A Great Christmas Gift...  

Oh Twoey, that made me cry with happiness for you to get that treasured gift gifted back to you. I am so happy that it did not get sold off to someone who might not appreciate it as much as you do. I can't say I have ever got anything back that I can remember.

That is a really great Christmas gift. I can't think of anything I've gotten back that I've given, but all those that have passed away have been before I gave gifts (when I was too young to have a job) or that I didn't give gifts gifts too but rather paid for food on a couple of occasions...

Hope you had a really great Christmas.

THAT is so touching, twoey!! My MY!! It must have moved you very much I am sure!

I gave my father a pullover sweater one year that ended up coming back to me when dad died. We were the same size so I can wear it now, although I save it for special occasions. I so don't want to take away the great significance, but when I have it on and pass by a mirror and see my reflexion, it is a but shocking because it is like seeing my pappa, we were so much alike in features!"

yes, So I do understand what this kind of a gift means to you also!! Thanks for sharing this with us!!

This gift was the best. You will never look at it without remembering both his Mom and him. What a nice considerate man to know how much this could mean to you and go to the effort to get it for you. The whole thing is a great blessing.

hi twoey thats a wonderful story and its nice that he thought to give it back to you after it had touched other lives so nicely.
Mine is the other way around. when my son was probably in the fifth grade he made a picture of a photo of himself a nd his little sister when he was four and she was three. it was artfully torn around the photo then put on a solid wood block, and sealed over with a picture hanger on the back. I had kept it all these years, I had it when I first came here to Gold Crest a year ago and when my first roommate died they moved me to a different room.well I went back to check if they had got all my belongings and was sickened to see something wooden in the trash can. so I rescued that picture that meant so much to me. you see toey that little girl of mine died when she was eight and that was the only picture I had of her that was not in storage. she would have been 48 last year so its very special to me. to think the caregivers thought it was trash is in my eyes unforgivable and to think I was lucky enough to rescue it,well I was just really thrilled.

Thank you!!! You gave me a reason to smile!!! I can't say it was something that I made that was as personal as your cross stitch picture. I moved to Washington DC back in 1969 to work on Capitol Hill. I wanted to do something special with my first paycheck so I looked & looked for something special. It didn't necessarily have to be for myself. I was just about to give up when I saw an ad in the newspaper & I rushed out to buy it. I found the most perfect Mother's Ring. As it turned out, my Grandmother had 6 grandchildren. My next dilemma was how to arrange the stones so it would be a pretty ring & still symbolize her family. I began to think of ways to make the stones special. After quite a bit of thinking, I realized that if I had them arranged from the oldest to the youngest that every other stone would be the same color as each of her children had 2 of her grandchildren. The oldest of each set of grandchildren were born in February. Her oldest daughter had the first 2 grandchildren, then her son had the middle 2 grandchildren. Finally her baby daughter had the final 2 grandchildren. So the ring turned out February, March, February, October, February, December. It turned out to be a quite lovely ring. My Grandmother NEVER took that ring off once she put it on because she said she was afraid she'd lose it & it couldn't be replaced. She wore that ring every day until she died in 1990. She was in a nursing home near my Aunt's home when she died. My Aunt had gone to be with her as the nursing home had called her to say it was probably her last day on earth. My grandmother called my Aunt into her room when she was getting really weak. She took off the ring & handed it to my Aunt...telling her she wanted the ring returned to me with her thanks for such a lovely gift. I fel soooo honored that she made sure I got the ring back with such lovely words. I put it on my finger & it has NEVER left my finger since that day. This ring has ALWAYS held a special meaning for me & your story reminded me of my Grandmother giving me back the ring I had made just for her & ALL the special moments that went with it!!! I think it was VERY special of your stepdad to make sure you got your priceless gift back. That was very thoughtful of him!!!

That's so touching! No, I've never made a gift for anyone, though I've really wanted to do the same as your hobby (like knitting). Reasons vary, partly from lack of time, and from not having anyone in my life who'd appreciate made-up gifts over store-bought ones. (For that matter, I need more folks around me who'd truly appreciate the gifts I give them, since they're really well thought-out, in my opinion).

Have a blessed Christmas season, twoey.

I cross stitch too! I'm working on one that I've been working on for years and probably will finish it in the coming year. It's very tedious and is why it's taking me so long to finish besides taking breaks in between. I made one for a couple that were friends of ours and they ended up splitting up and the husband was so angry that he threw away all his wife's things without even opening the boxes to see what was in them. The cross stitch that I made for them was in one of those boxes. I had hoped he'd send it back to me but it's gone now.

I did give my grandmother a set of porcelain babies that one could hang on the wall or Christmas tree if they wanted to. One was a little girl and the other was a boy. When my grandmother passed away, I got them back and now they're in my curio cabinet.

That was a great Christmas gift. I gave my son a
dryer years ago, I just got another house and I
got the dryer back. It stills works great and I
did not have to buy one.
Have a great day.

i love getting old things, things that have been touched my many hands and many years too. i really love history and antiques so anything like that is cool.