Holiday shopping hints….
This is an unusual year for me, when it comes to holiday gift shopping. The basics are all sorted – both of my brothers are getting gold-plated Sig-Sauers (and 2000 rounds of custom-made ammunition); mother and father are getting some thousand year-old Cambodian jade; my personal assistant has already received a crate of absinthe, and my best buddy has a headhunter’s blowpipe and two shrunken heads en route to him by hand of messenger. You would think with those bases covered, I’d be all set, but those of you who have been paying attention know that I have an extra someone to buy for who can’t be fobbed off with a Victoria’s Secret gift certificate.
I am talking about the new Bones in da house.
As a three week old, one would think she’d be difficult to buy for. On the contrary. I have come up with c a couple of cracking gifts which I think she will love. One is serious and sort of commemorative, the other is fun. Both of which, she will have to grow into, but that goes for EVERYTHING in her life, so no biggie.
Gift # 1
This Vintage Cocktail Shaker is available from FM Allen and is the sort of gift she will love when she is 21 years old and just graduating Princeton. It is engraved with her full name, Josephine Cataclysm Bones, and is supremely functional as well as being easy on the eyes. I can also pass it off as a piece of christening silver, if I get any questions from relatives as to the suitability of such a gift for an infant. Suckers!
Gift # 2
The best toy ever?
This, for those introverts who are unaware, is Lego’s Death Star. It is massive, awesome (you get a Lego Darth Vader TIE fighter with it….!) and were my three week old daughter a seven year old boy, would be perfect. I am getting it anyway. For me. That’s how awesome it is.