What to take the Thanksgiving Day Hostess?
Thanksgiving will be here in just a couple of weeks. Have you been invited to a Thanksgiving Day Dinner and don’t know what to bring? Most likely your hostess has said, don’t bring a thing your company is all that we desire, but still you have to take something!
Why not take something exquisite that will bring back memories for years to come? Your Thanksgiving Day Hostess is probably a family member or a dear friend. Unlike other holida [...]Read More Nov
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Engraved Gift Ideas for the Thanksgiving Day Hostess
November 4th, 2013 by Peg What to take the Thanksgiving Day Hostess?
Thanksgiving will be here in just a couple of weeks. Have you been invited to a Thanksgiving Day Dinner and don’t know what to bring? Most likely your hostess has said, don’t bring a thing your company is all that we desire, but still you have to take something!
Why not take something exquisite that will bring back memories for years to come? Your Thanksgiving Day Hostess is probably a family member or a dear friend. Unlike other holida [...]Read More Aug
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What’s Your Gift-Giving Style?
August 12th, 2013 by Peg
Having been on vacation for the past two weeks I have had time to reflect about a number of things. Of course one was about gift giving.
The tradition of giving gifts can be traced back as far as the early Romans. The ancient Roman festival Saturnalia, held in honor of the diety Saturn, included gift-giving as a central part of the celebration. For the purposes of this celebration, the gifts were simple tokens rather than expensive, elaborate bestowals, and interestingly, it was common practi [...]Read More Jul
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Gift Giving From the Heart
July 15th, 2013 by Peg
Gift Giving From the Heart
Confession: I used to be a terrible gift giver. My most heinous gift-giving crime was giving gifts I would like. I never considered the receiver of the seven-hundred-plus-page Volume 1 of Mark Twain's Autobiography. And forget about shopping for my dad, or any man for that matter—unless that man happened to be George Michael and could appreciate a nice pair of diamond studs.
After one particularly ill-received gift to my mother who has a taste for bling and wou [...]Read More 
