Warm happy feelings
Oct. 7th, 2002 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sierciaOur friends Emily and Bill were married last year. She is another one of Wiley's old friends (his first girlfriend, in fact) and over the time I've known him, she and her family have become dear to me as well. (Yes, this is a recurring trend in my life with Wiley. He has wonderful friends, and they've all aken me in warmly). Because they are special tous, I also stitched a wedding piece for them; I had posted pictures of it here when it was finished.
Wiley delivered it to them a few weekends ago, when I was away on my stitching weekend; although I was sad to not be able to give it to them i person, I was very glad to not have to trust it to the vargaries of FedEx or the Post Office, since although it could be insured, I did not want to have to remake it if it were damaged. I got an incredibly gracious "official" thank you note from them a few days later, and it made me smile. Then, this weekend, I got a second thank you note via e-mail.
It said:
I know we've already sent you an Official Thank You Note, but I wanted to let me know that the longer we've had to examine your beautiful gift, the more impressed we become. Bill's sister, who makes all her own clothes and does a lot of hand crafts, was totally blown away by it, and said it was the best piece she had ever seen (she especially liked the yellow flowers and their perfect roundness). The more we look at it, the more details we see, and we're both feeling kind of humbled by the fact that you spent so much time and effort on it. It's really gorgeous, and we've hung it right at the entrance to our living room where everybody will see it.
I'm not sure I can express how happy her note made me. It's one thing to get a nice "official" note, which etiquette requires be sent. It's entirely another to get a second follow-up thank you, and one that is this complimentary is enough to make me just blush bright red, even as I grin from ear to ear over it. This is so especially true when the gift is somethign handmade. Lurk on any board where crafters chatter, and you will inevitably hear horror stories of hand crafted gifts that were never displayed, treated badly and destroyed, sold for $5 at a tag sale; in other words, never had the effort, time and care expended on them recognized. I'm careful with who I stitch gifts for, and I almost always ask before making something for someone to be sure they will like it before I set needle to fabric, but I still give the gifts with a small amount of trepidation that they will not be valued. I can't say how pleased I am that this was so well received, and that they love it so much. It means so much to me to be able to make beautiful things for the people I love, and so much to have my time and effort mean so much to them in return.
Wiley delivered it to them a few weekends ago, when I was away on my stitching weekend; although I was sad to not be able to give it to them i person, I was very glad to not have to trust it to the vargaries of FedEx or the Post Office, since although it could be insured, I did not want to have to remake it if it were damaged. I got an incredibly gracious "official" thank you note from them a few days later, and it made me smile. Then, this weekend, I got a second thank you note via e-mail.
It said:
I know we've already sent you an Official Thank You Note, but I wanted to let me know that the longer we've had to examine your beautiful gift, the more impressed we become. Bill's sister, who makes all her own clothes and does a lot of hand crafts, was totally blown away by it, and said it was the best piece she had ever seen (she especially liked the yellow flowers and their perfect roundness). The more we look at it, the more details we see, and we're both feeling kind of humbled by the fact that you spent so much time and effort on it. It's really gorgeous, and we've hung it right at the entrance to our living room where everybody will see it.
I'm not sure I can express how happy her note made me. It's one thing to get a nice "official" note, which etiquette requires be sent. It's entirely another to get a second follow-up thank you, and one that is this complimentary is enough to make me just blush bright red, even as I grin from ear to ear over it. This is so especially true when the gift is somethign handmade. Lurk on any board where crafters chatter, and you will inevitably hear horror stories of hand crafted gifts that were never displayed, treated badly and destroyed, sold for $5 at a tag sale; in other words, never had the effort, time and care expended on them recognized. I'm careful with who I stitch gifts for, and I almost always ask before making something for someone to be sure they will like it before I set needle to fabric, but I still give the gifts with a small amount of trepidation that they will not be valued. I can't say how pleased I am that this was so well received, and that they love it so much. It means so much to me to be able to make beautiful things for the people I love, and so much to have my time and effort mean so much to them in return.
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Date: 2002-10-07 09:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-10-08 06:56 am (UTC)Arent they lucky :)