Personalized Valentine Gifts to Display on Your Walls Forever and Always

In addition to personalized Valentine’s gifts to display in your home, I found some wonderful personalized pictures and photo frames too. Again, you could bring these out just for seasonal décor…or you could leave them up all year round to celebrate your eternal love. (All were found at Personal Creations.) Prints and Canvas Pictures Lover’s Lane Parking Sign: This one is so cute and unique. Might just give you some ideas about hopping in the back seat for real! $19.95 SUPER FAVE Romantic Sunset Canvas: Choose from framed, unframed, two lines or three. Write your names in the sand, or … Continue reading

Personalized Valentine Gifts to Display Around Your Home Forever and Always

If you’re looking for a way to fill your home with love, try putting it on display. Literally. I found tons of cute personalized items that you can decorate your love shack with just for Valentine’s Day, but that would also be appropriate to keep up or use year round. I broke them down by category and listed them below. (And I found all of them at Personal Creations unless otherwise specified.) Décor Better Half Glass Block: Your name’s on one side, his is on the other, and “My Better Half” is below. Creative. $17.95 “Soul Mate” Glass Block: “Soul … Continue reading

Intimacy Inspiring Personalized Valentine Gifts

Photo by Lize Rixt Personalized gifts may delight your Valentine but what about ones to light their fire? I happened to stumble across some of those in my catalog shopping quests too. Below are some gift ideas if you’re looking for ways to spice up your love life this coming Valentine’s Day. Getting Warm and Cozy “Sweetheart” Afghan from Abbey Press: This pink, red, and purple afghan bedecked with sweet nothings and hearts can be personalized with a couple’s name (i.e. Courtney and Wayne), making it something either a husband or a wife could give but that both could enjoy … Continue reading

Personalized Gifts to Delight Your Valentine

Valentine’s Day is just a little better than two weeks away but there’s still time to order gifts that can be personalized to make your sweetheart feel truly sweet. Below is a list of my favorite finds for her, for him, and ones you can personalize to give to either him or her. For Her Sterling Silver Better Half Pendant from Personal Creations: Two bodies form a heart, but it’s the personalized sentiment card that can be personalized that makes this gift special. $69.95 Rhinestone Heart Pendant with Keepsake Box from Personal Creations: What girl wouldn’t like to get a … Continue reading

Valentine’s Gifts for Techies

Wondering what to get the high-tech person in your life for Valentine’s Day? If your loved one loves to have the latest technology, consider the following gifts that will go straight to the heart. Just in time for Valentine’s Day is the newest addition to the Apple iPod family. It is a jazzy pink iPod Nano. The model is available right now online and at your local Apple store. It features 8GB of storage and retails for $199. The two-inch display will allow users to take advantage of viewing the new iTunes movie rentals as well as television shows and … Continue reading

Get Started on the Appreciation Box for Valentine’s Day

Happy New Year! In 2009 you can vow to better appreciate your spouse. Here is one idea that I adapted from a parenting discipline method. it works wonderfully for married couples, too. I call it the appreciation box. As you are cleaning up from the holidays, packing away the decorations and gathering up all of the wrapping for the recycling pile, pick out a small box to save. It could be a shoe box or even a square tissue box. Take this box and decorate it for Valentine’s Day. Label it “The Appreciation Box.” Yes, I know we have another … Continue reading

Picking Valentine Flowers

Flowers are so associated with love and Valentines Day that chances are that you will either receive or give some this Valentine’s Day. This past week, I received an e-mail from my son’s school. It was a document that contained a form to order pink, white and red carnations for Valentines Day. The school is using the sale as a fundraiser, and I can order some flowers in a convenient way. It got me thinking about choosing flowers and taking care of them. Here are some tips to ensure that your blooms last long and strong. Roses sure do make … Continue reading

What is E-Ink?

You may have heard about E-ink or electronic ink becoming available in many devices. But what is it? Why is it important? Where will you be seeing it next? Read on and you’ll get the scoop. E-ink is both the common name of a technology as well as the name of the company that produced it. When someone is referring to e-ink, they generally mean and Electronic Paper Display, or EPD. It is a process that features an electronic display that mimics text or graphics on paper. Far from the usual computer-type displays that we are used to, the EPD … Continue reading

Computing Week in Review: January 21st Through January 27th

Want some free photo editing software? Have you heard about the upgrades to Apple TV? Do you know what Apple TV is all about? Check out these and other great articles posted last week in the Computing Blog week in review. January 21st Computing Week in Review: January 14th Through January 20th Have you heard the news about the new ultra portable laptop? And don’t choose the wrong high definition format for your movies or you can find yourself lost and alone. All of that information is here in the review for last week’s computing articles. January 22nd Free Photo … Continue reading