How to Give Unique Hostess Gifts

Each season we update our wardrobes, homes and attitudes with fresh clothing, accessories and modern mindsets. It's time to apply the same seasonal approach to hostess gifts. Here's how to update your tokens of appreciation.

Things You'll Need

• Out of the box thinking
• Stationary or colored paper
• Copies of Proust Questionnaire
• Song list
• Cassette-styled UBS Drive
• Root beer, ice cream
• Copies of "50 Ways to Promote Peace"
• Hibachi grill

Instructions

1. Proust Questionnaire
   If you've ever watched an episode of "Inside The Actors Studio" on Bravo then you've seen every guest answer the Proust Questionnaire. A series of questions about your personality first made popular by French writer Marcel Proust. Perfect for a party game! Print the classic questionnaire on your stationary or other beautiful paper and wrap it in a box as a gift. Your host will love it!

2. Hibachi Grill
   For the price of a bottle of wine, give a cool kitchen accessory instead. A muse for inspiring tapas parties, these small grills are used for cooking appetizers, skewered meats and vegetables. A hibachi grill is also known as a Pu-Pu grill. Go for unique shapes, colors and styles for maximum effect. Google keywords "hibachi grill" to check out your options.

3. USB Drive Mixed Tape
   For all of you 1980s buffs, remember how long it used to take to make a mixed tape for your friend or crush? Well, here's the updated version: a UBS drive packaged in a cassette box. Customizing the package was the best part; so you can still express yourself without the headache of recording the music. Download a party mix for your host onto the drive, then write the hit list on the cassette box--genius!

4. 

   50 Ways to Promote Peace
   Grab a six pack of root beer, a carton of Ben and Jerry's vanilla ice cream and package it with printed versions of the ice cream company's Personal Peace-Participation Planner. The peace-promoting ideas and activities like: "Get to know your neighbors. It's hard to reclaim peace without a sense of community" inspire us all to participate in creating peace.

Resources

• Proust Questionnaire
• USB Drive Mixed Tape
• 50 Ways to Promote Peace