You don’t pop onto the Etsy forums for a couple days and you miss everything!  I found a forum post from one of the Etsy admins saying that they removed a link on the top toolbar to the Gift Guides.  The button was put on Etsy a day or two ago and links to TONS of different gift guides.  I had originally decided I’d do daily posts on different gift ideas on my blog until Christmas.  When I saw that Etsy had already done that for me, I admit I was a little disappointed because I felt it wasn’t really necessary for me to do it when this much bigger beast did it so much better.  I never really thought about it from a selling point of view though.  Apparently people were upset that putting such an easy tool button would redirect many Etsy buyers to a handful of Etsy sellers and leave “the little guys” out in the cold.  I don’t know that I see it that way though…and the Gift Guides are still there.  There’s still a link on the top left side of the front page of Etsy, so how is this really any different?!  Yikes – craziness everywhere apparently.

So, if you need to shop for some presents this year and you don’t want to browse through the entire Etsy site, here are some great already made gift ideas for you.  Enjoy!