Holiday Gift Ideas from Huntsville
Christmas shopping is easy with these gift ideas to get you started:
Best of British, located on Whitesburg Drive in Huntsville, has a variety of Christmas items including Christmas crackers, Christmas puddings (plum), tea sets, minced pies, selection boxes, and British pub items.
Gift Certificate from your or your friends' favorite restaurant. Some good choices would be Pauli's Bar & Grill, Copeland's of New Orleans, Salmons Grill or the Clock Tower Restaurant. All price ranges available.
For the golf enthusiast, why not give a golf certificate to play golf or for private golf lessons (prices are $45 for half hour/$75 for an hour) from the Hampton Cove Robert Trent Jones Golf Course.
Live Rosemary Holiday Tree, a beautiful, fragrant evergreen herb of the "Tuscan Blue" variety, with many uses: ornamental, cosmetic, decorative, household, and aromatic. Blue-violet flowers bloom in spring and winter. Cost is $12.95--available at the Botanical Gardens Gift Shop.
A LOCUST LEAVES ITS SHELL by Bill Easterling, columnist for The Huntsville Times for 20-plus years. This book has columns about many people in the Huntsville area: Walton Fleming, Dr. Bessie Rivers Grayson, Tooney Summers, Fay Samples, Bill Watley, Joan Cashin, Hill Knapp and Jep Moody. It has columns about Bill's life and travels in the Tennessee Valley. A limited edition in hardback will be out in December. Cost is $12.95 for paperback; $25 for hardback; available at most bookstores.
Treat someone to a one-night stay in the 1920's Twin House Bed & Breakfast in Albertville. Enjoy a full sumptuous breakfast at your convenience in the dining room, courtyard, or Florida room. Choose from the Barnes Room, Twin Room, Baltimore Room or the Blue Room for your stay; prices range from $75 to $90. They also have special packages for Romantic Getaways and Murder Mystery Dinners. Reservations: 256-878-7499.
Movie passes or video rental coupons are a hit with people of all ages.
Offer personal coupons for free pet-sitting/walking or free babysitting to those on your Christmas list who have animals and children and need a break or have a busy schedule.
Old Huntsville Book of Recipes & Remedies Vol. II by Cathey Carney, publisher of Old Huntsville Magazine. This cookbook features recipes from yesteryear that are still delicious today and old folk remedies that your grandparents might have tried. Cost is $15.95--available at Shavers Bookstore or Books-A-Million.
Old Huntsville's Photo Album CD, hundreds of photographs of Huntsville's people and places from the editor of Old Huntsville Magazine. Cost is $15.95--available at Shavers Bookstore on Whitesburg Drive.
Seniors enjoy visits and services. You might want to make certificates promising to do yard work or small house repairs. You can also offer to run errands for them one day a week throughout the year. If cooking is your special talent, you could arrange to bring over dinner one day a week or once a month or just "one time only". Often seniors don't cook big meals for themselves but really enjoy a home cooked meal.
The Purple Peanut at 102 Longwood Drive (near Whitesburg Drive) in Huntsville has Bailey Boys Snowmen outfits for $40-$60, in sizes from infant to 4T.
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