am not going to make anymore for family
12-28-2010, 05:51 PM
#181
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Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 324
Next year give them a $10.00 gift certificate to Walmart or something. They can pick out their own gift. hve been in your shoes before and know how it feels. It's not worth worrying about. Just keep making things for those you know will appreciate your good work and the time put into it.
12-28-2010, 05:55 PM
#183
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: western Pa.
Posts: 2,221
I wish someone made me a purse, i love homemade items. I'm the only one in the family that gives gifts and I don't give homemade gifts. Even though I don't receive gifts from anyone ,I'm afraid they won't like what I give them.
12-28-2010, 05:58 PM
#184
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: S W Va
Posts: 251
Originally Posted by Alondra
Idea for next year: give all the ingrates a pretty card with a note explaining that you have donated a quilt to a child in the pediatric ward at your local hospital in their name. If they don't like that, they won't dare say so, because it would make them look like the Grinch. Then don't forget to take a tax deduction for the donation. <G> Double revenge. Ooooh, I'm so bad!
12-28-2010, 06:09 PM
#185
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NASHVILLE, TN
Posts: 303
Have this problem with some in my family. I found out over Christmas that someone in my family gave away a crocheted sweater that I had made for their firstborn. They have a second baby who could have worn it but they didn't keep it. I knows it hurts. So...hugs and sympathy from Nashville. We know you worked hard and we appreciate you.
12-28-2010, 06:15 PM
#187
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Enid, OK
Posts: 8,273
In my family if you don't like homemade you do without!
I do goat milk soaps, grow my own lavender to make oatmeal milk bath, sachets, candles, soaps, etc...I blend my own all natural potpourri, I blend teas, and spice rubs, make mustard, all natural apple sauce and butter, etc....so they get home made and home grown.....
I do goat milk soaps, grow my own lavender to make oatmeal milk bath, sachets, candles, soaps, etc...I blend my own all natural potpourri, I blend teas, and spice rubs, make mustard, all natural apple sauce and butter, etc....so they get home made and home grown.....
12-28-2010, 06:15 PM
#189
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: North Texas
Posts: 8,710
I commented on a lady's purse in Houston and ASked her if she made it because it was lovely, and she said "No, this is a quality purse by _____", oops sorry, a handmade one by me or a friend would be more loved than one bought just because it was made by a famous person. And besides that, the money that purse cost would buy me enough fabric for 3-4 quilts. LOL. So sorry yours weren't rec'd nicely. If they only knew how much others would cherish one....their loss. *H*U*G*S*
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