<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2405679747306256959.post-6648518324136359746</id><published>2009-04-05T11:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T09:36:56.353-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Party Tips and Ideas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Graduation Tips'/><title type='text'>Graduation Tips Ideas and Gifts</title><content type='html'>As June nears so does my eldest son's Grade 8 Grad. Oh my I'm so excited . As is he(giggle)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here is the dilemma... What to get him as a Gift and How to make sure our memories of this day are amazing. So here is the spot to help other Mom's facing the looming Grad days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things to Buy was in advance of Grad.&lt;br /&gt;Tuxedo-Shirt-Tie&lt;br /&gt;New Dress shoes&lt;br /&gt;Corsage for date(omg he is not a baby anymore)&lt;br /&gt;And the Gift(???)&lt;br /&gt;Party Favors that are Memorable&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So my research will start now. I will be posting graduation tips, tricks and Gift ideas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I encourage you to post suggestions or if you sell or make gifts that are rockin for a Grad please let us all know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you have a Blog Post about graduations , let me know and I will link to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Top ten list I found on &lt;a href="http://blog.mindbites.com/"&gt;Mind Bites&lt;/a&gt; is very cool&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.mindbites.com/top-ten-tips-for-planning-a-graduation-party/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;Top Ten tips for planning a Graduation Party&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I fell in love with this idea from &lt;a href="http://www.shindigz.com/"&gt;http://www.shindigz.com/&lt;/a&gt; (they have so many cool and fun ideas for party's)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shindigz.com/catalog.cfm?caid=1072752"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321300886750638994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 162px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lrkKWQfhXCo/SdkO9om-M5I/AAAAAAAAAZY/q30P7yM0-WE/s200/yeardsign.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shindigz.com/catalog.cfm?caid=1072752"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;Personalized Yard Photo Sign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2405679747306256959-6648518324136359746?l=tartsbymom.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tartsbymom.blogspot.com/feeds/6648518324136359746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2405679747306256959&amp;postID=6648518324136359746' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2405679747306256959/posts/default/6648518324136359746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2405679747306256959/posts/default/6648518324136359746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tartsbymom.blogspot.com/2009/04/graduation-tips-ideas-and-gifts.html' title='Graduation Tips Ideas and Gifts'/><author><name>Angie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13360679945615876410</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16469680390021944166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lrkKWQfhXCo/SdkO9om-M5I/AAAAAAAAAZY/q30P7yM0-WE/s72-c/yeardsign.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry>