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Craft Library: Gifts for Teachers FREE recipes , desserts , crafts & health ideas Crafts & Hobbies & Special Kitchen Values PinkSunrise.com | Families-First.com | Homeschool Zone | Event-of-the-Week | Bookstore | Search An Apple for the Teacher Special Gifts Ideas for that Special Educator Join our support group Cheerful Cookie Box Kathy Ross, the popular craft book author, has written a new book craft book called Crafts for Christian Values . Kathy's latest book is filled with wonderful crafts and ideas to help children learn about Christian values and what they mean. This easy-to-do craft lets you take disposable plastic containers, photos, drawings, and old greeting cards to make a wonderful keepsake . It's so easy that even the little ones can do it too. Sit-A-Pon a gift for the gardening teacher The Sit-A-Pon is created by using very simple household materials; old plastic tablecloth, magazines, and yarn. I first made a Sit-A-Pon when I was a Girl Scout. I still remember that pink and white soft square that protected my knees while gardening as a small girl. The Sit-A-Pon can be personalized just for your mom. You can use water proof magic markers to write her name and her favorite colored yarn to sew the edging. My Special Cloth Book Put some special memories in a book you can give. This craft is brought to us by Roberta Ross-Fisher and she says, "All children enjoy having ownership in their work, and they especially like to complete projects which focus on themselves. Bookmaking can be a fun and easy way to help children at various ages and ability levels to communicate through writing." Cardboard Earrings The kids will enjoy making these earrings for themselves or as gifts . Be creative with the designs and you'll be sure to have a true piece artwork! Experiment with different designs. You can make the earrings as simple or as outrageous as you like. Birds, animals, flowers, shapes- it's up to you! They make great gifts for moms , teachers or a great addition to your Halloween outfit. Dessert-of-the-Week Toffee Bars This week's Dessert of the Week features the sinfully delicious Toffee Bars. This candy is fun for a special treat or dressed up in a candy tin as a great gift. These bars are simple to make and the kids can help make them too! Lollipop Plants Grow a lollipop plant ! Whether you are a teacher , mom , or kid who loves crafts, this is the perfect for you. It's very simple and you don't even need dirt. This is great as both a festive decoration and treat holder . You can use any kind of lollipops- Blow Pops, Tootsie Roll Pops or the traditional non filled pops. Comments & Ideas Teacher Gift Basket From: Linda For teacher appreciation week we gave the teachers gifts with these sayings attached. A mint + Thanks for the Commitment Pens + Teachers do the "Write" thing a rubberband ball + Teachers are Flexible a bag of cookies + Teachers Make Smart Cookies. Perhaps these can help you with your gift basket. Good luck. New for 2001 Eat Cheat & Melt Fat Away Weight loss books FREE Healthy Cooking Recipes FREE Fit 'n Trim Support Crazy Kitchen Deals Ravioloi Maker FREE Cannoli Recipe interview with the Cake Mix Doctor, Anne Byrn more cake books more baking books Questions? Ideas? Comments? Have a craft idea to share? Click here to get our FREE newsletter and join our craft, cooking, education, health & other support groups FREE recipes , desserts , crafts & health ideas Crafts& Hobbies & Special Kitchen Values PinkSunrise.com | Families-First.com | Homeschool Zone | Event-of-the-Week | Bookstore | Search Last updated: 01/30/03 , 2000 www.Homeschoolzone.com All rights reserved Zone visitor Pitter Patter visitor

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Apart from certain conventional gift items it can be anything else that the birthdayer loves to have on the occasion. As simple as a bunch of nice flowers, or a box of candy and chocolates, a piece of toy or a rare species of sprouting plant, an item of trivia or an object d'art, sheer utilities like a set of cutlery or something that pampers luxury like a box of jewelry...The list can go on and on. However, it ultimately rests on the tastes of both the gift-maker and the recipient, the background of their relationship, along with the age and the social status of the two. Following are some ideas on gifts which are great and easy shopping for him, her, teens, babies and kids. Let us start with the conventional ones e.g. Floral gifts Traditionally flowers are great gift items. Be they ordinary or the cut ones, make sure they are well arranged and bear your personal touch. You can also gift them in designer vases with the name of the birth dayer imprinted on them. Object d'art Choicest books and writing materials like pens, letter or writing pad can go well with and for all ages. For kids and grown-ups with some creative bent of mind, it may be anything - from drawing and coloring materials like crayon, brush, palette, to a musical instrument; from toys or games of infotainment to IQ riddles. These things always add values to the recipient's creative inclination. Collectibles It includes Traditional and contemporary picture frames and photo albums in wood, metal and glass for every occasion. Sporty gifts For the sporty ones choose from among leather sports caps, sporting accessories including gears featuring favorite NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, and college team logos. Traditional golf apparel and accessories like a rainbow of gloves, or the putter, may be numbered and engraved with the individual's name can be a superb gift. Special boutique You can also choose from among special purpose boutiques like 'bath bags' entailing body lotions and creams, bubble baths and oils, scented candles, tub toys and more. Special purpose boutique may also include cosmetics and beauty care items or a strain of variety like incense, aromatherapy, candles, incense, bath and body lotions and much more. Musical gifts Again a cassette or CD - audio or video, relevant to the age and the nature of relationship, can be great for all. Amazon is a good place to secure the collection you want. But no less great is the idea of dedicating something to the listening pleasure of the birthdayer. Make a request to the host of a radio or TV program for some music or song of your or the birthdayer's choice. Utilities These category include anything from a nice looking useful school bag to a fancy leather bag or even a sizeable kit bag. A watch or a bike. Virtually it can be anything which the birthdayer use or wants to use in day to day life. Jewelry It includes rings, bracelets, necklaces, photographic charms, handcrafted jewelry and beaded votive holders. Miscellaneous Gifts under this category can be anything from fountains, clocks, wind chimes, dream catchers to hand-carved and ceramic hand drums fountains made of lightweight acrylic sculptures, picture pals. Also they can be any of the fashion accessories right from the low end platform shoes to trendy leather footwear and stylish clothing. Need a gift for well-being and recovery? There are some - not only fun and practical but nurturing and therapeutic. Branded to fit their utility value like Ocean Spirit, Fairy Spells, Tranquility and so on these are not highly expensive. Great is also the idea of gifting the birth dayer a ticket to a favorite sporting event, a movie or concert, and of course to a theater show, if agrees with the birth dayer's choice and your affordability. TheHolidaySpot recommends that you try our the birthday shopping links given at the top and bottom of every page, that will meet anything you may want to buy online, at the comfort of your home. For even more variety, and for gifts for adults, visit our shopping page. Click here Well, to top it all, send and recommend this section of theHolidaySpot to anyone to be wished at birthday. The birthday sibling will love it for sure. Birthday gifts shopping Birthday Home Wallpaper Recipes Invitation Printouts party themes party ideas jokes n oneliners quotes Age and day-born finder B'day tic-tac-toe age difference finder Home Sign guest book Sign up for newsletter gift ideas Birthday greeting cards Happy Birthday in many languages | Refer this page to someone SEND BIRTHDAY GIFTS Time to pamper; time to rejoice; time to celebrate; celebrate with gifts. · Fresh Flowers · Cakes · Teddy Bears · Perfumes · Jewellery · Chocolates More Birthday Gifts

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He followed up this wretched Red Sox debut four days later with another empty appearance, facing two batters — retiring neither. After he had faced six batters and not recorded a single out with a lifeless fastball in the mid 80s, like most Sox fans, I'd seen enough. Hey, I get it, reliable lefty setup men are as hard to find in 2005 as cheap gas. Sox GM Theo Epstein took a shot, and it didn't work. Time to move on? Mike Remlinger has allowed four or more runs in three of his five relief appearances for the Sox. (Winslow Townson / Associated Press) Not so fast. Remlinger made his third appearance for the Sox three days later, summoned to protect a 10-3 lead in the bottom of the 10th against the Tigers. He did finally record an out, three in fact. But during his one inning of work, he also yielded a walk, a base hit, another walk and a grand slam. In three appearances, he'd faced 13 batters, and nine of them had scored. Certainly, walking two guys with a seven-run lead had earned him his walking papers? Nope. Remlinger was back out on the hill less than 14 hours later, asked to hold the line in the getaway day game against the Tigers after David Wells was roughed up for six runs in four innings. And lo and behold — as opposed to low and outside as he had been the previous night, Remlinger retired four of the five batters he faced, lowering his ERA with the Sox to 20.25. And, regrettably, buying some more time on the roster. The next night in Anaheim, the 39-year-old lefty was once again summoned for mop-up duty. He again made an unsightly mess, allowing five runs on six hits and a walk. It's hard to raise your ERA when you enter the game with a 20.25 mark, but Remlinger did it, leaving the hill at 21.21. Yes, his ERA looks like a football score at the start of overtime. So, to sum up In five appearances with the Red Sox, Remlinger has faced 31 batters, 18 of them have reached base and 14 of them have scored. These numbers strike me as way worse than when Jose Oquendo, Mark Grace or Robin Ventura took the hill. (Turns out they are: those three infielders had a combined 10.13 ERA in five relief appearances.) This isn't the first time Mike Remlinger has bitterly disappointed me. In 1991, I was a sportswriter for the Valley News in West Lebanon, New Hampshire when I drew the assignment of driving up to Montreal to do a local-boy-makes-good story on Remlinger — who was in his rookie season with the Giants after starring at Dartmouth. A month earlier, Remlinger had lit up the baseball world and electrified the Giants' organization by pitching a complete game shutout against the Barry Bonds-Bobby Bonilla Pirates in his Major League debut on June 15, 1991. Since then, it was Remlinger who'd been lit up, allowing 17 runs in 26 innings. But my story wasn't going to be about his recent struggles. It was going to be a glowing tribute to the Ivy Leaguer turned Major Leaguer. I made the long schlep up I-89, over the Canadian border and across the bridge — the Pont Victoria? — and pulled into the parking lot of the baseball monstrosity known as Olympic Stadium. (Has baseball ever had such a stark contrast between the beauty of a city and the ugliness of a stadium?) I guess the Expos' media relations department wasn't accustomed to processing out-of-town credential requests because they not only didn't have my press pass when I got there, but didn't seem capable of generating one once I was standing at the window. After a very long wait, I was finally admitted to the joyless press box in the dreary stadium. After his spectacular debut, Remlinger had been bumped from the rotation and sent down to the pen, but he didn't pitch in the game. That didn't really matter for my purposes. I was there to profile a conquering hero, a son of New England — Plymouth, Ma., who at the age of 25 had made it to the show. He was that most-sought-after commodity, a hard-throwing lefty, and his future couldn't have been brighter. I made my way down to the clubhouse, where I was none too surprised to learn at the door that the guest pass the media relations people had given me did not allow me access to the locker room. Great. So I'd come all the way to the most Godforsaken outpost in Major League baseball, and I wouldn't even get my interview. A so-so day was getting worse. I saw another Giants rookie, outfielder Mark Leonard, entering the clubhouse and called to him as familiarly as I could, "Hey, Mark." Now Mark Leonard didn't have a lot of media types (or fans) calling out to him — especially in Montreal — so he stopped in his tracks as if a dear friend was saying hi. I asked him if he would be so kind as to ask Mike Remlinger to come out to the hallway so I could get my interview. He said sure. (The near future was actually much brighter for Leonard than Remlinger, but the outfielder would be out of the bigs for good by 1995.) I waited around for quite a while and was just about to give up and start the long haul home when Remlinger emerged from the clubhouse. What a cool dude, I thought, meeting me in the hallway so I could get my story and not have wasted an entire day. I was ready with my questions and Mike was ready with his grunts. It was brutal. I wanted spine-tingling detail on the journey from Red Rolfe Field in Hanover, N.H. to blowing away the NL East champs at Candlestick. What I got was basically, "F off, kid." Now, in fairness to Remlinger, for all I know he had just come from the manager's office where he'd been told he was getting sent down. Because after pitching the next day in the exhibition Hall of Fame game — always a bad sign for a pitcher regarding his importance to the big club — and getting shellacked, Remlinger was indeed sent back to the minors. It would be three years before he would claw his way back to the Majors with the Mets. At the time, however, I wasn't feeling so forgiving. I'd driven more than three hours to do a nice story on a guy whose college career had been chronicled by my newspaper. And he was a jerk. At this point in my young sportswriting career, I'd already been big-timed by Roger Clemens, so I was prepared for how surly and uncooperative a professional athlete can be — even when the media member standing in front of him is doing a rah-rah piece. But Mike Remlinger? (One interesting note on Remlinger and Clemens: Remlinger has allowed four or more runs in three of his five relief appearances for the Sox while Clemens has allowed four or more runs only twice in 25 starts for the Astros.) I drove home wondering how I was going to cobble the grunts and fragments into something that made it look like I had actually interviewed the pitcher. He hadn't pitched and he'd barely talked. I was getting that gnawing feeling in my gut that a reporter gets when he doesn't have the story. I'd gone above and beyond to get into the stadium and actually get a face-to-face — well, face-to-scowl — interview with the subject. But I was still worried that what I'd hoped would be a great profile, rife with insight from the erudite pitcher himself, would read like a flavorless AP wire piece. As I was fighting my way through the story the next day, trying to stretch it into something worth a drive to Montreal, it came across the wire that Remlinger — after giving up three home runs to the Twins in the exhibition in Cooperstown — had been sent down. Well, it was an angle anyway. I ended the profile with the petulant line, "It's better to have a bust in Cooperstown than to be a bust in Cooperstown." Here's hoping that 14 years later, my second snarky piece on Mike Remlinger coincides with his departure from a Major League club. Kevin Hench is supervising producer of The Sports List on Fox Sports Net, as well as the head writer for the Too Late with Adam Carolla show on Comedy Central. -- TOP STORIES • Coles takes courageous stand against abuse • Time to play nice at Presidents Cup | Scoreboard • Astros retain wild-card lead | Phillies keep heat on • Red Sox's Foulke might be done for season • Raffy the rat? 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