FREE HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS ARTICLE available with images: ART-THEMED GIFTS FOR EVERYONE

With just 12 weeks left until Christmas, it is time to start helping your readers think about getting their holiday shopping done!

With “art-for-everyone” as the illustrating theme, a free-to-use article explains how someone can profile each person on their list and decide on the perfect gift for them. This is how the article begins:

Every year you tell yourself you’ll start your holiday gift shopping early. You want your gifts to be meaningful and appreciated. Who doesn’t love the feeling that comes with knowing your present was received with genuine pleasure?

But at the last minute you’re still desperately looking for something – anything – that will do, for that nephew who’s already got everything he could possibly want, or the friend who always gives you brilliant gifts! Your plan to breeze through the holidays, happy and relaxed, goes up in smoke,
once again.

This year, try “themed gifting” to help focus your creative thinking. It can turn what may have felt like a chore in years past into a pleasant – even fun – experience. …

Here are three example “Giftee Profiles” and their corresponding gift ideas:

GIFTEE PROFILE: “…travels to see art; is going to Italy in the Spring”
GIFT: A Jane’s Smart Art Guides™ audio guide to the art of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is just the ticket. And, if she doesn’t already own one, wrap up a portable audio player with the guide. Other art guide titles and gift certificates are available. (www.JanesSmartArt.com) ($13.95 – $24.95, MP3/iPod download or on CD)

GIFTEE PROFILE: “… loves reading mysteries, but I don’t know a thing about his relationship with art”
GIFT: If you’ve got no clue as to his attitudes about art, his gift will be a challenge, right? Wrong! Any fan of Iain Pears’ art history mysteries will tell you, “It’s a cinch!” Give him a selection of paperbacks featuring Pears’ engaging protagonists, British art dealer Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano, of Italy's Art Theft Squad, and another Iain Pears fan will be born. (www.Amazon.com) ($6 to $10 range, each)

GIFTEE PROFILE: “… wears artsy jewelry; is furnishing her apartment ‘modern’”
GIFT: Rather than select something that won’t appeal to a stylish young adult, get her a Museum of Modern Art gift certificate and wrap it with a copy of the MOMA catalog. That way she can make the choice between jewelry or something for her new home and it will be something she really likes.
(www.momastore.org) MOMA gift certificate is not available on the website. Order at 1-800-793-3167.

The free article includes:
• 12 Profiles and corresponding gift ideas at various price levels
• Resource URLs, phone numbers and prices, plus 6 product images
• Approx. 1100 words / can be cut by reducing the number of Profile examples used

Article is free for your use, available in two versions:
- “How-to,” without by-line or
- 1st-person (“What I did”) with Jane McIntosh by-line

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