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Finding
the
Right Words
Here you'll find:
• More than three dozen ways to say "Happy Birthday"
• Welcoming words for new family members...even pets
• Thoughtful condolences for personalizing sympathy cards
• Congratulatory wishes for weddings and anniversaries
• Helpful hints to simplify card-sending
• A monthly calendar for birthdays and anniversaries
...and more, in this book of indispensable phrases for all occasions. You'll never be at a loss for words again!
Throughout the fifteen years that I was in the card and gift shop business, my customers often asked me to help them find the right words to say what they felt, whether they were wishes for a happy birthday, congratulations on the birth of a child, or condolences on the death of a loved one.
No matter how beautiful a greeting card and its verse, nothing means more than the handwritten note added inside the card. It is the most important and meaningful part of the card.
But from time to time, we all have difficulty coming up with the appropriate phrase. How many times have we struggled to find the right words, especially for a sympathy or get-well card? Sometimes our mind draws a blank.
Finding the Right Words is the answer to this problem: it's a quick and easy-to-use reference guide designed to jump-start you in the writing process by providing lists of phrases, words, and sentiments for most occasions.
You will also find useful information for card mailing."Helpful Hints" gives you tips on how to be more organized and efficient in your card giving, so you never have to send a belated card again. There are also monthly lists for birthdays and anniversaries, state abbreviations, and pages for your holiday card lists.
There are so many uses for Finding the Right Words! Besides helping you with preprinted cards and blank notes, some of the phrases also make perfect "toasts" for special occasions such as weddings, retirements, etc. This book itself makes an excellent gift to include in a gift basket, or a great stocking stuffer at Christmastime.
And don't feel locked into using the phrases as they are: change them around to suit the occasion or the person to whom you are writing; feel free to be creative with them! And if you don't find what you need in one section, check the other sections, as some phrases are interchangeable. Or combine phrases to fit the occasion.
Greeting cards are a permanent and meaningful method of communication. Emails and phone calls are wonderful, but they're gone as soon as you hit the send button, or hang up the receiver. After an occasion has passed, we often hang onto the memories, the photos, and the greeting cards. This book is my gift to you, to help you create personal messages on cards that loved ones will hold onto as keepsakes forever.
Copyright © 2003 by J. Beverly Daniel
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Birthday
May all your wishes come true
Many happy returns
How is it that birthdays don't show on you? You've gotta tell me your secret...and don't give me that business about a painting in the attic.
Have a wonderful birthday
It's all right to light the candles on your birthday cake now; I have alerted the fire department.
Have fun on your birthday
Every birthday holds the promise of a new beginning. Hope this is your best year yet!
Have a sensational birthday
I hope this birthday is the happiest yet
Happiness on your birthday and always
Happy _____ birthday. Are you counting in dog years?!
Copyright © 2003 by J. Beverly Daniel
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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice Collection of Phrases, But...,
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This review is from: Finding the Right Words: Perfect Phrases to Personalize Your Greeting Cards (Hardcover)
This (very) little book contains ideas for personalizing cards for 30 occasions. The categories run the gamut from frequent occasions such as birthdays or thank you notes, to the rarer events like retirements and new homes. Each occasion has a page or two of short sentences to help you express your sentiments.
This book will not really help you write longer notes, or letters; but it is perfect for adding something personal to a ready-made greeting card. The last 40 or so pages are devoted to space for you to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries and Christmas/ Hanukkah/ Kwanzaa card lists. Without those pages, this would be more of a pamphlet than a book. I would have preferred more content instead of space for lists that I keep on my computer. I like the idea of customizing greeting cards, and I'm sure I'll use the phrases in this book to jump-start my notes. However, if I had leafed through it in a store, I'm not sure I would have bought it.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finding the Right Words: Perfect Phrases,
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This review is from: Finding the Right Words: Perfect Phrases to Personalize Your Greeting Cards (Hardcover)
A fabulous mind jogger. I'm handed cards and asked to scribe brief notes regarding births, losses, promotions, illness, recovery, and the whole range of ups and downs. This book is great for starting the creative juices going and suggesting a phrase or quote that helps me express my feelings. You will NOT regret the purchase.
25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great if you failed grade school Language Arts,
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This review is from: Finding the Right Words: Perfect Phrases to Personalize Your Greeting Cards (Paperback)
The best part of this book was the title. It's all downhill from there. I was misled into believing that there would actually be some different and UNIQUE phrases in here. Being one to write out a greeting card to family and friends at least once a month, I sometimes could use a fresh expression or two. I bought this book with the assumption that I'd find all that inside.
Sorry to say, this book offers nothing by way of originality. Do I really need someone to suggest writing these phrases in my greeting cards: "Have a sensational birthday", "Have a wonderful birthday", "All the best to the best", "Just to keep you on your toes, I like to introduce you as my 1st husband..." and more ridiculous wording such as that. I see that it must have just taken money to find a publisher to put this book on the shelves. Talent and an ability to offer something new was not part of the mix here. I could find more appropriate wording in a grammar school English paper. I hope I can at least sell my copy at a flea market for a buck.
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