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The bridal shower you decided to give at your home is a scene setting from Martha's garden. The tone is a perfectly manicured lawn, with your flower beds showing off all the labor and love given to them, even just that morning! Tables covered all in white, with fresh lime green hydrangeas placed as centerpieces. Your buffet of carefully skewered fruits, mini croissants, and the cake from that perfect Swedish bakery you drove twenty miles to get is being threatened by dark clouds over head. The sky has just turned gray and it is dappled with the darkest of clouds available.

Your event is scheduled to kick-off within seven minutes, you are frantic as your guests are knocking, parking and laughing themselves into your foyer. As luck would have it, your neighbor is running with all of her might across the backyards. With the help of her you are able to carry everything into the basement. The food the tables the fresh flowers, linens and all the chairs. Guests are corralled into the upper level of your home by your assisting friend who came early to help you arrange the food and decor. From the backyard, through the breezeway, and down into the basement of your home, one jaunt after another is successful in turning the basement into a party atmosphere for the future bride. You cannot thank your neighbor enough through verbal praise, how can you ever let her know the true feeling you hold inside? You may want to send a card that will say it from the heart it from the heart.

Consider the result of your planned event had you not been able to retrieve all of the prepared foods, decorations and seating. Certainly you are aware that you hinged on disaster and humiliation. A gift of friendship was given to you without expectations of retrieving anything in return. You do recall, however through-out all the merriment and hurried steps of saving the shower, your neighbor commented more than once about your flowers. You are so thankful and appreciative of all hers efforts to help you, that a token of your appreciation is to be made. A thank you note you note with the picture of lime green hydrangeas on the face , nearly says it all. Inside of your card is a thought that reflects your exact feeling. "Thank you for saving the flowers from the rain! I believe all flowers need rain, unless they are cut... Cutting it close was what we did best!"

If you can accept graciously, then be sure to compliment as graciously as you have taken. Can you leave a lasting impression of your feelings with another person giving only simple words? Give a personal token of your affection and gratitude with a note or card. When someone reads your words they are apt to be fulfilled with sentiment. You can be humorous, sentimental, brief or long written. Reflect upon the reason you are sending a thank you. Share the particular purpose of the card within the thoughts you express.

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