Beautiful Gift..

Thank you for the lovely gift from a dear friend!

I love monograms, I love personal, I love quotes and messages...so this gift and product is amazing to me. I had so much fun (and challenge) designing what I wanted.

This takes me back to the Just Ducky Days when you could customize your children's darling clothes- material, accessorizing with ribbons, buttons, etc.. and fun custom monograms or... simple words.

The grown up version of this is Franca Lingua, my gift!!  A bit into my process to create a custom sweater...

So first- color...I love them all- black, classic, blue, classic, tans..red..this red didn't feel like my red so that helped take that out...

Then style- this one was simple as I know my preferences...love the idea of a cardiagan but they really don't work great...

What to put on....they have so many great ideas, styles...the hearts with your kids initials..oh....a friend has one of these that is perfect for her...she lets us all know she reads Banned Books! YAY!

So I do what I do- I made a list, I asked for input, I took the input and it helped me go different directions too..I talked and listened to myself..and then voila there it was.  Here were ideas:

Yay, Yay, Yay

Go Big Red  Yay Denison Yay Big Red

#longr   could go over the heart

read my blog please- lifeonnewarkgranville road

too big probably - hence the 

Discussing Books at Cherry Valley  

What are your reading?

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Thank you!

Be Generous

Scotch and Soda Please

Scotchy Scotch Scotch

I'll have my usual

Yay Scotch

Derby Love

Yay Derby

I love Granville (in REd and White)

I paused asked for help, and re-read the way it was presented to me. This friend said, I read the blog, thought about you, but I didn't want to just make it for you, so I gave you this gift card, I want you to love it.  I DO!...More ideas:

In my past life it would be:

Show me the Agenda

Put in on the Spreadsheet

Current Work approach:

Don't forget the families Parents  Ps

P'23 '24 '27

Or...

Screen Porch Girl

Life on Newark-Granville Road- grateful for such a personal, fun gift!  Thanks for reading!!

PS- I wore it today- many compliments, but many don't get it and so I get to explain and share my perspective..life is figure-eights we come and go from one another and places.. If you read the blog you know, 16 posts talk about figure-eight perspectives/happenings and many even in the title!!

Voila- the final product!!