Holiday gift ideas?

[medpedspouse]

[MENTION=4627]ballibeg[/MENTION] - I agree with the others. You should offer your services for a fee....I know at least one physician that I would be referring to you asap.

[alotofyarn]

This year I am making him a fun gun range like the videos he always watches: targets, things to put potatoes on, coke cans on as well as the regular targets.

Other things I've done in years past: made a photo book of mission trips for him to put in the waiting rooms, blown up pictures, made collages, etc again for the office and waiting room. He is teaching himself to play the guitar so I've gotten him instructional DVD's, music books, etc. I've gotten him tickets to a favorite artist concert that was coming up in early spring. I've made pictures of the kids in doctor gear. ( Looks cute in the office.) I got him a record player one year and he used it to convert all of his albums to digital. One I haven't done, but will sometime is to get one of those travel maps where you put the different colored pins: places you've been, places you are going soon, and places you want to go or something like that. He LOVES to travel. I've bought things for our RV. I gave him a magazine subscription to a Civil War magazine. I've bought him books that he has wanted. My son made him a DVD of our Europe Vacation and bought the Band of Brothers music to put it to. ( A big part of our tour was Normandy and taking the Band of Brothers tour.)

That is all I can think of now.. Some years I draw a complete blank. Others are like this year. He has been collecting guns and doesn't always take the time to shoot them. We have a shooting range, but it is pretty beat up as it is original with the property that we bought 18 years ago. The stand where you shoot is really nice and in good condition. However, the "targets" are just these wood things out in the pasture that you staple the paper targets to and there isn't much left of the wood. I'm buying metal targets and a pole to put the potatoes on and a stand to put coke cans on, etc just like the silly videos he enjoys watching. I'm also going to make a certificate for his PA to come over and shoot with him one day as he lives close to us and came over once and they had a ball shooting a watermelon or something.. His PA is the one who has enabled my husband to keep working after the brain bleed, and he has been so helpful. So I wanted to do something special for him.

Hubby would love this idea! If only we had somewhere I could actually do it...

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[ballibeg]

[MENTION=4627]ballibeg[/MENTION] - I agree with the others. You should offer your services for a fee....I know at least one physician that I would be referring to you asap.

You're all too kind.

I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants. The real star is the artist who made it. That takes real talent to create something that puts a smile on someone's face. I'm just the guy that copies it. Think in this case I'll need to carve a printing block to make the base line shapes and free hand paint the rest. I'll knock up a frame to hold cushion cover to keep it simple.

I'm also making a copper sculpture that moves in the wind and rain but that's for another day!

[medpedspouse]

I'm also making a copper sculpture that moves in the wind and rain but that's for another day!

Ooh - I'd want one of those!!