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A blog strictly about gifts: delightable gift ideas, gift etiquette, and stories of gracious gestures. At GiversLog I aspire to give you sparkling gift ideas you can buy or make for every social occasion and shared moment in your life.
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Gifts for Cats and Dogs
My philosophy for Christmas gifts for kids and pets is the same. It doesn’t take much to thrill them, so I always try to get a little something. And of course, if you want to get them a big something, there are plenty of options for that too. W...
From Santa’s Orchards, Printable Sticker
Does Santa visit your house on St. Nick’s Day? He visits ours. Well, I guess it’s not so much a visit as a doorbell ditch. But he leaves behind stockings full of goodies, so that’s good enough for us. I consider myself a purist when...
SKATES
I have something important to tell you. Did you know you can go ice skating in the middle of Yosemite? It’s pretty fantastic. We happened across the rink while searching for a geocache there. When we saw the rink, my daughter and I looked at ea...
Acrylic Rings
I’ve been browsing for something fun to give my crafty, girly, teenage sister, and am having way too much fun looking at jewelry.I think I got hooked on shrink film in my childhood, making Rainbow Bright shrinkie dinks. I can’t believe I&...
Sticky Note Advent
I love sticky notes, don’t you? I make a point of keeping them stocked at my house, for jotting down strokes of brilliance or marking favorite parts of library books or leaving sweet notes in lunch boxes or on mirrors. And when I need to remind...
4 & 3 Week Check In
I hope you don’t mind that I waited to post the 4-week check in. I thought maybe you’d be busy with Thanksgiving prep like I was. So here’s a little look at what I worked on over the weekend and am hoping to do this week. Get the or...
How I Love Advents
December in my home growing up was always packed with Christmas traditons. I told you we had a great mix of German Christmas and Venezuelan Chrsistmas (can you imagine a mashup of Oh Tannenbaum and Feliz Navidad? it’s kind of like that). It mad...
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy thanksgiving from one of our adopted turkeys. Today I am thankful for Moms, dads, sisters, brothers, friends, neighbors, eager happy kids. One benefit about having a sweet tubby baby that I take everywhere I go is watching how he is loved by al...
Thanksgiving Package, and Bad Cow
You may not have been around the last time I mentioned our cow. Her name is Moolie. And sometimes she is a handful. We found her in our neighbor’s back yard again this week. We thought we’d gotten past this stage. The stage where I’...
Thanksgiving Favors
Okay, I know. If you’re having Thanksgiving at your place, you’re already providing the feast. At the end of the day you don’t need to be at the door handing out parting gifts too. But just the same, a few of these ideas are easy ...
Gifts Your Thanksgiving Hostess Can Put to Work
Just a few gift ideas for gifts your Thanksgiving hostess can put to use right away. (Stop by tomorrow. With a little luck, I’ll share the hostess gift I’m taking). 1. Placemats. Make this lovely version from the tutorial here. 2. A wreat...
MARTA WRITES: would or did
Stop by Marta’s shop to pick up very fun packaging I bring up the talented Marta of Marta Writes so often here, that I thought I’d better get on with it and ask her for an interview. Lucky, so very lucky for me, she said yes. Marta’...
Mandarins, Blog Troubles, and Other Randomness
Between the months of November and December my town is an especially good place to be. It’s the time when satsuma mandarins are ripening in private orchards up and down the hillsides. We got our first mandarins of the season yesterday from a fr...
every child needs: A GROWTH CHART
I love that kids are always so impressed with themselves for how fast they grow. My kids like to show me how far their toes reach in bed or how close they are to filling up the bathtub. Which is why growth charts are one of the coolest things ever, w...
every child needs: AN HEIRLOOM
Recently Brent’s mom sent us home with a few puzzles he used to work on as a kid. Naturally Brent and the kids came straight home and dumped the first one on the table and went immediately to work puzzle solving and talking. It was pretty fun f...
MEANINGFUL GIFT GIVING
Three very talented ladies from my hometown (yea Boise, Idaho!) launched a fun new site: HowDoesShe.com. It’s full of great, instantly usable ideas, including answers to some of life’s big questions, like how does she run a household? sta...
every child needs: SOMETHING TO MAKE THEM SPECIAL ON THEIR BIRTHDAY
On my daughter’s birthday last year we sent her off to kindergarten wearing a glittery birthday girl shirt from her aunt and an outrageous IKEA birthday cake hat from great grandma and grandpa. She couldn’t have felt more important. Do yo...
every child needs: A HIDEAWAY
As a child, little could thrill me more than a really great hideaway. A place all my own where I could play with friends or go be alone. Don’t some of these bring back that thrill? (And speaking of a thrill, stay tuned for a most lovely intervi...
GIVEAWAY: Modeling Beeswax
There are a couple things, to me, that make a really great gift: (1) giving something that is well made ,and (2) introducing something new to the receiver. Does this not qualify as both? I saw twinkleofmyeye’s modeling beeswax this weekend and...
every child needs: A TOOTHFAIRY PILLOW
My daughter just began loosing her baby teeth last year. I was amazed at the sense of importance this brought to her young life. She announces a new loose tooth with the sense of prestige you’d expect when one is reading their college acceptanc...
PRINTABLE PIGGIE BANK
I mentioned in this morning’s post that we have homemade piggie banks around here. This is as of last year, when we discovered that old spice jars make perfect piggie banks. This discovery came after a broken ceramic piggie and an afternoon of ...
every child should have: A PIGGY BANK
Having your own piggie bank is sort of a right of passage, proof that you’re a big kid. Right now we have all homemade piggy banks around here (do you feel another post coming on?), but here are a few that are so fun I’m tempted to save u...
every child should have: A PLACE FOR BOOKS
Here it is: this is thing 1 of my 7 Things Every Child Should Have week. Let me know your thoughts, or if maybe I need to add to my list of 7 things! And when you get a chance, stop by and let me know what you’re getting the little ones for th...
Gifts for Kids?
Every year around this time my husband gets nostalgic about making Christmas wish lists. He talks about how his mom would bring home the Sears toy catalog and he would pour over every page, dreaming about the toys he’s like. So now he’ll ...
5-Week Check In
How are your plans coming? I’m behind on a few things and ahead on others. I’ve finally started buying gifts. But I’m so fickle. I’m glad I left a week for returning things right before Christmas. It’s just so hard to co...
IN THE WORKS
Next week will be a big week for little ones. I hope you’ll drop by. I promise you’ll love it. ...
BOOKS FOR CLIENTS
I had a reader recently ask about good books to give clients. Suggestions, anyone? Here are my suggestions. Does this list make anyone else go weak in the knees? It makes me go positively Jell-O. Travel The Wallpaper City Guides (get them geared to A...
ORANGE BEAUTIFUL PERPETUAL DESK CALENDAR
I love Orange Beautiful. Always have. And as in any good romance, they’ve just given me a new reason to love them even more. Look at this sweet little perpetual calendar. It will work for every year for as long as you live. And it’s all l...
FREE PRINTABLE GIFT TAGS
Remember how I said I was going to be a good girl this week and get caught up on my holiday checklst? Well I’m being good. I just got my gift tags done for my goodie bags. Could you use these for anything this year? Good, I was hoping you’...
AWAY FROM HOME on CHRISTMAS?
Are you having a good Vetran’s day so far? I hope so. I had a reader pop in with this question, and I thought the topic was especially appropriate for the day. Do any of you have friends or family who will be away from home for the holidays? Ha...
