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Holiday Magic – Free Gifts All Year Long at: http://www.booklocker.com/books/1298.html
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~Cookies and Candy with Personalized Recipe Cards!~
Buy inexpensive tins or seasonal good containers and spend a day baking up a floury, chocolaty storm of your favorite candy and cookies! Put some goodies from each recipe into each container and either print, write or type the recipes onto recipe cards to enclose with the sweets. If your children have helped, let them re-name the recipes (i.e. Ali’s Awesome Peanut Butter Balls), or give the recipes seasonal or location-oriented names (i.e. we named our Maine-made fudge “Moose Poop”).
You can buy index-card sized “labels” at the office supply store and print your own recipe cards using your color printer. You can even paste a small picture of each child on the recipe he/she helped prepare!
-Angela Hoy
~A Writer’s Puppy~
I have a gift idea that is great to give to writers. I write and have several friends who write. I used to buy them journals for Christmas year after year, until last year when I came up with this idea. I got a soft, cuddly, stuffed puppy and I wrote a little verse to enclose with the gift called The Writer Puppy. They loved it! Feel free to use it if you want to. I have sold several verses to Abbey Press that they sell with teapots. They thought this verse had too limited of a market. Now I let my writer friends use it.
A Writer’s Puppy
You never have to stop writing to take this puppy for a walk.
It sits quietly and never barks.
You can keep this puppy in the house and even let it on your bed
It will never shed, smell, drag in mud or pee on the floor.
This puppy will always be there to comfort you and catch tears
Of disappointment when you get a rejection letter.
It will listen when you read your stories
Never interrupting to criticize.
When you cuddle this puppy close it will inspire creative ideas
Or cradle your head when you doze off to sleep.
Every time you look at this puppy
Remember you are special to me.
-Patricia J. Weaver
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