Christmas report
Dec. 26th, 2019 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI took very few pictures this year because I fell ill with a bad cold the morning of Christmas Eve, and so Christmas was very subdued this year. I did want to show you my utterly impractical, incredibly fragile Christmas gift for Delia. At my instruction, she opened the mirror first, and THAT made her cry. Then she opened the crystal coach and utterly lost it.
Here is the same picture with an arty Instagram filter:
I picked up this beauty at Sophie Joe’s Emporium in St. Paul. Delia and I were in there browsing one day before meeting some friends for coffee. Delia admired the coach, and then I slipped the clerk my card as she was browsing further. I came back for it later and found a mirror (also at Sophie Jo’s) to place it on, and I added the lettering (using stick-on lettering found at Michael's craft store).
The clerk told me that it was a custom-made piece that was created for a Cinderella-themed wedding: it was used as the cake topper. Eventually, it was sold to the Emporium.
The words on the mirror are from the Disney movie: it is what Cinderella's mother tells Cinderella when on her deathbed. Delia has adopted it as a personal motto. The reminder to "be kind," is also a reminder to be kind to herself.
Here is the same picture with an arty Instagram filter:
I picked up this beauty at Sophie Joe’s Emporium in St. Paul. Delia and I were in there browsing one day before meeting some friends for coffee. Delia admired the coach, and then I slipped the clerk my card as she was browsing further. I came back for it later and found a mirror (also at Sophie Jo’s) to place it on, and I added the lettering (using stick-on lettering found at Michael's craft store).
The clerk told me that it was a custom-made piece that was created for a Cinderella-themed wedding: it was used as the cake topper. Eventually, it was sold to the Emporium.
The words on the mirror are from the Disney movie: it is what Cinderella's mother tells Cinderella when on her deathbed. Delia has adopted it as a personal motto. The reminder to "be kind," is also a reminder to be kind to herself.
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Date: 2019-12-26 09:06 pm (UTC)Merry Christmas!
K.
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Date: 2019-12-27 04:09 am (UTC)Peg, I must confess to an egregious mistake on my part. As I was clearing away Christmas things on Christmas afternoon, I came across the holiday card I intended to mail you. Which, clearly, I had not mailed. I had kept it separate because I intended to send it along with a little nothing-gift, just to brighten your holiday a little, and then in the chaos of the month, it totally slipped my mind. Your card arrived today, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and I do intend to send you YOUR card pronto! But I am so very sorry that you didn't receive it, oh, two or three weeks ago, like you should have!
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Date: 2019-12-31 12:01 am (UTC)Happy New Year; you are one of my favorite people-I-don't-actually-know-well-at-all on the entire internet. (And for Wild Swans will always always be one of my favorite writers of books, too.)