Yes, they sure can.
Here are some examples: saying thank you and meaning it or you are welcome when you mean that too; making something memorable that means something to someone…
Next month Hubby and I will be celebrating our forty-first wedding anniversary hopefully.
And when we married we received incredible gifts and money and you name it, since we had quite a lovely wedding with two hundred guests.
Oddly enough, many gifts over the years have been given away to our sons or stored and now if I look around there are just two that I see within feet from my view.
One is the marble lazy-Susan that my cousin Audrey and her husband Mort gave to us; there is also a cheese knife with a marble handle that is in my utility draw, a lovely useful gift that has been used time and time again over the years. The lazy-Susan has my own crystalline bowl with seashells that we collected in better days in it and a cork replica of drift wood with seagulls on it, very beachy; and appropriate for our décor in the rest of our home and us living on the water here in Florida.
The other gift, which I did not fully appreciate when we received it weeks after our honeymoon it had arrived, a gift from my paternal Uncle Morris's widow, my Aunt Rose; it is a decoupage of our wedding invitation, at first it was not what I would have expected from my father’s brother, a lawyer from his wife.But to my surprise and happiness it has been a fixture in every home that we have resided in and a documentation of our very special happy day!
And has become a talisman to Hubby and I and our ongoing relationship; which has of course not unlike many couples has had its ups and downs.
And so with that said, I took it upon myself when unable to travel to the event of a wedding for a family member or a friend, traditionally I will send them some type of candle sticks (for romance) and a decoupage of their wedding invitation and a check depending on our financial situation or how well we know them. Sometimes we send just the gifts.
And most love our choices and thank us profusely, which makes us feel good.
You see, we do the decoupages ourselves, a fun craft I taught myself years ago.
Never using the original invitation but making copies to tea stain for aging and also we burn the edges of and fit it to a plaque or piece of wood we find or purchase. Modge-podge is not that different from wood glue or white glue to affix the invitation to the wood and also will be a fine varnish and rarely if ever smells. But using potpourri glued on too adds to the personalization and aroma or you can go au naturalle too! Either way, if not attending the affair or even if you do go you have a fine keepsake for the lovely couple.
And while watching a TV show I found another simple remembrance quality gift to make… you know all those photos people send with their holiday cards of the family or just their new addition?
Well, that too can be made simply into an ornament for their tree; by copying and using thin balsa type wood, cut into a circle, to affix the picture and punching a small hole at the top and tying a ribbon on, but first decoupage of course then add the ribbon or colorful elastic like we did to our first one that we did… A beautiful baby of our friend’s and her first Christmas commemorated in our return card to them containing the ornament! They said that they loved it!
What more can a gift giver want or need but to know they chose wisely, hmm?
My late next year’s gift to you all for some ideas are to be shared, right?
Now allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
Monday, January 9, 2012
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