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September 06, 2008

I sent these fat quarters to my cousin Tamy for her birthday. I didn't think too long before I decided to send her fabric. I wanted to send her something she would enjoy, but also something she could really use. So, I sent her something that I would like to get.

She called today to say that she'd received them, that she loves them, and that she posted about them. I'm glad, because if she didn't, she'd have to send them back to me. ;) Truthfully, shopping for her was a gift to me; I got to go to one of my favorite fabric stores and spend some time picking out fabrics that I love.

We have a kind of strange birthday tradition. We send each other our birthday gifts pretty much as soon as we buy them; opening them upon receipt. That means that gifts are sometimes very early, and other times quite late. My birthday's not until December, but I got my gift from Tamy in the mail a couple of months ago. I love doing this; I get to celebrate at a completely unexpected time!

While I'm on the topic of gifts, I read about Wishpot on Simplemom a while back. And I have to say that I love this idea. If you're going to get someone a gift, you might as well get them something you know that they will like. I'm certain that shopping solely from a gift list would take some of the surprise out of gift giving and receiving, but you wouldn't have to get something off the wish list if you didn't want to. You could just use it to help you know what they like. I've started a wishlist, but haven't really added much to it. Wishpot does make it easy, though. You can add a Wishpot button to your browser and even import your Amazon wish list.

I also thought you might like to know that our brown out/cable outage was caused by a power line that over heated and dropped onto a cable line at the back of our neighbor's yard. It completely fried our cable line! They had to replace it all the way from the pole! We're up and running again, but they've decided to bury the cable in our yard, so the line is currently laying on the ground while we await the burial crew. (That sounds kinda morbid, huh?) Just what we need in the middle of tall grass that needs mowed and a curious two year old. If it goes down again, we'll all know why.

Thank you! I love them!! I also decided what to make, but it's a surprise so now it's your turn to wait and see!

You being born so close to a major holiday precipitated our wonderful tradition - I'm so glad we do it this way.

I read a Dear Abby years ago that said you should always give a gift you'd love to receive. That way if for whatever reason it is returned you'll enjoy it. That's what makes shopping for you a joy. I always know you'll like it, but if by chance you don't, I will! LOL