The written word... :)

I love love love getting letters and cards in the mail.

It's the greatest thing that sadly not very many people do anymore:(

But my mama... ??

She writes the BESTEST cards and letters and I save them all!!

It's not just her gorgeous handwriting that I love, it's HOW she 

writes. She ends sentences with eh? and no? 

and writes words like-

"I would be glad to give birth to you again..."

"I will pray to the Lord Jesus for you as long as I live..."

"...there are many beautiful memories to bring to mind, and

that tell us that everything is worth our ups and downs."

Well I decided I wanted to pull out some of those letters and 

display them.

I bought this frame from Hobby Lobby and the rest of the stuff I had.

This is literally like a 3rd grader craft.

Kinda matches my math skills!!

Anyway, I stapled some string across the back then spent more

time than necessary cutting little pieces of tape to put on 

these tiny (adorable!) clothes pins:)

And voila! 

Easy as it gets people! I added some pieces of gold tissue paper for funzies:)

I praise my sis in law for teaching my sweet nieces

the art of a thank you!! I keep theirs too:)

Oh! and in my craft hoard I came across this lonely

shadow box. I used some paper that I already had,

and filled it with 2 shells that my hubby found on a

surf trip to Morro Bay:)

Then I looked around this little place for a home for these frames...

and whaddya know?

I found one:)

Rio painted that whale and turtle for me before we moved here,

and that frame with the green card in it came from my sweet 

friend Marni:)

I'm heading to AZ to spend some time with my precious Mama, and say a heartbreaking goodbye

to my sister who's moving to Australia:( :( :(

Look who's begging me to smuggle him in my bag... :)