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Christmas Gift Calendar: Christmas Quote
After all this talk of Christmas gift ideas, let’s call to mind what Christmas is really about: Love and spending time with those nearest and dearest to us!
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
- Peg Bracken
Merry Christmas from be2!
Christmas Gift Calendar: Wants and Needs
The idea behind Wants for Sale and Needs for Sale is simple Two artists paint their wants and needs. Wants are paintings of things they would like to have. The paintings sell for the exact price of the thing they depict and with the money the artists go out and buy what they want. Needs are paintings of things they would like to donate to people in need. The originals are auctioned, the prints can be ordered online. The money then goes to a good cause that provides for the need depicted in the painting.
Last Christmas I gave the be2 team the picture you see on the right, which now takes place of pride in the be2 office. The sale price went to a charity that gives toys to children who would otherwise not receive any presents at Christmas.
The originals are usually hard to come by, but prints are cheaper and easy to order online. And if you’re worried they won’t be delivered in time for Christmas, just do as I did last year: the delivery was late, but I printed a „placeholder“ from the website until the original arrived.
Christmas Gift Calendar: Print your own Christmas Crib
24 days, 24 Christmas gifts:
Perfect Christmas gift ideas and suggestions by the be2 team, daily December 1st – 24th 2009.
Christmas cribs can be a bit old-fashioned, but some of still can’t quite shake off those childhood memories of setting up the manger, placing all the animals around the baby Jasus and his parents, and, depending on your level of creativity, maybe even adding a few Lego figures and Barbie ornaments in between, for good measure.
If you are not quite dedicated enough to spend a lot of money on a crib that will only take up space in your cellar for the rest of the year, but you still like the idea of putting up a crib at Christmas, a printable paper crib might be just the thing for you.
The figures have been added daily, so by now the crib is practically complete. The design blog that offers this cool, modern crib, is in German, but all you need to do is click here to find the crib page, then click on each link on that page to download individual PDFs of the crib figures. Print, cut, paste on to a bit of cardboard and set up your do-it-yourself crib, just in time for Christmas.
Christmas Gift Calendar: Branding Iron
24 days, 24 Christmas gifts:
Perfect Christmas gift ideas and suggestions by the be2 team, daily December 1st – 24th 2009.
This is a pretty unusual Christmas gift suggestion. Maybe it’s not even suitable as a Christmas gift. Nevertheless, we were so fascinated by the concept behind the text branding iron and its relatively low price, we wanted to introduce it, Christmas or no Christmas.
The branding iron is small and shaped to fit on top of a standard lighter. You can order it with any text, for example your own name, company logo, or small slogan. When you use the lighter, it heats the text that sits above the flame and you can use it for branding objects made of wood, for example.
If the branding iron is a little too unusual for your liking, you might find something elsewhere in the shop. It specialises on personalised 3D printing, so you can have anything from cufflinks to napkin rings and Christmas decorations made to order, for example with the name of the person you need a gift for.
Christmas Gift Calendar: A Boob Job for Christmas
24 days, 24 Christmas gifts:
Perfect Christmas gift ideas and suggestions by the be2 team, daily December 1st – 24th 2009.
Before you act on this (not quite serious) Christmas gift idea, make sure you ask the lady in question if she is actually interested in receiving a boob job for Christmas. We won’t take any responsibility for the consequences of giving her one unasked.
