Archive for the ‘Wine Art’ Category
We’ve hit the week mark until Christmas is finally here and if you’re starting to get desperate for a present for the wine lover in your life, here are some suggestions that should be a hit when opened up on the 25th (or whenever you do your gift exchange).
Stemware
Yes, most of us have an abundance of glasses, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t like new ones, especially if they’re unique. One of my favorite gifts was several years ago my brother-in-law and his wife gave my wife and I a set of glasses that I liked so much that I went out and bought more of them so that I’d have a set of eight. The wine lover in your life probably has a good set of regular red and white glasses, but maybe some nice stemless glasses, or some champagne flutes, or even an interesting decanter.
Wine
This doesn’t have to be an expensive bottle of wine, and probably shouldn’t be to be honest. What it does need to be though is special – something memorable. For example, some years back for my Father I bought him a bottle of Portugese wine (his family is from Portugal) that was imported into the small town just outside of Boston where he grew up. The wine was good enough, only cost me about $20, and he loved the significance of both where the wine originated from and where it was brought in through.
Ok, so it’s not me, but it is my wife. Being the excellent husband that I am, I wanted to promote her new Etsy store offering wine related products such as charms, lamps, paintings (the image above is one she did ), and cork trivets. Hopefully you’ll find something on there that you like, and while the store is small now, it’s going to grow quickly. Check out her Etsy page here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGoodWineArtist .
There are a lot of things I can do in this world…drawing is not one of them. If my life depended on my ability to draw something as simple as a stick figure, I’d be up a creek. That being said, my wife does not have this handicap. For Christmas my father (who is the most difficult man in the world to shop for), asked that my wife paint him something to go in the bar that he and my mother are building in their basement. Here’s what my wife has done for them (she even framed it).
Yes, that’s my reflection in the glass. Just wanted to put this up here to toot my wife’s horn.
