Helping You Have A Very Special Christmas In 2009

We are so happy to be able to spend this time with you discussing our favorite holiday. "Christmas" This is a very special time of year. For many of us, this is a time to give and to remind the people we care about just how special they are to us.
Will and I have put this website together to share with you our ideas and tips for Christmas. We will talk about many things here from Recipes, Party Ideas and Gift giving. We will be searching for some very incredible savings and gift ideas for the special people in your lives and will post them on the site. We look forward to spending time with you as you prepare for Christmas 2009.
Teresa
Gifts to Please Your Eco Warrior
Gift giving on birthdays or at Christmas or just to say “thank you” should give as much a pleasure to the donor as the receiver. Choosing the appropriate gift depends on a number of considerations including personality, interests and relationship.For many, the key thing about any gift is the thought and how ethically and responsibly it’s been sourced, manufactured and distributed. There are several keen teen-age (and older!) eco warriors who would outright refuse any gift, no matter how well intentioned, if it didn’t meet those criteria.
Gift ideas for your environmentally-conscious loved ones can be tricky, but not impossible to source. For her, nothing could better express your affection and awareness of strong principles than the range of natural beauty products from Andrea garland. She became disillusioned with mass produced, unethical and chemically laden skin products and decided to make her own all natural, natural, ethically sourced organic range – in the environmentally sensitive haven that is Hackney!
As eco gifts go, these are tasteful and thoroughly credible.Beautifully packaged in amber glass bottles or recycled paper with labels hand drawn by artist Melissa Thompson, these products have a personal and unique feel.If you are of a less indulgent or romantic bent, or maybe don’t value the relationship that much, then you can get your lady a fair trade oven mitt made from 100% cotton woven on traditional handlooms.
A word of warning though! If that’s the case you may want to hide the vases dotted about the room before one comes crashing down on your head!Granted, the bamboo or re-cycled cardboard versions would not cause too much damage, but the 100% recycled glass items made in Spain are another matter!You could claim in your defence that it would be a sin to destroy such a beautiful and original product made from glass salvaged from Spanish recycling bins and brought to the UK by sea-freight in order to minimise carbon emissions in transport. That may not be enough to cut the mustard though!