birthday present ideas?

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so I'm real bad at coming up with unique birthday present ideas so i thought id get some help.
my best friends little sister is turning 12. Now although i could get her normal girl stuff, shes not exactly your average girly girl. But shes not real into sports so i need nice and simple... NOT magazine subscrptions or Gift Cards please

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I wish you'd given us a price range to work with.. but I'll toss out some ideas and hope you can pick out something that will work for you.

Tickets to a concert she'd like to attend would be an awesome gift if that's feasible. Or if she doesn't already have one, an MP3 player, digital camera, or cell phone would be good too. Just be sure to get her parents permission first. A Nintendo DS would be great too, but it's a little more expensive.

If she has a computer maybe she could use a cordless laser mouse or a new web cam. And I'm sure there's a certain CD or DVD she's been wanting to get.

Think about what she likes to do too. Does she read certain types of books? Would she like a certain type of computer / Play Station / XBox game? (Sorry, I don't know what system she has, if any...) Maybe a t-shirt with her favorite band on it?

Anyway, those are just some suggestions. I hope you can use them to come up with an idea that will fit her perfectly!

what are great birthday gift ideas for my soon to be 16 year old sister?

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My sister and i are really close but i have no idea what to get her for her 16th birthday anyone have any idea?

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For a Sweet Sixteen, I would go with something girly, probably pink (unless she hates pink) such as a bathrobe from Aerie, Victoria's Secret/PINK, or Target. You can also do cute bedroom slippers. Bath and Body Works may have some of those items too.

It really depends on your price range...if you have a little more money, get her a bottle of perfume! Is there one she likes/has been talking about? I would suggest Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, Marc Jacobs Daisy, DKNY Be Delicious, or Aquolina Pink Sugar as fun, young fragrances that are light and sweet.

Does she have a lot of jewelry? A jewelry box might be a nice gift. Check at department stores, even Pottery Barn has cute ones.

You can do a pair of simple, nice, earrings from a jewelry shop (real ones, though...not like Claire's). Or consider a charm bracelet chain with a starter charm. There is the standard link but also Pandora bracelets as well.

I hope these suggestions work, good luck!

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How can you make a character in a modern story more creative?

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What I mean by 'modern' is just a normal setting... no fantasy, or anything like that, present-time.

Any ideas?

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I think you're asking the wrong question. Don't worry about making your character 'more creative.' Somewhere, if your character is at all realistic, there will be a character like yours, so don't go and try and load your poor protaganist up with arcane hobbies, unlikely histories, absurd talents and bizarre passions. What you want to do is to make your character real. He or she should live and breath for your reader. No character is unoriginal, because it's impossible for two people, even if they're trying, to write the same character. The tiniest differences make all the difference. And there is no such thing as a boring person. Everyone has something that makes them tick. It may not be visible to the outside world, but the great thing about fiction is that you can get inside of people's heads. Just make sure you KNOW your character intimately, and just your knowledge, even if you don't (and you shouldn't) put it all down on paper will make him or her more real. Start with a history, however mundane. A brief outline of what his past life was like, simple, and general. Then fill in the details. Who were his best friends? What was the name of his third grade teacher? Did he have any pets? Of course, you don't have to sit down and think it all out, but the goal is, if someone asks you, "What was the best gift your character received on his eighth birthday?" you should know immediatly that it was a Thundercats action figure with posable limbs. That's how well you need to know your character. Just knowing his past gives a surprising amount of insight into your character's personality. The rest you get with situations. Don't say to yourself, "Bobby is brave," or "Susie's optimistic," because all those terms are subjective. How brave is Bobby? Under what situations would he stand and when would he fall? If Susie was beaten, raped, then left for dead floating naked on an ice floe in the Arctic ocean, would she still be optimistic? Propose possible situations for your characters. What would Bobby do if a homeless man on the street asked for money? What if the homeless man grabbed him, and started insisting that he knew him? That will help you know his personality. You should also know his likes and dislikes. If he hates bananas, you should know that. If 2 out of 3 of all the items in her wardrobe are magenta, you should know that. Again, you don't have to know every single detail, but know enough so that you have a pretty solid idea who your character is.

What should i get my girlfriend for chistmas?

im 16 and shes 15, i already know im getting roses for her but i want to get her a real present. dont say a teddy bear or earrings ive already got them for her a couple months ago. maybe a necklace could work but i want to hear your ideas. thanks =)

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Check out a website called "Changing the Present".

They're a group who question all the "stuff" people give each other. Instead, they provide a way for people to help support charitable causes.

(For her last birthday, on behalf of my daughter, I arranged basic medical kits for 10 Kenyan midwives, who before had no medical equipment or materials, at all.)

(When a cousin of mine died after a long illness, instead of sending flowers, I arranged for 6 people to have cataract operations. It's a simple operation, but one that makes the difference between a person being blind and needing assistance, and being able to see and be able to use their skills for others. She may be gone, but she's given a new life to others.)

The range of charities is amazing. (One option is to build a cement latrine to service an entire small town. There is a person who may find her name on one of these!)

Check out the site. The range of options is amazing, and their "Ugly Gift" section gives chuckles and a new perspective on the whole thing.

(I think it's a good thing, every so often, for younger peope to remind the older ones about being responsible passengers on Spaceship Earth.)

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What should I get my 15 year old boyfriend for his birthday?

Q. My boyfriend is turning 15 next month, and I'm not sure what to get him yet.
Please give me some good ideas!

A. OK,I have some really great ideas and I'm gonna write a really loooooooooong answer:

VIDEO GAMES
A lot of teenage guys love video games. The whole video game business has several gift options for you to choose from. You don't always have to buy a random video game. You can get a brand new gaming system that he has been talking about forever, new controllers, gaming chairs, magazine subscriptions and more. If he likes video games, you can't go wrong with a gaming gift.

Sporting Goods
If this 15-year-old guy happens to play a sport, there's nothing he'll love more than some fresh new sporting gear. Football players might love a new pair of gloves or cleats, basketball players might want a new basketball or pair of sneakers, and golfers will most likely love a new driver or set of irons. If those are too expensive, try getting some new golf balls or a golf bag.

Movies
You can almost never go wrong with movies. You don't always have to be simple and buy a DVD. You can get him a subscription to Netflix or a Blockbuster gift card. You can even get him a gift card that will be accepted at many major movie theaters around.

Music
Just like movies, you can almost never go wrong with music. If he already has an MP3 player, spice things up a little bit with an MP3 skin that he can put on his music device. If he's running out of music, a subscription to an online music store will come in handy, and if you're trying to be really creative, try getting a surround-sound chair. This comfortable chair will have built-in speakers and music hookups.

Camera
He either loves or hates taking pictures, but if he loves it, he really loves it. There are so many cool options out there to choose from that you can't go wrong getting a photography lover a new camera. If he happens to like video, buy him a camcorder instead. You can even get mini camcorders that record audio and video and take still photos. The best thing is that they can fit in his shirt pocket and can directly hook up to his computer for editing.

Concert Tickets
If you know that your son's favorite artist is going to be on tour in your area, get him a few tickets for him and his friends to go. This is always a good gift idea because you don't have to buy exactly on the day of his birthday. Just telling him that you're going to get him tickets to his favorite performer will be a great gift in itself. Just make sure you buy the tickets before they sell out.

Wall Graphics
For those teens who love putting posters up in their room, go one step further and get them a life-size wall graphic. You can get everything from life-size cutouts of Michael Jordan to cool cars and extreme sports. Many of these graphics look so real that you'll feel that there is another person in the room.

Solar Charger
For the teen who has a cellphone, iPod and camera, a solar charger is a cool idea. Just plug your device into the charger and let it sit out in the sun. You'll be able to hook up multiple devices at once, depending on what model you buy, and you can travel safely knowing that your phone battery is never going to die.

Money
One thing that is most certain to please anybody is money. If you just have no idea what to get for a gift, a card with a check in it, some cash, or a gift certificate are all easy choices. He'll be able to go and buy what he wants to buy, and you don't have to worry about him not liking your gift.

OK,I almost died writing this answer.....I really hope you like it and if I don't get the Best Answer for his question I will hang myself,lol!

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Can you give me some ideas on a surprise 50th bday party?

Q. i am throwing my dad a surprise birthday party. he will be 50 this year. i was just looking for some fun decorating ideas or themes. Maybe some links to some websites that will help make his party fun and memorable. Thanks.

A. Golden Age Hollywood.

1) FRED ASTAIRE-THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
2) JUDY GARLAND-SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
3) GENE KELLY-SINGING IN THE RAIN
4) HOWARD KEEL-ANYTHING YOU CAN DO
5) MARILYN MONROE-DIAMONDS ARE A GIRLS BEST FRIEND
6) NAT KING COLE-UNFORGETTABLE
and others like this: http://www.rhino.com/store/productdetail...

Our appetizer experience:
We ordered a fruit tray, cheese tray, veggie tray, taco dip and chips and silver dollar sandwich rolls.

No one touchede the veggie tray. The cheese tray was 1/3 eaten. The taco tip went over great and had to be restocked twice, the fruit tray went over great, and the silver dollar rolls went over great. They were ham, turkey and beef. These are hand size and perfect and I saw the rolls for this at the grocery store.

Anyway, so if I were you I would make a small cheese tray, make a double batch or taco dip, and have a good fruit tray and make the silver dollar rolls.

These are all simple to put together.

Taco Dip:
2 softened cream cheese.
1 16oz sour cream
1 packet taco seasoning.

Mix with mixer. Put in bottom of a cookie sheet. Top with shredded cheese, shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes and green onions. Use the cheese but you can altered the rest to your taste, maybe add black olives. Make 2 of these. Serve with tostitos scoops.

Fruit bowl,.
Whole pineppple into chunks. Slice strawberries. Add whole table grapes no seeds, add chunks of watermelon, and cut oranges in slices cut into triangles. This is best made the night before so that the juices can all run together and stir before serving.

Silver dollar rolls:
http://www.heb.com/yourhebstore/sd-deli-...

It is just shaved deli meat and cheese triangles. You dont have to put lettuce on them, ours did not have it. t. The ones that we had catered just had real butter on them and they had mayo and mustard packets on ice on the side. You can make all this yourself the day before easily and our caterer delivered them to the hall the nigtht before our party and it was fine.

For decorations to start off you have to have a sign in board. This is good for everyone to look back at. A board your friends sign as they arrive. We bought trifold presentation board from Walgreens or you can get one at any office supply place.: We left the center white. The outer 2 folds we covered with red gift wrap from the dollar store. We put a red scalloped border around the outer 2 folds we got at the dollar store( the ones the teachers use on bulletin boards. Around the center we put film strip border from party cheap. We bought silver glitter letters from the craft and spelled out SIGN IN centered at thet top of the center of the board in the white section. We attached them with double sided tape dots from the craft store. We bought 2 Hollywood Jolee scrapbook pages and put the pictures at the bottom of the outer folds and randomly around the board: These included the Hollywood sign, movie cameras, film reels, etc. So the middle is left blank for pple to sign and the outer folds that are red get covered with a collage of pictures of the birthday person. We also bought a scrap book page with palm trees \
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Our colors were gold, black and silver.
We had large round tables, 8 of them. We bought black tablecloths from the dollar store but bought beautiful gold overlays from efavormart cheap. For centerpieces we used the movie cascade ones from partycheap. We also had on the table a balloon weightfrom party cheap. We attached black, gold and silver latex balloons helium filled and one mylar hollywood balloon from party cheap. I also bought black and gold cut out foil stars palm and hand size and placed these randomly on the table for a punch of color . You can also hang these from the ceiling for an extra effect. Also on the table we made tent cards for flash cameras: You can use any word processor. I inserted a movie camera clip art. I put Nicoles sweet 16 and then worded the card like the ones they show on handykane.com. You can change this for your 50th. We got the cameras at Aldi food store for 2.99 a piece. We bought a total of 60 balloons, gold, black and silver. We had 8 tables and made the arrangements as I said above. We made the same arrangements ands put 2 around the opening of the hall, 2 on the cake table, 2 around the DJ table and a few others randomly. We bought these 30 inch large clapboard balloons to put around the dance from party cheap or bulk balloons. floor:http://www.partycheap.com/hollywood_cla.... Not sure if you are having a big party or at home party.

We bought move star standups, marilyn monroe and you could get humphrey bogart. Get them on Ebay new for 23 a piece instead of the usual 45 at most sites.


We bought these huge hollywood signs: http://www.andersonsprom.com/p-18782-mov... . They are 56x35. You cant really see how it is. It is actually like an A frame. It comes with another black cardboard backing and these rods that you are supposeed to hot glue together so it is like an A-frame or like a tent to stand up. You have to assemble this. All 3 pictures come on 1 long roll or poster. You have to cut it in 3 and then they give you an exact knife to cut around the edges. It was not that hard and this tape that sticks it on. Well we found that you dont need to make the a-frame because you can bend them ever so slightly in the center and they stand up fine. They give you the sparkly foil stars to glue on (not hot glue) .4 for each picture, 4 lg and 4 small. So we decided not to make the A frame so we had 3 extra large pieces of black cardboard, the same sizes these pictures are on. So we went to Target and bought 3 more posters, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and James Dean. We used the rest of the tape we had and put them on there and we put 2 lg and 2 small stars on all six of these. They all stand up just fine so by doing these we got 6 huge decoration pieces for only 90 bucks. We go so many compliments on them.

In the middle of the dance floorwe put one of those hollywood walk of fame sgtars from party cheap with my daughters name on it. We also bought hollywood decocrations to put randomly around the room from party cheap. We got move cutouts, hollywood street signs, walk of fame door fringe, etc.

For favors We bought organza favor bags in black and gold from efavormar, the same place we got the table overalys in black and gold: We got clipboard keychains, movie buttermints, black and gold mardi gras beads (which we handed to guests as they arrived) and personalized star trophies that we put a friend quote on at oriental trading really cheap. We bought sweet 16 lollipop mold and used pink chocolate from craft store You could make some with a 50 instead. . The bags are 1.99 for 100 with ties (you can use these as favor bags as well). It was 1.50 for 3 bags of chocolate and we made 27 lollipops. Dont forget to buy sticks.

This red carpet from party cheap was fine but check the length and it has a stick tape and bring mild adhesive remover with your as it leaves a sticky line where the tape is.

We made our own personalized favor tags with the business card maker section on MIcrosoft. We inserted a hollywood sign picture from google images, a walk of fame star with my daughters name on that we got off a myspace page and then we put Nicole's Sweet 16 on it in cool font in Red. We used a paper punch to cut a hole and the organza bags have ties already.

You could ask people to dress like a movie stars or if formal to dress from that era, but you dont have to do that.,

You could also decorate with Lucy Ball, Bob Hope, etc. Most parents love that time period.

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What should I get my boyfriend for his 18th birthday?

Q. He's turning 18 later this month. He's a huge country boy. He likes pretty much anything country. He tells me he doesn't want anything for his birthday, or he "supposedly" can't think of what he wants. Please help me. We've been dating for almost 10 months. Please please help! :) Very much appreciated!

A. Guys always say they don't want something for their birthday but they really do. But don't panic there are several things you can do. Since he is a country boy then he will appreciate something simple and special. You should get him a homemade gift from your hand. If he is a real country boy he will really like that. Here are some ideas that will inspire you on what to get him http://www.giftgrease.com/homemade-gifts.html Its a good thing you are starting early on what to get him. That way you can really put in some time and effort into the gift. If homemade gifts are not really up your alley. Then you should check out this page. It has gift ideas specifically for 18yr olds like your boyfriend http://www.giftgrease.com/eighteen-year-old.html Between these two links you should a gift to give you country sweetheart. Hope this helps.

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