Gift ideas.

I get a new pic of my nephew every year and I really love it.    

I think my parents enjoy that kinda thing - any crap that Jake makes at daycare and I'm talking about a piece of card with some mark on the front - not a lot of effort really - takes pride of place on the mantlepiece.

Dh's parents are slightly different. A few years ago for xmas the boys painted mugs. they were actually pretty cool. In-laws (who i get on relatively well with), didn't even say thank you. For mothers day they made pen holders and MIL didn't take it when hse went to AUs (permanently) and I later found it in the rubbish. But then they moan about not having a close relationship withthe kids.....grrrr

so to answer your question - no sure.

The best present I have ever recieved was from my best friend for my birthday. I love cooking so she got a recipe binder and in it put recipies from all the different countries that I had travelled to (was living in Uk so had done lots of travel), They were all typed out in the same format and had flags of the relevant countries. I thought it was an amazingly thoughtful gift and only took her time rather than money.

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I bought The Australian Womans Weekly mag yesterday (with Trelise Cooper on the cover) and there is some good christmas recipes in there too for baking cakes, puddings etc

I just bought some choc moulds off TM to start my choc making for pressies

For both sides of the family we pick names out of the hat and buy for that person, like for say something for under $20, it's really good.

We all buy for the kiddies though