Holiday Gifts for Hard Times: Creative and From the Heart

Is your shopping list bigger than your budget? Here are some gift ideas that are free and yet very meaningful. They may even be the most precious and well-received gifts of all.
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Is your shopping list bigger than your budget? Here are some gift ideas that are free and yet very meaningful. They may even be the most precious and well-received gifts of all.

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Holiday Gifts for Hard Times

So drop out of those manic holiday shopping crowds. Light a fire, stay warm and cozy, as you create your own holiday gifts. Hard times are easier -- when we offer our homemade gifts of the heart to each other.

Brenda Peterson is the author of 16 books, including the recent memoir, I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth, which was named as a "Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Book of 2010" by The Christian Science Monitor For more: http://www.IWantToBeLeftBehind.com

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