1HappyCorner.com - Gift Blog

When you’re cruising the net, you never know what kind of site you are going to stumble onto. The great thing about being a gift blogger is I get paid to blunder around the net looking for cool things. So when PerpetualKid.Com popped up, I was obliged to spend loads of time checking out some of the hilarious items available. It’s all in the name of research folks - no goofing around here. *fingers crossed behind my back*

PepertualKid.Com offers a great collection of items for people who have a great sense of humor or for the person who has everything.

One of the site’s most popular items is “The Ex Vodoo Knife Set.” It’s billed as a “cathartic knife holder” that come with 5 stainless steel knives. Art and functionality combine with this holder as it uses magnetic sleeves to keep the 8-inch chef, bread, carver knives, 5-inch utility knife and 3.5-inch paring knife in place.

Available in several colors including red, black, chrome and pink, this holder is a great gift for a friend going through relationship drama or for a daughter going away to college or getting her first apartment - which makes me think Dads are going to be lined up for this one! This fun gift has been featured in Time Magazine and USA Today.

photo credit: www.perpetualkid.com

How many times are parents and grandparents asked to see pictures of the kids? Too many times to name. Well now, you can give that special parent or grandparent a gift they will truly cherish. I thought this was the coolest idea for a gift I have seen in a very long time. This is a Portable Digital Photo Album, currently sold by QVC. It holds up to 1000 photos, isn’t that impressive . It has the ability to set categories for each collection of photos you may have. Let’s say you want to separate all the kids or grandkids into their own section, you can do that with this album. Here’s where the neat creative idea comes in, for the next Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Birthday or special occasion; give that special person this gift only you fill it up with some images for them. Grandma will love to recieve it with pictures of the grandkids already in it.

     A great idea for a grandparent! Fill this little device up with tons of pictures of your kids, special trips, anything they would want pictures of and then send it to you mom or dad. They will love it. No more, waiting for pictures through the mail or trying to get them developed and cropped down to fit into a wallet. Keep all the pictures neatly together and organized, ready to be shown off. The digital photo album comes in five adorable colors and comes with the software to crop and edit photos on your device. They can show pictures in a slide show or one at a time. Just imagine, you can just email your pictures and your mother or father will be able to simply download them straight into their handy little portable digital photo album. On Sale for $72.84, you just add the images. Once all your pictures are on it…Voila’…instant personalized one-of-a-kind present for that special person.

For more ideas on digital photo albums and frames, please visit our Gift Store!

-Image belongs to QVC

Are you on that endless search for that distinctive and charming gift? We have the perfect suggestion for any gift giving time, which will light up any woman’s eyes and hair for that matter!

Since every woman has a hairbrush, we suggest these Great Diva Hairbrushes! For only $10 each, these high quality hairbrushes are adorned with a 3D and fantastic Diva of your choice. You can tailor the hairbrush to the eccentricities of your Diva! The Vixen Diva Hairbrush with her Über Cool black hair with silver streaks in it make that dull and average hairbrush fun to use again! Resembling the characteristics of the women you are buying the brush for is made easy with specific activities to choose from like Shopping, Cooking or Bathing Diva.

If you want more than just a hairbrush, you can select one of the Diva Gift Baskets with bath products to accompany the hairbrush. Coming Soon there will be more Diva Hairbrushes with more activities like Golf, Sunbathing and Harley Diva!

These unique hairbrushes can only be found online at www.giftsandfineart.com. They do make the perfect gift for the Diva in your life! Don’t forget to pick one up for yourself!

photo credit: www.giftsandfineart.com

Go beyond the typical floral gift for Mother’s Day by giving one of the most treasured flowers out there - orchids. Stately and beautiful, orchid plants can perk up any room and there are some great ideas, types and colors available.

Orchids.Com is a cool spot for orchid lovers and those looking to choose from gift baskets, cut flowers and even an orchid of the month club. Tell Mom she’s special this month and remind her every month for the next twelve. That’s a lot better than the vacuum cleaner you bought last year. And it doesn’t matter that it was a Dyson. Sheesh.

For under $50 you can purchase a great potted orchid that will last for weeks at Orchids.Com, which if you’re a thrifty kind of person you’ll find it’s a better deal than $50 on cut roses that’ll die in a week!

1888Orchids.Com not on provides fantastic orchids, they offer a gift guide, gift certificates and an orchid blog. For new moms, a great gift option at 1888Orchids.Com is the “New Baby Orchids” bouquet on sale this week for with about $10 off depending on the bouquet.

So this week, think orchids.

For more online florist resources that offer excellent gift ideas and products, please read: A Token Of Love, Flowers! Online Resources.

photo credit: www.orchids.com

Hello, everyone! I know I am a few days late with my post this month and I apologize for that. It’s been like crazy here. Anyway, I hope it is worth the wait!

We have decided that The “Successful Shopping Blog of the month” Award for the month of April, 2008 goes to The Indie Path for their endeavors to bring handcrafters of unique products and customers together via “Indieviews”! These little interviews give you a better insight into the lives, hopes and dreams of some really talented handcrafters. The Indie Path goes beyond the product!

Now, show some love and check out their website at http://theindiepath.com/ 

“This is your life, mother”

 A great idea for this mother’s day is a scrapbook depicting your mother’s life up until this point. It’s like a chronological tour of her life ’til now. The hardest part of this book will be finding all the pictures and keepsakes you will need, but you still have about 2 weeks to gather everything you need from aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and close friends.

Here is a list of basic items to get you started (these can be personalized according to your mom’s taste):

• a scrapbooking kit (any craft/hobby store should have one)
• Mother’s day embellishments, stickers, rub-ons
• Memory and Date embellishments, stickers, embossing
• Personal pictures (from her childhood to current) school photos, high school prom, graduation, wedding, following baby’s birth, vacation pictures
• Mom’s favorite and best recipes
• Mom’s accomplishments
• Poem for first page that describes what your mother means to you
• Her ambitions from when she was young (”I want to grow up to be”) and then what she became
• Past cards from husband and kids (mother’s day, birthday cards, valentine’s, etc.)
• Personal notes to mom from family members, friends and you
• What your mom means to you page

The book should start from the earliest information you can gather to today. The setup of the pages will be left up to you, I use a similar setup as pictured above. The page arrangement in the book will depend greatly on how much and what information you have on each item in her life. This is a great site to get ideas on different layouts for your pages. This will be such a special from-the-heart gift, it is sure to be treasured and showed off over the years. Another cool thing to do, is every mother’s day from this point on, you could incorporate more parts of the book; displaying such items from the previous as vacations, special moments (births), valentine’s and Christmas. Once your book is complete, wrap it in your favorite Mother’s day paper and wait for the tears .

—-image belongs to www.cluttercontrolfreak.com