Southern Spirit Hunters
Gardening => Gardeners Chat => Topic started by: Dianna on Mar 06, 2010, 11:31:35 PM
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Ready for more fun to arrive... :grinnnn:
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Yeah! I cannot wait to see.
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Me too!
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:dancingbunny: cant wait!
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More great gifts!!
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(ok read back) The birthday gifty thing sounds fun!
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"i think the person who has my name is sending me a bunch of little things. one box at a time. so far i like. a fridge magnet. a shot glass. have to take pictures. oh, and they do have my address wrong. the house number is 2630 i might have sent it wrong to penny though. my typing of numbers isn't the greatest." bayou girl
And the bumper sticker is going to be replaced with a frig magnet. I can't see the pictures here at work and you should be getting another box soon.
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Nope Jennifer. I just checked and you wrote 25 not 26. Did both boxes say 26?
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Jessica I just got my package. What wonderful things. And what an awful time for the camera to break.
I got a metal butterfly with a bible verse painted on it. it's really beautiful. The I got a hanging sun in copper. It's really super. And there were handmade soaps and a journal. It was a super journal. Sorry about not having any pictures.
Your present is still in negotiations. I feel awful about this. I'm afraid to try and find it somewhere else just incase they manage to come through with it.
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I have pictures, Tammy. Let me pull them up. It is funny that I got you and you got me.
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Great gifts, Jessica. I bet Tammy was excited when she opened them. :good2: Very nice of you to take pictures for her, also... :grinnnn:
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I knew her camera wasn't working so I thought I would take a few before I sent it off so everybody could see.
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I still don't have a camera but I will use Jonni's phone when my package arrives.
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" and the shot glass said from "sheri miller" but again, who could it be? great gifts, i didn't have the shot glass, and the magnet is very good quality. she got her money's worth out of it." Bayou Girl
isn't that the funniest thing. Miller is my ex husbands last name that I haven't used in 13 years. I didn't even have a computer to order from 13 years ago and we didn't even have this credit card. I just checked my credit card and it says Sheri Major. He's never set foot in this house and I get mail for him all the time.
Love the chime Jessica and the fat frog Sarah, love the sun catcher thing too. Just wondering what an extra virgin is. I might be one.
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Those are wonderful gifts, Jessica. I'm not sure how I managed to miss saying that earlier.
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I bet you are an extra virgin, Sheri.
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sheri, i don't know what is written, but the correct number is 2630. and i got a magnet today!
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Great gifts indeed.
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Cool stuff!!!
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sheri, i don't know what is written, but the correct number is 2630. and i got a magnet today!
Oh you sent 2530. Crazy woman.
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Jessica, I love what you sent to Tammy... great gifts! So nice that you got pics of it all too, great idea.
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As I was leaving to take Jonni to ther dentist appointment today, a box arrived! Thank you Sarah, I love everything. I got a ceramic snail with a cute little face, a small gazing ball plant pick and some solar sting lights! I had Jonni shoot a pic with her camera phone and the sunlight gave her fits. So here is the best we could do.
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The funny thing was I was looking at those same string lights with you in mind. At least until you posted the horse planter so enthusiastically!
This is fun! I vote we do it or a form of it all again soon.
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Funny...that is the 2nd pair of us that got each other. What are the chances of that happening?
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I'm glad it made it, and that you enjoy everything. I thought those lights are pretty cool. The plant pick glows in the dark...just so you are not freaked out tonight. :giggle:
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Great gifts, Sarah and Tina! I think I have that same plant pick or one similar. Mine might be a smaller version by the looks of it.
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I think everyone may have crossover names. I have done that before when I have run exchanges. That is fun too.
Yes, I saw the glow in the dark feature on that pick. I have it out absorbing some 'glow' right now. I have to decide where I want my solar lights. I need to find maximum sunlight for the collector part.
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Oh I didn't realize we would have crossover names. That is okay too.
I can't wait to do another one too. They are fun. I like the birthday idea too.
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Wonderful gifts!!! Love the snail, so cute.
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Fantastic gifts, Sarah! :good2: The snail is so cute... :giggle:
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Cute gifts........very nice!
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my box is ready to go out. just ran out of time today. will go out tomorrow.
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My box should have been sent out Friday but we went to the ballgames instead so it will go out tomorrow.
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my box went out today, big brown (UPS) so should get there in a couple of days (or 3 or 4 or...) :giggle: i even remembered to tuck in a few "extras" so the person should have quite a nice little surprise. i will say, there are 2 notes on top of the packing. both are important because one thing isn't what it looks like, and the other is to let you know to make sure you open all the newspaper, there are things wrapped in them.
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Cool!
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so, sneaking in on my lunch break to say that i have it on good authority that someone has a box in their garage :grinnnn:
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That someone is me :yay_jump: It's a big box full of all sorts of goodies just for me. :Wow:
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the last picture is blurry. I hope you can tell I received patriotic salt and pepper shaker set. Way cool.
I'm not sure what hurricane lillies are but I'm excited that they bloom in September.
Thanks bayou girl.
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Great gifts! Love that wall hanging and the salt & pepper shaker.
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sheri, they are the surprise lilies you asked me for way back when. i'll post a picture of them when i find where i put it..
they survived our snow just fine, and they weren't even in the ground, they were in a plastic pot on the porch.
did the angel and magnet make it? i thought of to-de-ta when i saw it. had to get it for you (and her).
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Cool, I am glad everything got there safely. What fun stuff! I know Jenn was worried about using regular mails because someone had issues.
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i'm just in shock because it just went out yesterday. afternoon (3ish). and was not sent with any priority. just regular ground. wow.
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Great gifts, Jenn and Sheri!!
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:applause: :applause: :applause:
I bet you were excited to see the red, white, and blue, Sheri. :grinnnn: Great gifts...
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Really really nice gifts Sheri, and Jenn.
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You all shop much better than I do. I couldn't have found nearly that much nice stuff for less than 25.00.
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Tammy I went a little over the $25 but not by much with coupons and things. And I had purchased quite a few of the items I sent a long time ago on sale and dollar stores and clearance racks. . The towel set I sent Sarah I had purchased (very cheap) for Sarah a few weeks before I drew her name in the swap. They were really cheap and don't say cotton on them anywhere and are made by a plastic corporation. So those are probably useless as towels but the monkey graphics were absolutely adorable. I see a craft project in there. I tucked that into her box because it was a box going in the right direction, not really part of the exchange.
A few years ago I got a package of a dozen inexpensive but pretty printed garden gloves for $2 at Harbor Freight. I opened that package and have sent those cheapos in different boxes to fill in corners. They actually cost me about 18 cents each including tax. But they are fun to get on the other end. I kind of don't count those as part of the cost.
I have plenty of spare minutes to stop and cruise those clearance shelves and dollar stores as I drive miles to and from Ted's school. I don't want to be too late or too early. I find the most wonderful items all year long and store them away in bins marked outgoing gifts. Some of my items are waiting for the right time and the right people and are sitting there about 5 years. End of season at Walgreen's, CVS or Big Lots and you can really clean up. Most of it bought from spare change from a tight budget. I sometimes have people in mind when I buy items and then stockpile until I feel like sending a package and can afford it. Knowing what people like and collect and things is a bonus.
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I do that too Tina, if i see somthing on sale, and while i dont need it or want it, i still get it knowing that somewhere along the line, i can use it as a gift/present.
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bayou girl, I had already put the magnet on the frig when I took the picture and forgot to get a shot of it. The guardian angel is in the blurry picture. I would take another picture but I've got everything in it's place. Sorry. I don't remember asking for the lillies but I looked up a picture and actually had one volunteer in my yard a while back so I know the exact spot to plant them. Thanks.
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good deal. glad that you like them all. i think i might have sent them to you once before, but just a couple. in fact, i know when i did. i think i tucked a couple in something i sent you during a seed swap/tag.
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Oooh, lucky! Hurricane lillies are one of my favorites, and very hard to keep in the NE.
Nice gifts Sheri!
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good deal. glad that you like them all. i think i might have sent them to you once before, but just a couple. in fact, i know when i did. i think i tucked a couple in something i sent you during a seed swap/tag.
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Great gifts, gals.
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I was in my bedroom changing clothes and I couldn't figure out the sound I was hearing. I finally realized it's the bamboo chime outside my bedroom window from bayou girl. Love it.
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i'm glad it works for you. i wasn't sure. i thought i remembered you didn't care for the tinkly ones.
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I think Tina doesn't like the tinkly ones Jiffy. I like them all. Did you ever see the movie Body Heat?
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nope. not at all. I know tina doesn't. i thought it was someone else too. but i'm glad you like yours.
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Body Heat is all about the chimes.
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Hopefully everyone else's parcels arrive soon.
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Hopefully everyone else's parcels arrive soon.
one came here today :BigGrin: it is beautiful! thank you sheri :kissies: i can't get good pictures right now. but in it was a hat (very nice straw style, non-crushable), a shirt (perfect, just loose enough to be comfortable, but not baggy), a spinner/wind chime combo that defies description other than beautiful (which also made scott sure something had to be broke in there :giggle: ), and more magnets for the fridge! that doesn't sound like much typed out, but it is an awesome box, and when i get pictures up, you will see just how great it is.
and, i love the shirt, i can wear it to work if i want, with a sweater over, or can wear it on the weekends just around. thank you again! but, the best thing in the box was the spinner/chimes. wow!
oh, and a very nice card. thank you sheri.
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Sounds like great gifts. Can't wait to see them!
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More awesome gifts! I am sure the hat will come in handy when you have to go outside and nice chimes are always good.
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well, i couldn't stand it. i figured out a way to take the pictures. i just can't get them to load in photobucket. tina is trying for me.
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the card inside and out
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and the magnets. the blue one says "if life was fair, elvis would be alive and the impersonators would be dead.
the shirt and the hat
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the wind chime/spinner including a close up of the spinner part.
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Very nice. I'm glad my pb is working well.
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Oh, and it is kind of nice to see it first!
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i'm glad your photobucket is working well too! thank you.
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Very nice.
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I love that wind chime!! All of the gifts are great!
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Very nice Jenn.
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Very cool chime Jenn!
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glad you like the goodies. I was happy to get your name.
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Any package show up for you Wren?
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I got my box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yippy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank-you Penny! I love it all!! No piccy yet
I got a garden fairy made of glass, a glass windchime with an iris on it and purple clangy parts, some kitchen towels, (did I tell you the new signage at work has cherries on it? must be my cherry year!)Birdhouse gourds to grow, a gnome on a mushroom for the garden, a welcome sign with ladybugs, & a pretty blue bag full of flower seeds!!!!!!!!!
thankyouthankyouthankyou! :BigGrin:
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I am so glad you got it, i was worried that it was stuck at the Border!!
Glad you liked it all Wren.
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Great gifts!
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Sounds really lovely. I hope to see pictures. Great job choosing, Penny. And a nice score, Wrennie. This has been fun!
One last one to go?
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More great gifts! Looking forward to pictures.
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yup one more.... gotta love the across the border mail. :razberry:
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yup one more.... gotta love the across the border mail. :razberry:
It'll arrive soon, maybe today :good2:
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yup one more.... gotta love the across the border mail. :razberry:
It'll arrive soon, maybe today :good2:
gotta love optimism! :ThumbUp:
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Nope, nothing came and we dont get mail delivery on the weekend, so it'll be next week.
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:waiting: :waiting: :waiting: :waiting: :waiting:
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:waiting: :waiting: :waiting: :waiting: :waiting:
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I used my pretty Journal today. the first page are all my different ideas for craft projects. Is anyone suprised? lol. thanks again for the great gifts Jessica.
BTW did you ever get the second package? I thought they were cute.
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Hope the mail is good to you Penny.
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Hope the mail is good to you Penny.
Hopefully its today!!
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BTW did you ever get the second package? I thought they were cute.
Not yet. Maybe today.
Glad you are enjoying the gifts!
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hope you guys have a good mail day. I love my presents. In the fall I actually took down a little yard flag I think Jiffy had sent me in an exchange a few years ago. A birdhouse with an AMerican flag design on it.
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Guess what came......... :yay_jump: :yay_jump: :yay_jump:.......my gift from Wrennie.
Here is a link for the picture of what she sent..........thank you so much Wren, for everything, i love it :hb3: :hb3:
She sent a pad for kneeeling in the garden (needed a new one), a Wren mobile, recipe cards, a gardening book about birds, and a water stick :ThumbUp:
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Nice gifts, Penny. :clap: What is a water stick? :ScratchHead:
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Or a weatherstick, where you try to locate water with it.
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Wonderful gifts!!
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where you try to locate water with it.
A "witching" stick? That is sooo cool... :grinnnn:
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where you try to locate water with it.
A "witching" stick? That is sooo cool... :grinnnn:
I'm sure Brad will have that out.
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Great gifts. They look like you will have some fun, Penny.
A witching stick works. Even non-believers are amazed. The ranch we live on keeps 'losing' their pipes. John unbent a couple of wire hangers and walked back and forth with them. He said "dig here". They had to dig about 4 foot down but there was that pipe (septic) and where it was mangled. He let others try it and the wires kept bending at the same places for everyone. Even ones who didn't believe and resisted the draw. Funny stuff to watch. On a ranch that is a spectator sport.
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We have done the same thing in our yard using electrical wire. It works!
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very cool. please take a picture of the wren mobile when you hang it.
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Oh and I'd like to submit an idea for a vote for a new rule we should make.
1. When a forum member falls off a ladder and breaks a body part every other member should send a gift to said broken forum member.(https://www.southernspirithunters.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbestsmileys.com%2Ffalling%2F4.gif&hash=ead13f904ba37e14a5a581daa8c6a55b46c8d1e0)
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If I remember correctly, Penny fell off a ladder a few years ago. Maybe we should start with her?
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awww man Tina.
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