a vintage Christmas "Gift"

Every Christmas my family spends the

afternoon celebrating at my Sister & Brother in Laws

home...

Kathy & Roger took over after my Mom & Dad

had both passed...

I love to give her a little something special

always handmade with love by Me....

Yesterday

(yes, yesterday I did all my shopping & creating)

I was thinking of the old Silver Aluminum Christmas

tree that we had when we were little...

since I had Silver Pipe Cleaners,  I decided that was going to 

be IT!

complete with little Ornaments made with head pins & Beads...

Then of course I had to frame a photo of us

when we were little with That Tree!

1960

I am the little Blond on the left,  she is the Middle Child in the center...

I Think She'll 

LOVE IT!

Then the next gift was a super

exciting one for me,  which is still making me smile.... 

 about 6 weeks ago my computer CRASHED,

you know that dreaded Blue Screen

My sil was able to fix,  but I had lost 

ALL my wonderful photos,

over 7000,  

(No,  I have never backed them up)

To my amazement,   today while writing this post,

I clicked on a setting to upload photos (Picassa web folder)

and there were many of the wonderful Photos

I thought I had lost....

Not All,  but LOTS

I am Thrilled,

one of the Best Gifts ever on

Christmas Eve....

Merry CHRISTmas to

ALL

xox