Review: Creative gift ideas - but not just for Christmas
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2013
This little book will help get your creative juices flowing regarding gifts you can make rather than buy. Christmas should be fun and full of the giving spirit to those we care about, rather than the commercial/consumer driven event it has become.  This book and the ideas in it will help move you in the right direction.You may have already considered some of the ideas presented, which I certainly have (being an avid cook), but somehow I have moved away from using that skill to create gifts for friends and loved ones. This book re-energized my thinking about doing that again.Other ideas are more "craft" oriented than I personally enjoy; but, if you are among those who love crafts, the book has some ideas that will appeal to you, or at least spark your own creative impulses for gift giving.I bought this before Christmas, but life threw me a tragic curve and I have just now had a chance to really look at it.  It is filled with ideas from soup to nuts (literally), homemade candles, dog food, and play-doh. I am glad that I have it for future reference, but who says any of us have to wait for Christmas to use it?