Snippets for Life: gift ideas

great gift ideas for special occasions or just because!

get a map and put stars or hearts or pics of your faces on places you've been or would like to go together. you can wrap your present in a map (or use the same one) and write on the card or tag that they mean the world to you =)

buy a mini-dictionary (dollar store) and highlight or circle all the words you can find that remind you of him, and write a little note next to each word. it takes quite a while to get through each letter so you can always do some then take turns filling out the rest.

spray some of your perfume or cologne on a paper heart and put it in a little container for them to open; you can also do a stuffed animal or personalized pillow (you can try to find a online site for that) or whatever else you can think of to spray

zazzle.com is a great site for personalizing things, a calender with pics of you, a photo key chain of you blowing a kiss, personal postcards. i've made magnets and aprons for other people

mini photo flipbooks - i think you can create them from qoop.com, snapfish, kodak...

becomeanmm.com - you can create mm characters that look like you and your loved one and save them (as images), take "photos" in the mm studio with your characters and save those, put your characters on t-shirts, mugs, key chains, postcards, etc. at zazzle since they're partners (trying to go right from the mm site to zazzle makes the characters look weird; i would download images of the characters and upload them to zazzle instead) you'll have to explore =)

customize M&M's - you can pick the colors and write your own message and pick your own packaging at www.mymms.com

fold up lots of pieces of colored paper with quotes on love, kissing, courage, faith, jokes, messages, drawings, etc. and fill up a chinese take-out box (dollar store) or other cute container (I've done a raisin container as a joke since my loved one hated them) for them to open every day/whenever they want to hear from you. i have a collection of quotes somewhere if anyone needs some =)

create a personalized crossword puzzle (lots of online sites for that) and print it off for them to do, with stuff to guess at like nicknames, favorite foods or restaurants, birthday months, places you've been together, etc.

a jigsaw puzzle out of a picture of you or you both (you'll have to look up sites for that)

for food stuff you can do flavored drink mixes, their fav cereal, spices he likes, cake in a jar (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cake-in-a-Jar/Detail.aspx), weird or unusual snacks you find...

lovingyou.com has some good stories and I've gotten ideas there, you just have to read through a lot of posts. here's a few of the good ones -

get a package of confetti stars and sprinkle them in the present box (or card, anything) and write "when we first met/kissed/etc. i saw stars" =)

if you're an artist or you know someone who is (or are willing to pay for it), get a picture of yourself and your loved one (together or separate) that you like and have it turned into a portrait sketch of you two together

host a "Husband Appreciation" (or wife, girlfriend, boyfriend) night at your home. invite several couples, ask the one partner to keep the night's theme a secret from the other. the knowledgeable party should tell their significant other why they are appreciated and then show them by presenting them with something special and unique (or you could all get them the same thing). one idea: after telling your husband why you so greatly appreciate him, present him with a bouquet of home depot gift cards, (complete with baby's breath, greenery, and a bow)! buy a large arrangement of artificial roses, remove the flowers from some of the stems, and hot glue the gift cards. the possibilities are endless for both the party and presents =)

if you or someone you know sings, write a song and get it recorded (as professionally as possible). as a bonus, call or go to your favorite radio station and beg (if needed) for them to play it and make sure your loved one turns the radio on!

from lovingyou.com - "My man wears polo shirts to work which have the name of his company embroidered over his heart. So, I went to a uniform shop and bought an identical shirt and had the words "Kelly Loves Me" embroidered in the same style as the business name on his work shirts. I made sure it was the only shirt hanging in his wardrobe on the morning of our one year anniversary. Being a creature of habit, he put it on without noticing anything unusual, until he got to work and people started making comments. His workmates loved it and he felt very special. Now he regularly wears it to work!"

"The week before we were together for 500 days, I told him that I was going to take him out to dinner that weekend for a special celebration. Then, all week, I just kept talking about how excited I was, which, in turn, got him excited. On our 500th day anniversary I picked him up. Waiting on my car seat was a medium sized glass jar/container that I filled with 500 pennies. Inside the container was a heart shaped note that read: "Find a penny pick it up; all day long you'll have good luck!" I then wrote how these past 500 days I have felt so lucky that it has been as if I found a penny every day."

buy a bath towel (the really nice big ones) and some embroidery thread and sew a life-size stick figure of you with your arms out so that every time your loved ones dries himself off it'll be like getting a hug from you =)

if anything you buy happens to have a key, write a note with it that says “You have the key to my heart.”

if your loved one would like a new watch (or you just want to buy a silly cheapo one), put in a note saying "I will love you until the end of time.”

hope that helps! =)

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