DH just told me that he would like me to order a stamp (die?) with my initials or a design for my birthday. You know, the kind you use with those little sterling tags and identify the maker.
Do you guys know of a reputable maker of these things? I'm not worried if they aren't lightning-fast, I'm looking for quality and customer service.
Kathy N-V
P.S.: My other birthday present will be a top-of-the-line Dremel tool and the drill press attachment. And I wasn't even that good this year!
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.compuppies (Dr. Sooz) :
]Guyot Brothers: decorative stampings and jewelry findings ]
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I've heard good things about Microstamp. Rio Grande also does this, as well as having a variety of silver and gold tags to stamp
susan in canada.
Yay! I adore my dremel. It does -so many things-.
Deirdre
I love love LOVE my Dremel! It would be SO cool to have the drill press setup! Whenever I'm at Home Depot, I drift over to the Dremel display and just sigh... So many neat toys...
mmmmm dremel. I love mine- just got it in Sept.
Sounds like it's going to be a good birthday!!
Kathy K
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 1:25:16 -0400, KDK wrote (in message ):
My birthday is nothing, nothing(!) compared to P/T D, who turns fifteen on Saturday. She called me a couple of weeks ago to remind me, as if I would forget, and told me "Friday the 26th is the party that you and Bob are going to give me, and Saturday the 27th is my mother and grandmother's day to give me a party and give me all kinds of gifts, and on Sunday, if my father ever remembers, he can give me stuff, too."
Somehow, at my age I'm not mustering the same excitement when my birthday comes around. :-)
Anyway, she's been calling me every day, telling me how many days and hours remain until her birthday, and has been pushing me to tell her "what her gifts will be." So, DD, DH and P/T D's Mom have worked with me to play a little prank on our favorite 15 year old.
On Friday, P/T D is coming to my house, and we are going out to dinner. After dinner, we'll sing "Happy Birthday," but there will be no presents. Not one. If (really when) she asks, we'll tell her that since her family is in so much better shape this year than last, we gave the money to a children's charity instead. Besides, isn't fifteen a little old for those childish, over the top birthday parties.
The we'll go to her family birthday party on Saturday and give her presents then. She's getting a Tink-bead necklace of a duckie, a sterling name bracelet from me, a polyclay "Birthday Snail" from DD, and a Visa Buxx card from all of us. The Visa card is a cool thing - it's a prepaid credit card for teens, and works like a debit card. The kid has to go through an online "wise use of credit" course before she can activate the card, and regular statements and the like go to the adult in charge of the account. P/T D is going to think she's amazingly cool with her own credit card.
Next year is Sweet Sixteen. God help us all. She'll get her learner's permit somewhere around that date, and once she gets her license, Bailey the VW Beetle is hers. She's already picked out tie dye seatcovers and all sorts of "cool only to teenagers" modifications for my poor little car. BTW, DD will get the Mazda SUV when she gets _her_ license.
As for me, I drive so few miles that it really doesn't matter what I drive. I was looking at my gas purchase/mileage notebook the other day and realized I hadn't bought gas since July! I haven't even put 1,000 miles on the car this year, although DH has taken it out several times and ran up a few miles.
Kathy N-V
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :
]Next year is Sweet Sixteen.
Kathy - just a thought. when Jeannie and Jamie turned 16, we had 16 yellow roses delivered to them - a few in each class at school . . . and then the last class of the day got the cake and ice cream.
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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :
]I'd love to, but I'll have to check with her teachers. P/T D is at a ]vocational high school, studying to be a plumber.
well, it could work with EITHER daughter. but i'll bet you'd be surprised at what teachers will go along with, when someone wants to celebrate 16. *grin*
]Every afternoon when she gets to her home from school, she picks up the phone ]to call me.
**grin** Johnny is SO enjoying college, he calls me between classes, when he has learned something that really startles him. Today, it was his sign language class and their versions of President's name. [VERY funny] Later, it was to tell me that the new issue of Newsweek was out, and to make sure i picked up a copy, because Wesley Clark was on the cover [i managed to get the last one in the store].]Gak, they're getting old. P/T D has been eyeing my living room furniture, ]telling me that it will be just perfect for a first apartment. She's also ]noticed that I have approximately three times the cookware I need. I think ]that those two girls are going to do a lot of cleaning out for me, Whether I ]like it or not: I'll be lucky to keep anything after those two get through ]helping me rid my house of "extras." Maybe I should hold myself a "empty ]nest shower" so my friends can help me refurnish after the girls take every ]possible item of value from me.
yes, i'm facing bits of that, too. i've been putting things to one side in storage for them. extra furniture. extra dishes, glasses, that sort of thing. actually, i think your idea of a shower sounds like just the ticket! Johnny loved going through my cookbook and copying out his favorite recipes.
i really, really hate having an "empty nest", but they're both really getting into the whole "on my own" bit. Johnny has been offered a promotion if he passes the exam in Berkeley in November that would give him $40,000/year at 19 and while he's a student. **sigh**
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well, there is always the saying, "If you can't be good, be good at it"...
Mary
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