I have something important to tell you. Did you know you can go ice skating in the middle of Yosemite? It’s pretty fantastic. We happened across the rink while searching for a geocache there. When we saw the rink, my daughter and I looked at each other like “are you thinking what I’m thinking?” We rented some skates and got on the ice (the boys opted out). It was her first-ever time ice skating, and she was delighted by every part of it. She kept pointing out how pretty her skates were, and was in the most infallable mood the entire time. Of course it wasn’t hard to feel blissful, gliding across the ice in the shadow of half dome in the setting sun, with Journey playing over the loud speakers.
So partly in honor of that and partly because these are just some really cool ideas, here are some skating ideas that would make pretty great gifts.

Craftzine posted a tutorial a while back for making skates from sneakers. I think a little skate-making kit would be about the coolest gift ever.

And here a few more:
Classic skates from here (men, this would make a pretty romantic gift with a date),
Skate pendant from here,
Skate booties from here, they also come in hockey skates (!)

Tags: baby gifts, gifts for preteen girls, gifts for school age girls, gifts for teenage girls, romantic gifts

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