If you are looking for a gift for your husband, boyfriend or partner that can’t stop talking about the last bottles he discovered, here is a small list of gifts ideas that you could give to a wine lover :

1. Deluxe waterproof cork to seal the bottle.
2. A deluxe battery bottle opener.
3. A pouring cork for wine bottles.
4. A bottle stand made for tables.
5. A clothe for wine bottles.
6. The Phaneuf book guide « le guide des vins ».
7. Jean-François Plante’s book « Bistro ». The Aubry 2009 guide book «
8. A book on the best wine and cheese duos.

This is few choices within the most popular books… and you can find many more in your local book store.

You are looking for a small Christmas gift idea and you are out of inspiration ?
You are attending a Christmas gift exchange with your working colleagues or with some friends ?
You need to find a small gift for your in-law family ?
The gift should be appropriated for both sexes and not expensive ?

So you will find below a list of different Christmas exchanges gift ideas :

1. A case for the remote control
2. A big stuffed dice to play
3. A platter with a pillow under to eat on the couch or in the bed
4. A portative manicure kit
5. A lint razor
6. A reading lamp
7. A glass coaster kit with photos under
8. A dynamo handle flash light
9. A coffee mug for the car
10. One or two anti-stress balls (very handy)
11. An automatic card mixer
12. A tool kit to eat nuts

Or you could simply go for the traditional and always popular box of Belgium’s chocolate! You can also take not of the list in the exemple de petit cadeau de Noël article.

Hunters! Dear Hunters! They are always well equipped, but it still is easy to give a nice present to a hunter. Either for Christmas or their anniversary, you have many different options. Here are some examples of gift that will always please hunters! !

• Small confit of duck jar or duck pâté
• A small hunting knife
• A camouflage cap from Canard Illimités
• A hand paint wooden duck

or a very interesting example, a hunter gift package including :

• A bottle of red wine
• A bilberry Wild board pâté
• A rainbow wrasse guinea fowl pâté
• A Armagnac pheasant pâté
• A pepper mint deer pâté
• Small presentation suitcase

Oh, for the hand made wooden duck, please no rainbow colors… Real duck colors…

We are right in the middle of Christmas time. Unfortunately, this period is often synonym of over consummation and big production of trash.

We can ask ourselves this question : “ Can we adopt more ecological practices all while keeping Christmas magic touch ? ” Well, yes we can.

Here are many ways to make your Christmas greener.

Green Christmas gift ideas
– Objects that we don’t use anymore
– Fair trade and/or biological product (tea, coffee, chocolate, spice…)
– Gift certificate (downloadable music, show tickets, SEPAQ, massages…)
– Handmade gifts (scarves, gloves, socks, jam, cookies, candies…)
– Service certificate (babysitting, help for painting, shovelling the entry, bring coffee each morning for a week, etc.)
– Clothing or jewelleries made with recycled fabrics.

Visit the www.ethiquette.ca or www.equiterre.org website for more ecological gift ideas.

Wish cards
– Cards from a humanitarian organization
– Local artist cards
– Keep your cards and craft some new one next year using your old ones
– Digital cards
– Cards printed on 100% recycled paper.

Wrapping
– Use Kraft paper, grocery bags, made with 100% recycled paper
– Give a second life to your “trash” like canes or crates
– Keep gift bags, ornaments, ribbon in order to use them again
– Try to keep the gently use wrapping paper if possible
– Wrap your gifts in a reusable material like a Christmas dishcloth or a tissue that you don’t use anymore.

Reception
– Try to offer mostly provincial or local product
- Avoid using non reusable dishes
– If you don’t have enough dishes, you can use very inexpensive plastic dishes that you can put in the dishwasher, you will also be able to use them again and again at your receptions
– You don’t want to do the dishes… Play a game where the losers must do the dishes
– Ask your guest to bring the missing things (chairs, dishes, table…).

Alcohol
– There is many brands of wine and beer that are local, organic and sometimes even fair trade. Ask for advices at your local SAQ. Energy efficiency
– Be careful about the Christmas lights !
– Close the lights at night (or use a time switch)
– Light the lights only in December
– Choose LED light bulbs. They use 90% less energy and last 7 times longer then regular bulbs.

I hope that those advices will help you pass a greener Christmas time.
I wish you a very nice Holliday!

If your few years old son like to watch television and is particularly focused on educative shows (?) like Caillou, why not give him one of the educative gifts from Caillou ?

Here is some Christmas gift ideas for a boy :

• Baby Caillou it smell’s good
• Caillou gift set
• Allouette Jar
• Bag with the stuffed Caillou “The gift”
• Puzzle book “The letters”
• Puzzle book “The numbers”
• Caillou my piano book.

If you are not into toys, you could offer him :

• A small Caillou blanket
• Caillou sheets
• Caillou pillow
• A bag Caillou

You can also go to big toy stores, there you can find many other Caillou stuff.

You are looking for a gift idea for your mom… You want something simple but different ? Usually, moms are not very complicated. Sometimes, safe values are the best.

It is up to you to see which of the following Christmas gift suggestions is best for your mom :

1. A digital picture frame
2. A DVD player
3. A book from her favorite author
4. A massage appointment
5. A bottle of her favorite fragrance
6. A small slow cooker
7. One recipe book
8. Celine Dion’s last CD
9. The Fireman calendar
10. Her favorite series DVD

Come on and spoil her like it should, the one that gave you birth and her unconditional love.

Hunters are often exposed at the cool fall winds. Good quality clothing will always be appreciated

1. Light camouflage gloves
2. Small camouflage scarf
3. Camouflage hide neck
4. Longue thermos underwear
5. Camouflage tuque (mostly the polar one…)

With this kind of present you cannot really go wrong.

Indeed, even if your favorite hunter already got one of those suggestions, having a spare one is always a good thing.

You are looking for a gift for an aquarium lover ?

Here is a GREAT gift if you have a good budget and if your tropical fishes lover has a big house… A really nice fish tank for tropical fishes that will catch the eye and that will totally revitalize your living room !

Here is the address to order online your aquarium www.octopusstudios.com and I recommend that you have it directly delivered at the aquarium lover’s house… (more…)

If your kid is agile with his hands and loves crafting, here are some examples of crafting gifts for kids that will help him to develop his dexterity, his creativity and his patience (maybe even yours!!!)

• Laced animals kit (wool included)
• Stamps kit
• Crafting scissors
• Painting kit « Mon premier atelier » (at DeSerres)
• Creation Studio kit (knitting and weaving) (chez DeSerres)
• A gouache paint gift set
• A calligraphy kit

You can also propose him, with all his pretty crafting tools, to create anniversary cards for mamie and grand maman or for all the family when Christmas time will come.

Your wife likes to take longue minutes (that actually looks like longue hours) to get dolled up ? You think it takes a lot of time… but you love the results !!

So be happy and make her happy by offering her one of those beauty gift ideas. Healthy gift box are very trendy this year.

• A gift box includes a bottle of her (your) favourite fragrance
• A Biotherme « Aquasource » or « EauPure » gift box for example
• A Hydratation de Clarins box
• A cosmetic bag ensemble like one from caboodles for example
• An osier gift basket that include 5 Pure SPA skin care product
• An Alpen secret olive oils based bath product ensemble.
• An osier gift basket from Alpen Secrets with goat milk bath products (lotion, gel, body soap, small brush, bath salt, etc)
• An Urban SPA feet care gift ensemble.

If you need some advices or recommendations concerning your wife preference… don’t hesitate to ask her best-friend, mother, daughter or simply ask the cosmetic lady!