The Gift Exchange

Remember Peeps, the ubiquitous Easter treat? This is a silly question which I promptly confirmed by a quick search on Google Images. However, when I was 8, Peeps were pure, culinary genius (so were Pixie Sticks). Not too long ago, I thought it would be great to get Peeps for Easter. [...]

I am a girl with a love of teapots & tea parties.  It’s always been this way.  When I was very young the parties were mud pies and muddy cups of air that no one would even pretend to drink out of.  Later the parties progressed to a china tea set and parties with my [...]

Each year I struggle to come up with new fun gifts for my little brother. 12 year old boys are much harder to shop for than you may think! He is just coming out of the toy stage and starting to get into new hobbies. I always have to ask myself, what can I get [...]

I love some good classic rock n’ roll! I also love a good glass of wine. Imagine my excitement when I saw one of our newest gifts, Wines That Rock. It’s the best of both worlds! You get 3 bottles of Mendocino County wines, all in a rock and roll theme. The first is Rolling [...]

I love to entertain, and I’m always looking for new items to make me feel like the ‘hostess with the mostest’. Which is why I’m so thrilled with one of GiftTree’s new products, the Art Carafe with Glass Cork. I absolutely love it! It is an elegant, functional and versatile carafe. You can definitely use this [...]

A project manager, software engineer and hardware engineer were in Miami Beach for a two-week period helping out on a project. During their lunch hours, they would often walk up and down the beach. In the middle of one of these walks, they stumbled upon a lamp. The hardware engineer picked up the lamp and rubbed [...]

I remember when I was younger, my stepmom used to put together little Easter care packages for my brother and I. She lives in Louisiana and, at the time, I lived in Florida so we were rarely together for the holiday. The box usually came with a chocolate bunny, candy, Easter grass and other small [...]

The new Tree of Enchantment Ornamental Glass is a beautiful work of art. Each signature piece is created by a 12 hour melting process using broken shards of glass from a Seattle, WA supplier that makes windows for cars, homes and offices. Stephen Kitras, a world famous artist, is the designer of this hand-blown glass [...]

Everything around here seems to be shedding those winter blues. It’s no longer dark when I wake up for work in the morning, the birds are all flooding back home and we have our new selection of spring flowers. I was sitting at my desk staring out of the window at the blue sky (which is [...]

I know I have talked about baby names in the GiftTree blog before, but I have a real  dilemma and need some help! With so many siblings we have come up with some interesting ways that we were named as kids, but Matt and I just can’t seem to agree on any names for our [...]