So you have been admiring that special someone from afar. You haven’t had the guts to approach this radiant being. Isn’t Valentine’s Day right around the corner? Wouldn’t it be sweet of you to tell them exactly how you feel just by giving them something that said it all? Well, you can! I’ll let you in on all the great items you can give and make that sweetheart or prince charming say “be mine” on Valentine’s Day!

Something sweet for your Sweet!

If your Sweetheart has a sweet tooth, Cheryl & Co. has a great selection of desserts that are sure to please the appetite! If you to put a signature twist on a gift, Just Because Baskets offers a unique way to choose a basket and the goodies that go in it. Make a night in with a movie that much more enticing for your Valentine with a tantalizing tower of treats from The Popcorn Factory. Whether you like flavored popcorns or yummy treats, you can’t go wrong with The Popcorn Factory! Let’s not forget about the ever so popular M&M. My M&M’s will please your sweetheart with personalized touches that include your own words, faces, logos, and phrases! Choose from over 25 different colors and let you Valentine know how much you care!

A Lovely Bouquet of Flowers!

Want to present your love with a beautiful arrangement of flowers? Flowers Across America can help you with that and more! They offer bouquets, fruit baskets, and gifts that will make your Valentine swoon!

Something Shiny…

What can I say, ladies love their jewelry! That’s why shopping at Pugster makes it that much easier to choose from a great selection of Italian charms and fashion jewelry!
From brooches to Mother of Pearl, your Valentine will be delighted with this gift!

Be Creative

Ever heard of the expression “I wear my heart on my sleeve?” Well let your sweetheart wear your heart on their shoes! Converse has created an I Heart Collection that allows you to customize a pair of sneakers and integrate a name within the phrase “I <3 …..” Now you can express your love not just on Valentine’s Day, but all 365 days!

Undecided?

Haven’t got the slightest clue what to get your Valentine? Taylor Gifts provides a wide range of products to make your choice easy! Whether you’re looking for gadgets, home organizers, or accessories, Taylor Gifts is your destination for useful gifts!

As always, if you make a purchase from one of these sites, a percentage will go to the nonprofit you are supporting!

I keep hearing more and more about the terrible Earthquake in Haiti, and keep feeling more and more helpless.  I want to donate money, but let’s face it, times are so tough. Sometimes I have to forecast my entire week and cereal intake when standing in the dairy aisle of the supermarket, debating about which size of milk to get.  I don’t want to toss out a full carton of milk when people around the world are struggling to make ends meet.

Everyone has their own story of sacrifice or smart financial moves that they’ve had to make in order to live comfortably in a tough economy.  So, I’m going to share my own little trick in hopes that you’ll adopt it and help me help the folks in Haiti during this horrible, horrible time.

Lambi Fund of Haiti has teamed up with We-Care.com to have purchases that we’re already making count toward their cause.  A portion of any online purchase made from over 1000 merchants will be automatically donated to their efforts.  All you have to do is download this free tool called the We-Care Reminder.

With this tool, your next purchase of diapers, contact lenses, pet food, boots, and even office supplies could result in a donation to the fund at no extra cost to you.

The Lambi Fund of Haiti is not a first responder, but a second responder. Lambi Fund will be there to help Haiti rebuild long after the relief service providers leave.

For your reference, first responders include Doctors without Borders, International Red Cross, and Partners in Health.

As a second responder, Lambi Fund of Haiti has put together a list of plans for helping communities recover, today and tomorrow.  I am including a list of these plans below.

• A tremendous outmigration from Port au Prince back to the rural villages has already begun. Lambi Fund is gearing up to help members of peasant groups get food and essentials for their families to re-establish their lives.
• Provide seeds, tools and equipment for peasant groups to plant more crops to feed local communities.
• Rebuild grain mills, sugar cane mills, and other economic development community enterprises lost in the earthquake. These buildings are the centers of communities’ economic livelihoods.
• Recapitalize micro–credit funds run by peasant organizations so that people can replenish and continue their small businesses.
• Repair rainwater cisterns so people will have a supply of safe drinking water.
• Plant trees critically needed to stabilize topsoil and prevent mudslides

To take part in this automatic way of giving and help the Lambi Fund of Haiti in their plans to rebuild Haiti, please download the Reminder that fits your internet-browsing needs best.

On behalf of We-Care.com, I’d like to wish the Lambi Fund of Haiti much success in all their initiatives.  The next time that you get something from Macy’s, Drugstore.com, or Barnes & Noble, remember that a portion of your purchase could be donated to this cause if you make your purchase online.

Just make sure you install the Reminder first!

*Purchases made through clicking on any of the links provided above will result in a donation for the Lambi Fund of Haiti.

There’s an exciting way to make 2010 count.

No matter what you’ve chosen as your New Year’s resolution, we wish you so much success in fulfilling it.  It’s not going to be easy, but wouldn’t it be so great to look back at the end of the year, having accomplished the goal that you set?  We love when that happens!

Now, we’d like to take that resolution that you’ve made and make it even better.

With We-Care.com, the purchases that you make online could help your favorite nonprofit.  This means that the treadmill that you were thinking of getting, or the book that you’ve been meaning to read are no longer just goals that you need to fulfill.  When a portion of those purchases is automatically donated to a cause that is close to your heart, your resolution is contributing to something amazing.

Click here to choose the cause that you’d like to support.

Once you’ve chosen your cause, close the browser window.  From now on, any time you click on any one of my links, a portion of your purchase will be donated to that cause.  That’s the magic of We-Care.com!

KEEP IN TOUCH

If you were planning to do a better job of keeping in touch with family and friends, I wish you lots and lots of shared memories as a portion of your Skype credits, Pingo calling cards, Blue Mountain e-greetings and Ring Central toll-free numbers.

READ MORE

If you were planning to do more reading, do more reading and have a portion of every book from Barnes & Noble, Borders, Better World Books (I absolutely love them!), and Audible (these e-books save paper, so we especially like them!) automatically donated to your favorite nonprofit.  And for all you Canadians reading this, your purchases from Chapters/Indigo and Doubleday Canada can help your favourite cause!

REDECORATE / RENOVATE

You keep saying that you’d like to change this and that, so do it.  It’s time to turn your house into a home and make it the way that it looks when you close your eyes and imagine it.  If this means decorating, I recommend visiting Home Decorators Collection or Design Toscano.  If you’re more of a do-it-yourselfer, I suggest visiting the Home Depot site.  You’ll feel extra-proud of that end result!  And, once again, for those of you in Canada, I recommend visiting Canadian Blinds, Wallpaper and More for some wonderful treatments and Home Depot Canada for the projects that you’d like to complete yourself. Regardless of the improvement that you make to your home, if you click on any of these links, a portion will be donated to your favorite cause.

TRAVEL

There must be a place that you haven’t visited, but would love to explore.  What’s the delay?  Go to Expedia, Hotels.com, Carnival Cruise Lines, or CheapOAir and book that trip that you’ve always wanted to book.  You’ll feel even more relaxed knowing that a portion of that trip helped the cause that you love.  For our Canadian readers, we recommend Expedia.ca.

GET HEALTHY

Get those vitamins that you’ve been meaning to take from Drugstore.com or eVitamins!  If you’ve been struggling to run outside in this cold, cold weather, treat yourself to a treadmill from Sears.com or Sears.ca (for our Canadian supporters)!  And, another suggestion for our Canadian readers is to commit to a plan on WeightWatchers.ca.  You can figure out a way to make it work for YOU, so there’s no excuse to take care of yourself and your favorite cause in 2010!

It’s time to make changes that will help you feel good.  So, whatever that means, we support it… because We Care.

Good luck!