RE: Boxes for the Kids Lives

February 24, 2003

That was a terrific idea for the tree. One of my daughters does things like

that .

& if she does for others allot to. She is an Interior Decorator & they are

truly georgous.She has trees all over her house in the larger rooms too.They

do quite abit of entertaining as well.. She lets her daughters do smaller

ones in their own bedrooms too. Very Christmas house!! I go up each year &

she & I usually take them down. What a job. each ornament goes in special

boxes, etc.That way when she goes to do next year , she just pulls by boxes,

marked. One part of her storage attic over her garage, looks like a store

stock room. BUT , it sure is simple & easy to do .I just put mine in those

boxes you get at Wal-Mart & have little dividers in .are plastic, so I don't

even tissue paper many of them. Lazy me(my kids help & take down, so I

really don't have to do allot generally :) I really do like that ribbon

idea. It sure would look great & seem to be easier to do. Thanks again for

sharing

Your checker red is delightful. I will share that with her too.

LOVE & HUGS, GRDMBEV

Boxes for the Kids Lives

& Bev,

I think the idea of keeping all their stuff in a box is great. More

families

should do something like that. We all have stacks of stuff that Mom kept

over

the years and gave to us after we were grown and just love all of it!

Another thing a friend of mine did for her kids was to buy each of them a

Christmas ornament each year and when they grew up and moved out on their

own, she gave them all of their ornaments collected over the years. They

had

a head start on decorations for their own Christmas tree. Unlike me--my

first " My Very Own " Christmas tree was made up of a yard of red and white

gingham material, which I cut into 1 " strips and made bows ties around my

fingers. The material was just enough to make one bow for each branch of

the

tree!

It was kinda cute and kinda Charlie Brown-ish too!

It did look much better in later years when I could afford more decorations.

LOL!!

Love all of you!

Aunt B

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