Archive for the ‘Girlfriend Gift Ideas’ Category
May
21
Posted by dodo
* 175 g/6 oz olive oil soap
* 30 ml/2 tbsp ground almonds
* Grater
* 25 m1/11/2 tbsp almond oil
* 10 drops lavender essential oil
* double boiler
* 25 m1/11/2 tbsp coconut oil
* Spoon
* heart-shaped moulds, oiled
1 Grate the soap. Place the grated soap in a double boiler and leave to soften over heat. Add all the other ingredients.
2 Stir until all the ingredients are evenly mix and begin to hold together.
3 Press the mixture into the oiled moulds at leave to set overnight. Unmould the soaps ready for use.
May
15
Posted by dodo
This little aquarium is full of life! There are fish swimming from side to side and activity all around. The key to the Aquarium candle is that various nonflammable embedments are situated at different heights throughout the container. There are many ways to accomplish this, but this project demonstrates the simplest technique — fast- setting clear epoxy glue. Read the rest of this entry »
May
13
Posted by dodo
Sand is a popular additive to gel candles. It is often used to create the bottom of a seascape or to hide a wick tab from view. However, you’ll use sand in this project for a different reason. You may find a container that you’d really like to use for a candle project, but the shape doesn’t lend itself to sustaining a flame. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
08
Posted by dodo
`There was a point this Christmas,’ said a girlfriend, ‘as I was struggling to get the turkey out of the oven, and my husband was sweating away over the roast potatoes, when I asked myself for the hundredth time whether it was all worth it. The eager little faces all round the table — knife and fork at the ready in each tight little fist — were not those of the children but of the collection of geriatric grandparents, great aunts and uncles we seem to feed each year.’ Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
02
Posted by dodo
Bestsellers are also hazardous presents. Many years ago my brother and I each gave the other a copy of Doctor Zhivago. Be careful, too, if you’re going to read the book before giving it, not to turn down the pages or drop it in the bath, and remember that if you do cut off the price, because it’s considered bad form not to do so, the recipient can’t then change it. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
02
Posted by dodo
Men, who probably long to be given Samantha Fox in a grass skirt and a lawn mower, tend to get black silk pyjamas as the ultimate in sophistication. Invariably they also get something to do with drink: bottle-openers, glasses, wine-coolers. Noel would prefer a wife-cooler over Christmas. A friend says that one of her uncles got fourteen bottles of various kinds of booze one year, and nothing else. He was terribly upset because, he said, anyone would think he was an alcoholic — which in fact he was. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
02
Posted by dodo
Spending beyond their income on gifts for Christmas – Swing doors and crowded lifts and draperied jungles – What shall we buy for our husbands and sons Different from last year?
Every year it’s the same. In about October, I’m nudged by telephone calls from female relations, asking, what would my children and husband like for Christmas? Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
07
Posted by dodo
Lovers open their presents together before Christmas; the neglected open theirs when they arrive in the New Year. The Germans open theirs around six o’clock on Christmas Eve. The Royal Family, being largely of German ancestry and because they spend most of Christmas Day going to church, also open theirs on Christmas Eve. An eighty-foot-long trestle table in the Red Drawing-room is used to pile up the presents which are handed out by Prince Philip. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
01
Posted by dodo
Despite Noël’s claim that even numbers don’t matter, Scarlett is fretting about the shortage of spare men. Some girl rings up to cancel.
`Oh goodee, I mean oh gosh, how sad,’ says Scarlett, ‘We MUST get together in the New Year.’
Zero hour. The house is radiant with candles; the carpets stretch out, virginal. Fortunately, between parties, memory blots out the sheer terror that always grips her before everyone arrives, when all Scarlett craves is a quadruple vodka laced with Valium which would lay her out for ever. Outside, Robin and his mates, already blue with cold, wait stamping their feet, to help park the cars. Read the rest of this entry »
Sep
21
Posted by dodo
Knitted garments from the Channel Island of Guernsey, situated between the south coast of England and the north of France, have been popular gifts since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The fine quality stockings knitted on the island at that time were often given to the royalty.
The style of tubular knitting which was used to make a Guernsey jumper was developed from the traditional method of knitting stockings Read the rest of this entry »
