Box It Up...And Put It In A Frame!

(Wooden Box by martapasierbek)

     I decided to give you all a break today from me talking about the weather in Massachusetts! I'm just about sick of myself at this point! LOL...Instead I wanna tell you about a love of mine. Actually two loves of mine! Boxes...and frames. :-)

     You know how sometimes you can put your finger on exactly why you love a thing?...Well that's not the case with this! ^_^ Threw you for a minute, didn't I?! :-) You thought you were about to hear some romantic story about some expensively ornate gift I got in a box or a frame...Truth is, I don't know why I love them! 

      All I know is that the words: "What's in the box?" make me giddy with delight!...And if the box opens and there's a gift of a frame......! Woohoo! But it doesn''t have to be a frame in the box. It can be empty and still...!

     And I'm particularly drawn to wooden boxes like the one above. I could wander around this Etsy shop for hours just staring at the pretty boxes! :-)

        I have a few boxes around my house. {My husband would be laughing hysterically right now at the word "few". ^_^} Mostly I keep my jewelry in them, but I have papers, rocks, coins, buttons, and all kinds of things in others. A couple are just empty too...sitting there doing their job of looking pretty. :-)

     Whenever we were 'tag-saling' or something, and we would come across interesting looking boxes or frames, it would take all the restraint I could muster not to buy them! {Or the restraint of a husband that was holding the money at the time...just saying. ^_^}

     Somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind is a vision of me taking my last breath, my arm falling over the side of the bed,...{because, of course, I probably died from too much napping!! LOL}...and falling out of my hand is the key to a box that's sitting on my night-stand. Then everyone in the room...{because I wouldn't die alone. I'd need someone to say my last words..cough! cough!...to, wouldn't I?! LOL}... looks over at the night-stand and, through their tears, says: "What's in the box?" ^_^

      Okay....so I'm a little bit dramatic! But you knew that already, right?! LOL My point is...I think that's what boxes are to me. Somewhere to hide your dearest secret or your greatest treasure. :-) Mine is probably gonna have a Bible, my wedding ring, and a poem...just saying. ...Every one tells a story! :-)

      Now the frames thing is similar. But I can put my finger on this one a bit better. All of my favorite pictures and poems have come in beautiful frames...And since I write poetry myself, I always think about what will frame my words if someone buys them...Of course nobody is beating down my door to do that right now, but whatever! :-))

      I wrote a short poem for a newborn, and I decided that it needed to be put in a frame and sold in my shop. I looked around on Etsy for inspiration on what kind of frame it should be. These are ones I liked...

(A Framed Happy Anniversary by lorraine1dennis)

      I think my poems would look good in a format like this...or in a wooden frame like this one (below)...

(Wooden Photo Frame by martapasierbek)

        And yes! This frame does come from the same Etsy shop as the box in my header photo!! And now you know why I was wandering around in there for so long! :-] I didn't even scratch the surface of telling you about her boxes. Here's another little peek...

(Tulips...Red Goblet...Wooden Boxes by martapasierbek)

       Okay...back to my frames! :-)

(My Sister-Framed Poetry Gift by PastriesandPoetry)

        I love the ornate flowers around this one. So pretty!!...I can't make anything that pretty though! I'm a crocheter!

     My baby poem needs to be in a frame though. So I decided to crochet one for it. Well....a frame 'cover'...

      I'm still working on it, but I'm thinking of crocheting a flower for the corner of it, putting the poem in the middle, and maybe putting a pink ribbon somewhere on it...{or a blue ribbon, along with blue and white thread, in one I'm thinking of making for a boy}...

      What do you think?!...I'm excited about it, but we'll see how it looks when I'm finished...I wish I had thought about the whole frame issue a little more deeply when I wrote my 'Fishing Life' poem! I may have put it in a frame like this one...

        You guessed it! This Big Fish Wooden Frame is from martapasierbek's shop too!! :-) Oh! My words would have felt so 'at home' in there. :-]

      Okay....I'm off to 'box up' gill's Giveaway brooch! It's got a loooooong trip to make! The new Giveaway is going to be a scarf. It's gonna be posted later today on the Giveaway link. So please check back later (if it's not there now) and see if it's something you want to enter to get. :-)

      I've gotta stick my nose in the books today. We have an interesting review of information we've learned lately coming in tonight's meeting. I wanna be prepared, and see how well...or not...my brain is holding onto things I put in there! :-] ...And tomorrow I have some things I'm loving right now that I'd like to share with you...and a hint as to where our 'Virtual' Date is gonna take us this Friday!...So, have a good day everybody!! See you tomorrow!

Poetry

Poetry, the gift of words,
that help you say whats in your heart;
that puts your thoughts of life together,
but pulls emotions all apart.

Poetry, your quiet friend,
that gives your voice a place to land;
that gives the things you'd never say
a way to jump out from your hand.

Poetry, done to a beat,
a beat of words, said right in time,
without confusion of the music,
but just the rhythm and the rhyme.

Poetry, phrase harmony;
the way a noun and adverb meet;
the way they line up side-by-side,
and all Not needed they delete.

Poetry, the passing thoughts,
and all the others I hold dear,
of all the people and the places
that I've written down right here.

Poetry, the gift of words,
and putting them together too;
Without my pen and paper
what in the world would my mind do?