Tamara,
I'm agnostic rather than atheist, but you've expressed my feeling
exactly. The various exchanges we have within this group, Christmas
card, secret pal or anything else is about *giving* just as much as it
is about receiving. Yes, of course it's nice to receive but that's an
implicit part of the giving. What these exchanges are really about is
love and friendship between lacemakers around the world and it's the
thought and effort that goes into making something that really counts.
The rules say a card with handmade lace but that doesn't stop you
including something else as well. Most people on this list have skills
and talents beyond lacemaking. Several years ago in an Arachne card
exchange I received a fantastic card from Canada (don't think Liliane
is still subscribed). The lace was simple, a braid lace tree, but it
was mounted onto a watercolour painting and has little glittery stars
etc glued on. I added a matte and put it into a frame and it comes out
each year and is hung on the wall for a few weeks.
I too have a growing collection of lacey Christmas items. Maybe it's
time to display them all together instead of scattered around.
Brenda
On 15 Oct 2005, at 02:57, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
As an atheist, I place a bit less value on the Christmastime as
sharing time than most, but I too was dismayed by the somewhat
mean-spirited (Scroogy? <g>) undertones of some of the postings. The
exchange isn't compulsory, so it is, I think, a given, that everyone
who signs up does the best they can - and that's what counts; not what
you _get_, but what you _give_.
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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