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Whether it's the holidays, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day or a birthday, sometimes we need a gift QUICK. And we want it to be cost-effective, nature-focused, and original. This list of ideas will serve you well. And they also are focused on benefitting your LOCAL economy, not a big box store.
Some of these ideas are DIY, some are small but useful, and some are free!
The first place to start is your local hardware store. They have a surprising amount of nature-related gifts. Bird feeders, birdseed, bird houses, gardening seeds, gloves, etc. They have it!
They also have great gardening related gifts. You don’t have to go to a plant nursery (although they are fine too) but a hardware store will have useful things like gardening gloves, packets of seeds, seed starting kits, bulbs, vases, and more.
A bird bath can be created out of a simple, shallow planter dish. (Those dishes you put under plant pots so the water doesn’t run everywhere). They are very cheap and combined with a few rocks or pebbles, make a fantastic and safe bird bath. If you want to show some personalization, you can paint the rocks you add to it.
And they don’t have to be fancy or expensive. Below you can see a simple terracotta dish. The type used for under plants to catch water. These birds don’t care! They are happy it is shallow and safe.
Your hardware store undoubtedly has seeds. Flower seeds, vegetable seeds, and seed starting kits.
Don’t overlook those bald, lumpy, bumpy bulbs. Like hyacinth bulbs. A single bulb can perfume an entire room, they are that fragrant.
Hyacinth bulbs can product pink, blue, or white flowers. So not only are they sweetly and gorgeously perfumed, they are lovely to look at.
I discuss several other ideas on the podcast, so if you need more ideas listen in.
And everyone appreciates FREE! So I’ve got you covered. Download my free bird planner. It’s 70 pages of monthly, weekly, daily planning. Plus yearly overviews, goal-setting, budgeting and more. My original watercolors from my book, Wings of Mercy grace these pages and make them a one-of-a-kind gift you won’t find anywhere else.
Download your free planner and gift someone today!
There are over 70 pages of daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and project planning pages. Plus budget tracking, goal setting and much much more. Download, print out and slip into a binder. VOILA! You have a unique, useful, and free gift to give.