Little love poems are one of the easiest, cheapest and most touching ways to top up a plain old registry item. Sometimes it can be hard to find appropriate and uplifting ones though. (Seriously, do you know how many depressing poems there are about tea?! I found some happy ones here.) You can use a […]
Creative Cash Gift: Bubbling with Joy
[Photo – CC Attribution Share Alike – Jeff Kubina] This is either a cash gift idea or a wedding gift basket idea… maybe both, depending on your budget! I’ve mentioned it several times before, but poems are one of the easiest, most affordable and touching ways to personalize a wedding gift and make it awesome […]
Malibu Mail – Random Acts of Kindness
[ Photo – CC Attribution – bobofung06] This past week I did something that may sound a little bit crazy. I prefer to think of it as crazy-awesome. It is a random act of kindness or a pay-it-forward kind of thing. It is along the lines of the lovely little project that Frugal Portland […]
Creative Cash Gift: Fireworks
[Photo – CC Attribution – HeyDanielle] On Wednesday night I attended my third Christmas party, which was for the curling club. This gift exchange in particular had a $15 limit, which is enough to get something decent but not outrageous. There were the usual suspects, including several bottles of wine (we brought one of them) […]
How to Write an Awesome Wedding Card
Let’s do a really quick brainstorm together. When you think of what’s written inside of a wedding card, what immediately comes to mind? Between the message written down and the one printed on the card… did you come up with some one-liners like, “congratulations,” “best wishes,” and “here’s to many happy years”? Yup. Stock. Boring. […]
Shower Gift: The Bucket List
[Photo – CC Attribution – changeable focus] I stumbled upon a great post via the Delightfully Inspiring Thursday link up, over at Our Family of Three (unfortunately the blog is now gone), which 100% inspired this wedding shower gift idea. Many thanks to those sites :-) Apparently I like buckets, because I have now written about […]
Gifts from Afar: Wine
[Photo – CC Attribution – Bradleyjohnson] I have had a bit of a problem lately… namely friends keep getting married in far off countries. As awesome as it would be to pop on a plane over to Australia or head down to Burning Man (never been…), it is just not feasible for me to […]
Teapot and Teacup Poems
Awhile back I wrote a post full of suggestions on how to add a creative touch to the teapot, a very common wedding gift. At the bottom, I suggested you look up a poem to include from Google. Here I am, pulling together a few to make your life easier! Ahem, as it turns out, […]
Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright
In the forests of the night. – William Blake I have had that stuck in my head since I started thinking about this post. This gift idea comes thanks to my friend Shannon, who said it was the best not-on-registry shower gift she received. The kitchen fire extinguisher. It’s one of those practical things that […]
Sugar Pot Gift Idea
One of my favourite ways to create a unique wedding gift, to give it that little sumthin’ sumthin’, is to include a poem. You can do wonders with scrapbooking or by simply pasting into Word and adding some graphics! Adding a poem tells the recipient that you took those few extra minutes and personalized their […]
A Wedding Gift full of Zest
Wedding gift registries usually have a great many little things, like lemon zesters, garlic presses and even avocado slicers and spice racks. One of the reasons that towel cakes and wedding shower cakes have become so popular is that they are a fun way to make a unique and creative wedding gift. If you would […]