A surprise is nice, when it isn’t the surprise of “oh, we knew you wanted one of these, so we got this one”, and it is exactly the wrong one. That has happened a few too many times in my case.
I love a surprise, but only when it’s not something that’s totally not-me. Like the Thomas Kinkaid puzzle. First, I don’t really do puzzles. Second, I ABHOR the “painter of trite”. Or if it’s something that took very little thought. At least surprise me with something you saw and thought “Oh, I bet 'Kat would like that!”
Best surprise gift was when Mums gave me an amber heart necklace for Christmas. Way back that summer, I had gone into the Russian shop to check if they had an amber necklace I liked (they didn’t, as usual). Mums wondered why I’d gone in, I told her and that I’ve been wanting an amber necklace. She saw this amber heart necklace on an ad included with a bill and remembered what I’d said months earlier and got it. Needless to say it’s my very favourite necklace and always reminds me of her love.
@SylvreKat Twenty years back, while digging through the loose amber at a gem show, I came across a piece which, if held in the right orientation, looked like it had a dragon’s head in it. I showed it to my partner (who was into making jewelry) and she bought it immediately. (It was cheap; this was a wholesale by-the-gram seller.) When we got home, she whipped up a quick pendant bail for it, strung in on a sterling silver chain, and emailed a photo to a friend of hers. That was the fastest conversion of raw material to sold product she ever had.
A surprise is nice, when it isn’t the surprise of “oh, we knew you wanted one of these, so we got this one”, and it is exactly the wrong one. That has happened a few too many times in my case.
Surprise me with snack food, comical books, and nice clothing. You can’t satisfy my research for the perfect product for anything else.
I love a surprise, but only when it’s not something that’s totally not-me. Like the Thomas Kinkaid puzzle. First, I don’t really do puzzles. Second, I ABHOR the “painter of trite”. Or if it’s something that took very little thought. At least surprise me with something you saw and thought “Oh, I bet 'Kat would like that!”
Best surprise gift was when Mums gave me an amber heart necklace for Christmas. Way back that summer, I had gone into the Russian shop to check if they had an amber necklace I liked (they didn’t, as usual). Mums wondered why I’d gone in, I told her and that I’ve been wanting an amber necklace. She saw this amber heart necklace on an ad included with a bill and remembered what I’d said months earlier and got it.
Needless to say it’s my very favourite necklace and always reminds me of her love.
@SylvreKat Twenty years back, while digging through the loose amber at a gem show, I came across a piece which, if held in the right orientation, looked like it had a dragon’s head in it. I showed it to my partner (who was into making jewelry) and she bought it immediately. (It was cheap; this was a wholesale by-the-gram seller.) When we got home, she whipped up a quick pendant bail for it, strung in on a sterling silver chain, and emailed a photo to a friend of hers. That was the fastest conversion of raw material to sold product she ever had.