Posted by spoc on June 4, 2004, at 21:37:54
In reply to Re: Creative and thoughtful gift ideas for guys? » Wildflower, posted by All Done on June 4, 2004, at 11:37:09
Wellllll, this one doesn't take into account the admitted wisdom of the suggestions likely to result in sharing an activity. But I like to send those cookie baskets anytime you might otherwise send flowers. They deliver wherever you tell them to, just like with flowers, so it can be a nice (or playfully embarrassing) surprise. Here's one company, but I think there are others:
http://cookiesbydesign.com/catalog_thankyou.cfm?cob=lmCatThkY
These are actually huge individual cookies on tall sticks, about as high as a bouquet. I have sometimes had them mix and match individual cookies I liked the looks of, and imprint different messages on them.
Or how about burning a special CD -- wasn't receiving a "mixed tape" always a touching thing?
Do you have (or could you get for a few hours) any photos of him? I made a cool-looking "lite" gift for a guy once... I had only a few random, routine photos, so I cut us out individually and placed us on all kinds of exotic backgrounds. I got the perspectives so right that once framed, it looked very realistic -- yet very comical. That might be fun if he or both of you share the dream of a certain destination or activity. Note that if you can your hands on any photos, you can have copies made from the photo itself so you don't ruin anything.
(Then for this guy's "cake," I stuck a bunch of candles right into a cake mix box and wrote on it with frosting. Same guy whose rear bumper I taped the most embarrassing bumper stickers I could find to, and let him drive around getting funny looks all day until he caught it. Yes, these things made him love me! :)
Anyway, any parameters, if you're still looking? I'll be curious to hear what you decide! :- )
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