It’s time for 12 Days of Christmas winners! Today we announce winners for the 8th day of Christmas! Traditionally Day 8 features Maids-a-milking. Despite obvious red flags, we refrain from passing judgment on this traditional gift, and simply offer our picks for Day 8: Inspiring Peace Symbol Pendant Archibald’s Swiss Cheese Mountain Children’s Book Bergino Baseballs Bug A Lug Soother and Bib Clip KidzClix 3 Month Subscription One Is Greater Than None – T Shirt [...]

  This is a guest blog post of tips for Military Families during the holidays by Tara Crooks.  Tara Crooks is the woman behind two popular military websites, www.ArmyWifeTalkRadio.com and www.FieldProblems.com. Featured at CinCHouse.com, Military Spouse Magazine, ClubMom.com, Military.com, Army.com and more, Army Wife Talk Radio is the original internet talk radio program for military wives. The tagline, Our Life, Our Family, Our Soldier, says it all. Tara does a weekly internet talk radio broadcast [...]

It’s time for 12 Days of Christmas winners! Today we announce winners for the 7th day of Christmas! Day 7 we featured some specially hand picked gift ideas including: Auntie Anne’s Make Your Own Pretzel Kit Emerson Radio Electric Wine Bottle Opener Illumined Life by Melanie McGhee Jockey Being Family Bear that Gives Back Natural Vanilla & Peppermint Candle Seagate Freeagent Portable 320 gb Disk Drive Venetian Ball Gift Experience And we randomly picked lucky [...]

It’s Monday morning, time for 12 Days of Christmas winners! Today we announce winners for the 6th day of Christmas! Geese a laying? My middle school friend had pet Geese. They are unfriendly and loud. Forget about it! We can do much better. Day 6 we featured some can’t miss gift ideas including: God is a Woman, Dating Disasters book for Single Guys Hand painted stemware by Lolita Monkey Toes Kids Shoes Sherpa your Sharpie [...]

It’s time again for 12 Days of Christmas winners! Today, on this brisk and festive Sunday morning, we announce winners for the 5th day of Christmas! Golden rings make a great gift. We highly recommend them, but alas we have none to offer you today. Don’t worry. It won’t take long to dry your golden ring wishing tears, because on Day 5 we featured some truly unique and outstanding gifts. Here is what we featured: [...]

It’s that time of day again for our 12 Days of Christmas winners! Today, in our first ever weekend announcement, we are announcing our winners for the 4th day of Elfster’s 12 Days of Christmas! You may have had your heart set on Calling Birds this 4th day. We are very sorry but the shipping costs on Calling Birds are sky high! Here’s what we gave away to some of our true Elfster’s instead: Wett [...]

It’s that time of day again for our 12 Days of Christmas winners! Today we are announcing our winners for the 3rd day of Elfster’s 12 Days of Christmas! Like Turtle Doves, French Hens have some issues as gifts. That is why, for day 3 we picked: Paci Partner (young mother’s little helper) The Friendship Stone (beautiful) Flowboard (cool) Take-Out Menu Organizer (handy) Lola “Fashion For Life” Wallet-Clutch (stylish) And the winners are (in no [...]

Tree ornaments? Nope. Decorative solar lamps? Nope. Glass icicles? Nope. These are glass water globes for automated plant watering… You do not have to be present to use. The hand-blown stained glass ornaments can be put in soil and will only water what the plant requires – this makes them eco-friendly as well. The big perk? They’re $9.99. For two! Now that’s a killer gift if you’re on a budget.

From David, dedicated to Beach Boys’ faithful fans!

Santa’s Sangria Ingredients: 1 Bottle Red Wine (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Rioja, Zinfandel, Shiraz) 1 Lemon cut into wedges 1 Orange cut into wedges 1 Lime cut into wedges 2 Tbsp Sugar 1 Splash Orange Juice 2 Shots Gin 1 Cup Sliced Strawberries or Raspberries (may use thawed or frozen) 1 Small Can of Diced Pineapples (with juice) 4 Cup(s) Ginger Ale Steps Pour wine in the pitcher and squeeze the juice wedges from the lemon, [...]