Any great/creative Valentine's day gift ideas???

**Kara Isabel** · 01-29-2006, 02:33 PM

I really want to think of something creative this year for my husband. What are you gals doing special for your men??? Well.....besides.......AHEM, the expected!! lol

Kara

**Dianne** · 01-29-2006, 06:25 PM

I ordered the Il Divo dvd. I heard their music recently and it's so beautiful. Very passionate music. We love music dvd's and I like to see the faces of the people who sing the songs I like so I can keep that image in my mind. I've sent balloons or a night at a B & B is nice or a nite at a hot springs if able. Also something he might like to see you wearing is nice too

**megancolleen** · 01-29-2006, 06:27 PM

I have no idea...my boyfriend is so hard to shop for...he's not really the romantic type, so I have a hard time trying to be thoughtful and practical....

I hope others have some good ideas!

**traceann** · 01-30-2006, 02:24 AM

What I did one year for my ex husband (too bad I wasted my energy, lol) was I made a dozen long stem chocolate chip cookies. I happened to have a tube of refrigerated choc chip cookie dough in the freezer. I bought the longest "lollipop" sticks I could find - I think I even found what they called the "cookie pop" sticks. Then before I baked them I inserted a stick in to dough blobs. Kinda flattened them just a touch, to make sure stick was in good. I went to the florist in my tiny little town and bought a big white flower bouquet box. When they were done baking and cooled, I added some silk rose leaves I bought at a craft store - attached by wrapping them onto the stem with green floral tape. And I taped the whole stick so it was green. Then I put red tissue paper in the box, arranged the cookies in the box, and then tied it up with a big red bow. It was really easy and very inexpensive!!

For my now-husband on our 2nd Valentine's Day together (when we were dating) , I had zero money. None to spend on gifts or anything. So, I made a booklet listing 100 things I loved about him. I wrote it out on pretty paper, and found some nice heavy craft paper I had laying about to make a "cover". Then, I bound it up by punching holes in the left hand side of the paper and tied it up with ribbons. He loved it. He thought it was better than any store gift, lol. So, for Sweetest Day I added like 25 more things to his book. Then I did the same for the next Valentines Day. I keep a little notebook (we Icers are good at that, lol) around, and as I think of things, or if does something sweet, I jot it down. That way by the time it rolls around to write them out I either have all, or a good start!!! Think I have enough to add some more for him! He liked it because it showed him that I do appreciate all the little things he does, that he doesn't even realize I am paying attention to....

Hugs!

***ICNDonna*** · 01-30-2006, 03:53 AM

This year I'm planning to make my hubby a gift certificate, which will give him a 100% discount on a day at the beach, complete with picnic lunch. It's too cold right now so we can go when the weather is better.

Donna

**traceann** · 01-30-2006, 06:26 AM

Oh thanks for the reminder! I also gave my hubby a bunch of coupons that I made up on the computer, I printed out on business card cardstock (the perforated stuff to print your own business cards) that said "This entitles the bearer to:" then I wrote in by hand, things like, batch of cookies whenever he wanted, an all Jer day - whatever he wanted, for dinner, to watch on tv etc. Then once again with my little handy hole punch - after I separated them all, I punched the corners out and tied them all together with a ribbon.

This year with him being on his seasonal lay-off, he's home ALL day, I have no chance to craft anything sneaky!! I must start plotting though....gotta be creative again, no $$ for that sort of stuff....

Hugs!

**quiltz** · 01-30-2006, 06:46 AM

Very good ideas, gals!

I love the cookies as roses idea and might steal that one! It's something I can actually do ..... bake cookies.

I just got the Il Divo album from i-tunes for my ipod, but music is a good idea too. I can get him an album or 2 of music he likes and burn CD's. One of the problems with having a younger man is we never agree on what is great music!!

Hmmm I can even get a gift card from i-tunes ...

great ideas all, thanks!! Liz

**traceann** · 01-30-2006, 08:16 AM

LOL, I got mine cd's for his birthday, and he was teasing me as it was the bands I liked as well, so he said it somehow ended up a present for me too!! LOL.. that's fine....

**Kara Isabel** · 01-30-2006, 09:10 AM

Those are all such GREAT ideas!! THANKS! My husband is SOOO very hard to shop for, he doesn't want me to "spend alot of money" and he doesn't like those boxed chocolates. I may just have make some coupons/certificates and attempt those cookie roses!

I love baking and he loves cookies. Traceanne that is such a cute idea! SO is the scrapbook.......but yikes, I should've started this thread sooner! lol. I may have to work on that for next year or his birthday.

Men sure have it easy, ehh?? Flowers and a "date" lol

Kara

**traceann** · 01-31-2006, 07:52 AM

The cookies were super easy to make, especially since I cheated and didn't make the dough from scratch, lol.

The first run of 100 things was done all in, like, one week, lol. Every night I sat with my little notebook and tried to at least jot down 20 things I could think of. Some were really silly too, some were a bit mushy etc. The silly ones were the most fun, like "I love you because you kill spiders for me", or "I love you because you think I am beautiful when I don't think I am" etc. And I am sure some were even sillier, but I can't seem to remember them now! ARGH! LOL It was fun, though.

**tigger_gal** · 01-31-2006, 09:23 AM

one year I picked hubby up from work in a teddy with a trench coat over it.... needless to say it didn't go over well!! I got to the point that I get him the same thing he gets me every year.. not a damn thing!! I would settle for happy valentine's day!

hope you all have a romantic one

**hoping4acure** · 01-31-2006, 09:25 AM

For me...JEWLERY,JEWLERY,JEWLERY!! Did I say JEWLERY???

For him...I am still thinking about it.

**traceann** · 02-01-2006, 02:43 AM

LOL, don't feel bad Tig, I usually get nothing myself,

Why I keep doing for him is beyond me,

Guess I am the bigger person, HA!

The sad thing is his mom's a rep for HALLMARK!!!! How hard would it be to get a card at least......sheesh!

**creatingkarma** · 02-01-2006, 02:48 AM

I love the "What I Like About You" book! Thanks for the idea! That's what I'm going to do! I think I'll make it 50 instead of 100, though!

**traceann** · 02-01-2006, 05:18 AM

Hey Karma, it was really fun, I must say. Like I said earlier, he loved it cause it showed him that all the little things he does, I take notice whether he realizes it or not. One of them was "I love you because you take out the garbage" and another was "I love you because you eat my cooking experiments for good or ill" etc....the silly ones definitely were the most fun!!!! At the time I did it, I didn't have a computer to use at home, so I handwrote the whole dang thing out....