Do you need a unique gift for the special athlete, sports fan, coach or soccer mom in your life? What if you could find something that recognized someone’s passion or talent and could be treasured for years to come? Imagine if you could personalize the gift, make it unique and have a hand in its creation? With the advances of digital photographic art and computer technology it is now possible to create that special gift. We make it easy for you. Whether it’s for the adult or child athlete, sports enthusiast, team award or that special coaches gift, now there is a way to solve some of the hardest gift giving problems.

At Letters That WOW you can create a special, unique gift for that special someone in your life with just 5 easy steps:

1. Choose your sports theme – Golf, Football, Baseball, Basketball and Soccer
2. Choose your playing field
3. Type a name
4. Choose your WOW letters
5. Choose your frame

For my demo I used my name and soccer on a playing field. It came out great! Definitely a great idea!

This will make a great gift for the sports fanatic in your life. I recommend Letters That WOW to everyone.

“They’re a cool little design company pioneering a new way of doing business. They create home décor and gifts with real heart sentiment and a spot-on-trend look.”

That’s how Pete, my brother in law, always introduces us. He’s a pretty smart guy, but you’ll have to assess our coolness for yourself, I guess.

• We exist to help build a small, economically challenged community in rural Colorado.
• In an industry notorious for sending jobs to China, we’re committed to 100% Made in the USA.
• We made an environmental commitment long before it was hip and still manage to compete with companies who know only the green of the bottom line.
• The American Business Awards recognized us for this unique approach to the marketplace.

Please read my previous review here.

This holiday give the gift of a customized, personal sign or frame. Danielson Designs have offered a gift code for one lucky Dirty Shirt reader to make a customized sign or frame on their website. Please see rules below to enter today.

Giveaway

• MAIN RULE – Go to Danielson Designs and find an item that you would like and come back and tell me in comments what it is. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
• 1 Extra Entry – Subscribe to my RSS feed or by email (or let me know if you already are) in a separate comment.
• 1 Extra Entry – Add my Christmas button to your site and let me know you did in a separate comment (code is at the top of blog)
• 1 Extra Entry – Follow me on Twitter (button in subscribe section on the right sidebar) and let me know your Twitter name in a separate comment.
• 1 Extra Entry – Tweet this giveaway. Copy and paste – Merry Christmas! @Jentifa is giving away a Danielson Designs Gift Code! Check it out here http://bit.ly/6oKLSL. Then come back and leave the direct link to your tweet (go to your twitter account, click on the words when your tweet was sent (ie. 5 seconds ago) and copy and paste that link in comments.
• 1 Extra Entry – Follow The Studio on Twitter and in a separate comment let me know that you did.
• 2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog.

This giveaway will run through midnight on December 7, with winner being announced the morning of December 8. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.

Alphabet Photography™ is the work of Jennifer Blakeley. Jennifer and her husband Sam run the business together, along with other members of their close-knit team. Alphabet Photography is based in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Jennifer spent a large part of 2006/2007 traveling Canada with only one goal in mind; to collect a complete gallery of photographs that look like letters of the English Alphabet. All of her photographs are of objects found in their natural surroundings that are un-staged and not found in any pre-existing signage.

After two years of collecting photographs and growing the business, Alphabet Photography is now a successfully trademarked company in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with a customer base from all around the globe.

This is simply amazing photography! I am always in awe of people who can see art in our everyday surroundings, and where I can to a certain extent I can’t see it like this. It takes a very special person with a very good eye and that is exactly what Jennifer Blakeley brings to her art.

At Alphabet Photography you create your own framed name or choose from their inspirational letter art for the perfect piece of art for your home or to give as a unique gift. And you can choose from over 500 of their alphabet photos to create a customized gift suitable for anyone.

And another of my favorite items in the Alphabet Photography collection are the Inspiration Frames. They truly take your breath away! My placing the pictures here really don’t do them justice, please go to their website and see them up close. They have all different prices on different products.

Inspirational Series – Believe

• Printed on Professional Grade Crystal Archive Photographic Paper, mounted on wood, framed with a black high quality wood frame.
• Quote “As you believe, so you become” – Unknown
• 15 x 13 inches

These framed pieces of art are very inspirational and have the beautiful lettering that I just love. And I have fabulous news! I have been given the opportunity to share a giveaway with my readers of one of Alphabet Photography’s Inspirational Frames. Please see the rules below to enter to win.

Giveaway

• MAIN RULE – Go to Alphabet Photography’s Inspirational Frames page and pick out the one you would like to get if you are the winner and come back and tell me in comments what it is. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
• 1 Extra Entry – Subscribe to my RSS feed or by email (or let me know if you already are) in a separate comment
• 1 Extra Entry – Fan The Dirty Shirt on my new Facebook Page widget (scroll down on right side) and leave a separate comment that you did.
• 1 Extra Entry – Add my Christmas button to your site and let me know you did in a separate comment (code is at the top of blog)
• 1 Extra Entry – Follow me on Twitter (button in subscribe section on the right sidebar) and let me know your Twitter name in a separate comment.
• 1 Extra Entry – Tweet this giveaway. Copy and paste – Merry Christmas! @Jentifa is giving away a Alphabet Photography Inspiration Frame! Check it out here http://bit.ly/3qPweH. Then come back and leave the direct link to your tweet (go to your twitter account, click on the words when your tweet was sent (ie. 5 seconds ago) and copy and paste that link in comments.
• 1 Extra Entry – Follow Alphabet Photography on Twitter and leave a separate comment that you did.
• 1 Extra Entry – Fan Alphabet Photography on Facebook and leave a separate comment that you did.
• 2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog and to Alphabet Photography.

This giveaway will run through midnight on November 21, with winner being announced the morning of November 22. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.

GrowShow is a one-stop solution for the visual preservation of your child’s growth, through a time-lapse photo & framing system that is unlike anything else.

In a world of countless photo storage, photo sharing, photo printing, and photo framing services, GrowShow is unique, both on the web side, and on the framing side:

Unique on the web side: GrowShow is the only web service with a focus on time-lapsing the growth of a child. Time sequencing is automatic and easy, because GrowShow reads the date of capture on your photos so correct time ordering “just happens”. It’s fun to build your timelapse sequence (called a “GrowSlide”), amazing to visualize the change of a growing child, fun to share, and free to use. You can then use this timelapse sequence to build a “GrowPrint”, which is delivered to you framed in whole new way.

Unique on the framing side: Our patented, magnetic GrowFrame system actually grows with your child, allowing you to add on to your sequence over time. There is simply nothing else like it. See it in action. This invention has applications far beyond their use with the GrowPrint, so you can also buy our GrowFrames separately in our Frame Shop. The myriad combinations and possibilities of the GrowFrame System are tough to count.

The original, patented GrowFrame Square, available only from the GrowShow frame store. Use in combination with other Squares for a photo framing solution unlike any other. The frames are held together by our powerful – yet hidden – embedded magnets. Each GrowFrame Square holds one 2.5 × 2.5 inch photo. Simply crop your printed photos to size and slide behind the included Plexiglas backing. Then snap together your GrowFrame Squares (when ordered in quantity) into limitless horizontal, vertical, or even multi-dimensional configurations to stylishly decorate any space.

I love pictures and picture frames and have them all over my house. When I was given the opportunity to review the GrowFrame I was so excited because here was a way to create my own frame. I was given the 12″ timelapse growth sequence of 6 to review and I am blown away by the different combinations I can create to show off my photos.

This system is so great and has gained me a lot of compliments as it sits on my desk. So much so I know what I am getting two of my family members for Christmas this year! You have to check out GrowShow today and see all the ways you can create your own unique photo frames.

“They’re a cool little design company pioneering a new way of doing business. They create home décor and gifts with real heart sentiment and a spot-on-trend look.”

That’s how Pete, my brother in law, always introduces us. He’s a pretty smart guy, but you’ll have to assess our coolness for yourself, I guess.

• We exist to help build a small, economically challenged community in rural Colorado.
• In an industry notorious for sending jobs to China, we’re committed to 100% Made in the USA.
• We made an environmental commitment long before it was hip and still manage to compete with companies who know only the green of the bottom line.
• The American Business Awards recognized us for this unique approach to the marketplace.

Recently I was asked if I wanted to review a custom made sign from The Studio and I immediately said yes! You see I am the type of person that believes that little sayings, signs and mementos should be displayed in your home. I love walking past a frame and remembering the occasion I either received it at or what was going on in the picture. I have a shelf with little things my kids made for me over the years that melts my heart every time I see it. And now I have this beautiful sign to add to that collection.

Choosing which I wanted to review was hard, I wanted one of everything. But I have really been wanting something that was made specifically for my family name. This was it, and the selections they offered within the product was amazing too. There were four different colors to choose from and I went with the Merlot. I really loved the selection The Studio had and I will be ordering  a few things for some people on my Christmas list. I recommend you checking them out as well, you will find something you love!

Sock Grams was born out of the desire to send a greeting to a loved one, along with a small gift. We often found ourselves wanting to send a greeting card, to celebrate an important milestone our friends and loved ones reached, but we wanted to send a little something more than just a card. We also wanted to ensure the gift would last and, most importantly, be in acknowledgment of something that was important or of interest to the person we were giving it to. Novelty socks, in the myriad of patterns and colors were our answer!!!

We found a world of novelty socks that fit all areas of interest, patterns and colors. We found so many that were fun, fashionable and downright humorous!

With the artistic talent of friends at Brainmusic Design we’ve developed our own greeting cards for you to choose from. We wanted to make sure our customers could personalize these gifts, so we include a component to add personalized greetings and/or salutations.

In our search to make the Sock Gram package special and add a pampering component, we found a Medi-Spa Foot Balm. In each Sock Gram we include a .25 fl oz packet of Foot Balm. This Foot Balm was developed more than 60 years ago, specifically to treat feet. It can help relieve pressure of swollen and tired feet and speed healing of blisters and minor abrasions.

So, what does a Sock Gram include? Your personally chosen novelty socks – as many pairs as you’d like to send. One specially chosen greeting card, with a personal message, if you so choose. One .25 fl oz packet of Foot Balm. Your specially wrapped gift with tissue paper inside a durable, waterproof, blue metallic envelope.

I absolutely love this original company! I have a ton of people on my list that I can never think what to get them for any occasion. Now that I have found Sock Grams I won’t have that problem anymore. They have such a large selection for:

• Women
• Men
• Kids
• Babies
• Holidays

Sock Grams’ novelty socks come in an array of patterns and colors, perfect for hany occasion, as well as just saying hello. You can find socks that cater people’s individual hobbies, professions and even simple pleasures, such as coffee (Thanks a Latte, anyone?). Favorite animals, sports, foods, flowers, holidays and pastimes are highlighted with unique socks for each preference. By thoughtfully sending someone a Sock Gram that acknowledges their likes, you’re showing them you appreciate their unique character. Whether recipients choose to wear their Sock Grams out or around the house, these socks draw a smile every time someone looks at them. Popular styles, including Goldfish Glub Glub, which is designed so that the goldfish appears to be eating the wearer’s leg, and Sneakers, which look like real Converse sneakers, are silly, yet heart-warming at the same time.

I highly recommend this company to anyone looking for that one unique product to give as a gift to someone who has everything. Because you can never have too many socks! Check them out today!

I received one of the most beautiful lamps I have ever seen to review. A Himalayan Salt Crystal Lamp. You have truly got to see one of these salt lamps up close to realize how beautiful they are! Here is a little about them:

• These lamps are made of natural crystal salt mined from underground salt mines in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains
• The beautiful orange-reddish Himalayan crystal salt is mounted on a wooden base
• This crystal salt is hundreds of millions of years old and, as a result, has special properties and high mineral content
• Heat from the bulb (in our lamps) or flame (in our candle holders) causes the salt to emit negative ions
• These negative ions bond with the pollutants in the air (positive ions) and neutralize them
• Also, the newly bonded ions become heavier and fall to the ground removing them from the air circulation
• In addition, these negative ions combat electro-smog caused by electronic devices operating in the home
• Symptoms from asthma, allergies, and other illnesses can also subside from the effects of these products
• Concisely, these products cleanse the air naturally and are extremely beautiful

They aren’t kidding when they call them extremely beautiful, and they have so many shapes and sizes to choose from, like Natural Shapes and Crafted Shapes. My next purchase will be for the Bowl of Fire shown below:

This is one absolutely stunning. And I can’t wait until I get it. I have received so many compliments on the one that I do have and I would love to put them all throughout my house. These salt lamps would really make a great Christmas gift for those hard to shop for people.

About Fell Swoop:

We began with a few shirts on a table at a Farmer’s Market out here in Montana. Thanks to you, we’re now spreading our positive message – and our sustainable products – across the country.

Our newest designs feature species that are particularly important to us in the West: the American bison, the grey wolf, and the grizzly bear. Humans have encroached on their habitat and threatened their survival, but dedicated conservation efforts are helping them recover. You can spot all three of them just an hour and a half from us in Yellowstone National Park.

Sometimes today’s environmental challenges can seem overwhelming. But we think that the difficulties facing us are actually opportunities in disguise. We live on a wonderful, resilient planet, and by adopting renewable energy technologies and adapting our lifestyles then we can lead a global green revolution (and with our shirts, be stylish too!).

Swell Foop promotes a positive, playful message about caring for our environment. With a playful name and designs that feature rare animals and taglines that encourage positive environmental awareness, Swell Foop has created a force for positive thinking about global warming that has resonated with Americans frustrated by the politicized, negative spin surrounding the issue.

“We believe the threat of global warming is actually an opportunity,” says co-founder Anne Sherwood. “We can all make little differences that add up and make our country stronger.”

So if you are looking for unique gift ideas this holiday season, please put Swell Foop on your list of shopping places. They are a great company with great products and would make great Christmas gifts. While they hope that each one of the shirts that they sell becomes a Billboard for Change – if a shirt reminds someone they need to swap our their lightbulbs for CFLs, they’ll consider that a success –  their donation of 10% of proceeds to non-profits that benefit the environment is essential to what they do. They currently support the following groups:

• The Earth Island Institute (EII), founded in 1982 by veteran environmentalist David Brower, fosters the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment. EII provides activists the freedom to develop program ideas, supported by services to help them pursue those ideas, with a minimum of bureaucracy.

• For almost 30 years, American Wildlands has fought to protect wild America throughout the western states. They seek the protection for the West’s wild places and advocate for the careful management of its natural resources. AWL keeps the world-renowned U.S. Northern Rockies ecologically intact by restoring and maintaining connections between key habitats for healthy populations of native fish and wildlife.