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My best friend's birthday was last week but her party was yesterday. My dear, dear friend told everyone that she didn't want gifts because she "has too much junk". So I, of course, ignored her and decided to do something for her anyway and the general consensus of the party guests seemed to be that gifts were okay if they were homemade.
Meagan, my friend, received a clay duck from Gentry, a picture from Lauren (henceforth known as Pixie), a drawing from yours truly, and two bags of sour gummy worms and a card that said "we love your booty" on the inside from three of our mutual guy friends who claimed that they didn't look on the inside when the bought it. The gummy worms and the card don't count as homemade but the duck and two drawings do.
Last year I drew Meagan a picture as well, of a giant M covered in the sheet music of her favorite song ("Fall For You" by Secondhand Serenade, if you're wondering) and surrounded with a variety of her other favorite things. This year she got a picture of me throwing hearts into the air while wearing a shirt that says "Meagan is my home girl" and flanked by two signs that say "Meagan's Biggest Fan (figuratively speaking)" and "If you were a steak you would be of the extra-rare variety". Now, to explain the first sign, it's a joke in the youth group that I'm the shortest girl and Meagan is the tallest girl. Meagan likes to wear really high shoes and I wear flats and sandals all the time. So the (figuratively speaking) part is just an ongoing joke.
The point of this whole post is not to talk about the fact that I like to draw or that Gentry is really good at making adorable clay ducks or that Pixie can draw precious little chibi people, it is to say, in a cheesy kind of way, that the best kinds of gifts are the ones that are homemade.
So the moral of this story is: People who say that they don't want gifts for their birthdays won't turn down gifts that people take the time to make and people don't lose things that people take the time to make.
Now for a shameless plug: my deviantart account is here. And a sample of my work is below:
P.S. Hannah from Following the Muses colors all of my artwork for me. Without her, I would be nothing more than a sad, sad pencil artist.
Meagan, my friend, received a clay duck from Gentry, a picture from Lauren (henceforth known as Pixie), a drawing from yours truly, and two bags of sour gummy worms and a card that said "we love your booty" on the inside from three of our mutual guy friends who claimed that they didn't look on the inside when the bought it. The gummy worms and the card don't count as homemade but the duck and two drawings do.
Last year I drew Meagan a picture as well, of a giant M covered in the sheet music of her favorite song ("Fall For You" by Secondhand Serenade, if you're wondering) and surrounded with a variety of her other favorite things. This year she got a picture of me throwing hearts into the air while wearing a shirt that says "Meagan is my home girl" and flanked by two signs that say "Meagan's Biggest Fan (figuratively speaking)" and "If you were a steak you would be of the extra-rare variety". Now, to explain the first sign, it's a joke in the youth group that I'm the shortest girl and Meagan is the tallest girl. Meagan likes to wear really high shoes and I wear flats and sandals all the time. So the (figuratively speaking) part is just an ongoing joke.
The point of this whole post is not to talk about the fact that I like to draw or that Gentry is really good at making adorable clay ducks or that Pixie can draw precious little chibi people, it is to say, in a cheesy kind of way, that the best kinds of gifts are the ones that are homemade.
So the moral of this story is: People who say that they don't want gifts for their birthdays won't turn down gifts that people take the time to make and people don't lose things that people take the time to make.
Now for a shameless plug: my deviantart account is here. And a sample of my work is below:
P.S. Hannah from Following the Muses colors all of my artwork for me. Without her, I would be nothing more than a sad, sad pencil artist.
I love making gifts! I made Catherine's birthday present this year. It was fabulous. :)
ReplyDeleteHannah made my birthday present!
Homemade presents are pretty awesome.