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2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – Giftybox.com

Jan 152009

Classes Box. photo courtesy of Giftybox.com

We mentioned Giftybox.com in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.Â

I was rather intrigued the first time I read about this idea. But I have to say: I love it!

What’s all about? Well, in a nutshell, Giftybox.com allows you to give the ultimate â€œgift of experienceâ€. You, the gift giver, choose the theme (i.e. â€œSpa & Well Being, â€œAdventureâ€, â€œWinery Toursâ€, â€œClassesâ€ ,etc), while your gift recipient gets to choose the activity (i.e. massage, facials, cooking class, dance lessons, kayaking, skiing, hiking etc).

This is how it works:Â As the gift giver, you pick the theme you want to give based on whatever suits the personality of your gift recipient: winery tour/tasting, spa experience, adventure (i.e. scuba diving, scenic flights, horseback riding, whitewater rafting, rock climbing, etc.), classes (dance, martial arts, cooking, etc.)

Once you pick a theme, your gift recipient receives a guidebook of all the options in the theme (beautifully packaged; this is far more than a gift certificate) so that he/she can choose the specific activity (based on preferences and location).

Adventure Box. photo courtesy of Giftybox.com

My favorite packages are “Classes” ($49)Â and “Adventure” ($89).

Why is this the perfect Valentine’s Gift? Giving an experience is extremely personal, not to mention, if you are looking for a gift for â€œthe person who has it allâ€, giving an adventure or a class or a winery tour might just be the best way to go -or better yet, join your gift recipient so the two of you can share the experience together!

Read more at Giftybox.com! And don’t forget about the discount coupon code below!!

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DISCOUNT COUPON CODE:

Valentine’s promocode for $10 off any Giftybox product or product combination (except the Spa Package for Two that is already discounted to $129): Â MYVALENTINE2009

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2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – Project7.com

Jan 152009

We had the pleasure of featuring Project7.com in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.

The Mission: “Enter Project 7, a consumer goods company passionate about social change and dedicated to addressing the seven most critical areas of need in the world today, as determined by Project 7â€”Build the Future, Feed the Hungry, Heal the Sick, Help those in Need, Hope for Peace, House the Homeless, and Save the Planet. No matter peopleâ€™s political affiliations or background, these seven issues strike a chord in the very fiber of mankind.” Together we can “Change the Score”.

RPET Environmental Tee. photo courtesy of Project7.com

The Product: A few details on the RPET Environmental UPC Tee (Heart): made from recycled plastic bottles (5 water bottles per t-shirt) and organic cotton, 50 percent of profits from Project 7 Tees are donated to charities supporting seven areas of critical need in the world including Save the Earth. Our favorite designâ€”The Heart Teeâ€”is a great way to tell that special someone you care.

The Price: only $22.99 plus S&H

Available at www.Project7.com.

2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – abodycandle.com

Jan 152009

: photo courtesy of abodycandle.com

We had the pleasure of featuring Scandles from abodycandle.com in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.

Features: Made from the purest body safe ingredients including soy butter, shea butter, jojoba, vitamin E, & essential oils, the Scandle is a candle that burns at 2 degrees above body temperature to produce a soothing oil for massage, manicures/pedicures, or as a daily moisturizer. Made from 100% vegan and natural ingredients, The Scandle is quickly becoming a coveted treatment and retail product in boutiques and spas accross the country and abroad.

Eco-friendly: A couple of days ago, ScandleÂ® LLC announced the launch of Massage candle refills in keeping withÂ their mission to reduce, reuse, & recycle.Â

They also created complimentary spa products (right on time for Valentine’s Day!)Â including bath salts, scrubs, & spa treatment kits to enhance The ScandleÂ® experience. We sincerely recommend the Scandles as a Valentine’s gift for couples who want to have a romantic and relaxing evening!

Scandles and refills can be purchased online at abodycandle.com or at one ofÂ their retailers, which can be found on their website. Check them out!

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2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – Rock My World Inc.

Jan 142009

Heart Shaped Thumbprint Necklace

We mentioned Rock My World Inc in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s time to consider what to get instead of the usual standbys of flowers and chocolates. Consider something a little different and unique, such as Rock My World Inc. on Etsy. Rock My World Inc. is unique hand casted silver jewelry. It’s definitely not cookie cutter jewelry since no two pieces can ever be identical. Each piece from Rock My World Inc. is made from the “lost wax casting” method, a process in which a piece is made into wax and cast with sterling silver. What’s even better is the sterling silver is re-purposed from older jewelry pieces and reused to make the jewelry at Rock My World Inc.

Heart Shaped Thumbprint Necklace

This Valentine’s Day consider the Sterling Silver Heart Shaped Thumbprint Necklace. It’s a great gift for mothers and grandmothers who can wear this one-of-a-kind keepsake of their loved one. Each necklace is engraved with the name on the back.

Forget Me Knot Bow Ring

Forget Me Knot Bow Ring is another great Valentine’s gift idea. This Forget Me Knot ring is actually made from a piece of string and hand casted out of the “recycled” sterling silver. This unique gift is great for wives, girlfriends, and for that special someone in your life. In addition to getting a unique gift, you would be helping a good cause. Twenty percent of the proceeds from each ring is donated to the Tri-County Humane Society in South Florida.

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Please leave any questions or comments about Rock My World Inc.

2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – The Ah Ring

Jan 142009

: The Ah Ring. Photo courtesy of DivineDiamonds.com

We had the pleasureÂ of featuring The Ah Ring in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.

The Ah Ring is the first and only diamond ring especially designed for single ladies to buy for themselves and wear on their pinkie.Â Oprah loved it and it was featured onÂ the” O” List in 2001!

The Story behind the Ah Ring is probably what makes it so very popular! Besides the quality, of course! It is a story of HOPE and OPTIMISM.

I had the honor of speaking with Ms. Ruta Fox on the phone the other day. She is the creator of the Ah Ring and President of Divine Diamonds. And she is absolutely amazing!

The story starts when she was told by her doctor that sitting for a long time at the computer might be harmfulÂ to her back. Well, her life was all of a sudden turned upside – down because she was a freelance writer. So, while she was resting on the couchÂ trying to figure out how to make a living, one of her friends came over andÂ asked herÂ ifÂ she knew someone who was selling diamond rings to be worn on a pinkie, like Oprah had… but at an affordable price! Ruta called some of her contacts and managed to get one for her friend who loved it! Then, her other friendsÂ wantedÂ a ring also… in a nutshell, that’s how it all started! Then she gave it a name: The Ah Ring! “A” stands for “Available” and “h” for “happy” just like her single friends! Married and engaged women have diamond rings; why shouldn’t single women have diamond rings, too?!Â

Ever since 2001, The Ah Ring grew into an incredible business reaching $1,000,000 in sales in the first year! It has been mentioned in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, tv shows, etc.Â

Features: The Ah Ring is made of 14k white gold and features eleven round full-cut diamonds.

The Ah Ring can only be purchased at DivineDiamonds.comÂ for the incredible price of $330 that includes Insurance and Shipping!! Check it out! Remember, diamonds are forever! AndÂ you, ladies,Â can buy your OWN ring!

2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – Bookwormbaskets.com

Jan 142009

Fond-ue Memories Gift Basket photo courtesy of BookWormBaskets.com

Â We were very happy to mention BookwormBaskets.com in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.

At BookwormBaskets.com “the book is only just the beginning”… If you want to offerÂ a gift thatÂ is based onÂ aÂ book, then BookwormBaskets is the place to go to!

They have lots of choices and every basket is customizedÂ to fitÂ the theme of the book. AndÂ if yourÂ New Year’s Resolution was “going green”, then you should really check them out! They have been adding eco-friendly products to their baskets; alsoÂ for every book you buy from them, a tree will be planted! That is because theyÂ joined Eco-LibrisÂ in their efforts towards sustainable reading!Â

My Bubbly Valentine

Another nice thing about them is that they create custom baskets. Just tell them what your favorite book is and they’ll find the right products!Â

ItÂ was hard for me to choose my favorites… they all look so good!Â Â Especially the ones for babies! Finally, I decided onÂ the “Fond-ueÂ Memories” and “My Bubbly Valentine“Â gift baskets; both on sale for $59.99.

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DISCOUNT COUPON

I am delighted to say that Bookwormbaskets.com were very generousÂ to offerÂ our happy readers a 15% discount with the discount code: HC15. Check out their awesome gift baskets at BookwormBaskets.com !

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2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – Jujups.com

Jan 132009

photo courtesy of jujups.com

We featured Jujups.com in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.

Check out http://www.jujups.com where users can personalize unique 3D printed products which are

1. designed entirely by themselves
2. not some mass produced product but unqiue one of a kind pieces for their loved ones.

The products they offer include: 3D-miniframes, gift-tags, mugs, T-shirts, Christmas ornaments, canvas, cut outs and more.

JuJups.com has launched a â€œCreate Your Own Cardsâ€ service, allowing consumers to create their own greeting cards. Instead of uploading photos or images, users can now create their own designs by dragging and dropping. The service is free for home printing; however the cards can be printed through its fulfillment partners worldwide. JuJups.com opens design to the vast majority who cannot use Adobe Photoshop or other professional design software.

This Valentine, create your own 3D product at www.jujups.com !

2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – The Power of the Middle Ground

Jan 122009

: The Power of the Middle Ground

We featured Power of the Middle Ground: A Couple’s Guide to Renewing Your Relationship in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.

“The book provides compassionate and pragmatic help for couples in need of guidance. Author Marty Babits, a therapist and educator, shows couples how to realize their potential for intimacy and understanding. The Middle Ground he speaks of is not a place for compromise; it is a blame-free zone where couples learn to create emotional safety and rebuild damaged trust.

Vivid guidelines, exercises, tips and vignettes bring the Middle Ground concepts alive. Using what is possible as its longitude and what is positive for its latitude, a course beyond conflict and on to forgiveness and reconnection is charted. Readers welcome aboard.”

More details on the author and the book can be found at powerofthemiddleground.com.

You can purchase the Power of the Middle Ground: A Couple’s Guide to Renewing Your Relationship at Amazon for only $14.

If you have read it already, please leave us a message telling us what you liked the most about it.

2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide – VisAcuity.com

Jan 112009

VisAcuity.com

WeÂ were delighted to featureÂ VisAcuity.com in our 2009 Valentine’s Gift Guide.

VisAcuity is one of the leading online resources for reading glasses and reading sun glasses.Â Their reading glasses are soÂ fashionable and unique that some people (maybe I should say women)Â collect them the way they collect shoes. One for every outfit, every occasion and every room in the house!

And fashion is just one aspect of it. People not only want reading glasses, they need them.Â That’sÂ because people over 40 are generally affected by a condition knownÂ as Presbyopia, in which the elasticity of the eye naturallyÂ decreases causing close up vision to be blurred.Â Here’s where eyeÂ care meets style!

If you don’t like to wear glasses, then you can choose a wallet magnifier! How cool is that?

At VisAcuity.com you’ll be able to find gorgeous and practical reading glassesÂ for every taste! On the website, they have a lot of information and even an eye test!

See the current styles at www.VisAcuity.com. Let us know if you have used their glasses and what you think of them. Leave a message!

Photofiddle: The Perfect Choice for Your Photo Gift! Grab The 15% off Coupon!

Sep 172008

One of the most popular personalized gifts is the PHOTO GIFT! Today I’d like to introduce one of my favorite websites that will help you transform your photo into a piece of Artwork!Â PHOTOFIDDLE.com makes it easy to upload your digital image and instantly turn it into various styles of art. Here is an example of a picture ofÂ my cat (Tippy) on a canvas on stretchers 18” x 12”:
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A Little Bit of History

The Photofiddle.com website went online in June 2004 and not to long after the launchÂ it received a bit of press from the Washington Post, USA Today, PC Magazine & more. The Washington Post calledÂ them “buzz worthy”, USA Today reviewedÂ and pickedÂ them as the best, and PC Mag ratedÂ them 4 out of 5 stars. What really put Photofiddle.com on the map was when Oprah putÂ them on the O list in 2006. Since thenÂ they have become one of the top sites on the Internet. Continue reading »

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