Christmas/Holiday Gifts

[Fierce Critter]

Just freaking curious.

Our budget is slim, and my family is hard to buy for. But here's what I got people:

Jon and I don't exchange gifts, we just scrape $$ together and go on an annual spending spree and have a hell of a good time. I bought myself a corset, and might be getting a pair of boots and a top or two. Jon's going for a camera.

My oldest sister is getting some handmade carvings made by Jon.

My dad is getting custom-made pajamas.

My mother is getting a Pope John Paul II calendar.

My youngest sister is getting a Japanese dancer doll.

My sister from Hillsdale and her husband are getting 9 .99 cent DVD movies

My sister from Florida and her husband are getting a 20Q game.

Howz 'bout you?

[Crazed Vampyress]

when i said i am having no christmas this year i meant it. im that broke. each paycheck i have to decide between gas for the car or food for me. so my list is as follows:

My little brother - a 48-cent walmart card (sent with a stamp i bummed off a friend).

My parents - a note to say 'hello' i stuffed inside my brother's card.

Everyone else - nadda

[Draco1958]

Where did you get the Japanese dancer doll> My niece might like that. Half of my nieces gifts are recycled stuff. A sterling silver necklack I won in a claw game, it's worth $40 I found out. A small coffee table that I am repainting and decorating to match her like for Goth/Dark things/Asian flair of decorations. A like new jewelry box that has been in storage unused for years, looks like new. And a few other things. My buying list is quite small do to work hours constantly being dropped.

[Fierce Critter]

The doll came from Burlington Coat Factory. They range in price from $8.00 to $18.00.

They're repros of originals that I'm familiar with through ones I've purchased for her before. But they're exceptionally well done.

[Guest Megalicious]

I did most of my shopping online this chirstmas .. due to my family being so far ... =(

I got my brother this stupid watch he sent me an email about.

I got my youngest nephew a bunch of Ninja Turtle crap .. I liked it when I was young .. its kind of strange ...

For my oldest nephew I always just send Sara (his mother) money because I dont know what size he likes, or what hes really into anymore =(

For the Mega Beast (my grandmother) I sent her See's Chocolate. She loves it Im surprized you dont have them here in the midwest, or atleast I havent seen any around.

I sent my mother a gift card for BBand B, due to the buying of her and Jims new house in Onyx =)

Jarod - LOL hahah very funny you have to wait till you come home to open yours dorkus =)

And for angela I took a trip to the MAC counter ... it was sooo very hard not to buy for myself .... but I think I made some good choices for her =)

[Rivers the Cleric]

Transformer for my brother (he's only 26 afterall)

Anime related items for my mother (another InuYasha christmas)

a book for my father (Zippy trade paperback collection)

a Jo-anne Fabric gift card for my friend Jen (cosplayers are so easy to shop for)

a Bunny for my friend Nikki (only because she knows how to take care of them)

and everyone else gets bootlegs of various movies and live bands they like.

[Draco1958]

Transformer for my brother (he's only 26 afterall)

Anime related items for my mother (another InuYasha christmas)

a book for my father (Zippy trade paperback collection)

a Jo-anne Fabric gift card for my friend Jen (cosplayers are so easy to shop for)

a Bunny for my friend Nikki (only because she knows how to take care of them)

and everyone else gets bootlegs of various movies and live bands they like.

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Inuyasha is cool but I prefer Gundam.

[Rivers the Cleric]

Inuyasha is cool but I prefer Gundam.

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so does my brother, he's moderator at 2 or 3 gundam messageboards, and has somewhere around 300 of the models. i know he's got a DVD/bootleg/file of every episode of every gundam series, english, dubbed or fan subbed....

he's got the original series on Betamax for christ's sake.

[Saephyr]

All I can give them...

My love

[Homicidalheathen]

I miss having little kids around. :confused Sure, I get to buy for the Grandkids......and watch them actually play with it for a couple hours but.....I miss the eyes being wide when they get up and first see the presents under the tree.......the discovery of all the neet little features of some of their toys.....the cute little noises coming out of their rooms for days after......

I get to give my teens what every teen wants these days......the gift of greed I call it. Money in a frickin card. Sure it is easy, but it sucks. Oh then I get to fight the after Christmas rush and take them shopping while they are in Hot Topic, I will be sitting on one of those benches in the mall next to some old guy no doubt who will want to talk to me about my blue hair or something.

I did allot of online shopping. Blair for my parents......they always want clothes......same for me mum in law.

Toys R us for the grandkids......

Money for the Stepson and wife......more greed.......so just not personal, but it is what they want....

My sis is easy. Amazon.com. My man just went online and ordered some Techno CD's so I won't even be getting him anything. He got me a vocal mixer at Guitar Center so I won't be opening anything either. But my throat will be better by then so I at least get to play with it finally and I AM SO EXCITED I could pee myself. This thing is awesome! I needed it for total control of my effects with the push of a foot pedal for live performing.

For my brother in law out of state.....one of those food baskets. As usual.

See? Kinda boring....not much to open or watch being opened......Christmas is definatly for kids.

[Lilith]

My Mother inlaw and step father in law, My Bio father inlaw and his wife, My Friends mom who allways remebrs my kids on various occasions, My hubby's uncle and my hubby's Grandparents Both out of state, All got Hand made Gifts, I had a bunch of Large Brandy Snifters that had been handed down to me many years ago from Hubby's Grandma in a box so i took those, found some Holiday tissue paper, stickers, glitter laying around here and glued that to them in very pretty ways, stuck a tea light in each one and POOF candle holder.

Angie, pat, white, Heather, Mike, Brett, MArsha, Mother inlaws neighbor who allways remebrs my kids, Mother inlaw herself, Uncle Mike n Aunt Lucy, all have gotten or will get a Box from my ebay bissuness Wrapped with left over Holiday paper Tied with pretty fluffy hand made bows, Filled with Home MAde From Scratch cookies, breads, candy...... (some of the friends listed actually brought over the supplies to make most of this and helped make allot of it for fun n stuff so we all got to share a fun few days in the kitchen too)

My daughter, 2 Bratz Punk Dolls and she asked for a sewing kit, so i Pulled supplies from my own cause i have collected way to much over the years, Found an unused plastic box around here for storage of her things and hooked her up, a pink tool kit she saw in the Lilian Vernon Catalouge for $10, i got free shipping on it too, but it has yet to arrive a set of Jammies.

My youngets Son, the Morphantor, gotten on sale at Toy r us, used a store credit card i had to pay for a portion, a set of Jammies, and a Blue bean bag chair gotten at Big lots for $5.00, (it had a half moon rip in it so the lady gave it to me for $5 instead of $10, i took Blue electrical tape stolen from LEstats work bag, super glued it over the rip and you can hardley notice it) a set of Jammies.

My oldest Son, Paid for a portion of the Drum kit, Lestat Did a Furnace in a shop next to an Recruiting office and he noticed "canvas" material in the dumpster so he snagged it and it had Huge Pics of Army People etc..... So we are Cutting out the Pics for Decor, and using the back of where the writting is for a Canvas Graftti wall in his room, a set Drum sticks with dipped handles, a set of Jammies, a pair of used pants gotten online and a plain Black t shirt gotten for $1.00 at this great little hole in the wall dollar type store.

Stocking stuffers for all three kids include Body Wash, Toothbrush/toothpaste, Chapstick, Deoderant (For the oldest only), assorted fun bobbly type stuff gotten for less then $0.75 each at that great hole in the wall dollar store.

LEstat and i got to pay the Mortage 4 days early :grin

[Homicidalheathen]

I want to play with the Morphantor!

Your goodie basket sounds yummy.......wish I were in your family tree.

My youngets Son, the Morphantor,

[kellygrrrrrl]

Mom - Mother & Daughter one hour massage and brow waxing

Dad - Hickory Farms Meat & Cheese Basket w/ mini hatchet

Husband - New Tony Hawk & The Family Guy series 4? (I think) toy collection, volume 4 box set, and Simpson's season 7 box set

Yankee Candles for everyone else........

I always give candles to people, they seem to love it.

I did go off board and buy a Burts Bees starter facial kit for my girlfriend Jenny....

[The_Dark]

My Daughter - No idea

#1 Son - DVD-Burner and a few games (because that bitch that I used to be marrried to found out I was getting him a Bass and Amp.. so she went out and bought one first)

#2 Son - Motherboard, Ram and CPU

#3 Son - Bionicals and a few games for his gameboy, Darth Vader electronic Light Saber

#4 Son - Chemistry Kit, Microscope Kit,

#5 Son - Really big Fire truck, other various trucks.

Gorf - Diamond Ring, Vanilla Bath set, All my Love

[saechalyn]

I don't make a big thing out of holidays. I exchanged gifts with my roommates and got a last-minute present for my supervisor at work when I found out she got me something. That's it.

[honeymustard02]

I made a set of candle holders.

Needed

Epsom Salt $2 for a 4lb bag

Votive holder $.44

School glue $.25 a bottle

You take the candle holder, cover it in a thin layer of glue. Then you pour the salt over it to get an even coating.

Let dry.

Then you put any kind of little candle you like in it and light.

It looks like frosted glass.

Tie some ribbon or whatever you want on there and TADA!!!! Homemade easy gift.

Great for kids.

[Lilith]

I made a set of candle holders.

Needed

Epsom Salt $2 for a 4lb bag

Votive holder $.44

School glue $.25 a bottle

You take the candle holder, cover it in a thin layer of glue. Then you pour the salt over it to get an even coating.

Let dry.

Then you put any kind of little candle you like in it and light.

It looks like frosted glass.

Tie some ribbon or whatever you want on there and TADA!!!! Homemade easy gift.

Great for kids.

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With a little prep you could Dye the epsom salt diffrent colors maybe with food coloring.... I have never done it so i am not sure if you can but it owuld be kinda neat to do so... probally make for a pretty glow

[saechalyn]

With a little prep you could Dye the epsom salt diffrent colors maybe with food coloring.... I have never done it so i am not sure if you can but it owuld be kinda neat to do so... probally make for a pretty glow

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OOH this is a great idea...I think I'll try it! Thanks HM and Lilith!

[Lilith]

OOH this is a great idea...I think I'll try it!  Thanks HM and Lilith!

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LOL i thought What Great Idea For Next Year..I have a Box of other bar type glasses Grandma handed odwn to me and well I dont have a bar......

I also thought if you could not getthe epsom salt to color okay you might be able to take colored tissue paper glue that on first then apply the epsom salt.......

Yes TY HW great idea.... I hope you dont mind i ran with it a bit it was just inspiring :innocent

[Ginevra]

The SO - well, don't want to say since he peruses these boards sometimes :D

His Mom - A nostalgic DVD collection that includes Bob Hope movies and TV episodes of I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Dick VanDyke, and a couple other black and whites.

His sister - 2 nice bath sets in two different fragrances.

His niece - 2 educational! computer games

My neighbor - a handmade tree ornament that looks similar to the photo below minus the white beads on the pins and the sequins are about a quarter of the size in the photo:

The lady that I sit for who is a good friend of mine: a dragonfly bracelet as shown below:

Her boyfriend: A track jacket and a nice merino wool sweater. (Both from the clearance rack at Target. heh)

This is the first year I've really been able to give gifts or not have to piggyback with someone else. I splurged a lot this year and while my pocket is crying over being gouged, well, I just hope everyone likes what I chose for them.

[Draco1958]

Where did you find that bracelet, it's really sweet.

[Homicidalheathen]

Me diggin' said bracelet too

[Ginevra]

For those interested, the bracelet in my previous post is from The Pyramid Collection. Dragonflies are my friend's favourite thing and her boyfriend got her an amber dragonfly necklace earlier this year, so this bracelet just sort of jumped out at me.

[honeymustard02]

You know I thought of trying to dye the salt different color. I was thinking of using chalk. Ever do those layer sand things as a kid?

We did them with salt and rubbed chalk in them to grind it up and make differnt colors. We couldn't really afford the color sand.

If anyone tries anything with coloring the salt let me know how it works out. =)

[sass_in_the_pants]

I just finished last night!

Here are my big scores:

Okay, so you know those girls on mudflaps, the silhouette ones? Well, my sis is pregnant and I found a t-shirt with a prego mudflap girl! Ha! And my new niece or nephew (we'll know in a few months) will be getting its very first biker jacket! It says Harley on the back and everything! It's so effing adorable!

I got dad the book by John McCain. He's going to love it. And my friend L, she is getting a tiara, because, well, doesn't everyone need a tiara?

Everyone else just got pretty standard stuff.