| Do you need ideas for gifts this holiday season | | | | stores. You can find blooming flowers to plant at |
| because you are living on a tight budget? Are you | | | | any nursery. If you plan to hang them outside or |
| single, dating someone special, and don't know | | | | in a tree, you will need some metal hooks. If you |
| how you can afford to give them something they | | | | don't hang them, put them at your front door on |
| will love? A rich man's present on a poor man's | | | | a stand or a table. |
| budget can force you to be creative, thoughtful, | | | | *Handmade invitations |
| and romantic. Who wouldn't want a gift like that | | | | Use some artistic talent or computer skill and |
| and to be with someone like you? | | | | generate a personalized invitation to something |
| Here are some gift ideas that you can get | | | | special. Free concerts, plays, and interesting |
| creative with now. Invent your own touches for | | | | speakers can be found at your local high school, |
| the following: | | | | college, church, YMCA, or park. If you know of |
| * Time Magazine's Person of the Year | | | | any children having dance or music recitals, that |
| Take an old Time Magazine and superimpose a | | | | can be another evening of fun. Look at the |
| large picture of your love on the cover. If you | | | | calendar of events in your community and choose |
| are artistic, make your own cover and put your | | | | something you have never done before that you |
| truelove's picture on it. Make a banner that fits | | | | think your date will love. |
| across the bottom that says "Person of the | | | | *Pets from a shelter |
| Year." Find your own clever way to make a page | | | | You must make absolutely sure that your |
| or pages that list your person's great qualities. You | | | | truelove would like to have a pet. Pets are a lot |
| can also include your person's achievements, | | | | of work and a big responsibility. But if your love is |
| pictures of them throughout their life, their life | | | | crazy about animals, a kitten, puppy, or older dog |
| biography with statistics, and a list of the | | | | with a ribbon around its neck will be a very special |
| important people in their life with an explanation of | | | | present. |
| why they are important. Put your production in a | | | | *Homemade food |
| scrapbook. If your significant other doesn't love | | | | If you can cook, make your date some candy, |
| this gift, they may be missing a heart. | | | | cake, jams, cookies, or whatever they find |
| *Window boxes | | | | special. Put the treat in a glass jar or on a ceramic |
| Window boxes are cheery gifts at any time of | | | | plate that they can keep. If your date owns a |
| year. In the summer you can hang them outside, | | | | dog, you can also make some homemade dog |
| and in the winter you can put them inside | | | | treats and put them in their special jar. |
| anywhere. You can make the boxes out of | | | | These are some big heart-felt gifts from a |
| wood, get some inexpensive wood baskets at a | | | | big-hearted person on a small budget. Have fun, |
| nursery, or find different containers at discount | | | | and Happy Holidays. |