You won't believe that I wasn't going to actually post a card for today...I have a couple RAK's to share so I was going to call that good...then I remembered that I needed to create a sympathy card..sigh.
Here's what I learned....I don't really have any sympathy oriented sentiments for close friends...all that I have are the impersonal "With Sympathy" types....if you all have neat ones, please share them with me...
Anywho's, I did find a sentiment via the PTI Friends Til the End set...
This is where I insert my disclaimer...I'm really not much of a hugger...is it the Asian in me? I'll be hugged but only am the hugger with my kids and the man....and some other peeps...Let me tell you a little story...years & years ago when my brother and I visited our Dad up in BC we were both literally alarmed when our Dad gave us each big bear hugs...when we got back in the car we actually asked each other if he was potentially terminally ill...isn't that sad? That would be the stereotypical traditional Asian family...No, he wasn't ill, he was given a lecture by one of his students {he was a professor} about the lack of hugging or something like that...evidently a light bulb went off in my Dad's brain and you would have thought he thought it was the best thing since sliced bread...My father ended up passing away in 1999. He would probably be pretty pleased that the kidlets are huggers:)
Okay, okay....my friend who's fil passed away is always trying to get a hug from me...so she'll chuckle when she reads her card:) A bunch of the girls are getting together to get her a gift certificate to a nursery so her family can go pick up a tree {or whatever} that they can plant in their yard, in remembrance of Grandpa.
I was inspired by FTL93:
♥♥RAK Alert♥♥Check out the super cute card I recently received from the oh-so-fabbie Ivy Wong:
I love every square inch of this sassy beauty....lookie what else that girl sent me:
Can I get a huge Woot Woot? Bling and Mushies??!!!!!! Yahoooo!!!!! Thanks sooo much sista....you know me:)Next up is this coffee-licious creation by Cindy Lee:
One can NEVER go wrong with coffee inspired cards...LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this girl...thanks sooo much:)Okay, I'll be back tomorrow with the 365 Cards Super Sketchy Sunday Card...we have another FABulous Sponsor lined up...you don't want to miss it!!!!
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I know that creating sympathy cards is difficult. However, you did a great job at now creating something "depressing" but also not over the top.
That's so funny that you aren't a hugger! Looking back....I guess I'm always the one hugging you. LOL
Love all your RAKs. Is it too late for me to participate in PIF? Will send some of my handmade goodies... have a good weekend ahead :D
i love your story about hugging... my family definitely hugs a lot, but out of all of us, i think my baby brother (at 20, ha!) hugs the most :D
Very elegant.
I loved your story about 'the non-hugs family'.
And you're so lucky to have such friends to send you all those raks!
Have a great weekend!
Hugs (okay, okay, just kidding)
how cute are those mushroom dies?! you'll have fun with those!
You will probably never want to meet me as I am a huggy/touchy type person.
I love your card, so pretty! I'm from a non-huggy family but I hear hugs are good for ya so I'm a huggy kinda gal now ;D
HUGS (LOL!)
Aimes
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yah, i'm not much of a hugger too...i think it's an asian thing. i think i am more of a hugger now then when i was small though. i hug mostly family and close friends.
awesome cards from your friends! thanks for sharing and have a wonderful weekend!
*hugs* steph :)
As for me, I'll hug anyone and everyone..tee hee!!
Wowza, you've got some good looking RAK there! Fun, fun, fun!!! ♥♥ Kay
I love that you used that sentiment!
Your RAK's are so precious!
Must be so fun to have all of that goodness in your mailbox!! :)
I've been told (cruelly) by a friend that I was frigid because I'm not big on hugging! :(
Thanks for sharing your hug back story! I never thought about how hugs relate to different Asian cultures before...now you've got me thinking. :>
I think your mailbox must have a big ol' grin on its face or have grown toes to tap to a Happy Dance for getting such fabby Happy Mail!! :>
Reading the comments on hugging - too funny, should be a Sinefeld episode. I like hugs but don't like hugging people I work with - like my boss, I think that's just wrong!
And our family is the SAME with the hugs...little ones get lots of hugs, but something happens and no one hugs once your an adult! I'm the MAJOR exception as you probably noticed...I hug anyone, everyone, and probably do it way too much! LOL
beautiful sympathy card, too. which YEAH they are the very VERY hardest to make...tho i've eased up a bit worrying about theme; when MY dad died in '98 a very close friend sent a card that was not "sympathy" at all just absolutely stunningly beautiful with bright colors and butterflies on it and inside she had written just a short note "thinking of you" or something like that...and it was just sooooo lovely at that time to receive something that WASN'T about death or loss... but just a little moment of total beauty and calm. it kind of made me re-think the subject of such cards!!! (& obviously it made a BIG impression b/c it's the ONE card from 12 years ago i really remember with total clarity!!!)
ps: i don't know that the non-hugging thing is completely "asian"...i think maybe there are huggers and non-huggers sort of across the board. i'm the latter, which tends to surprise people. one of the world's few non-hugging extroverts! :)
Lovely card on top too. So soft and subtle.