This Friday evening we will be celebrating the 16th Valentine's Day Reception here, at The Gift Itself.  From 6:00 - 9:00 PM we will be providing refreshments and snacks as well as all of those fantastic gifts for the upcoming holiday.  Bring your sweetie along and show them what you like!  Also we are offering double points on our customer appreciation cards during those hours.  That means from 6 - 9 every 10 points you earn you receive a stamp and if you earn 100 points you will get a $10 gift certificate for your next purchase.  See you then! xoxo

These lovely ladies came into The Gift Itself today for a fun birthday party filled with magical ornament making.  Each of them made a collection which they could take home and hang on their family trees! They used paints, markers, pipe cleaners, fun wood shapes, glue, cotton puffs in multi colors, and just about anything we could share with them. It was a joy to have all of them with us as we celebrate birthdays and this wonderful season!

I love this day and this time of year! Today is the Lighting Ceremony On Broadway, at 5:30 pm I have the honor of introducing the mayor of Green Bay so that he can lead the countdown to the magical lights on Broadway being lit, please join us if you can! Stores are open late and we start our customer appreciation program with punch cards to earn gift certificates, come in and get yours, and tonight is a double points event.

I am also very happy to enter Thanksgiving week, a season when we all take some time to think about the things that we are thankful for, and those thoughts are the sweetest. I think about this amazing business and life that we have created, all of us together, The Gift Itself is a source of gratitude everyday for me. The artsits, the customers, the work that I am privilaged to do, and the family that I have in the Broadway district. We dreamed about it, and fifteen years later many of those dreams have come true and new ones have been born. So, in this my very first entry on TGI's blog, I get a little mushy and say thank you to all of you for so many great moments. And I ask, that when you are in the area, stop by, say hello and add something that you are grateful for to our Gratitude/Dream wall, you'll love the feeling!! Living in an attitude of gratitude ROCKS!