The SG Notebook

We’re sorry to say, but it appears that the Lord is leading us to abandon our desire to serve the Christian Bride. It has become clearly evident to us that this is not the direction He has for us. For more information, see our Christian Bride page, which we will be leaving up for a while.

We have many things which we are contemplating these days and if you’ve been around for the past two to three months, you’ve probably noticed it’s been a bit quiet at SG. We are waiting on the Lord about several directions to go with products and services, so as we’ve said before, check back in when you have time to see what, if anything, is new.

Hope you and your family are being richly blessed these days. Another thing we are waiting on is a third little daughter/granddaughter who is expected to arrive in September.

For His Glory,
Maxine (Nanna)

Well, we just got a notice from our web hosting service that we need to apply an upgrade of this blog. In the notice we’re told that this or that can go wrong so I’m not quite sure what to expect. Sooooo, if you don’t see us around for a while you’ll know what happened. Once things get out of whack with computer glitches or problems, I typically have a difficult time getting back on track. Wish us the best please as we attempt this upgrade in the next day or so.

Hope to get back on with a post soon. At least I hope. . .

Maxine

Lately we’ve been advertising in mommy bags, so if you’ve come to our site as a result of one of our inserts, welcome! Our latest enclosures for the bags have been bookmarks which we made up for some recent events, so if you attended one of those we surely hope you use the special offer which is attached to the bookmark! And, of course, we hope you use the bookmark not only to keep your place in whatever you may be reading, but to also remind you of us. Come visit us again and often!

Blessings,

Bev and Maxine

PARENTS: “Fill your children’s minds with Scripture. Let the Word dwell in them richly. Give them the Bible, the whole Bible, even while they are young.” ~ J.C. Ryle

This was posted on the J.C. Ryle Facebook page today, and it seemed to be a good time to give a quick reminder that we’ve moved our children’s ministry from our main website to a new place. We still have our Speakables writing activities at that new site and hope to soon have another writing contest which will be hosted there. Visit the new blog, still under the theme of helping children to grow.

By the way, there is a riddle posted at the children’s site that you might want to take a stab at.

Maxine

When you purchase items from a catalog or from an online store, are you ever resentful about shipping? I know I often am. You see something you really want at a reasonable price and then upon checking out, you see the shipping costs added on and wish you didn’t have to have those extra dollars put on your account or credit card. But alas, these charges are a necessary part of the buying and selling of merchandise in the world in which we live. Of course, going to the store and getting it yourself can undoubtedly be more cost effective, at least if it’s not too far. Personally, I like shopping right here from my home, sparing myself from needing to take the time, gas expense, and wear and tear on my car and nerves. So, I’d rather pay the shipping. I’m pretty thankful for that truck which pulls up at my front door, delivering me the goodies which I’ve not stepped one foot out of my house to go and get.

Here at SG, we think we have shipping charges which are more than reasonable and economical, but do want to let any folks know who happen to live in the metro Philly area in PA or NJ, that you can now choose “Pickup” as a shipping method when checking out. If you want to work something out with us on how to facilitate that, give us a quick call or email us about it. We’ll be glad to do what we can to help you out!

Blessings,
Maxine

This is a vacation week around here and I forgot to say things would be a bit slow for most of the week. Hope all is well with you who stop by. We’ll be back soon!

Beverly and Maxine

Quick note: I’ve been having trouble accessing this blog from my computer for a few days now and I’ll have to troubleshoot. Also, we won’t be doing a newsletter until September, Lord willing. With the technical issues here and Beverly having much on her plate these days, we may have to neglect this blog a bit. That will probably mean no wedding tip this week. So sorry!

If you happen to stop by, thanks for your patience!

Blessings,

Maxine

Changes, changes, changes. We’ve had an abundance of them lately, wouldn’t you say? The latest is this: we’re moving our children’s ministry to a new place of its own! It won’t be at our website anymore, and for those of you who appreciate the writing activities, puzzlers, devotionals, etc. for your kids, we wanted to let you know that helping children to grow is still important to us, but it seemed that with all of the expanding we’re doing with our products and scope, having a separate site for the young folks was best.

So, that’s what we’ve done. Well we’re almost done. We still have a few more “rooms” to pack up and move, but the new site (blog) is now up and running and ready for visitors. If you have kids who are still in a schooling situation, home or otherwise, come over and see what we’re doing for them in this new place. Bookmark it or become a follower so that you can know when new things get added.

For those of you who don’t know about our “Speakables” for children, they are writing activities which we offer which have the purpose of getting youngsters to consider writings from days gone by and to respond to them. More than anything, we’re trying to encourage kids of today to gain from the valuable moral and biblical thinking of the past. Now and then, we also have a writing contest using the Speakables.

But that’s not all. We believe in having fun, so you’ll find some of that there too!! You’ll find puzzlers and party ideas.

What’s the name of the new site you ask? Well, what else? It’s called “Helping Children Grow” and we invite you to come on over now!

Beverly and Maxine

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

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