Give A Gift That Shows You Care
Whether you are looking for ornaments or decorations for yourself, or to give as gifts, eco-friendly items make the best choice.
Buying gifts made from materials saved from filling up landfills, or fashioned from natural, renewable resources, you can rest easy knowing you are contributing to the well being of our environment.
You can support skilled artisans by keeping used materials from filling landfills as you give them new life and purpose.
You can help make a better world by encouraging the continued use of renewable materials as beautiful handcrafted designs brighten your home or the homes of your friends and family.
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Contents at a Glance
Tin Can Angels
Made in Guatemala by a rural cooperative, these bright, shiny ornaments are sure to add a lively fizz to your holiday decorations - they're made from recycled beverage cans.
Bottle tops become angel faces, while the sides of the cans are refashioned into celestial robes and wings.
A triumph of ingenuity and artistic vision over wasteful litter, these angels raise living standards for low-income families: a gift very much in the spirit of the season!
Tin Can Angels
(set of 4)

Quartz Ornaments
The facets of these stunning crystals catch and hold light, shimmering like icicles on your holiday tree as they dangle from their silk ribbons.
Formed deep in the earth over thousands of years, crystallized quartz has long been a symbol of spiritual clarity.The ancient Greeks ascribed its ice-like properties to water so solidly frozen in deep caves that it never thaws.
Quartz Ornaments
(set of 12)

Leaf Crystal Ornament
This leaf ornament sparkles with Swarovski crystals and naturally adds a warm glow of golden light to your holiday decor.
Hand-dipped in liquid metal, every vein of the broad leaf fans out in a web of delicate shimmering patterns as it dangles from a silk ribbon in a window or from your tree's branches.
Leaf Crystal Ornament

Amethyst Ornaments
Breathtaking crystals, with their clarity and radiant hues,remind us like nothing else of the power and glory of natural design.
Hung as seasonal ornaments from your tree, they cast their own magical spell, reflecting changing colors of sparkling light from every new angle.
Amethyst Ornaments
(set of 12)

Oil Drum Angels
When scores of empty oil drums washed up on Haiti after World War II, enterprising artisans set to work fashioning metal sculptures, both ornate and simply elegant like this beguiling angel.
Her stipple textured robe and torso, are rolled into a cone with a rear seam, then hammered from one piece of recycled drum.
Large fluttery gold wings and her demure demeanor. Where she alights,good things happen.
Oil Drum Angels are created by a production team that operates exclusively under Fair Trade practices.
Oil Drum Angels
(tree topper)

Recycled Rover
Meet Rover, No bark, No bite! All charm!
This floppy-eared canine is made from tightly woven and corded recycled newspaper from muzzle to tail, a noble beast with impeccable eco credentials! Guaranteed to leave no fur clumps behind the sofa cushion, your new best friend is flat-out adorable!
Need a quick mood lift? Seat him beside you anywhere and in a whisker you're certain to feel doggone happy.
Recycled Rover

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Eco-Friendly Gifts For Her
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Eco-Friendly Gifts For Her
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Christmas, Mother's Day, birthdays or any other special occasion, when looking for a gift for that special woman it's a good idea to get something that's green and eco-friendly. From all natural ingredients in daily care products to clothing made fr...
Eco-Friendly Gifts For Him
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Eco-Friendly Gifts For Him
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Christmas, Father's day, birthdays or any other special occasion, when looking for a gift for a man it's a good idea to get something that's green and eco-friendly. From all natural shaving supplies to products made from recycled or renewable resour...
Natural Gifts and Decorations
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Natural Gifts And Holiday Decorations For All Seasons
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Give gifts and decorate with products made from natural materials. Better for the environment, organic materials don't contain potentially harmful chemicals, and can be easily recycled when they've out lived their usefulness. Natural materials aren...
More Eco-Friendly On Squidoo
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Green Holiday Gifts 2009
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Are you looking for a green holiday gift and don't know where to start? There are many eco friendly gifts that are both sustainable and useful. A Green Holiday Gift is sustainable, reuseable and recycleable. From tree growing kits to paperless wi...
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Inexpensive Eco-Friendly Christmas
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With these difficult economic and ecological times are there ways to make this Christmas Season inexpensive and eco-friendly as well a memorable? Consider giving a toy that has been carefully passed on for years. Make your own recycled cards, orname...
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A Clutter Free, Eco Friendly Christmas
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In recent years our family has tried to reduce the amount of clutter we generate at Christmas time. We have come to the realization that "stuff" is not that important. It is relationships and time spent together that really matter. I'l...
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Top 10 Best Green Gift Ideas 2009
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Looking for Eco-friendly gift ideas? You've come to the right place! The desire to "go green" has impacted the way people shop for everything from clothing, to food, to cars, to pet products. We have scoured the green scene, to roundup...
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Twelve Days of a Green & Ethical Christmas
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How do you have a green Christmas? Here's twelve ways to have an ethical, eco-friendly and environmentally friendly Christmas. The Twelve Days of Christmas to my family is simply a time of being together. When I was a child there was no such thi...
Christmas Fun
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The Daily Joke - December 2008
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The Daily Joke for December just couldn't be anything other than Funny Christmas Pictures. I have a lot in my collection, and I thought that it would be good to share them with you so that you can also get a laugh out of them, which I hope you will,...
Other Great Christmas Lenses

These are some other great Christmas lenses on Squidoo, and I invite you to take a look at them if you have time. Lensmasters - if you would like to add a lens to this list, please could you in return add a link back to this one. Thanks and have a Wonderful Christmas. Feel free also to grab this list to use in one or more of your lenses.

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Christmas at AJ's
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The Daily Joke - December 2008
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Christmas Throws & Blankets
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Ladies Nightdress
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Twelve Days of a Green & Ethical Christmas
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Pantomime - a Great British Tradition
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Christmas Angels
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Christmas Eggnog -- A Delicious Recipe for a Holiday Tradition
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Christmas Fruitcake -- A Delicious Recipe for a Holiday Tradition
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Christmas Mistletoe -- A Delicious Recipe for a Holiday Tradition
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Best Christmas Presents for Gifting
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ScentChips Hollywood
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Natural Gifts And Decorations For Christmas
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Eco-Friendly Christmas Gifts, Presents and Decorations
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Cajun Night Before Christmas
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Swarovski Christmas Ornaments
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Low Cost Christmas Decorations
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Care Of Christmas Trees
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Looking For A Christmas Jigsaw Puzzle?
Each year my family works on a Christmas jigsaw pu more...0 points
Christmas Video Showcase
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Cool Christmas Gifts under $25.00 for Gifting
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Christmas Nativity Sets
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Christmas Shopping at Discount Prices
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The Worst Gifts I Ever Received
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Take Time to Enjoy Christmas
I love the holidays!They are only stressful if you more...0 points
Just Meyda Tiffany Lighting and Gifts - FREE SHIPPING (in US and Canada)!
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LED Christmas Lights
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Christmas Decorations
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Natural Gemstone Jewelry
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Giant Artificial Christmas Trees
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Solar garden lights
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Solar Panels and Home Kits
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Solar fountains
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Moroccan Bedding and bedrooms
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Moroccan Pouf & Ottoman
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A Christmas Jigsaw Puzzle made from your own photos - Creative Christmas gifts for your family.
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Womens cotton nightwear, nightdresses and nightshirts handmade by David Nieper
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Tell Us Your Joke
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Christmas Throws - Christmas Throw Blankets
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Snowflake Earring
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bangles sterling silver
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Sterling Silver Jewelry at Queen Bee
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Unique Dog Collars for Christmas
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Womens cotton nightwear, nightdresses and nightshirts handmade by David Nieper
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Top 10 Best Christmas Gift Ideas
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This Lens was a 2nd Place winner in the The Squidoo Home for the Holidays Contest 2008 Holiday Decorations Category.
See the other winners at the Squidoo Home for The Holidays Contest Winners 2008 Lens.
Thanks to The_Party_Animal for hosting the contest, and Big Thanks to everyone who voted!
(Christmas is December 25, 2009)
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Comments? Before You Go...

prosperity66 wrote...
Great lens here with wonderful decoration items - even more precious that they're environment friendly!
Dom.
pkmcr wrote...
This is a great resource and a beautifully put together lens. Well done and blessed by a Squid Angel
aj2008 wrote...
There's some great eco-friendly gifts here Dan. Lensrolled to my "green" lenses.
tandemonimom wrote...
These are some beautiful gifts and ornaments! You're invited to add this green gift lens to I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas!
personalised-gifts wrote...
Fantastic work! Thank you for sharing, I will add this to my favs!
The bamboo ducks are fabulous!
The_Party_Animal wrote...
Yahoo you are a winner in The Squidoo Home for The Holidays Lens Contest So Go Grab your badge.
Belindance wrote...
Some unique green Christmas gift ideas you have found and shared. Great lens!
daoine wrote...
These are just awesome gift ideas. They look fantastic - especially the oil drum angel and the ducks - but I also really love that these both recycle items and create income in areas that really need it.
badmsm wrote...
Great job, you have another winner here, Clean! 5 stars for you...Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
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