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I need a gift idea!!!

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Mar. ~ 2005 May: Buyers Banter (ARCHIVES): I need a gift idea!!! users admin

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Wapland
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok, all you wonderful shoppers. I have been invited to a book launch and book signing for a former student. She wanted to become an author and now has. What would be an appropriate gift for a new author?

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
a pen?

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You don't by any chance have anything she wrote for you in a class ever do you? If you did for some reason, esp. if it was handwritten and scored well, you could frame it or something. maybe that's a dumb idea....

Bookends?

What kind of book did she write?

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wappy, I found this pendant that I think might be appropriate.

Isabella Catalog

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Like this one too.
Paperweight

Sunrvrose
Member

08-13-2001

Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jmm, wow, what an appropriate gift. Excellent find.

Sunrvrose
Member

08-13-2001

Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The pendant.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Friday, April 01, 2005 - 1:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Looks like we have found our "personal shopper".

Wapland
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, April 01, 2005 - 8:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks so much guys...what great ideas. I failed to mention the book signing is tomorrow! I have reallllllllyyyyyy left it late. But that paperweight has given me a good idea. I will try and take a pic in the morning and post here. By the way....the novel is titled. "The Simple Hand of Fate".

I am so proud of this lady. She came into my class last year. At the beginning of each new session I ask the students to think about their dream job. She said she wanted to be an author. When I inquired why, she responded that she had written a book, and she just wanted to be an author. Apparently you are only an author if others read your work. At that point, no one had read her book. Of course I offered to read it and she declined and continued to decline each day that I mentioned it for the next 4 weeks. Christmas break arrived and on the last day of class, she walked in with a big brown manilla envelop, plops it on my desk, and says Merry Christmas...here is my book to read. After brushing away my tears, I hugged her and told her it was the best Christmas present I had ever received. When I got home that night, I sat down with a cup of tea and proceeded to read...and read, and read. I didn't put the book down until the next day at 2 pm. Some 600 pages later, I had read the best book I had read in a very long time. I raced to the phone, called her and said , You are now an author, and you need to get this book published. After a painsaking process, her book was accepted just this last September. Other than her editor, I am the only other person to have read the book. I am so pleased for this lady. She had a dream and made it happen. So, I am off to get her to sign my copy tomorrow. How exciting! Anyway, that is the background to the need for gift ideas. As usual, you have helped tremendously.

Fondly
Wappy

Sherbabe
Member

07-28-2002

Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I know Wapland that your gift excursion is over, but thought I'd post a site I found. This lady makes real nice hurricane type lamps that can be used w/ tea lights or with small night light inside. What you do, if you have flowers left from a wedding, prom, special occasion or even a funeral she dries them sets them in wax and you have the memory of those flowers forever. check out web site of www.candlesfourhim.com
very unique gift idea.