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Wapland
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:31 pm
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?
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:32 pm
a pen?
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:42 pm
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?
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:54 pm
Wappy, I found this pendant that I think might be appropriate. Isabella Catalog
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:57 pm
Like this one too. Paperweight
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Sunrvrose
Member
08-13-2001
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:58 pm
Jmm, wow, what an appropriate gift. Excellent find.
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Sunrvrose
Member
08-13-2001
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:59 pm
The pendant.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 1:43 pm
Looks like we have found our "personal shopper".
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Wapland
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 8:40 pm
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
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 4:33 pm
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.
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