It also contains "treasures" that she received over the years from her children. I knew she probably saved some things (don't we all?), but with seven children it's hard to say how much she could realistically save from each of us.
Well, it seems that I've been doing handcrafted cards, complete with embellishments, way before it became the "in" thing to do. I don't even remember these items, so that tells you how old some of them must be.
This is a selection of cards that I made over the years. I "love" the tissue paper flower on the Mother's Day card:
For this card, I went all out. I think the best "touch" must be the artificial flowers that are STAPLED to the outside of the card.
The inside:
On Mother's Day 1964, I was not quite eight years old (would have been a little over three months until my birthday). Too funny... In retrospect, I did a pretty good job on this artwork for a seven year old.
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I start reading this and think to myself hey I just read this.....lol
All us mums save things our children have made us
What a sweet thing to find! I found some of my old drawings a while back and they were fun to look at.
awww, how precious, thanks for sharing, really sweet! I'd fall over dead from shock (but quite happy if one of my sons wrote something like on the inside of that last one!
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