Seymour Indiana Christmas Lights – Crazy Frog – Last Christmas (2008)

Seymour Lights animated Christmas lights display synchronized to Crazy Frog – Last Christmas

Mike Milne – At Last Im Ready for Christmas – Oh Night Kitchen Divine!

Mike Milne performs at the Al Whittle Theatre on Dec 6, 2008, during “Oh Night Kitchen Divine!”.

Last Minute Handmade Christmas Gifts

Could you use some last minute handmade Christmas gift ideas? If you are anything like me, there’s always a gift or two I get stumped on, or worse, forget about.

 

For example, have you worked out what to give your child’s Teacher yet? Do you want to give a little gift of appreciation to your doctor or accountant or workmates? Do you want to give gifts that have some personal meaning and aren’t mass produced by a chain store?

 

Having some quick and easy ideas for handmade Christmas gifts is something I almost automatically put on my ‘to do’ list, and generally I use what I make! It does help reduce my stress levels to have a few extra gifts on hand just n case.

 

One of my favourite last minute handmade Christmas gifts this year is decorated candles. I found out how to decorate candles with stamped images on tissue paper. It’s so easy and it looks so good! You can purchase inexpensive undecorated candles from most grocery stores these days. You can choose almost any sized or shaped candle, as long as the surface is large enough to display the stamped images you would like to use.

 

Here’s how to do it:

 

1. Stamp an image on fine tissue (or Kleenex), cut it out and hold it on your candle with something that is heat proof like a wooden skewer.

 

2. Use a heat gun (maybe even a hair dryer would work) to carefully melt enough wax under the image to be soaked up by the tissue and meld the edges of the tissue into the candle.

 

3. Allow the wax to cool, and there you have it – a lovely decorated candle!

 

Another little emergency gift I have on hand this year is a candy bar favors. I have learned how to make a flat pouch out of paper big enough to hold a candy bar. I decorate the paper pouch and fix ribbon to it to assist the chocolate bar in sliding in and out of the pouch. It’s a neat little gift that can even be slipped into a Christmas card, if you choose a small, thin chocolate bar. If you go for gourmet chocolate – a small quantity of high quality chocolate – the gift is still going to be very affordable. After the chocolate is eaten, the pouch makes a wonderful book mark.

 

Handmade cards, tags and bookmarks are always appreciated. I think many recipients are touched that you have taken the time to make something especially for them.

 

Why not make up a number of blank cards and place them in a decorated box as a gift? It’s always handy to have ready made cards on hand to thank someone or to give for birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, new babies, etc. One friend I know made up a box that was divided into months of the year. She made the box for her mother. She then created a card for each special family event that she knew would be coming up in 2009, added envelopes and stamps, and her mother will just need to add her own hand written messages before mailing them.

 

What a thoughtful and useful gift!

 

I trust some of these last minute handmade Christmas gift ideas helps you to make sure everyone you appreciate feels very special this Christmas, withoiut breaking the bank, and that this helps you feel less stressed by the last minute preparations.

 

Having a few pre-made gifts on hand should do the trick!

 

EDITED: Thank you for the comments about safety and the use of tissue paper to decorate candles. I should have included a WARNING not to burn your decorated candle, or if you decide to do so to place it inside a hurricane lamp or similar to contain any possible fire hazard, and never to burn any candle unsupervised.

I have not heard of the special and safe tissue that my commenter referred to before. If you would like to let us know how to find safe tissue for candle decorating, I am sure many people would appreciate it.

 

 

 

Last Minute Christmas Gifts for Men Made Easy

Find fantastic last minute Christmas gifts for men here. Looking for last minute Christmas gifts is a nightmare isn’t it? You’ve a ton of other things to do, but you’re running out of time. Worse still you don’t have any idea what to get.

And it’s even more stressful when you are looking for last minute Christmas gifts for men… well, so my wife tells me anyway! Don’t worry anymore, I have a great solution to your problem this Christmas.

First though, let me be brutally honest here — we men are pretty much fed-up receiving the usual suspects year after year; undergarments, socks, shirts, ties, etc!

Now, my wife reckons that us men are really just boys at heart; we love gadgets, gizmos and techie stuff, the more techie the better. We also like to show-off our gadgets and can talk about them till the cows come home. Oh, and she reckons we’re untidy, disordered, and, we can’t multi-task. And, you know, I think she’s right!

Which is why I’m recommending an awesome Christmas gift that will take care of all that above and blow your husband, boyfriend and dad away. They will be whooping with delight when they open it. If they are like me, I can guarantee they will shower you with kisses for giving them such a useful hi-tech gadget that they can boast of to their friends. And, frankly, once you have seen it in action I’m pretty sure you will want one yourself.

So what is this must-have Christmas gift that will have men turning summersaults, and, is super easy and fast for you to order? It’s the Amazon Kindle Reader…

The Amazon Kindle Reader is an amazing hand held electronic reading gizmo, the size of your average paperback. It’s lightweight and can store up to 1,500 of your favorite books and is completely portable.

So you can read whatever, whenever and wherever you like. And you can download your favorite books, magazines, periodicals, and, newspapers from the Amazon Kindle Store wherever you are in an instant, because it’s wireless.

Oprah Winfrey is a huge fan and featured it on her show. Not only that she gave a free one to every one of her audience…

“When I get something this great I have to share it with everybody,” she said. “For those of you at home, I’m sorry I couldn’t get you all one at home too.”

The Amazon Kindle is an electronic digital mobile library. No more lugging around suitcases full of books on holiday, just take the Kindle with all your favorite books pre-installed. Students as well — no need to struggle with tons of books, just one lightweight reader the size of a paperback.

Read any book, magazine, periodical, newspaper or blog from your mobile library anywhere; home, bed, taxi, plane, coffee bar, work, office, beach, club, waiting rooms, hairdresser, yes anywhere. And have your favorite newspapers and magazines auto-delivered to your Kindle while you sleep, ready to read in the morning. 

Imagine also if you could think of a book and have it delivered to you within 60 seconds no matter where you are…

Well that’s the Amazon Kindle, and its flying off the shelves. Oh! and you can download audio books and MP3 music too.

To see the Amazon Kindle in action and how to get your hands on one before it’s too late go here now The Revolutionary Amazon Kindle Reader Review and your search for last minute Christmas gifts for men is over.