Flowers are great, but if you want to make your lovergirl feel extra special on Valentine’s Day, check out these gift ideas that are sure to make her sweet on you.
Home Sweet Spa
Want to indulge her with a spa treatment, but Burke Williams isn’t in the budget this year? For an intimate do-it-yourself spa experience, draw her a hot bath, fill it with her favorite bubbles, and let her Zen out with candles and dreamy music. Continue the papering by wrapping her up in luxury with the Soft Hugwear Spa Wrap. $15 at Walmart
Tops and Bottoms
Slip her into something more comfortable with Frankie & Johnny Damask Bamboo Flannel Blue Lounger Pajamas, made of ultra-soft eco-friendly and naturally anti-microbal bamboo flannel, akin to the texture a blend of cashmere and silk. Not only is bamboo snugly soft, but it also absorbs moisture and wicks it away from the skin, keeping her cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. $64 Sleepyheads
Not Your Grandmother’s Pearls
Give her a lasting gift of beauty, originality and quality with Brian Nagourney Pearls. The designer’s unique pieces are each handmade with fresh-water pearls combined with coral or turquoise and a variety of stones, strung on a contrasting macramé cord, fusing modern, traditional and primitive styling. The line is priced between $49 and $299 fromBrian Nagourney.
Love that Speaks its Name
Show her how special she is to you with a handcrafted Sentimental Silver Sweetheart Necklace, with a custom-made pure silver tag pendant hand-stamped with both your names. Add additional tags or names of your children (or pets) for a treasured piece that always keeps them close to you. Perfect to wear day after day, with jeans and a t-shirt or that little black dress. $85 to $130 fromSentimental Silver
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Better Than Just Chocolate
Give your Sweetie something to savor with organic Shaman Chocolates,unique for their delicious flavors and their social responsibility. All profits from the sale of Shaman Chocolates help support Huichol Indian villages in Central Mexico allowing them to keep their ancient traditions alive and ensure their economic survival. Sold in 2-ounce bars for $3 each, or gold-colored gift boxes which include eight beautiful flower-shaped solid chocolates for $8.95 from Shaman Chocolates
Read it and Whoop
Get her some great reading material to make it a Valentine’s to remember with Moregasm: Babeland’s Guide to Mind-Blowing Sex by Claire Cavanah and Rachel Venning. This detailed, comprehensive and exuberant manual of modern sex is filled with stylish photographs and illustrations, questions, suggestions, personal stories from real people, and easy to follow advice gleaned from the thousands of men and women who have attended Babeland workshops. It's a must-have for anyone who's ever done it, wants to do it, or wants to do it better. $22.50 from Babeland
Plug and Play
Your gf will love you so much if you give her the Lenovo Y450 ideapad she’ll never surf the craigslist personals again. This powerful yet slim and lightweight (4.5 lbs.) laptop has enough features to keep the IT geek happy but is a perfect turn-key computer for the cyber novice. And it’s a looker, with a textured black outer casing, sleek white keyboard and palm pad and a shiny black illuminated slide bar. It’s also one of the most eco-friendly computers on the market, meeting rigorous RoHS standards (restriction of Use of Hazardous Substances) and featuring low energy use and heat emissions, earningit a Gold EPEAT rating.All that plus Intel GMA 4500MHD, DVD writer, Windows Vista Home Premium, 6-cell long-life battery, three USB ports, audio jacks, VGA, Ethernet, six-in-one memory card reader, HDMI port, eSATA, FireWire 400 port and an ExpressCard/34 slot. Starting at $599 from Lenovo
Crock for Betty
If your hostess with the mostess loves to entertain but hates a mess, she’ll love Calibowls, perfect for finger foods, with a non-slip bottom and patent-pending wave-like inward-curing lip design that prevents spillage when foods are scooped out. Comes in ceramic or BPA-free plastic in a variety of colors and sizes, $14.14 to $50.50 from specialty retailers and at Calibowl
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Very Personal Computer
Remind her how much you love her every time she sits at her computer or uses her iPhone with an electronic device skin, like the Skinit Hugs and Kisses 2, that can personalize almost any laptop, cell phone, iPod or gaming device and make it truly hers. Chose from hundreds of designs or create your own, and change them out easily with no sticky residue or harm to the device. $14.95 to $29.99 from SkinIt
Someone’s in the Kitchen at Dinah
Win her heart through her stomach. Get cozy together in the kitchen and stir up a wholesome, satisfying meal in a bowl with the England Soup Factory Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes from the Nation's Best Purveyor of Fine Soup (Hardcover) by Marjorie Drucker. The cookbook is a savory collection of classics like Spicy Chickpea and Butternut Squash, and a variety of vegetarian recipes, all which have easy-to-find ingredients, simple instructions and plenty of mouth-watering photography to showcase how to present each soup. $15.75 on Amazon.
Love’s a Brewing
Perk her up her morning with flavorful coffee and a bit of art with Illy “Love Difference Mediterraneo” medium roast ground espresso in limited edition artful Pistoletto Foundation Cans which support Ethiopia’s coffee-growing communities. $28 for two-pack 8.8 ozcans atIlly USA.
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