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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 31 2004 : 10:02:11 PM
I like to have little gifts on hand for friend' birthdays and like that. One thing I do alot is make little needle cases. I love to do a little tiny crazy quilt block and then make a little book and hand sew the "cover" on with felt for the "batting". They are a big hit. I buy some nice needles and "stock" the case before giving. Anyone have any other simple fun little ideas for gifts to have on hand?
Jenny in Utah
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 03 2005 : 04:27:37 AM
i have always had a "prize drawer" in every home i've lived it .. it is filled with little wrapped 'trinkets' for when children come to visit .. and the first place they always run for is the 'prize drawer'
.. and i keep a 'prize drawer' filled with books and other little treasures for 'big kids' too! whenever i have guests or go to lunch with someone .. i make sure to pesent a small token gift to them .. a lovely poem, a small book that would be of interest to them, some flowers from my garden ..
all of these things can be found inexpensively if we just watch closely for sales whenever we go shopping .. from thrift stores .. yard sales or packed away in our attics, closets and basements .. |
| junebug |
Posted - Oct 29 2005 : 10:47:36 AM
Cute idea Tami, I may have to copy it! LOL
I'm not 40 something, I'm 39.95 plus shipping and handling! |
| ladybugsmom6 |
Posted - Oct 29 2005 : 07:59:44 AM
I was just in my cupboard, and found a gift given to me years ago that a friend made with her daughters. she took an empty small coffee can, i am going to use large fruit cans, painted them a solid color. i think i will sand the surface to help the spray paint stick. then she glued fabric around the can, used wire to make a handle decorated it with raffia and buttons, and filled it with tea bags! i am making a bunch for christmas pressies, i am thinking chocolate, tea, soaps...so many little ideas!
-Tami
livin' right and loven' life! |
| sqrl |
Posted - Oct 10 2005 : 11:20:12 AM
It's Moon tea - Luna tea
this tea a better not using tea ball, you get better flavor. I'd say about 2-3 pinches, may be thats 3 tablespoons. I'll have to go home tohight and measure how much I use. I'll get back ya.
Blessed Be
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| CityCat |
Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 8:54:19 PM
Sqrl, I wanted to try your tea recipe that you posted, but how much do you need to brew a cuppa? And do you call it "Moon tea" or "Moom tea"? Cat |
| sqrl |
Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 09:10:45 AM
Hey sorry I haven't check in here in a while. I make all kind of goddesses eventually I'll have pictures of them. I haven't made any for about a year until just recnetly when I started sneeking in on my husbands class at HSU. It's for college students only but I sneek in on Friday night and do as much as possible in those few hours. When I lived in LA I was in a studio Mon.- Thurs. I loved it. Anyway I would certainly trade. I love to give them to people who understand them. I hope to sell them one day on etsy -- www.etsy.com This is a place you all should know about. Check it out it's Ebay for crafters and you can shop by color. ANyway I buy most of me herbs locally at a shop in town called Moom Rise Herbs but for everything else like my oils for making creams and well, them have everything, it's all natural and a lot of unprocessed and organic stuff. I love this place, check it out -- www.mountainroseherbs.com for the kind of stuff they sell their prices are good, it's all high quality stuff.
Blessed Be
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| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 5:01:29 PM
Sqrl, where do you get your tea supplies? Thanks, P
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| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 5:00:03 PM
Ladybugsmom6, I know what you mean about the crayons. All I need is to whiff some and I'm back in kindergarten. My Mom used to love to color with me when I was little (I was once little?) and I used to use my daughter Christina's coloring sessions as an excuse for me to play, too. I still love to color. Good memories. Thanks,
Patricia
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| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 4:57:03 PM
Sqrl ~ I'm interested in your goddesses. Would you be interested in trading or selling them? I've always admired them in the Somerset magazines but I have no talent with clay.
Thanks,
Patricia
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| sqrl |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 4:52:20 PM
Tami, for my pillows I use lavender, mint, spearmint, geranium. I don't always use them all together, it depends on the person I'm giving them too. I once gave as a little something extra with a wedding shower gift I gave one "dream" pillow with just lavender and one "sachet" pillow that was just geranium and she just loved it. It's a perfect gift, no one can resist lavender. I try to use femine fabric to make the pillows like silk on one side and foral print on the other. The next ones that I'm going to make will have hops in them, because supposed to help you fall asleep. These you will be able to find at MJ's farm fest. next year 'cause I'll selling them there. Anyway my "moom tea" which drink almost everyday and it's not just for women will sooth a belly ache, and anyone feel all around good, it also good for a cold red clover cleans the liver and nettles are FULL of minerals,(more then you would believe) I have to figure out the ratio, I'd say (this makes a lot so reduce it to what you need)
2 cups Nettles
2 cups Red Rasperry leaves
1 cup Red Clover flower buds
1 cup Oat Straw
1 cup linden flowers(this is not part of the orginal mix I just added it this weekend, it's supposed to help gas, which I've been having a little spell with lately)
I'll post the pregnancy recipe tomorrow 'cause it time to go home yay!!!!
Blessed Be
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| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 4:33:37 PM
I asked Clare if we should do the round robin on our own or ask the Farm to do it and she suggested I bring it up to Kate when she returns, so that's what I'll do. I'll let you all know what she says!
Patricia
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| BlueApple |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 1:54:31 PM
BRAND new crayons and color book! I don't think we ever outgrow that! Too fun!
Julia
BlueApple Farm |
| ladybugsmom6 |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 1:44:27 PM
Another "out there" gift idea that always seems to fit for people I know, young and old alike, is a box of crayons, pad of paper, or coloring book and bouncy balls! I know wierd, but we all need to destress, and the scent of crayons have been proven to lower blood pressures. Even adults get a kick out of it and if they dont use it long, they are grateful to have it around when children come to visit.
Sqrl, can you send me your recipes for tea, I am really interested in learning to make my own, I have only made mint so far, and what herbs do you put in your pillows, this is just what I was looking for for my sisters for christmas!
-Tami
livin' right and loven' life! |
| sqrl |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 11:47:50 AM
I love to send packages to people, it's so fun to think of their faces when they get a package in the mail. My Mom sends me the BEST packages. Their always filled with craft stuff, things she's made, german chocolate and homemade socks from my Grandmom. All wrapped up in colorful tissue paper and the box always smells like my home. I love it. She's always asking me when I'm moving back home and I say "but if I move back home I won't get packages in the mail" so I made her promis that even if I live around the corner she has to still send packages.
Things I like to make as little gifts -- I like to make mixtures of loose tea, especailly for women which I call "moon tea" or for pregant women I have a special pregancy or labor tea, I have many different mixes but those are my favorites. I also like to make scented dream pillows or secent pillows that you can heat up in the microwave. When I'm working in clay I like to make Goddesses for people, thats always a favorite. I espeically like to make handmade cards this is way I jumped on the mail art so quick.
Blessed Be
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| junebug |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 04:43:24 AM
Lucinda, what a wonderful memory maker for you and your Mom, how sweet! I'd love to start something like that, or maybe a round robin with a theme? I belonged to many round robins a few years ago, same group that started the RAK list, we had seed RR going, herbal RR going, you name it! They are easy and so much fun! Count me in!
I'm not 40 something, I'm 39.95 plus shipping and handling! |
| Shirley |
Posted - Oct 02 2005 : 11:59:58 PM
Lucinda: that sounds like so much fun, with you and your mom.
Yep a farmgirl one sounds like fun to, I love that kinda stuff :)
shirley in oly |
| BlueApple |
Posted - Oct 02 2005 : 5:27:42 PM
LOL!!!! I love the idea!
Julia
BlueApple Farm |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Oct 02 2005 : 3:42:02 PM
Why don't we start one among the farmgirls? Oh, good. ANother project!
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| thehouseminder |
Posted - Oct 02 2005 : 3:24:47 PM
The last two postings reminded me of something Mom and I do for each other.
It started when I was in college in Texas. She sent a wonderful tin filled with homemade chocolate chip cookies to me around midterm time. I was so thrilled! I filled it with little things I know Mom loves like vintage sewing notions I found at garage sales and pieces of fabric left over from sewing for her to use in quilts. I sent it with a "REFILL PLEASE NOTE" which I really meant as a joke but a few months later, it cam back with some buttons, a volume of Joan Walsh Anglund poetry, and a vintage sewing pattern for my 1964 Skipper Doll.
I also sent tiny vintage dolls when I could find them. That tin has been around the world a few times by now! We never know what will be in it but what fun. I always make sure I have all my chores done before opening it. Then I pour a glass of wine (or sherry if it is wintertime) and slowly savour all of the clever things she has fitted into the box too. It's fun too while collecting the little things to go in it.
Hmmm, it's just about time for another shipment....
Lucinda
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ---Bronson Alcott
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| BlueApple |
Posted - Oct 02 2005 : 09:03:10 AM
That sounds so sweet...kind of like the friendship ball where you put a little something in it and send it to a friend.
Julia
BlueApple Farm |
| junebug |
Posted - Oct 02 2005 : 08:49:22 AM
Years ago I joined a email list called RAK, random acts of kindness. We would have a master list of members where we would just send a small something to each other whenever, it was so much fun, more to send, the whole idea of making or finding a special token for a far off cyber friend was such a feel good reward. The list only lasted about a year, sure do miss it. Good thread ladies!
I'm not 40 something, I'm 39.95 plus shipping and handling! |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 01 2005 : 3:37:47 PM
I don't...but will take one of the next one I make. I should make some more up soon...alot of little things on hand is always a good idea. I have been knitting more this week and I am behind on sewing!!!!
Jenny in Utah
Put all your eggs in one basket..and then watch that basket!! Mark Twain |
| BlueApple |
Posted - Oct 01 2005 : 07:14:57 AM
Wow, these are all wonderful ideas! Aunt Jenny - happen to have a picture of your needle case? I'd love to see them.
Julia
BlueApple Farm |
| Shirley |
Posted - Sep 30 2005 : 11:47:04 PM
wow ,all these ideas are great. I usally knit something ,a hat or scarf
shirley in oly |
| bramble |
Posted - Sep 30 2005 : 9:31:03 PM
I love that mini-spa shoebox idea, that's a keeper! I can picture all of us getting that and soaking in Blue Egg Babe's outdoor tub, how decadent!
As for my little gifts: I collect teacup and saucers all year and the fill them with a scented wax/ wick combo or put some tea bags a few nicely wrapped truffles and an antique teaspoon all wrapped up gift basket style.It has been a hit either way and I have had requests for repeats!
For the men-folk I usually make fudge which they all seem to like. One year for a newly single male friend we made a mini cookbook of things we knew he liked and a little gift basket with some of the more unusual things he would need (spices,etc..) Last year we made him canning jars of instant dinners (dry chili ingredients layered, bean or lentil soups layered with spices, etc and even a cookie jar that he could make easily with all the dry ingredients measured out.
He has NOT mastered the art of survival cooking yet, so he needs a little help!Each jar has the full recipe tied to it so he can attempt the recipe again. He already asked me if we would do that again for him because they came in so handy on nights when he worked late or just didn't feel like "cooking".We don't mind, he's a great guy and went through a horrendous divorce, it's the least we can do!
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