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Clare Florist - Flowers without the fuss from Edinburgh-based retail chain; offers e-mail reminder service.
Walmesley and Savage - Scottish crafts including golf collectibles, highland silverware, toy soldiers, glass crafts, marquetry cubes, island silver, tartan throws, checked throws.
Anne Sinclair Stained Glass Studio - Stained glass artist specialising in door panels window hangers and inexpensive gifts.
Helios Fountain - Selling gifts, crafts, toys and beads, as well as books by Steiner and other related authors.
Scottish Fibres - Suppliers of materials, books, and kits for spinning, weaving, dyeing, felting, and knitting.
Edinburgh Crystal Glass - A collection of gifts including crystal engagement presents and whisky glasses. Includes online shopping.
Pollination - Offer unique and exotic cut flower arrangements and bouquets for next-day delivery. Catalogue and contact details.
Aurora Glass Design - Hand cut crystal glassware with personalization and sports engraving.
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(Albert Einstein) Arts, Crafts and Gifts This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Arts, Crafts and Gifts "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Arts, Crafts and Gifts Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Arts, Crafts and Gifts There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Arts, Crafts and Gifts If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts, Crafts and Gifts It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de Arts, Crafts and Gifts I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Arts, Crafts and Gifts If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Arts, Crafts and Gifts The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Arts, Crafts and Gifts Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. -- Katherine Cebrian Arts, Crafts and Gifts Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Arts, Crafts and Gifts To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Arts, Crafts and Gifts One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Arts, Crafts and Gifts Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts, Crafts and Gifts It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Arts, Crafts and Gifts A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. 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