Starve the Beast: Christmas Gift Idea Thread [View All]

[noamnety]

I thought it would be nice to start a thread with no guilt holiday gifts ideas that are blue companies, or environmentally friendly, or handcrafted by people making living wages.

1. Make your own meal mixes for someone (rice, lentils, fresh ground curry spices, and directions)

These next two are from people I know from another forum (for artists):

2. These cool coffee sack bags (made by a furniture maker, he said he can produce about 8 more between now and Christmas):
front:

back:

http://tretiak.net/coffee/index.html (If you track back to his main site you'll see some of his furniture, beautiful!)

3. Another neat recycled thing - used book purses:

http://www.rebound-designs.com

4. Make your own book of family photos for relatives, get it published at cafepress: http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/books.aspx