Last minute gift ideas of the handmade persuasion
I came across some great stuff while browsing through Etsy last night. I was looking for cat specific items for my mother-in law, but then did a search on food and garden. Maybe the foodie or gardener in your life would love one of these:

copper and stained glass wind chime
pass the peace tote
cut flowers print
olive oil soap
embroidered table cloth
sweet pea key chain
vintage lucite paper weight
organic dog treats
chopsticks t-shirt
fish dish
needle felted bird and nest











"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau


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