By Enica R. Thompson
Washington, DC - Are you in search of a present for that special someone who has everything? The Smithsonian’s National Zoo offers a multitude of unique gifts for children, adults and families. From stocking stuffers to eco-friendly gifts or an Adopt a Species package, Friends of the National Zoo (FONZ) has something for every animal lover and conservationist on your holiday shopping list.
All items listed below are available on the Zoo’s website at http://nationalzoo.si.edu and in the Zoo’s gift shops.
Stocking Stuffers
Animal Stamp Set
Just in time for mailing holiday greeting cards, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo launched a series of customized conservation stamps featuring seven Zoo animals: the giant panda, Asian elephant, Panamanian golden frog, clouded leopard, Kirtland’s warbler, Scimitar-horned oryx and western lowland gorilla. The animals represent major science programs at the Zoo. Each sheet, consisting of 20 stamps, features one animal. The value of these special stamps is equivalent to a first-class U.S. postage stamp. The stamps are $20.95 per sheet.
Birdmarks
Is your loved one a bookworm? If so, the Zoo has the perfect present! The Zoo offers special bookmarks with breathtaking pictures and information about birds, such as the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, the Cedar Waxwing or the American Flamingo. The birdmarks are available for $1.99 each and proceeds directly support the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.
Wine Cork Trivet Set for Wine Lovers
Don’t know what to do with your favorite wine corks? Looking for a great hostess gift this holiday season? Look no further than our wine cork trivet. Simply collect eight wine corks and twist them onto the metal base. This trivet makes a great way to reuse special wine corks. The Wine Cork Trivet Set is $10.00.
Holiday Gifts for Families
Wild Side Stage series for kids
Bring the entire family to the National Zoo for shows by acclaimed, award-winning musicians, dancers, storytellers, theater actors, and puppeteers. Performances include, Grammy nominee Brady Rymer, the singing Zoologist Lucas Miller, as well as Antonio Rocha, the 2007 Parent’s Choice Gold Award winner and many other great artists. Before or after each performance, join us for a special visit to an animal house where you will get a chance to meet-and-greet keepers, as well as animals featured in the performances! Wild Side Stage performances take place in the Zoo’s Visitors Center Auditorium January 10 & 24, February 7, 21 & 28 and March 7. Tickets are $5 for members and $7 for nonmembers. Beginning Dec. 1, tickets can be purchased on the Zoo’s website and in the Zoo’s Asia Trail Store and Panda Gift Shop. Kids under age two are free!
Let your kids discover the “Wonderful World of Animals”
Is your kid crazy about animals? “Wonderful World of Animals” will make the perfect present! Stunning photographs and favorite Disney characters help children discover the magic of wildlife. This book is written by the National Zoo’s very own Dr. Don Moore. The “Wonderful World of Animals” is $12.99.
P.U! The Guessing Game of Smells
The mischievous Stinky Smells the Skunk is on the loose with his stinky Smellorator! In P.U! The Guessing Game of Smells, players race around a large exciting board full of good, bad, and mystery smells. Whose nose knows best? Land on a smell spot, draw a card, and guess its smell. Be the first to cross the finish line and stop Stinky from polluting and ruining the town fair! The game is designed for children ages five and up costs $29.95.
Giant Panda Cookie Jar
A must-have for every kitchen of an animal lover, the Giant Panda Cookie Jar makes eating cookies even more enjoyable. The Giant Panda Cookie Jar is $18.00 – an exclusive item at the National Zoo.
Giving Tree: Help provide the Zoo's animals with great enrichment items
Enrichment is an integral part of the daily care of the animals in the National Zoo. It helps animals demonstrate their natural behavior, adds variety to their day, allows them exercise, gives them choices in their environment, and enhances their well-being. Enrichment also gives Zoo scientists the chance to study and observe the animals' behavior.
Zoo staff has created a wish list of items that you can buy and donate to the Zoo, including Kong toys, rubber chew toys, mirrors, laser pointers, radios, feeder balls, feather dusters, tools, and much, much more. Items can be purchased and/or donations can be made on the Zoo’s online enrichment store or you can drop off or purchase at the Giant Panda Gift Shop. Additionally, special Giving Tree toy chests will be set up throughout the Zoo during our annual ZooLights event.
To donate, visit the Zoo’s website at: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Support/MakeDonation/GivingTree.cfm.
Eco-friendly Items
Give the gift of conservation and make the season bright for your friends and family with trendy, eco-friendly gifts.
Colored Pencil Necklace
Everyday objects elevated to art. That is what designer Amy Pfaffman does with her beautiful recycled jewelry pieces. She finds beauty in all objects and gives cast-offs a new life. Express yourself through green jewelry with this Colored Pencil Necklace, which retails for $64.00.
Large Folding Chopstick Basket
Unique, Practical, Green...this folding basket is amazing! They are strong so you can load them up, and the superior air circulation keeps fruits and veggies fresh. They are also perfect for holding nuts, serving bread or just as a display piece. The foldable design makes them easy to store, which makes them not only great for home and office, but also for camping and picnics and is a nice recycled item for yourself or to give as a gift. It is important for everybody to do what they can to help keep our planet green. Recycling and buying recycled products is a good start. Using discarded disposable chopsticks is just one example of making recycled products from a resource that would otherwise be waste. The Chopstick Basket is $24.00.
Make a Difference—Adopt a Species
The Adopt a Species program helps support the care of 2,000 animals at the Zoo and its Conservation and Research Center. Adopt a Species makes a great gift for a great cause. Featured creatures include the North Island Brown Kiwi, Asian Elephants, and the Panamanian Golden Frog. Your loved one will receive a plush stuffed animal in its very own animal carrier complete with air holes and a “Do Not Feed” label. Packages range from $40 to $1,000 and also includes a tote bag, personalized certificate, and color animal photo. Your gift will support conservation efforts and exhibit improvements, as well as allow for the purchase of medical supplies and enrichment items.
For a Gift that Lasts the Whole Year Long… Give Friends of the National Zoo Gift Membership
This year, make your friends our friends, with a Friends of the National Zoo holiday gift membership package. A FONZ gift membership at the Household or Donor level will provide your loved ones with a year’s worth of great benefits, such as free parking at the Zoo, discounts on tickets to popular Zoo events, discounts in our gift shops and much more. Plus, with this special holiday gift package, they’ll receive a cuddly plush panda, our full-color Smithsonian Zoogoer calendar, and coupons for extra discounts at the Zoo. As the gift giver, you’ll receive free animal wallpaper for your computer to show our appreciation. Purchase your holiday gift membership package today.
Give a gift that helps the National Zoo’s clouded leopards
Help the Zoo build a new home for our endangered clouded leopards by making a cheerful gift to the Zoo. Our clouded leopards housed at the Zoo’s Conservation and Research Center currently live in a facility that was built in 1911. The new home will provide them with the environment they need to thrive. The new facility will cost $2 million and the Zoo can’t build the new facility without your help. Donation levels begin at $100. Visit our website at www.fonz.org/savecloudedleopards.htm.
Romantic Ideas
Also one of the best and the most popular romantic ideas is to take your partner for a surprise romantic vacation. There are thousands of romantic getaways to choose from. You and your partner can have the greatest time of your life. You can choose from any of the romantic retreats like the Maldives, Hawaii Islands, Switzerland, etc.
Remember, giving and sharing are a fundamental part of the process in rebuilding trust after adultery.
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Extra Ordinary Gifts
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There are various websites promoting the sale of unusual gifts and these websites are handled with experienced staffs and sales persons. By having contact with the customer service, it helps in the selection of the right kind of unusual gifts for the correct occasion at competitive prices. Some of the websites offer exclusive gifts of unusual nature and they promote sustainable living or social lifestyle called as eco-friendly. Shopping online helps in meeting many of the gifts with the exceptional quality called eco-friendly. These gifts are considered as unique, guaranteed and unusual to make a long-lasting memory.
Gifts can be made at the occasion of important functions like valentines day, wedding day, birthday parties, mother’s day and father’s day. Presenting of unusual gifts items like extraordinary watches, show pieces, exclusive jewelleries provide enjoyment and excitement in the hearts of the individual. Gifts are considered as a way of transmission of love and affection. Hence gifting with unusual items makes happy and the gift creates a durable memory.
Websites have to be selected on the type of services offered by them. Many websites provide unusual gifts with the intention of free shipping to the destination of the customer and protects the safety of the gift. Some websites offer good customer service in the selection of the right kind of the gift. Based on the qualities of the website, the selection of the unusual gifts can be made. These gifts provide a flourish able and durable memory in the hearts of the loving ones. And these gifts will definitely find a special place in the hearts of those you give them to, cherishing them and passing them on for generations to come.
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Television or TV as we condense it to is a significantly used communications approach for transporting & receiving moving pictures & sound, or as we more formerly know it as, television programmes. Commercially present ever since the nineteen thirty’s the TV set has developed into a universally used household communications equipment in homes and companies, mainly as a means of amusement and news bulletins. From the beginning of the nineteen seventies video recording on VCR tapes and later, digital playback systems for example DVDs have facilitated in allowing the telly to be used to view pre-taped gardening programmes and other channels.
Television systems are assembled out of numerous parts so a telly screen that is missing an internal tuner to receive the broadcast signals is labelled as a monitor rather than a telly. As the future is here, televisions have advanced on hugely and technology has advanced, tellies in recent times are made to collect diverse broadcasts or video arrangements, such as high definition TVs universally referred to as HDTV. When HDTV’s were 1st on sale they were expensive, nevertheless, today it is probable to obtain economical TV’s from most retailers. For example a thirty-seven inch LCD TV may previously have cost you in cash one thousand pounds it is in recent times possible to acquire one up for a large amount lower than this, you will find that most Plasma widescreens TV’s have reduced substantially in cost when reviewed to several years ago.
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Shopping for Baby Gifts & Buying Baby Gifts Online
Baby Gifts
A unique baby gift says "Welcome to the world" with grace and style. Personalized baby gifts, baby keepsake boxes and baby photo albums make excellent baby gifts to give to newborns. Mothers and Fathers love to receive baby gifts like baby jewellery, baby albums, baby gift box sets and other unique baby gifts.
Where To Get Great Baby Gifts
Shopping for baby gifs can be a struggle if you don't know where to go shopping. Asking friends, colleagues, and family members where they shop for their baby gifts is a good place to start.
When going out to look for unique baby gifts you can go to your local major shopping center, search for baby gifts in your local town or ideally look on the Internet for perfect personalized baby gifts or unique baby shower gifts. The Baby Gift Shop will provide you with a variety of baby gifts to browse through.
What To Get A New Baby
Ever wonder what you should give a new baby?
A baby keepsake box always makes for a great baby gift. You may also think about giving baby jewellery, photo albums, or even a baby gift box.
You can also give personalized baby gifts, unique baby gifts, or how about a wonderful Animal Letters Gift Set for awesome baby gifts.
Parents Love These Baby Gifts
When deciding what to give for baby gifts, it's best to think about what the parents would love to receive from you as a baby gift.
Parents have told us they love to receive personalized newborn gifts, personalized baby gifts and many other unique baby gifts.
The right baby gift makes the parents of the baby feel as though you really put thought into their newborn's gift. You'll feel great knowing that your new baby gift is truly enjoyed. Take a look around and find the perfect baby gift for that new little oneTuesday 17 November 2009
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Gifts needed for Christmas boxes
Capital City Weekly
JUNEAU - Chapel By the Lake will serve as a collection point for Operation Christmas Child, the world's largest Christmas project. Juneau residents will pack shoebox gifts for children in more than 100 countries around the world.
This year, organizers hope to collect 2,435 gift-filled shoeboxes from families, kids, churches, schools and civic organizations in the area. School supplies, toys, necessity items, hard candy and letters of encouragement are suggest items for shoeboxes.
JUNEAU - Chapel By the Lake will serve as a collection point for Operation Christmas Child, the world's largest Christmas project. Juneau residents will pack shoebox gifts for children in more than 100 countries around the world.
This year, organizers hope to collect 2,435 gift-filled shoeboxes from families, kids, churches, schools and civic organizations in the area. School supplies, toys, necessity items, hard candy and letters of encouragement are suggest items for shoeboxes.
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