The best gift I ever gave was neither bought nor ordered (despite the parts used to assemble it), but rather an idea that I crafted all on my own. My grandmother and I have always been extremely close. That being said, I was sick of giving her the traditional I-don’t-know-what-to-get-you candle, or other typical knickknack for her house. One day last year, a mere week before Christmas, I had a vision (and let me tell you, when it comes to creativity, I don’t have many of those). Weeks earlier, I had seen a gorgeous dark red/crimson mosaic vase on sale at Walmart (yes, Walmart). Luckily, they still had it, and from there I went on to enlist the help of my mother and grandfather in putting together a collection of photos to capture my grandmother’s life. From gorgeous black and whites of her as a young girl playing with her sisters in the 40s, to my grandparents wedding photos from the early 50s, the birth of my mother and uncle, and finally a recent photo that my grandmother and I had taken together at a wedding. After careful consideration (we already went over my indecisiveness), I selected my favorites from different periods of her life and had them copied into a series of small black and whites. I then purchased wire,...
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