Show and Tell Friday: Christmas presents

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Kelli at There’s No Place Like Home hosts “Show and Tell Friday” asking “Do you have a something special to share with us? It could be a trinket from grade school, a piece of jewelry, an antique find. Your show and tell can be old or new. Use your imagination and dig through those old boxes in your closet if you have to! Feel free to share pictures and if there’s a story behind your special something, that’s even better! If you would like to join in, all you have to do is post your “Show and Tell” on your blog, copy the post link, come over here and add it to Mr. Linky. Guidelines are here.“

I suspect most of us might be doing this, but I wanted to show some of the Christmas presents I received this year. These are most of the ones from my family.

Here is a close-up of some of the book titles.

One of the books, Sew Pretty Homestyle, was one I saw on Anita’s site. I was so glad Anita mentioned the title of the English translation. This is an absolutely gorgeous book. Another is by one of my favorite crafters, Charlotte Lyons, titled Between Friends: Craft Projects to Share.

Missing from the pile is Sabrina by Lori Wick, sequel to Cassidy. I had already taken and started reading it before I took the picture.

I also wanted to highlight a couple of others from my husband. This would be the prettiest presentation.

A pretty heart necklace, pretty box, and chocolates. He knows me well.

This necklace was one I saw on someone else’s Christmas list online — but I can’t remember who! I thought it was so pretty, though, I added it to my list as well. But whoever mentioned it linked to it here. Lots of pretty stuff there!

This one is a Christmas gift to myself.

It’s a little tabletop tree, though I haven’t decided which table top to put it on yet. I had seen it at a little Christmas shop in the mall several days ago. Then it was $20, marked down from $25. I actually ventured to the mall on Christmas Eve, something I rarely do, but there was something I was thinking about for Jim that I decided to go ahead and get. I checked on this while I was there, and it was marked down to $12.50, and I couldn’t resist. It came with the ribbons and lights already on. Jim teased me that if I had waited til after Christmas, I could’ve got it for $5.

This was one of my favorite gifts to give:

I’m sorry I couldn’t get the photo any clearer than that. Here’s the story behind this picture: it was the picture they had on display at my mother’s funeral. I had never seen it before. I asked for a copy, and my sister tried to take it somewhere to be copied, but they wouldn’t touch it because it was a professional photo. She then tried to find the person who had taken it at my mom’s company Christmas party to see if we could order more copies. I don’t know if she couldn’t find the person or if they didn’t have the proofs any more, or what. But when my family came to visit last October, and my sister said they were bringing some old pictures for us all to go through, I asked them to bring that one so we could scan it. I mentioned the “historic” pictures on a previous Show and Tell. My oldest son, Jeremy, scanned the pictures in and edited them and then made a CD for everyone (he did a fantastic job. He wrote a post showing some of the before and after editing he did here). They all knew the CD was coming, but in addition for each of us siblings we printed out this photo of my mom and step-dad and framed it for them as a surprise. They loved it. It’s one of the best later pictures of my folks. It almost makes my mom feel a little closer to have it out where I can see it often. At some point I will put it on my family photo wall, but for now I like it here on the end table.

Although the emphasis of Christmas is the greatest gift of all, our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, I am grateful for the loving gifts of my family, too. I’ve kept you long enough, so I won’t show you the rest of the family’s gifts, but I enjoyed giving to them, too.

Hope each of you had a wonderful Christmas!

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