and my gifts to everyone else...
contnuing with yesterday's entry of my favourite gifts received, here's some gifts that i enjoyed giving out:
- a self-made coffee table book of chaeli's 2nd year photos - PIL and parents
- a coffee table book of steam engine trains - PIL
- mickey mouse christmas ornament - PIL and SIL/BIL
- garden marker cement kit - SIL
- silly cat and dog stocking stuffer book bought for SIL/BIL (cats are from jupiter, dogs are from pluto found in used book store)
- russell peter's latest dvd, red, white and brown - SIL/BIL
- going to bed book and blankie - baby niece
- bbc's wild china in blu-ray - parents
- hand made ear rings and necklace set - mom
- shogun novel - dad
- music from the coffee lands and italian cafe CDs - doug
- the wine log - doug
- 'in the night garden' characters, igglepiggle, upsy-daisy, makka-pakka - chaeli
- homeward bound I & II dvd - chaeli
- vtech nitro jr notebook - chaeli
- best of imax space collection - uncle
- devil wears prada and definitey maybe - aunt
Comments
I'm still only up to May on my photo calendars for me and the grandparents. Late, as usual. I'm trying walmart this year to avoid the insane shipping costs from kodak in the us. How much did they charge you to ship the photo book? I think I paid more than 50% of the cost of the calendars in shipping last year.
My dad loved Shogun, and keeps telling me to read it.
i used kodakgallery.ca which allows you to pick up at either Best Buy or Futureshop locations of your choice. because we have a Best Buy by towncentre, it was pretty easy-peasy for us - and free shipping charges. i looked into walmart, too and may use them for the calendar for father's day gifts but i wasn't too keen on their layout designs for their photobooks.
i loved the mini-series on tv of shogun when growing up. i think i might try reading it myself. my dad said he had a hard time, for awhile, trying to find it (ah - the wonders of shopping on amazon.ca never falters for me!) and they don't have it at the library, other then in the reference stacks, which can not be signed out. that's why i bought it. $10 - what the hey?