, Gifts, Holiday, tagged christmas presents, holiday presents, my mom shops, presents, stickers on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I remember carefully counting out the change from my allowance in order to buy stickers. I *loved* collecting stickers. There were the smelly ones, the funny ones, the pretty ones, the doubles you could sock away for later… inexpensive and personal, they were easily for a kid to collect. My Mom Shops reminds us not [...]
Now onto the December holidays…
Posted in Gifts, Holiday, tagged christmas presents, holiday gifts, sew, sewing, shasta grant, the lovely nest on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Halloween and Thanksgiving have passed. Now it is onto Christmas, Hanukah and New Year’s Eve. Every year, I find it hard to imagine that time truly moves this quickly. There are presents to buy, trips to schedule and meals to plan. Oy! It can make the cheeriest person feel like the Grinch. That said, with [...]
Bridesmaid Presents
Posted in Gifts, tagged bride, bridesmaid presents, gift, green theme, green wedding, Maid of Honor, New Jersey, new york city, nj weddnig, nyc, nyc gifts, nyc wedding, presents, weddingb, wonderful women on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love New York City and so I love the Fishs Eddy designs with the skyline: 212 New York Skyline. Since we were getting married close to New York City (I know, I know, New Jersey isn’t New York. It’s close, though. Maybe it is another borough?), I decided to buy the Wonderful Women a [...]
Groomsmen Presents
Posted in Gifts, tagged cds, diy gift, groompower, groomsmen present, mixed tape, thank you present on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It can be difficult to come up with a personal gift to share with the groomsmen as a “thank you” for participating in the wedding. My groom made a personalized CD for each of the groomsmen (think ‘80s mixed tape but more technologically advanced.) Not only did he choose music appropriate to each groomsmen, but [...]
Welcoming Guests with a Hotel Welcome Bag
Posted in Gifts, tagged wedding favors, melabee m miller, melabee miller, welcome bags, hotel welcome bags, wedding bags, hotel bags, made in museum cubes, chinese puzzles, limoncello, marionberry, plantable confetti, plant-able confetti, botanical paperworks, hotel block, wedding hotels on October 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve always enjoyed a personalized welcome bag when I’ve gone to weddings out of state. When we made ours, we chose items that represent us and the wedding. We shared plant-able confetti, limoncello from Italy (where I lived for four years), marionberry jam (from the groom’s home state of Oregon), an art cube with photographs by my [...]
Countdown: (3) Back to the East Coast & Welcome Bags
Posted in Gifts, Hotels / Guests on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We fly to New Jersey today for the wedding. Wow. It is hard to wrap my mind around the fact that it is so close. The excitement is really building. Most of the major things are taken care of and we can start to relax. This afternoon we are going to drop off the welcome [...]
Countdown: (17) Memories…
Posted in Countdown, Gifts, Shower, Traditions, tagged bride, bridesmaids, Shower, Shower Gifts, wedding on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hands down, my favorite gift at the shower last weekend was a book that the Chief Wonderful Woman, the Wonderful Women as a group, the Mother of the Bride and my fiancé all contributed to. The Chief asked everyone to send her pictures and she put them together in a square, red book (by Shutterfly.) [...]
Countdown: (18) Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice
Posted in Cooking, Countdown, Gifts, Traditions, Wedding Cake, tagged bride, bridesmaid presents, cake tasting, chocolate favors, chocolate making, chocolate wedding favors, dj, hotel welcome bags, making chocolate, Michigan, mother of the bride, New Jersey, wedding, wedding cake tasting, wedding favors, welcome bags on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was a sweet, sweet day. It started off with cake tasting at our venue and ended with chocolate making. The Mother of the Bride and I were each given a plate with four different generous slices of cake. The venue made four cakes total and we took home the rest of the four cakes. [...]
