OMG, I just realized that Christmas is in a week. I have nothing. Not even a list.
Given my current sitcheation I am brainstorming (with myself) for inexpensive gifts ideas.
So far:
-clothespin ornaments
-dough ornaments decorated with the ink of Sharpie pens (or interior glossy latex white paint and/or black BBQ pit paint)
-homemade bacon fat and birdseed covered pine cone (for birds, although it might be a fiber-filled breakfast for people too)
-my collection of hotel room shampoo bottles
-“Let’s make pasta” basket with 1/2 box of spaghetti noodles, can of diced tomatoes, spices in baggies (or in cleaned-out hotel room shampoo bottles), Parmesan cheese
-Cat food seasoned with Penzey’s Sandwich Seasoning (makes anything taste good!)
-OOH! I have homemade pesto in the freezer from my surplus basil crop this year! Yay! That’s almost like a real gift. Wonder if it would fit in those hotel room shampoo bottles
-Litter box sculptures painted with Kilz – they’d be abstract, of course, given the nature of what is in a litter box.
-And for my new brother-in-law, who said he’d eat just about anything but squirrel: a newly-killed, fresh-frozen m/vole from the back porch
Alrighty, that’s all I can come up with right now.
Let me know if you have any ideas.
Please. I beg you. My family and friends beg you.
December 18, 2008 at 10:10 am
OMG! I would absolutely DIE for a (small is fine) well rinsed hotel room shampoo bottle of your homemade pesto! YUM! I can NOT believe how sharp these ideas are! I haven’t even begun to think about a list, gifts, HA! I think my greatest gift is (tissue alert) your friendship, Mar- really. Okay, in all honesty I’d REALLY die for the whole collection of hotel room shampoo (as I haven’t had any with a drop of fragrance in it for almost two years now), but that’s way too generous and I wouldn’t be able to use it here anyway :-(. BUT, as long as you’re my friend, I can forgo the shampoo…
I love ya, girl- hang in there, it gets better- at least that’s what they tell me! xx Meg/8