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Holidays '08: Host and Hostess Gifts - a list by tatorandtots
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Priced for presentation, here is a selection of lovely gifts to give to your hosts and hostesses this upcoming holiday party season....
Jimmy Johnson Plush Christmas Stocking
First to recommend
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Ok. I just found my Christmas stocking. Yes, I'm serious.
Updated Nov 11, 2008
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Gingerbread Birdhouse
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Why should the tree inside your house have all the fun this Christmas? Add some festivity to your yard as well!
Or be REALLY creative and hang it from your tree with a jewelry gift inside! A little bird told me there might be diamonds inside....
And what an awesome hostess gift....
Updated Nov 20, 2008
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Honesty Stamps
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from the site:
Truth, honesty and the deepest form of sincerity are always close at hand with these Honesty Stamps. There are now 8 versions available:
1. All I ask for is one last chance
2. In all my life I've never met anyone as beautiful as you
3. I sincerely apologise for all the trouble I've caused
4. I swear on my mother's grave I'll never do that again
5. I know in the past I've found it difficult to say these words but I LOVE YOU
6. What do you mean I'm always too busy?
7. You're right, the key to a strong relationship is communication.
8. Set of two Stamps - It wasn't my fault! & But I've changed!
Updated Nov 11, 2008
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Personalized Silver Fortune Cookie
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2 people recommended this item
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Personalize it with a lovely sentiment for the New Year and you have the ideal hostess gift for holiday parties....
Updated Nov 12, 2008
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Shoes: Embellished Notecards
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A fabulous gift for yourself, a friend, a hostess at a holiday party.... I love that these notecards are packaged in a shoebox!
from the site:
Women’s footwear varied more in the 20th century than in the entire history of fashion. The great designers balanced form, function, and fantasy to create some of the most beautiful shoes ever made, even adapting styles from the past with a contemporary sensibility. Housed in the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the four sensational originals depicted on these notecards are highly imaginative works of art. Amusingly brought to life with faux-suede, sparkles, or rhinestones, the shoes on these notecards will please even the pickiest fanatic. The envelopes are lined with a patterned shoe motif.
5 each of 4 images, 20 cards per box. Boxed with 20 lined envelopes in a foil-stamped miniature shoe box. 5 in. x 3 1/2 in.
Updated Nov 12, 2008
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Ruben Toledo History of Fashion Tote Bag
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I love trolling around the Met site for unique gifts. Here is an interesting one for the fashionista on your holiday shopping list....
from the site:
Cuban-born artist and fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo was inspired by objects in the Museum’s Costume Institute to create the witty illustrations on this shiny vinyl tote bag. The history of fashion parades around the border, and iconic styles such as Dior’s New Look and the little black dress are featured in the center. Toledo (born in Havana, 1961) is a renowned sculptor, illustrator, fashion chronicler, and critic. His illustrations have appeared in top fashion magazines and journals around the world, including the New Yorker, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, Paper, Visionaire, Interview, and the New York Times. His work has been exhibited in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the textile museum at the Louvre, and his collaboration with his fashion-designer wife, Isabel Toledo, was the subject of both a book and a museum exhibition titled “Toledo/Toledo: A Marriage of Art and Fashion” at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
Vinyl. Height 9 in., width 8 in., depth 4 1/2 in.; strap length 14 in.
Ruben Toledo “History of Fashion” Tote Bag
Updated Nov 12, 2008
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Scrabble Onyx Edition (B&N Exclusive)
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I'm a rabid fan of Scrabble. And black. And Barnes and Noble. So I fell in love with this edition earlier this year. Even before realizing it's on a lazy susan. That's right. It spins. Mmmmm.... sexy, sexy Scrabble.
Updated Aug 16, 2008
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Mojito Glasses and Muddler
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3 people recommended this item
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I classy, sassy set to get your Mojo going in the dwindling days of summer....
Rockin' gift if you bundle it up with accoutrements....
Updated Aug 16, 2008
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Issey Miyake L'Eau d'Issey
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5 people recommended this item
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In life, I like to see, taste, feel and explore everything and anything I can get my hands on.
But when it comes to what fragrances go on my body during those adventures, I am a creature of habit.
Issey Miyake's L'Eau d'issey is one of only two scents that I wear.
Had my introduction to it been contingent upon the description of undertones on its box, I might never have tried it. I tend to gravitate toward darker, exotic and primal scents, a preference which leads me to conclude that parts of me were left back in a cave somewhere when evolution came calling (a theory which, as an aside, explains several other things about me. I shall save those for later. You can exhale now. I'm done sharing my issues for today).
Miyake's fragrance has enough musk and other things to carry out "erotic exotic" but had I glanced at the chorus line of floral scents before smelling it my nose would have kept on moving down the line. I usually don't do things like Carnation in life or in scents.
As it happened, I was standing in an international airport Duty Free shop when a woman with a feisty haircut, fantastic heels and a good 6 inches of height over me walked up next to me, picked up the sample, raised one arm up high with the bottle and, while holding her shirt open and exposing her (my guess? La Perla) balconette bra, doused us both with it. Then walked away. I admire a woman with fragrance cojones like that. Even when she sprays my eye.
At any rate, my hetero-girl-girl airport crush aside, other people loved the fragrance as well. Of course I bought my first bottle right there at the airport, still squinting with one eye. I received more compliments from strangers (four women in that airport alone stopped me to ask what I was wearing) that one afternoon after having been sprayed upside the head than ever before on a scent. And I loved it myself. I really, really loved it.
Many years later, I still do. That is why it is one of only two fragrances you will ever catch me wearing. If, of course, you can catch me at all ; )~
Lotus, Freesia, Cyclamen, Rose Water, Fresh Peonies, Carnation, White Lilies, Precious Woods, Osmanthus, Tuberose, Amberseed, Musk.
Updated Aug 15, 2008
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Dylan's Candy Bar Chocolate Cupcake Candy Butter Cream
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2 people recommended this item
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Full of Vitamin E, Jojoba Seed Oil, and Shea Butter, this is a moisturizer that not only smells divine but quenches dry, winter skin as well.
Updated Oct 18, 2008
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