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Do you have a little girl in your life that loves crafty projects?  Does she need to keep busy during the school holidays when it’s too cold, wet or windy to play outside?  Well here are a couple of ideas from Creativity for Kids that are sure to get her artistic juices flowing!

CREATE YOUR OWN ENCHANTED STORYBOOK: ($17.99)

• Everything you need to create and decorate your own fairy tale with Create Your Own Enchanted Storybook!  Just add imagination…

• Adorable castle-shaped, hard-cover book comes ready to decorate with markers, glitter stickers, color-in stickers and rhinestones.

• Create your story on the lined pages then use the blank pages for your illustrations

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Things Remembered has gifts for everyone on your list this Christmas.  From babies to grandparents, your co-workers and spouse.  Quality products, easy to personalize all online.

If you’re looking for a unique Christmas gift that will be cherished for many years, here are some ideas.

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From the Back Cover:

You’re on the path to becoming a God Girl.
Here’s a daily map to guide each step.

The God Girl is always on a journey to becoming the woman God created her to be.  That means that every day, the God Girl needs time with her Creator to reflect on where she’s been, where she’s at, and where she’s going.

Devotions for the God Girl is your daily guide to choosing God’s way in every area of your life – from your thoughts and actions to your friends and faith.  Each day of the year you’ll hear from God through his Word.  Plus you’ll read a brief reflection from Hayley DiMarco that unpacks spiritual truths about becoming a woman of God.

You’re already on your way.

You’ve seen me get out protein stains and carbohydrate stains with Wisk’s new Stain Spectrum Technology, now let’s see how it does on oil stains…shall we?

First let me tell you a bit about oil stains.  Oil stains appear in all shapes and sizes, from your kids’ favorite after school snack (peanut butter on apples) to your favorite salad dressing.  Oils however, aren’t just confined to foods.  In fact your lip gloss is also categorized as an oil stain!

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miYim – Charming Eco-Plush Toys

As a little girl, my favorite stories were the ones that had fairies.  Maybe that’s why my favorite characters in movies and theme parks today are still fairies!  My love of fantasy worlds was passed on to my daughter, and she was drawn to characters and toys like that too.  I was planning on bringing this whimsical doll to our church nursery, but my 14 year old, claimed it as her own before I was able to!

Toys don’t need to have bells and whistles for children to think it’s a winner.  The My Natural Good Earth Fairy is a natural cotton rag doll, coming in a perfectly packaged reusable recycled cardboard gift box. 

What do you get the person that has everything?  Or perhaps you have a person on your list that you would like to honor, but vehemently tells you they don’t want a gift.  Those are just the type of people that are perfect to give Gifts That Give Back.  The World Vision Gift Catalog allows you to honor your recipient but also to share the true spirit of Christmas with a child in need!

The catalog offers more than 100 poverty-fighting gifts starting at $16, that can be purchased in anyone’s name.  Each of the 35 pages in the catalog overflows with gifts, stories and inspiring photos.

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How many ways could you recycle a plastic milk jug?  Well you could of course just throw it into your recycling bin.  You could cut out construction paper feathers and have your kids make a turkey centerpiece for Thanksgiving.  You could cut it in half and plant seedlings in it.  OR…if you’re a Green Toy company you could make it into a fun, and really cool Fire Truck!

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Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, has a perfectly ordered life–solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when the renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes Marlow’s patient.

When Oliver refuses to talk or cooperate, Marlow finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this silent genius, a journey that will lead him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Oliver and toward a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism.

Is it wrong that I feel relieved, when guests turn down an invitation to my home, because that means I don’t have to clean? 

I’d really rather have them focus their view on the pictures from my latest vacation instead of the spills and drips on my oven door.

There’s no way to achieve a cheap visual trick in that department, unfortunately cleaning must be done!

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It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! 

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!

Today’s Wild Card author is:

David Borden

and  

 Thomas J. Winters

and the book: 

Everything Christmas