Hide & Seek

Aug 11, 2006 10 Replies

Howdy!



From another quilt list:



My husband went to Ohio a couple of weeks ago to help a friend race his motorcycle. He flew into Cleveland, then drove down to where the racetrack is.



His first stop when he left the rent a car place was a quilt shop, then he stopped at another in another town. Of course, he didn't tell me about it, but he had done an internet search before he left and found the shops in the area. He did the same thing when he went to California a few months ago and brought me back fabric then too. I had told him not to buy any fabric this time, to spend the money on himself.



Well, the night he got home, he laid 3 one yard cuts of fabric on my desk for me to find. He has wonderful taste by the way. Over the next 10 days, I would find fat quarters, half yard cuts and even a Take 5 bundle on my desk, the ironing board and in my recliner. We decided it must the the fabric fairy. We both had so much fun with it!



I'm planning to go on a retreat with my guild in March, Tom says he can't wait to see what the motorcycle parts fairy brings to him when I get back! I'm afraid he's going to be very disappointed since I know very little about his motorcycles. ~~~~~



Is this guy a Keeper or what?!!!? I'm sending this post to my darling husband who always asks for new ideas. Easy to reciprocate as I know well his favorite hobbies.



Cheers! Ragmop/Sandy--who sent flowers & balloons to work for his b-day this week so he'd get lots of ribbing for turning 50; he loved it! ;-D



Wow, I should say so! :) Of course, now he'll want a new carburetor or something. LOL! Seriously, isn't it when a thoughtful gesture/s like that is least expected that it means the most?

Nancy in NS

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You can always go for a unique T-shirt from the motorcycle shop. Most have the name of the store & location on them, and it is fun to have a shirt from a neat place (my boss brought me one from Singapore as a recognition gift).

I know we collect shirts and pins from every Harley shop we go to.

And all of the jewelry that DH buys for me, is from the Harley shop. In fact most everything he buys for me comes from there. It is the only store he is happy shopping in. LOL

How wonderful! Glad you're enjoying the surprises. Thanks for sharing.

Howdy!

The lady who wrote it will have to deal w/ the motorcycle stuff. I'm just passing along the story. Gene's good about surprise gifts. His way is to go to the quilt shop, open the front door, get someone's attention and toss them his credit card. So far, so good.

Ragmop/Sandy

Howdy!

But it's not me. I don't know Tom or his wife.

When Gene had a cycle 20 yrs ago he also had a ton of life insurance because I said so. Now he Cruises in the DreamCruiser.

Ragmop/Sandy

It's a fun story, and he's a keeper for sure!

As for m/c parts... maybe the odd gift voucher wrapped up in some m/c patterned FQ's? They could lead up to a m/c quilt. :)

Hehehe! Alan doesn't do surprise gifts: much too much of an engineer for that! he likes to know that his gifts will be appreciated and used, so he gets things he knows I want. Sewing machine feet are a favourite. Now I have a Bernina serger, I can add this to my wish list:

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(First on the list - a thing for getting boy scouts out of sewing machines! )

Okay, re-read the post. Did not recall the first part "From another quilt list". Perhaps you can use this as a perfect opportunity for you to convince your dh that he must do this fabric hide and go seek thing in order for me , and others, to think that he is a great guy and and worth keeping. LOL

Waiting patiently to read your story of hide and go seek! ;o)

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