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Custom sweet photo album

Do you have any pics of the two of you together, from when you first started dating until now? If so mabye get them done in black and white and play around with them, put them into an album labeled with your names on the front, for each pic you can write something about it, or in the end of the album write her/his a poem about your relationship and how you feel about her/him!

You could also go to a photographer and get some pics done for her/him!

You could frame a pic for her/him!

Buy her some lingerie you would like to see her in.

Is there anything specific she/he’s been hinting for, or something along the way she/he’s pointed out but didn’t buy!

Nice Cupecakes are cute and sweet

From Clay:

A good Idea is to make a batch of cupcakes. Make each top of the cupcake a different color of frosting. then on top of that with white icing pipe on things like (Love you, Text me, Hi, or anything that you would find on a sweetheart) I think that would be a great Idea. He would be shure to love that.

If you don’t know how to make nice cupecakes, the Mrs. easleys.com can help you to order online, I find one cupecake and recommand it to you.

Valentines Photo Cupcakes, 12 Cupcakes

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Customized things are the cute and sweet gifts

If you want to find a unique and sweet gift for your bf or gf, the customized things are the great choices.

For my boyfriends birthday I got him blue and red T-shirts with “Happy Birthday John! Love, Eleni” on them. He loves them! There are many providers can offer the customization online, I recommand Spreadshirt and Shirtcity:

Spreadshirt:

Spreadshirt is the worldwide creative platform for personlized apparel. Nearly 300 employees work to help bring imagination onto shirts – from the programming of the platform to marketing and service to a finished shirt of the highest quality.

Shirtcity:

At Shirtcity, the user can create his or her own personalized T-shirts, underwear, caps, lanyards, cups, teddy bears and much more. We provide more than 40 stylish products: ready for design. In addition to the user’s own graphics, we offer 80 different fonts and an ever-growing design collection consisting of more than 1500 graphics. With so many options for customized product creation, we are able to successfully deliver high conversion rates.

So romantic gift ideas for valentines day

From Missy:

This is what i am doing…..I have the whole day planned.. Its our 2nd one together and our first as a married couple so want it to be special. II am serving a stack of heart shapped pancakes with strawberrys to start the day, i have booked a chocolate making workshop for us to do in the morning, i am making a special ‘high tea’ lunch then i have rented a thatched cottage to stay the night and taking him to a restauaraunt for a meal and the next morning i will serve him breakfast in bed. got him a few bits to

and

last year…i made him a promise box. I got a heart shapped box from the pound/doller store and filled it with promises for that day. I put in a candle with the promise of a ‘candle lit meal’ that i had waiting for him when he got home, also a small bottle of bath oil with the promise of running him a nice hot bath, and a varies of other things which i wont mention cos you said no rude answers! lol. but you can put what you want in. i got some free tickets to a comedy show which i put in for after the meal.
i also did silly things like when i made his sandwiches for work i cut them into heart shapes and included a heart shapped chocolate lolly in his lunch box and his favourite soft drink which is hard to find where we live. i also stuck heart shapped post it notes in places like his work tool box for him to find during the day to remind him i loved him. i also made a scrapbook for him and put down reasons why i loved him in it. Oh and i baked a cake to and iced sloppy messeges on it.
i have also (not on valentines) promised a night under the stars but cos its still cold i got some glow in the dark stars which you can stick on the ceiling and i packed a picnic and threw a blanket on the living room floor and we ‘picnicked’ under the stars.

a cute gift idea for boyfriend need long time

Going to get a dictionary, and go through it [yes, the whole thing] and highlight words that remind you of him, and going to cover up the front and back of the dictionary and make it pretty and more personal.

It’ll take a long time, but the love is worth it.

Custom the white canvas shoes for your lover

The Valentine’s day is approaching, have you prepared the great gifts for your lover? If not, I will give you a great gift idea.

Custom the white canvas shoes:

You should get some white canvas shoes (vans) and use paint markers to draw on them, so that when you put are shoes together it makes a picture.

Just like this:

I think the next question you will ask is how to custom the shoes. I collected some tutorials for you, you can learn from them and have a try.

Where to buy the white canvas shoes?
I’d like to recommand the shoebuy.com to you!

Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day

Ideas & Gifts to Make

• A scrapbook.
• A collage of pictures of you two.
• A picture frame.
• Cookies or a cake that you can decorate in the shape of a heart.
• A mix tape or CD.
• A decorated jar with 100 little notes inside that each read a reason you love them.
• A calendar of pictures of you two & write out all of your special dates (anniversary, first time you said “I love you”.. etc.) You can make these at Walmart.
• A memory box. Fill it with special photos, letters and just any momentos from your relationship.
• Love and favor coupons.
• A dream catcher.
• Write a poem or song about your relationship.
• Make a heart shaped box out of clay and then paint it.

Gift Ideas to Buy
For Men:

• A wallet.
• A watch.
• Cologne.
• Netflix. (You can now get it through Xbox Live if he has that game system.)
• An engraved picture frame.
• A key chain that has some type of significance or is engraved.
• A calendar with either cute or sexy pictures of yourself.
• An Ipod.
• Fill his gas tank.
• Take him out for dinner for a change.
• DVDs, CDs and video games.
• Tickets to a concert.
• Clean up his room or car when he’s not home.

For Women:

• Necklace, earrings, bracelet, rings… etc.
• Dinner.
• Fill her gas tank.
• Roses and chocolates.
• Tickets to a concert.
• Perfume.
• Candles.
• Engraved picture frame.
• A star. (Yes, I mean an actual star.)
• A subscription to her favorite magazine.
• A monthly Flowers Club card.
• A dream book for her to record her dreams.
• A nice journal.
• A nice make up bag.
• Agree to take dance lessons with her.

What To Do

• A romantic picnic at the beach, local park or your living room floor.
• Dinner at a local restaurant.
• Make a fire in your backyard and star gaze.
• Go to the place you first met.
• Go to the place you had your first date.
• Go to the drive-ins.

If you have any ideas that you would like me to add, please reply this post and I will add them as soon as possible. Thanks!

A really neat and special gift is a personalized journal

Take a composition notebook that you can get at the store for like a dollar or even fifty cents.

Go to any craft or scrap book store that has open stock paper. This is where you can buy just one sheet of paper and not a whole pack.

Choose the paper you want for the cover (you will need two sheets) and then choose the paper you want for the inside (again two sheets of either matching or contrasting paper).

Cover the front and back with the paper you choose and cut it down so that you only have about an inch of over hang and cut the corners off at an angle. Fold and glue that over hang on the inside of the covers.

Take the other two sheets of paper and measure so that they fit the inside almost exactly or with not more than a 1/4 inch in.

Not that the book is covered choose stickers, letters, pictures, three dimensional things, pressed flowers – what ever would mean something to the receiver – to decorate the front and back covers of the book. You can, if you choose even put things into the inside… either just fluff or writing prompts.

This can either be a personal journal or a ping pong journal where you and the person write back and forth to each other.

Enjoy!

Popular and Easy Craft or Activity for Kids

When I was a den mother with the cub scouts I had a different project every week. One of my favorites was a paper weight made of wood . I would get small slices of branches about 4 inches in diameter and have them paint the slices with acrylic paint to look like water melon slices. I got green red black and white. Just picture them. Black for the border, green and white for the inside border, red for the inside with black dots for the seeds. The parents loved them. Great for a valentine gift for the parents.


here are some more ideas

Leather Like Vase

Art activities are a great way to combine gift giving
with family time. This leather like vase for example,
is a challenging activity for your older child, as well
as a great gift idea. Your child can feel the satisfaction
of creating a gift from the heart, for a Teacher,
Mother’s Day or Grandmother gift!

You’ll need:
Empty bottle or jar
Masking tape
Shoe Polish
Cloth Rag

Completely cover your clean glass bottle,
with torn or cut pieces of masking tape.
Making sure that the pieces of tape overlap
each other. With an old rag, rub the shoe
polish into the tape. Leave to dry.
Fill with flowers or a plant.
Tips……
Younger children should not participate in the
shoe polish stage. Sometimes a second rubbing
or glossing adds to the beauty.

Egg Carton Flowers
Add these home made flowers to your newly created vase!
If you have an older and younger child, they can work as a team. The eldest can make the vase and your little one can paint the flowers.

You’ll Need :
Cardboard egg carton
paint or markers
Pipe Cleaners
Cut the cups away from the rest of the egg carton.
Cut 4 – 6 petals on each flower so that is resembles a tulip.
Bend and curl petals anyway you think looks best.
Poke a hole through the center of the cup. Thread the pipe cleaner trough the hole and knot to create the stem. Use more Pipe cleaners to bend and shape leaves then attach to stem by twisting on. You are now ready to decorate your flower with paint or markers.

Top Ten Gift Ideas for Dance Instructors or Dancers

As the holidays roll around we sometimes get stuck when we are attempting to figure out what to buy people. Teacher gifts are always tough because you don’t want to buy them another mug that they will just set on a shelf. A dance teacher is an even tougher person to buy fo.r Sometimes because if it is your child’s teacher you may not know much about the person, or about dance. As a dance teacher who has received many different gifts and heard from other teachers what they did and did not like I can assure you that what I am about to suggest should please any dance teacher or dancer.

10. As a person who is always trying to eat healthy I once received a box of chocolates, which was wonderful. I never would have bought them myself, and everyone deserves a treat once in awhile. However, not everyone might enjoy them as much as I did. One family gave me a gift basket with hot chocolate, teas, and a mug. I thought that was a very nice and practical gift.

9. Dancer cookies. Continuing with the food theme in my first idea you could also include cookies in the shape of dancers. Or in the shape of other things that may remind you of dance. You could make basic sugar or gingerbread cookies. These could even be a special treat at the end of class for each student. A cookie cutter with a recipe and the ingredients for the recipe in a little basket would also make a nice gift.



8. Ornaments/figurines. I do not know how many little ballerina decorations I own. Every year someone gives me one. Many of them are beautiful, and I do not mind the collection I have accumulated at all. A small figure of a dancer might also be a nice gesture, especially if the figure looked like the student or the teacher. Or maybe it was reminiscent of a part someone had in a recital or ballet. A nutcracker however is probably overused and may not be the best choice for a figure or ornament.

7. If you got caught up in the recent knitting craze you may like to knit a scarf as a gift. An even better thing to knit for a dancer would be legwarmers. You could use three needles without heads, or stitch together a long rectangle. There are different lengths of legwarmers from 17″ to 24″ to 36″ to 48″. Just take your pick; people always appreciate effort and care that gets put into homemade gifts.

6. T-shirts/apparel. You can take a trip to your local dance store, or look in a catalogue such as discount dance supply and find a shirt that says dance or has a dancer on it. Watch for a couple weeks to see what sort of clothing the person you are buying the item is for. wears. Do they wear things loose or tight fitting? Do they even wear t-shirts? Be careful when buying clothing for someone else.

5. Another suggestion is to see what dance things a bookstore might have. A book or video on dance instruction might be something helpful. Just make sure it doesn’t come across as an insult to the teacher’s abilities. You may also find some classical music that could be used in the ballet class, or simply a calendar with dancers on it.

4. Posters/Prints. Many dance studios have posters or prints of dance on their walls. A nicely framed poster or print might be a nice addition the lobby or office of a dance studio. Or the teacher may want to hang it in their home.


3. Hair things. Dancers must always keep their hair up out of their face, unless they are doing African or hip-hop, but typically hair is back. Ponytail elastics, hairnets, cute bobby pins, or even those pretty elastics with flowers that H&M sells are all things you could throw in with a card if you do not feel like spending lots of money. They are practical and something dancers are always running out of.

2. Lotions. I know most people think bath and body products are a cop out gift, but they aren’t for a dancer. A dancer really needs to take care of their body, especially their feet. One of the best gifts I received last Christmas was a special foot lotion and special socks to moisturize your feet. I had never heard of such a thing, but for someone who dances barefoot throughout the year it was wonderful. I now look at my fellow dancers dry feet and think that I should give them some of the lotion. Look for special lotion for the feet, special socks, and even legwarmers could be added to make a nice little gift basket.


1. Picture frames, collages, and scrapbooks. These are always precious gifts because you know a lot of thought has gone into them. Take photos of throughout the years with that dance teacher and yourself or child to make a nice collage or scrapbook. If you or your child is going to be leaving the studio or graduating the gift will be even more special. For a newer student who may not have as many photos a framed photo of the class or the student and teacher might be a nice sentiment.

I have just given you many ideas for gifts to give dance instructors, but any dancer would probably like gifts like these. Some are more expensive than others, but many of them are simple, cheap and not too difficult to find. These ideas should make your holiday shopping for the dancer in your life a little less stressful.