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🎉GIVEAWAY🎉: A pretty little package for your

🎉GIVEAWAY🎉: A pretty little package for your friend OR for yourself!⁠🤸‍♀️
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Giveaway includes:⁠
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💙One Friends Are Family We Choose⁠ gift book⁠
💙A @juneanddecember beautifully designed friendship-themed hand towel⁠
💙An @impressionsstamped hand stamped vintage spoon etched with"Friends are family we choose."⁠
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💬To enter, simply comment who you'd gift this to! OR, if you'd like it for yourself, comment "I'd love it!" One winner will be randomly chosen from the comments.⁠ I'll DM winner one week from today!
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Not a lick of this giveaway is sponsored--these are items I found and loved! AND I believe they'd make a deLIGHTful combined gift to honor your own friend. Consider it a "just because" gift or a gift to celebrate one of the following events:⁠
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▫️National Friendship Day (Sunday, August 4th)⁠
▫️Birthdays⁠
▫️Friendsgiving⁠
▫️Christmas⁠
▫️Galentine’s Day (February 13th)⁠
▫️Pastor Appreciation Month (October)⁠
▫️Military Spouse Appreciation Month (May)⁠
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Happy weekending, friends!💙💙💙

There are two kinds of people: Those who consider

There are two kinds of people: Those who consider September early fall and those who consider September late summer.⁠
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I'm in the latter category, but only because I live in Colorado and because summer is my favorite season. I'd likely sing a different tune if I lived in the South.⁠ Although I did have my first "fall drink," the iced apple crisp cream chai. It was good but awfully sweet, which is saying something for me!⁠
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Here's to your first weekend in September, friends! May it bring you time with family, friends, and a W for your football team too. Or whatever fall/summer/fummer delights you enjoy this time of year!⁠
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PS: Thank you for the kind comments and messages about my gift book Friends Are Family We Choose. What a delightful launch week it was, in large part because of YOU.

My favorite feedback about Friends Are Family We C

My favorite feedback about Friends Are Family We Choose: While this is one book that's being gifted to different people from all walks of life, it's speaking to each person in unique and individual ways.

There's no comment that thrills this author more! Praise be to the good Lord above.

#frendsarefamilywechoose #framily #friendship #friends#love #friendshipgoals #instagood #bestfriends#friendsforever #friendshipquotes #friendshipquotes4you

"Liking a social media post doesn't make one a fri

"Liking a social media post doesn't make one a friend. Loving a person through presence and prayers (and plenty of caffeine!) makes one a friend...I love you like a chosen sister."

~ an excerpt from Friends Are Family We Choose

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