Great Housewarming Gifts

Great Housewarming Gifts Idea

Great Housewarming Gifts are not available in plethora; they need an exclusive eye to be discerned. Although there lives a proverb, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, it is up to the reasonable beings to delineate what is stunning. To present Great Housewarming Gifts, needs a meticulous survey of the taste of the person, his affinities and interests.

Even then the greatness stands to be a relative term which varies from person to person.

The tradition of housewarming parties began with a particular custom followed by the cavemen. These cavemen brought cinders from their fire to their friend's new cave to "warm" the hearth. The conventional housewarming gifts of bread and salt dates back to the "middle ages". It was then that the newlyweds were given the basic staples of life to start their new household. They were even provided a broom to sweep the evil out of the house; honey representing the sweetness of life; olive oil to bring in health and light in the life; a plant that will ensure life; a coin to bring good fortune for that year and a wood to maintain stability, harmony and peace at home.

Great Housewarming Gifts range from the exquisite "African Zulu Angel", a work of the Zulu tribal women to "Makenge basket" can even be a novel housewarming gift piece, a hand-work of the Zambian people. A Great Housewarming Gift can even be the "Linda Koba Doll" of the "Ndebele Tribe" from South Africa. There are also East European Folk Arts, especially the Scandinavian art forms, which consist of hand made dolls, paintings and pottery. Great Housewarming Gifts can even be the Indian "Phulkaries" from Punjab, the "Madhubani paintings" from North India, the "Kastoori paintings" from the state of Karnataka, the traditional Indian embroidery, the Indian paintings and many more. The Chinese paintings are no less than the Indians. They have the Jinshan Peasant Paintings, the Paper- cuttings; Chinese needle works are also exquisite. There are also Embroidered Silk pictures based on the Jinshan Peasant Paintings which possess a uniqueness of their own.

There can also be exclusive computer designed sugar cookies, computer themed cat and mouse jewelry, chocolate compact discs, a chandelier made of silk or crystals, which might be a little expensive and many more. The forbes's creation of "zchocolates" for the corporate world are bulging in demand ever since they have come into being. These products have a niche of their own in the family of Great Housewarming Gifts.