[AERNet] Braille Gifts Resource List

[Judi Piscitello]

In preparation for the holidays, the January Braille Awareness Month activities, and the Braille Challenge, the following list of braille gift ideas is provided, as always, for your information and not an endorsement of any product or service.  I welcome your suggestions for additions or revisions!

Braille Gifts for Folks of All Ages

1) BrailleGifts.com:
http://www.braillegifts.com/ 
Even though this website is geared towards the blind and visually impaired, most items and all toys are popular with sighted individuals as well. All apparel, backpacks, totes, etc. can be embroidered with Braille and/or regular print.  The educational and musical games and toys offer fun for folks of all ages and ability levels.

2) National Braille Press:
www.nbp.org 
- Braille and print books (including Real U Guides - to your first job, your first apartment, and to bank accounts and credit cards)
- Inspirational refrigerator magnets with quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Braille Alphabet Bracelets- Where the Sidewalk Ends, Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein (print/braille edition for ages 9 and up), $17.99 

3) Seedlings: 
http://www.seedlings.org 
Seedlings offers all kinds of braille and print books, shirts, playing cards, jewelry/charms and more!

4) Braille Jymico:
www.braillejymico.com 
Braille Jymico offers personalized braille greeting cards

5) Braille Mugs and Pottery:
http://www.lepotier.com/Braille%20mugs%20and%20adaptaplates.html 

6) Braille Superstore:
http://www.braillebookstore.com/ 
Books, housewares, toys, games and other gifts

8) Braille Chocolate 
www.chocunltd.com Chocolate Unlimited
http://members.tripod.com/~Chocolates/tcgi.html or http://chocolates.tripod.com/greeting_bars.html 
http://www.braillefactory.com/chocolate.htm 
http://chocolates.tripod.com/fundraising.html 


9) Braille Jewelry:
www.braillejewelry.com 
http://www.braillestone.com  
http://www.roule.com 
http://www.brailleintl.org/wat.htm 
http://www.dvbny.com/Ranges/Scripts.htm 
http://www.jewelryshops.com/braille 
http://www.designsinbraille.com/pages/623830/index.htm 
http://www.braillebookstore.com/Gift-Shop.htm 
http://www.sayinit.com/braille.shtml 
http://www.sightconnection.com/brailrininst.html 
http://www.netz-tipp.de/cgi-bin/newsgrabber/buechersuche.shtml?keyword=Braille%20Jewelry 
http://julieann.etsy.com 

10) Braille-A-Wear www.braille-a-wear.com offers braille embroidered tee shirts, tote bags, hats, and bibs, to encourage braille awareness and adorn braille readers with great braille fashions!

11) Driver Reads Braille License Frame order form:
http://www.jacforvi.org/OrderForm.pdf