A couple of weeks in the past, I shared some sentimental gadgets I’ve framed. No shock, the feedback had been a gold mine. Right here, 10 Cup of Jo readers share pictures of poignant framed gadgets, from a bracelet to a corkscrew…
“I discovered two four-leaf clovers [top photo] in the identical week — after preserving an eye fixed out for the previous 36 years! I used to be recovering from a well being challenge and couldn’t straighten my again however wanted to stroll to heal. So, I used to be painfully hobbling round. Graham, my canine, was thrilled as a result of it meant a lot time to meander. So, he’s sniffing, I’m grumbling, and I noticed a clover! Then a second! My recommendation? Search for the form of a sq.. When you do, they start to seem in every single place.” — Tracey
“My five-year-old daughter was simply starting to put in writing on her personal when she gave me this word. It’s actually the best praise and makes me smile day-after-day. I had it entrance and middle on the fridge, then realized it wanted to be framed eternally. She’s now seven and fortunately nonetheless loves to depart me candy notes.” — Emily
“Sixteen years in the past, in my school biology dialogue group, I flirted with the lovable boy throughout from me by instructing him learn how to make a bracelet out of Starburst wrappers. A month after we met, I went to his dorm room to observe a film and seen it taped above his desk — I used to be floored! We’re now married with two children and the Starburst wrapper bracelet is framed in our front room.” — Annabelle
“My husband and I are enormous followers of Saturday Evening Stay. All through our twenties, we’d invite buddies over on Saturday nights, and we even watched the stay episode with our visitors throughout our wedding ceremony reception. We’ve been fortunate sufficient to win the SNL lottery twice and framed our wristbands. Under that could be a customized cue card made by Wally, who does SNL’s cue playing cards.” — Amanda
“Final spring, we seen a flurry of chook exercise on our porch, and inside days the tiniest blue eggs appeared inside a nest of moss, twigs, and truthfully, an uncomfortable quantity of hair. We had been beside ourselves with pleasure. When the infants hatched after three weeks of the mama sitting on them, they regarded like creepy little dinosaurs. We had front-row seats to one thing wild and primal. As soon as the infants flew the nest, one other household moved in till their infants flew. Then one other. And one other! It was magical to witness throughout a horrible yr for our household. There was a lot illness and heartache in our home that I felt like perhaps the birds had been there to remind us that life goes on, life finds a manner, life is leaping out of nests despite the fact that you may’t but fly and there’s a cat on the fence.” — Alisyn
“Years in the past, I discovered a word that my dad had written to my aunt when she was visiting him. It jogs my memory of that William Carlos Williams poem concerning the plums, and it’s a candy peek into my dad as an older brother. He at all times will get straight to the purpose and makes positive everybody has all the things they want. My toddler is now rightfully, joyfully on the middle of my relationship with my dad and mom, however the framed word jogs my memory that I used to be and am nonetheless his daughter – I’m the ‘Molls’ of the word – and I proceed to be lovingly parented as I transfer via maturity.” — Molly
“We framed a corkscrew left behind by our buddy, who lived a full, thrilling, unconventional life. He was the kind of man that you simply’d run into on the road, and subsequent factor , it’s 3 a.m., and also you’re on a sailboat within the Atlantic consuming Champagne. True story! One other time, we ended up consuming lobster in a home in Cape Cod that had appeared in an Edward Hopper portray. He died of an aneurysm whereas horseback using via Italy’s wine nation. The corkscrew is subsequent to our entrance door, so at any time when I head exterior, it jogs my memory to stay large and never take myself too critically.” — Tonya
“At my bachelorette weekend in Savannah, my buddies and I requested the waiter for native bar suggestions. He wrote a listing on the again of a receipt, ranked from FANCY to LIT. Since 2017, I’ve been to nearly each bar on the record and may affirm that his scale was correct.” — Sara
“I met Paul in the course of the pandemic. In these early days, it turned unattainable to get quarters from the financial institution, however I wanted them to do laundry in my constructing. Sooner or later, after our fourth date, we had been saying goodbye, and he shyly mentioned, ‘I introduced one thing for you.’ He had ordered paper coin wrappers and wrapped the entire quarters he may discover round his condo. It was the sweetest gesture.” — Brittany
“Neal proposed in August 2013, and I mentioned sure. Afterward, at his home, I noticed this to-do record – which included the merchandise ‘PROPOSE.’ He didn’t assume saving it was fairly as romantic as I did. (‘I wrote ‘kitty litter’ on that!” he exclaimed.) However it has now graced our bookshelves for the previous decade. In some methods, the entries haven’t modified a lot from that first record. There’s at all times the limitless kitchen cleanup, laundry, and litter scooping for our cats. However what I like about Neal’s to-do lists is that they at all times embody some bigger-picture manner of constructing issues higher. Possibly that could be a Goal run for our tea-and-reading time collectively after our three children go to mattress; perhaps it’s organizing the storage so we are able to really park a automotive in it throughout storm season; perhaps it’s including one thing enjoyable to do as a household.” — Emily
How candy are these? Who desires to border one thing??
P.S. Eleven cool methods to border household pictures, and Joanna’s children’ hilariously passive-aggressive notes.
(Photographs by our great readers, besides Emily and Neal’s wedding ceremony {photograph}, which was taken by Jennifer D. Miller.)