Just a silly thing, but I had so much fun!

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As a hobby, I make beadwoven jewelry, mostly with teeny-tiny seed beads... and good quality seed beads are so hard to find! We've never had a really good selection any closer than 40 miles from where I live. But tomorrow is the grand opening of a brand-new bead store that's only 20 minutes away from me, and they've got 1200 different kinds and colors of seed beads!


A few weeks ago, the owners of the new store put out a call to local beaders, asking for help in packaging all those millions and millions of seed beads into thousands and thousands of little tubes as start-up inventory for their store. It took four days, and to "pay" for our help, the owners let us keep any leftover beads that didn't make whole tubes -- so we all ended up with lots of interesting shapes and colors to take home!

As we were working one day last week, the owners got their cash register running and told us we could have 20% off anything we wanted to buy. So I bought a few small things, Val rang me up... and I was their very first customer!


Well, that gave me an idea. I decorated a frame with beads, doing the name of the store in little alphabet beads at the top, and I framed that first receipt for them to hang on their wall:



I'm taking it over there tomorrow morning for their opening day. I know it's silly, but... I'm so excited!
 

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Oh Carol!!
They will be thrilled!!
That is gorgeous, and what a wonderful idea!
 

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That is so cute! And I can see that you are very creative! What a nice thing to do. I sense that you and the owner of this store will be friends for a long time. Isn't it great when something nice happens?


I like it, and I'm glad to see you so happy!
 

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Wow that's beautiful! It's not silly, it's sentimental and sweet!!


That's so great that they moved in close to you and that you are off to such a great start.


Enjoy your new favorite store!


 

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That's so cute! You're very talented....I can't even glue macaroni (I can't even spell it!
) to a piece of paper!
 

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That must have been fun helping them out! Congratulations on being the first customer, and I'm sure they'll be thrilled with your gift!
 

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I don't think that's silly at all, Carol. I think it's very thoughtful and sweet -- not to mention creative -- and I think they'll be tickled pink.
 

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Originally Posted by white cat lover

That's so cute! You're very talented....I can't even glue macaroni (I can't even spell it!
) to a piece of paper!
You have spelt Macaroni correctly, don't panic!


The frame looks wonderful!
They will be so pleased!
 

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That's so cute!! Have you given it to them? Did they love it??
 

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I bet they will be appreciative!! That is something they probably haven't thought of and to use their products is good advertising too!!
 
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