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Give the Gift of Time

It’s so easy to get caught up into the consumer oriented focus of the holidays, but as I get older I realize more and more that the perfect gifts are those of time, meaning and memory....

If you're looking to give handmade this season, try hitting up one of the many craft shows taking place all across the country over the next 2 weeks. There's so many handmade goods we just can't eve...

9 Ways To Green Your Gift Wrapping
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We're sure we're not alone in recalling the cleanup from last year's holiday gift exchange: an embarrassingly large amount of bags full of crumpled gift wrap. This year, we're trying something diffe...

Green Gift Wrapping: Divine Twine

There are plenty of green ways to wrap gifts, but whether you use a brown paper bag, a tea towel, or a reusable gift bag, you'll still need something to tie it all up with — and regular ol' tw...

Handmade Gift: Home-Milled Soap

We love all this talk about host and hostess gifts for those folks kind enough to invite us into their homes this holiday season. So, we're making sure to take everyone who hosts us a small gift: a bo...

Fun Font Gift Wrapping

Taking a page – literally – from Stephanie and Trent’s 9 Days of Gift Wrapping, Bugs and Fishes has a great idea for recycling various papers to use as large font name tags. We love the look of ...

5 Gifts That Give Back
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Supporting our local communities with either our time or our money helps to strengthen where we live and makes the community a richer place to be. As you consider gifts this year, think about gifts t...

5 Gifts that Keep Giving Beyond the Holidays
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Amongst all the recent worldly turbulence, I’ve somehow found myself very satisfied with my life, possessions and day-to-day activities. Perhaps it’s just seeing life from a different perspective,...

Gifts for Good Causes
Un-Gift Guide 2008

This year, everyone in our family agreed that we are blessed with plenty of things in our lives. While we're not averse to gifts of handmade sweets and savories, we're keeping the stuff to a minimum a...

Eco-friendly Christmas Stockings

These stockings were hung on the chimney with care... and a little eco-friendly flair....

Green Gifts: Tatine Soy Candles

There are a lot of soy candles out there, but when it comes to scents some are just way better than others. Tatine is a soy candle company we discovered when first moving to Chicago several years ago ...

Black Friday vs. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

You probably know this already, but it's Black Friday, a day that is a little difficult to reconcile with our efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle. We love the holiday season -- the lights, the ho...