Friends of Elfster, I am very excited to announce the new design of Elfster.com!  Our mission is to make the joy of giving fun and easy to experience.  The team at Elfster is passionate about evolving Elfster.com: through the services we offer, through the look of Elfster and through our users’ experience – in pursuit of our mission.  Our goals in this new design are simple: Embrace our history and our roots as a festive [...]

It seems I have wine on the mind, along with droughts, as my county in Northern California is in the middle of one and residents have been asked to reduce water consumption by 20% - but I just read about Terracycle (www.terracycle.net) and their many cool recycled products. The one that caught my eye is a rain barrel – I’ve wanted a couple of these for my (sunny, parched) garden for some time. The barrels modified by Terracycle [...]

June 15th is coming right up … are you ready to celebrate the dads in your life? I usually have at least 3 to think about. This year it will be my actual dad, my son’s dad (my husband), and my brother, because we usually get together with his family on Dad’s Day-types of holidays. I’ll confess right now that I haven’t decided what gifts to get – but at least for one of the [...]

We recently wrapped up a round of Elfster’s Green Gifting.  For the month of May, our guideline was a used book.  The Green Gifters set off on a voyage to find a buried treasure in our bookshelves, and give that treasure a new life in new hands (probably a complete stranger!).  As a gift, I was pleasantly surprised to find in the mailbox, a very fine treasure from Evan of Redlands, CA.  The book is [...]