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Top Five All Natural Homemade Gifts
My latest Elephant article is up!
Top Five Homemade All-Natural Gifts
Somehow my editor at Elephant peered into my psyche and picked out the awesomest photo, with a hamster that looks just like my old buddy Sebastian!
Sebastian was my pet hamster from 2005 to 2007, he had a good life and came with me everywhere, even on my cross-country trip to Arizona. How many other hamsters have lived in the deserts of Arizona and run around a hotel room in Las Vegas?
Here's a photo of me & the cute lil' guy in the Petrified Forest:
photo taken from my Flickr page
Oh yes, and if you are stuck on gift ideas for the holidays and want to give presents that are easy to make (I swear!), actually help heal the Earth, are good for you, and are useful and tasty to boot, be sure to check out the article above!
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Comment by Heather Flansworth on December 4, 2009 at 1:37pm -
Oh manzies! I just read your article and I love your gift ideas! I've been playing around with making my own liqueurs but I have a few friends who don't drink and I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what to make for them. I love the idea of giving friends living plants, too- it's like a way to sneakily trick them into doing homesteading things, a gateway homestead gift, if you will. I've been reading about those "self-watering"/sub irrigation planters you can make out of soda bottles- I was thinking that maybe these would be a good way to help friends who don't do any gardening get started, since they're low maintenance (Although you'd have to kind of gussy them up, I think. I was toying with the idea of making them and covering the plastic with that tacky "wood" contact paper, ever since I saw a laptop in ReadyMade with a similar treatment). Have you made planters of any kind for friends before? Oh, and also, I haven't tried doing any cuttings yet and was wondering if it really is as simple as sticking it in water? A lot of the old garden books I stole from my mom advocate using the root hormone powder, but that seemed kind of unnatural and weird to me.
Anyway, thanks for the great post, and I'd love it if you would let me know if you have any advice!
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