If you're thinking about what to get your girl this Valentine's Day (which is in a couple of weeks), I'm gonna suggest you go skip the usual flowers and chocolate. She got that from the last half dozen guys she's been with. And look where it got them.

So make it about her and and make it special. Over at the Gumdrop Cookie Shop they'll bake up some custom cookies that'll make you look like you spent some serious time, effort and coin on her gift, when all you needed to do was click around on their site a bit.

You can have a personal message to her from you baked onto one of their 5-inch signature sugar cookies, or upload a photo and they'll "print" it onto a cookie for you. (Feed her sugar addiction and ego at the same time.) If you can't think of anything creative to say or don't have a pic to upload, they've got a bunch of ready-made designs to choose from.

Cookies come in a variety of gift sets that let you choose to include other sugar, chocolate chip, peanut butter, or oatmeal cookies - or assorted brownies and bars. They'll also pack them in a gift box, so all you'll have left to do is pick out a card and write something in it. Which is a whole other deal in itself.

www.gumdropcookieshop.com