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Yesterday on the 19th, my extended family - including my god-children - had our regular Christmas celebration. For the last week or so, we've all been madly wrapping and dropping off gifts to the house where we'd be celebrating to shove under the tree to be handed out after lunch yesterday.
So it was only 6 days before said event that my god-kids realized that somehow their gift to me - a solid silver bangle - had gone astray. Everyone panicked! We TORE up the house looking for the bangle, but to no avail. Had it gone down the trash compactor? Had someone stolen it? Had someone (ahem!) taken it to school to show friends and forgotten to bring it home? We didn't know for sure, but we knew for a fact it was gone! The kids were utterly heartbroken.
So 5 days before we were to meet, I emailed Amy, David's business partner, to say "we're having a Christmas emergency - can you help?!"
45 minutes after I sent the email I got a response, asking me what I needed. I had a bangle in rose gold which had been copied to make the silver one, and I happened to have it with me. So Amy, when work had finished on Monday evening, drove to my house to pick up the bangle I already had which she would use to copy. I could not believe it. 11 days before Christmas, Amy was braving the LA evening traffic to pick up my bangle to save my god-kids' bacon!
THE NEXT DAY (Tuesday) she sent me some preliminary photos of a bangle they'd made based on my original, and I (because I have more gall than is good for any one person!) asked for some tweaks! On Friday the bangle was ready, and on Saturday I drove to their store to pick it up.
So this was above and beyond from EVERY direction! But when I got to the store, Amy and David were both there, and brought out two bangles to show me! They'd made them at slightly different widths after my 'tweaking comments' and said I could choose one and they'd scrap the other! Like - seriously! - who are these amazing people??
I chose what I wanted, took it home, and presented it back to the kids with a 'look what I found down the back of the bed' type story, and they were thrilled.
So this is just a massive shout out to David and Amy for going utterly above and beyond; you really saved our Christmas bacon!
So it was only 6 days before said event that my god-kids realized that somehow their gift to me - a solid silver bangle - had gone astray. Everyone panicked! We TORE up the house looking for the bangle, but to no avail. Had it gone down the trash compactor? Had someone stolen it? Had someone (ahem!) taken it to school to show friends and forgotten to bring it home? We didn't know for sure, but we knew for a fact it was gone! The kids were utterly heartbroken.
So 5 days before we were to meet, I emailed Amy, David's business partner, to say "we're having a Christmas emergency - can you help?!"
45 minutes after I sent the email I got a response, asking me what I needed. I had a bangle in rose gold which had been copied to make the silver one, and I happened to have it with me. So Amy, when work had finished on Monday evening, drove to my house to pick up the bangle I already had which she would use to copy. I could not believe it. 11 days before Christmas, Amy was braving the LA evening traffic to pick up my bangle to save my god-kids' bacon!
THE NEXT DAY (Tuesday) she sent me some preliminary photos of a bangle they'd made based on my original, and I (because I have more gall than is good for any one person!) asked for some tweaks! On Friday the bangle was ready, and on Saturday I drove to their store to pick it up.
So this was above and beyond from EVERY direction! But when I got to the store, Amy and David were both there, and brought out two bangles to show me! They'd made them at slightly different widths after my 'tweaking comments' and said I could choose one and they'd scrap the other! Like - seriously! - who are these amazing people??
I chose what I wanted, took it home, and presented it back to the kids with a 'look what I found down the back of the bed' type story, and they were thrilled.
So this is just a massive shout out to David and Amy for going utterly above and beyond; you really saved our Christmas bacon!
All your new bling is beautiful and you're a fabulous god-mother for doing that for the kids. 
Have a great Christmas!
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