Memories

I came across my 'memory box' a month or so a go whilst I was cleaning my room. Does anyone else have one of these? Its a box where you keep lots of mementoes from things from the past like tickets to concert, old cards, letters, maybe old jewellery. Mine was feeling a bit neglected on top of the wardrobe in inch thick dust (yes I know gross. Clean now though :) ) so I brought it down (or my brother got it down in case of spiders :s) dusted it off and went through it.
                           

Mine is basically an old Sketchers shoe box, not very romantic,

or pretty, but they did used to contain the trainers that I wanted for what felt like forever when

I was 15 and my dad finally managed to get me a pair in London.

I did tie it with pink ribbon to make it a bit prettier and to make it more secure

Some old christmas cards and congratulations cards on the top

(birthday cards have a ma-husive bag all to themselves in case you were wondering,

-never know what to do with them after my birthday :/)

This is probably the most recent thing I've put in there as its mostly full of things from when

I was in school. Its a felt butterfly my friend Amy made for me when we were in uni

she has a blog you can check out  here if you like

A victorian inspired christmas card my mum made for me when I was in

primary school

My school tie from last day of school in year 11 signed by my friends

This is a random snooker ball that a guy gave me once on a night out

I have no idea why its in here but here it is :)

A bit of a random looking photo, but this is some of the fake cobwebs/dust

from our halloween sixth form party

 (which was one of the best ones we ever had)

Various corks from champagne bottles from New Years eve when I was younger

or celebratory bottles when we passed GCSE / A-Levels etc

I'm not sure who gave me this, but I think it might have been my great nan.

You know that item you've had forever that you keep somewhere safe and when you come across

it brings back your childhood? This is mine. I used to feel so grown up when I was little :)

My first little bottle of perfume

Party in the Park tickets

I love this little keyring. My friend brought it back from

Crete for me when we were about 10

I was in school for my 16th birthday but friends brough loads

of helium ballons and banners and a cake in for me

and made it fun :)

Various train and cinema tickets and sixth form party tickets :)

 

I used to wear this 'Angel' necklace all the time when

we were in year eight (about 12/13 years old)

When we were in year 7 my friends decided we all needed nicknames (as you do)

and mine was 'angel' so this necklace was quite fitting!

The bracelet I brough when we went to Spain when I was eight

 Friendship bracelet

My first 'grown up' watch. My brother brought me for my twelth birthday

My little turtle necklace. I brought this in Claire accessories in year nine at school

and wore it everyday for ages. Its one of those 'mood' necklaces thats meant to change colour

depending on what mood you are in

A very messy homework diary. In our school you were given planners

so you could write your homework in and we used to doodle all over the back

It looks soo messy but its nice to read back over all the messages and things we wrote when

we were thirteen

Leavers pen. We were given pens inscribed
with Woodland junior school leaver 1999
when we left primary school to go to the Comp

Tickets from our school trip to France in year seven

Old tickets to and leaflets to clubs from school

I think most people have something equivalent to this in some form or another. They're
lovely to have and look back through :)


Love and kisses

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