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Homemade Candy For Christmas For Him. Fi...

peter1 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:55:35 +0100

When Christmas comes it can be a little difficult to find hot gift ideas for men. Men are extremely difficult to buy for at the best of times.

If you're really stuck here's one idea that will work for almost all men. Homemade candy. If you're a little handy in the kitchen homemade candy is extremely easy to make, with some exceptions, and it makes a great gift idea for a man for Christmas or any other gift time.

If you make some great food for him, like candy, you've put some of yourself into the gift. You've taken the time and made the effort to put some love into your gift. It's so easy to just head down to the candy store and buy some candy, but homemade candy is so much better. It's made purely for him, from you.

And just about everyone loves candy, me included. I love to eat candy and I love to make candy. Well I love to cook generally.

Homemade candy, or any other homemade yummy, is a great way to put a bit of yourself into his Christmas gift. So make him some great candy this year.

If you're stuck for a recipe here's a good website about homemade candy recipes , but there's plenty more. Try and start with a simple recipe and work up to the harder stuff once you've tried a few. Stay away from recipes that require you to simmer water with sugar to a certain temperature, that takes time to master. Start simple and give him some great homemade candy for Christmas.

He'll love his candy from you.

Here's 3 Top Valentines Gifts For Social...

peter1 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:30:49 +0100

It’s not easy coming up with great Valentines gifts for men. That’s especially hard if he’s a socially conscious male with strong standards and firm ideas on what is a good socially conscious Valentines gift and what isn’t.

So here’s 3 suggestions for hot Valentines Day gifts for men who are socially conscious, and that he’ll love.

They come from Fair Trade, an international human rights organization dedicated to social justice, for everybody. And they have a store with all sorts of wonderful ideas for the socially conscious gifts buyer, and that includes wonderful and hot Valentines Day gifts.

You can read more about how Fair Trade works here.

Here’s 3 great ideas from Fair Trade for lovely Valentines day gifts for a man. (And they have some top Valentines gifts for women too.)

1. The Chocolate Lovers Gift Basket.

A wonderful collection of very unusual chocolate gifts for the chocolate and Valentines Day loving man. Includes milk and dark chocolates, chocolate lava drops, organic hot cocoa and other organic chocolates.

It’s different, it’s very unusual and it’s a hot Valentines gift for a man who would appreciate the source of the products that make up the gift basket. Why not both of you polish it off together?

2. A Unique Mans Necklace.

Jewelry is a fine Valentines gift, for women, and for men who like jewelry. And although not all men wear jewelry those who do will love this unique and distinctive Kenyan necklace carved out of bone.

Bone carving is a craft that is traditional in Kenya, and some families have engaged in bone carving for many generations.

It’s a lovely way for you to give him a romantic gift to wear that’s totally unique to him. There won’t be many men wearing Kenyan bone necklaces this year.

3. Hand Carved Dominoe Set.

Beautifully produced in Thailand, from Chang Mai market, for the stunningly cheap price of just $18, this is a bargain gift. Imagine the work that went into this dominoe set, for $18.

For the man who loves his games it’s a great Valentine, and if you love dominoes too it’s a great way for the both of you to spend some quality time together.

So if he’s the sort of man who is choosy about where products came from, and who made them and how well they were paid, and who cares, then there’s 3 hot Valentines gifts for him that should be a hit.

And that’s just 3, Fair Trade has lots more there, many of them would make hot Valentines gifts, check them out when you have some time to spend.

And why not check out some more of my Valentines gifts suggestions.

7 Hot Christmas Gifts For A Man Who Has...

peter1 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:19:17 +0100

I write all about mens gifts, and one of the most common questions I get asked through my website is "what gift do I buy for my man. He has plenty of money and buys what he wants, so he already has everything he wants".

This is of course pretty common. Lots of men just get out there and buy something if they want it, they don't drop hints near birthday time hoping that the hint will be picked up and acted on. Almost by definition, if he wants it he's already got it.

Not always of course, often it's a question of cost. There are men with a list of wants that they would like to fill, but just can't afford them. If your man is like that, and you can afford those gifts, then ask him and see what he'll say, he'll probably jump at the chance to tell you about those things he'd love the most but can't buy for himself.

But lets assume for a moment that your man can afford what he wants, and so you're a little stuck for ideas for unique and unusual birthday gifts or Christmas gifts that are going to get his juices going.

Here's 7 ideas for gifts for him. He may love all of them, he may love none of them, but I doubt it.

There'll be at least one gift for him there that he'll love. Some are extremely expensive and some aren't.

1. Sexy Lingerie. Now it isn't entirely a unique gift idea but it's one that is almost guaranteed to work. Men love lingerie. Worn by their women of course. I have seen lots of lists of favorite gifts for men and there is one common gift theme. Lingerie is always up there.

No matter how many pieces of beautiful lingerie a woman has, if she selects well and chooses the right piece I can just about guarantee her man will love it, provided of course she wears it for him.

It's almost a can't fail gift.

And there is wonderful lingerie available for women of any size, so girls it's no excuse to say that you're a little large. If your man loves you large he'll love you large and looking great in some sexy lingerie.

2. Adventure gifts. Most men love adventure and adrenalin. Not all, but most. And many women aren't aware that there are some excellent companies around that cater to this extremely well. It's possible to find all sorts of adventure gifts for men and women that you would never have thought existed.

And for all sorts of tastes. Would he love to do his first parachute jump? Try white water rafting?

Drive a tank or a supercar? Go zero-g just like the astranauts do in training? You can give him a gift of any of these things and thousands more, from the extreme adrenalin gift to the gentle and invigorating and pampering gift. The adventure gift companies cater for all tastes in outdoors and adventure and adrenalin, even to beautiful and luxurious days like wine tastings and spa days. There's something for everyone.

3. An eco holiday. There is a growing worldwide movement to charity and volunteer and ecological work and travel. Rather than just buy him a holiday in Europe, which is a little ho hum, why not buy him some volunteer travel with a difference. There are lots of companies which offer adventure travel with a twist, volunteer work that helps out those less fortunate than ourselves, both people and animals and the environment.

He may end up on a research vessel in the waters off Mexico counting turtles or in the wilds of Africa measuring the distribution of African animals. The destinations are almost always exotic. There is work to be done but it is so interesting and adventuruous and invigorating that he probably won't even see it as work. It's fun, it's exciting, it's adventurous and it gives back to the environment and to many less fortunate than ourselves helping committed scientists with their research.

It costs, it's not free, but it's an extremely unique and fabulous holiday that he's unlikely to better.

4 Chinese art. This is a favorite of mine because I lived in China for a while and just love Chinese art.

We have so many pieces that we don't have enough space to hang them all. From beatiful Chinese wall hangings to the absolutely fabuluous and quite unique teapots of Yixing, there are so many Chinese artworks that would go so well in so many of our Western homes.

And it's so cheap. For the man who loves his art, Chinese art is a gift of art with a difference.

5. Mens jewelry. Now this is a gift for a man who likes to wear jewelry obviously, and you need to establish this first. However for a man who does like his jewerly there are some extremely modern and stunning jewelry pieces available on the net now at very competitive prices. And they are made exclusively for men using some of the finest and most masculine of jewelry metals. Like Titanium. If you haven't checked out Titanium jewelry for men on the net lately and your man likes jewelry you should do so. It makes for a wonderful and sometimes extremely romantic gift for the right man.

6. An elephant painting. Another one for the man who likes his art. Painted by a real Asian elephant on paper which is made from elephant dung. Now before you wonder if I've gone mad check it out. The elephants really do the painting, I have a video of it on my website. And believe it or not they paint recognisable objects. The paintings look great, are extremely inexpensive, and would make a great artwork to hang near the table to stimulate some evening conversation with his friends.

And in Thailand, where a lot of the elephant paintings are done, they also make the most stunning paper from elephant dung. And yes, again I've got links on my website to sites where you can actually see how it's done, it's not a fraud. It's beautiful paper, and you can get his elephant painting done on elephant dung paper.

7. Buy him a whale. This is for the man who has absolutely everything and who won't like anything at all from number 1 to 6, then It is perfectly possible to do. He doesn't actually get a whale wrapped in paper to unwrap on his birthday. However there are organisations like the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin trust that track and identify individual whales and dolphins, and allow you to name his own whale or dolphin. There is a real whale or dolphin out there that is named for him.

The money helps in the protection of our whales and gives him a unique and memorable gift.

So there you have it, 7 suggestions for great gifts for the man who has everything. Ranging in price from $50 or so, to seriously expensive.

Now you don't have any excuses to say "I have no idea what to buy him for his birthday" any more.

He'll Just Love A Gift Of Beer

peter1 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:29:49 +0100

Does your man love beer? Just about every man does, including me. And there are some very good beers around.

I have a brewery near me. It is one of those small boutique breweries that brews small quantities of high quality beers. The types that win awards, they've won quite a few. It was my brothers birthday a while ago and I bought him a beer gift box from them, with a selection of their products for him to try. He loved it.

There are some lovely birthday beer gift baskets and boxes around and I love them, it's a really nice way to give him a birthday gift. You can get even get chocolate and beer gift baskets, and that sounds like something I'd love.

If you want to give a beer love a beer gift for his birthday I don't think it's enough to just buy him a bottle or 3 of his regular beer and give that to your man for his birthday, you've got to do better than that if you want to give him a beer gift that's really special. Like the beer gift box I bought.

But I've now found an even better way to do it.

A beer of the month club.

You see to me a gift of beer is an opportunity for you to offer him a birthday gift that gives him something that's not easy to get. A real beer experience. An opportunity to try some beers that he would never ever get to try otherwise. That's a birthday gift with a difference.

There are all sorts of small boutique breweries all over the country that brew wonderful beers, just like the one near me. And you'd probably never find them yourself or if you did it isn't easy to buy their products unless you live near one like I do.

So how do you find a great gift of a range of beers from some of our best boutique breweries?

From the beer of the month club. They offer a membership that makes a point of finding the best beers and sending them to their members. It makes a wonderful birthday, or Christmas gift. A unique birthday gift for dads for example, who are often very hard to buy for.

The beer of the month club has a range of beer experts on hand. Their job is to find these breweries and pick out the best of their products to send to the club members every month. (I'd love that job, maybe I should apply!)

So every month, if you give him a membership, he gets 12 bottles of hard to find hand crafted boutique beers from award winning breweries and a newsletter explaining what he's got and giving him all sorts of beer information. Shipping is free.

You can even add a special gift message to him from you.

There are options of different of lengths of time, so you can start him out with 3 months and see how it goes. I know there are some women who renew his subscription every year as his yearly birthday present because he loves it so much. So you've got your birthday present for him sorted out for a long time.

It's a great birthday gift of beer and to me is the best way to give him some great beer as a gift. It's way better than just going out and buying some.

I've talked about gift of the month clubs before, in relation to birthday gifts. I think a good gift of the month club is one of the best gifts for a man who is interested in beer, wine, coffee, chocolate, cookies or any one of dozens of consumables. There are lots of gift of the month clubs to choose from so you can find one for just about any man.

How about a lobster gift of the month club! See what I mean?

So check out Amazing Clubs, they have some great clubs for some great birthday gift ideas for him.

Could You Do With Some Romance In A Box?

peter1 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:45:32 +0200

Romance starts at home. At least it can, there's no need to go to all sorts of exotic places to get romantic. You can be romantic anywhere you want to be with a good romantic gift idea. Because romance is in the head, not the location.

And of course you can be romantic anywhere, with a great romantic gift.

I have come across a lovely romantic gift that you can give him right in the comfort of your own home. Or anywhere else if the urge takes you.

It's called Romance in a box from Romantic Room Designs. It is in effect a romantic gift basket for a man or a woman, and I love it.

The intention is to provide him, or you, with all you need to transform your, or his, bedroom into a romantic boudouir.

The photo I've included gives you an idea what you can do with your, or his, bedroom. It includes everything you need to totally transform his bedroom, or any other room you want. 200 silk rose petals. Six, frosted white heart shaped votive candles. Red Heart confetti to sprinkle around the base of the candles or on top of the bed and a "Do Not Disturb" sign to hang on the door.

Now I'm not suggesting you give him a romantic gift box at all. That would be uninteresting. What I'm suggesting is that you buy the gift basket, get it delivered so he doesn't know about it. Open it up and use it at the perfect romantic time.

And he finds the result.

Lets think of an example.

Use it as a romantic holiday gift idea. You've gone on holiday together and he's out somewhere. You've decorated the bedroom with the contents of your romantic gift basket. He comes home and finds a trail of rose petals from the door to the bedroom and you in the bedroom.

Or use it right at home for the perfect romantic evening after a long walk at the beach, or the lake, or wherever you both might like to spend a little quality time together.

How about another suggestion. A romantic evening gift set. Along with the rose petals comes hand crafted, gourmet Champagne Truffles. 2 fragranced and uniquely designed His & Her Candles. A choice of either a Kama Sutra Romantic Massage Set or the Luxurious Body Affair Sweet Pea Bath & Body Gift Set (you'll have to check out the website to see what's in that!)

They have quite a few romantic gift ideas there to delight any romance buff. Boxes and baskets and romantic gifts for him or her. They have a quite unique approach to romance and romantic gifts. So if you think he'd love a romantic evening as a gift head on over to Romantic Room Designs and check out their gift ideas for men, and women.