Category: 2013 Holiday Gift Guide

Waterford is known worldwide for creating crystal and glass drinkware, crystal gifts and home accessories of unsurpassed beauty and quality. Waterford is also the perfect choice for wedding gifts and business gifts.

Do you have someone on your Christmas list that loves flowers?  Why not consider  Waterford Fleurology.  Fleurology is the union of fine crystal and floral artistry as it relates to individual style, creative expression, and gracious  living.

Based on the popular LEGO playsets, LEGO Friends for Nintendo 3DS allows players to shop for the latest outfits and accessories, select the perfect hairstyle, decorate their bedrooms or even pick out a pet!

In LEGO Friends, players visit Heartlake City, playing the role as Olivia’s cousin who, with Olivia, joins other LEGO Friends like Mia, Stephanie, Emma and Andrea on fun adventures.

A lot of people’s holiday shopping lists get larger and more expensive each year.  My husband always only asks for one thing – Chocolate.  To be more precise…Dark Chocolate.  I think he would be thrilled with a delicious dark chocolate gift set from sweetriot, a small mission-based company in NYC which strives to build tasty little morsels for a different generation.

sweetriot’s riotBar 70% Quirky Quinoa comes in packs of twelve riotBars.

Earlier this week I was invited to participate in a sponsored post campaign for Collective Bias where I was asked to come up with a DIY craft using Wrigley’s Extra Chewing Gum to create a holiday gift.

Whenever I smell the scent of gingerbread it’s like time rewinds.  My grandmother would bake dozens of cookies and we’d eagerly run to her kitchen on Christmas Eve begging for a taste of them before we’d even eaten dinner.  Even now 30+ years later any time I come across that scent I remember those Christmas evenings, with my siblings and my cousins huddled around the small kitchen table indulging in those frosted gingerbread cookies.

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The countdown to the 75th Hunger Games: Catching Fire leaves us with just ONE MORE DAY!!!  And I got a jump on the Panem action with a delivery of ‘Capitol Bars’ artisanal chocolate in 12 Hunger Games inspired flavors.

Each Capitol Bar in this collector’s set celebrates a District’s speciality, from Technology to Lumber to Livestock.

With ingredients from harvest cherries to smoked chipotle chiles.

I don’t know how many of you have already started or finished your gift lists but I’m nearly done!  I have a few things to pick up for my sister and her husband, but that’s it.  You know though, the giving season quickly becomes busy and hectic and sometimes we forget why we celebrate Christmas.  But planning in advance to keep your heart in the holidays makes it stay in the forefront.  Here are some ideas to help you to do that:

Who is as excited as I am about the upcoming release of Liongate’s THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE?  It’s coming out THIS FRIDAY, November 22nd.  #TickTock it’s only 3 days away!  I’m a sad panda because I’m going to have to wait a bit to see it, since my parents are visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, and are arriving on Thursday.  I haven’t seen them in over a year and it’s not the type of movie they’re really into.  But I digress… let’s talk more about Catching Fire shall we?!

I love surprises…but I hate surprises.  You know what I mean?!

I like to give people a general idea of what I’d appreciate for gifts so I make a list, and that way I’m surprised, but not surprised.  Got it?!

I have at least a couple of people on my shopping list that I know I can pick up a bunch of things for them at Best Buy.

Inspired by a true story, A Christmas Gift for Rose is a heartwarming novella of sacrifice and deep love.

Born in the midst of the hardships of the Great Depression, Rose grew up in Berlin, Ohio, in the arms of a loving Amish family. But as she prepares to marry, she’s thrown into confusion when she learns the truth of her birth. She was born Englisch and abandoned when the family moved on in search of work.