The SG Notebook

This is interesting: Voice of the Martyrs is having a contest for their Facebook fans (over 46,000 btw) where you enter by taking a picture of your family reading the VOM newsletter. It seems they’re looking for creative photos. I thought it might be a nice activity for your family. If you think so, here’s the link to the details at the persecution blog:

Enter VOM’s First Ever Photo Contest

Blessings, Maxine

We thought it would be easier to do our weekly tip for brides here on the blog, so this is where you should come when you want to check out what it is on any given week. Check in on us here several times a week, in fact, because there will be other topics you may be interested in as well. This week’s tip:

You know how much we like personalized items here. How about a personalized wedding guest book using an online photo book creator? After viewing the short video demo, then follow the link below to find out more about this nice touch for your wedding:

The online photo book creator is here:

Wedding Guest Books And Photo Guest Books

Happy Planning,
Maxine

The Christian Moms Business Resource is giving away one of our gift packages. Come on over and enter! Your name can be entered several times in a variety of ways. The giveaway is on one of our packages which is suitable as a gift for a teacher, a birthday, hostess, encouragement, and a host of other gift giving occasions. You may even want to keep it for yourself! The contest is open until Wednesday, April 26, 2010. Go over there right away.

Did you know we have tips and tidbits for brides? Well, we do. Every week we post a link or links to useful articles and resources to help with the wedding planning. Every now and then we may even include some spiritual encouragements. So far, we’ve posted links to helps with wedding hymns, writing your own vows, cake designs, and a link to a pretty decent sale going on of some items online. We even had a suggestion last week of what we think would make a great flower girl gift: paper dolls. I like that idea so much that I think we should post it again in the near future. There will be plenty more suggestions and tips, so if you know anyone else who may be interested, please let them know and have them come visit us. Our weekly tips page is here. This week you’ll find info about how to properly stuff the invitations.

By the way, if any of you have any links you think would be helpful to the bride-to-be and would like to pass them on, let us know in a comment or email us. We would especially welcome links to money saving suggestions. We’ll put any links we get into our tidbits folder and maybe feature it on our tips page. Thanks.

Happy Planning,

Maxine

Just wanted to stop by to tell folks we have a few new items which are simple designs, each intended to let you show how thankful you are for someone or which will encourage another person along the way. Want to tell a dear person how much you appreciate them? Want to encourage a fellow saint who is going through a trial, or give a friend a little boost? Check these new little products out! On a couple of them, you even get to pick from a few cards that we happen to have on hand which have sweet messages . The best part? They’re very reasonably priced. You can even buy a few to put in your gift closet or container (do you have one?*), or throw in one or two with the rest of your order. Do whatever suits you best…we’re here to serve! And we sure do want to help you live AND give!!! Doesn’t hurt to be thoughtful and economical at the same time, right? So far, we have three different items, but God willing, we’ll be adding more: Information is here.

These would also be great gifts for children to give to their moms, teachers, Sunday school teachers, or somebody who lovingly babysits them from time to time. There are surely others to add to that list!

*Check out our page entitled “About Gift Closets.”

“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” ~ Forest E. Witcraft

I stumbled upon this quote today, knowing little of this man other than that he was a scholar, teacher, and scout leader. But what wisdom are in these words. They are particularly relevant to parents and teachers, but they should be remembered by all of us. Even after we’ve raised our own children and retired from our occupations, we can still make a difference in the life of a child. From our homes, if we can scrape up a few dollars a month to sponsor one in another country, or even talk a bit to the neighborhood children, who knows what good we can do for the future of not just our own country, but the world? After all, that future is in the hands of today’s children.

And you know that the most good you can do is to help point them to Jesus, who is the only Hope for the future everywhere. We can point our children and grandchildren to Him; we can point our students to Him; we can speak of Him to the children out on the streets after we befriend them; and we can support Christian organizations that are serving Him by ministering to the needy little ones.

I need to be more diligent in being “important in the life of a child” in the ways that matter most. Do you?

Lovingly,

Maxine

Of the many lessons we can teach our children, one of the more important is that of how to save. Of course, saving money and resources is at the top of the list, but have you thought about how teaching them to save time and energy can factor into that equation? And when speaking about saving energy, that can be taught in a literal sense. Our local energy provider has a really neat section for kids at their website. I enjoy reading all the little tidbits myself and I think you will too.

Take your children to the site, look around, and use it as a supplement to your science work (and history), but this particular page is an informative one about energy efficiency. And learning about efficiency of any kind is always worthwhile, don’t you agree?

In hopes of helping your household to live,

Maxine

Well, hello! Welcome to the Speakable Gifts blog. It’s great to meet you. We’d like to introduce ourselves.

Ours is a family organization, owned by Maxine Randall and Beverly Smith, mom and daughter.
We offer publications,

Gift boxes,

Our Touch of Grace Favor Bags ,

and other items to help your family live & give.

All of our gifts have a message. The message may be in a frame, in magnet form, or printed on a bookmark or label. We package our gifts in cello bags, boxes, paper bags, and organza bags.

We are SO pleased that you stopped by! Please find us on Twitter @SpeakableGifts, and search for us on Facebook! Let us know who you are and we’ll pay you a return visit.

Enjoy the rest of the party,

Maxine and Beverly

We’ve been doing some renovations at the site, and have been running into some technical difficulties. We’re working our way through them, however, but I thought I better let you know. Please disregard anything that isn’t where it should be (or is missing). You know how you have to move things around when you do renovating work in your home? Well, that’s what is happening here and the tech problems have not helped! But, by the grace of God, we’ll have it back together again soon, along with a few of the changes and additions in the product line.

In the meantime, may you and your family enjoy a blessed and joyous Resurrection Day. HE LIVES!

Lovingly,

Maxine

Yes, we are still dedicated to helping children grow! However, as we’ve hinted, we are expanding the scope of our services to you. We feel that the name of our newsletter needs to reflect these changes. When you receive your next newsletter in your inbox, it will be titled, “Helping Families Live & Give.” We’ll talk more about why we’ve changed the name in our upcoming newsletter.

Hope you are enjoying Spring,
Beverly