Gift for a new member
 

Hello. One of my good friends is currently going through Delta membership intake. When she crosses, I would like to give her a meaningful gift to celebrate. I know that many Deltas collect elephants so I was thinking of giving her an elephant candle-holder. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for all helpful suggestions :-)

A new member into the organization will love and appreciate anything Delta. :)

Elephants are always nice; especially if you can get it engraved with her line name.

Just a thought.

lol--your friend talks too much.

ETA: Since she does, ask her what she wants.

:confused:

I just meant that I didn't tell my friends about membership intake. Maybe that's just around these parts. Therefore, I'll just put my signal on, & move to another lane...

It's just that there are a lot of ways she could know without her friend talking too much.

'Tis true - some friends are even in the position of buying gifts for those that made the same line they were rejected from! And plenty of other possiblities, of course.

As for suggestions, personalized items are great as Gold suggested - it's a great feeling for a neo to see their name on Delta gifts. It even took me a few days to part with the gift tags and card envelopes that said "Soror" on them, because that's the first time I'd seen it next to my name! :D

Those went into the memory book for me. :D

I honestly never even considered that.

YUP...same here...:)

Some of my friends knew because they didn't see me around and they kind knew it was around that 'time'. Plus they knew where my interest where.

I agree personalized items are the best! :D

She is one of my best friends so of course I know where her interest lies and that she is going through MIP. She has only told those that are close to her.

Those are some good points. Maybe you and the others could collaborate on a basket with several items.

If you can afford it our Founder's afghan is a GREAT gift. I love mine...smile! Oh,not sure if this has been mentioned but a Delta photo album she'll have tons of pics that she'll need to put some where.;)

I am a neo myself and personally when I recevied all my gifts last week, I loved every single one of them. As long as its a gift that represents Delta Sigma Theta,that all that really matters...

Imma have to disagree. I've gotten some pretty booty gifts that had DST on them. I say, when in doubt, buy something--don't make it (unless you're REALLY good at crafts).

^^^ I got a ceramic little Alpha basketball player when I crossed. First of all, why would you get me a ceramic anything? Secondly, why basketball?

That's why I'm such the bomb gift-giver.

Its okay to disgree, I was just stating MY experience. In my opinion, any gift that TRULY comes from the heart will be accepted as long as it has something to do with DST. For example, my sister is an AKA and she made me a picture frame that was half painted green and the other half red. On the green side its said FALL 07 SKEE-WEE and on the red side SPRING O8 OO-OOP.Then the picture framed held a picture of us in it togather. Even though it was'nt exactly what I asked for, I loved it because it was something that she made for me and I know it took some time to make.

Maybe it's just me, but that came off a little pompous. It sounded as if you were giving her permission to disagree, which we all know isn't necessary.

;)

*pet peeve alert*

True and that is what I did, too. So everthing is copacetic, '08. :)

Is the pet peeve "mines"?

That one bugs me like conversate (unless, of course, you're talking about one or more underground tunnels or explosive devices)

yep and also conversate.

hehe...good start Spring '08. :p

yeah..i think you are right..good start...lol...:)