Gift Ideas for Friends Get Creative, Use Natural Fibers
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Under $10
Crafty fashionistas can make something chic without spending a lot of money.Alternation's step-by-step photos teach how to make the projects and illustrate basic skills. There creative projects express fashion individuality from head to toe, such as hats, handbags, painted shoes, and transforming cheap shoes with cloth covering. A felted Chanel-style sweater will appeal to the high-fashion maven and quilted hoodies add DIY chic to clothing for the sports fanatic on your gift list. Please click on photo for more information. $8.00
No Animals Died to Make This
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Everyone needs a wallet from time to time, but we never shop for one that will delight the eye when we use it every day.
This hide-free wallet is pretty in fuchsia. The textured material looks like leather. It's also available in blue and brown and costs just $9.99.
If It's Not One Fabulous Darn Thing Under $15, It's Another
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Friends don't let friends live in chaos.
Organize Now! provides simple tools to organize every aspect of life on a week-by-week basic.
Writer Jennifer Ford Berry breaks down each step of the organizing process for 52 different topics, a new one each week. This simple, almost intuitive plan covers topics including paperwork, time management, mental clutter, pets, organizing specific rooms and handling special events such as moving or vacation planning.
From My Craftivity, $11.99.
What Can You Get for Less Than $20? Plenty, My Dear: Natural Fibers and Gemstones
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Handbag from Thai designer Thanradee, left, weaves sugar palm leaves into a pattern of stars. It sparkles like the sky at night, lacquered for durability and sparkle. Add some sugar of your own by filling the bag with packs of candies or nuts. $19.95
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Organic yak down, cotton, and hemp slippers are warm and washable, totally green, and a little bit exotic. They are made made with organic cotton, quilted hemp, and what some claim is the world's warmest fiber -- yak down! The adjustable Velcro strap and contoured, terry-lined foot bed add comfort. Hand wash. This item is imported at Joinonia. $19.95
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It’s hard to believe these real amethyst earrings, left, are just $19.99. Clusters of amethyst are suspended on stainless links and sterling wires. The design, entitle Violet Clouds is crafted for Novica, the National Georgraphic Store, by Tui.
For a Few Dollars More
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Page compiled December 2009
