Okay, so a family tradition of mine is puzzle boxes. My mum started it by giving us large chests filled with things from our childhood, this is one of my small ones. So, what follows is the story behind 12 of the items in my butterfly puzzle box.
So the box itself is the fist item, my mum gave it to me, she got it in India, the box has to be opened in a certain order or else it won't come open at all.
Box lid has to slide off
Box when open
One of the more recent additions, a 2000 year old Fossil and a Silver Dollar given to me by my sis-in-law Kat last year, there's an awesome store called Maxilla and Mandible where she got some really cool bones.
Actual Silver Dollar - This one my mum gave me, and it's probably worth very little seeing as I carried the damn thing around as a good luck charm for 7 years
Rings - The blue stone on top is aquamarine, one of my birthstones, that my mum gave me when I was little. The dolphins are the first present I ever got from my first boyfriend when I was 14, and the bottom stone is a tigers-eye that was my favourite ring when I was little and it still fit
Necklaces - The butterfly was my grandmothers, I inheirited it when she dies, the other one is my name written in Arabic that my mum got me and Beej when we were both really small
Pendants - The round locket was a gift from my grandmother, the heart locket I've had since I was 6 (it's broken, but it still has pictures in it), the cross is another inheiritance from my grandmother and the gecko is a necklace from the emirates in honour of the squirmy little critters that live there
Elephant Bracelet - This was given to me when I finished up Brownies, one of the symbols for the international brownies was an elephant, cause elephants never forget.
Pound Coins - One for each of the british Isles, I usually try and pick up a set of coins every time I go over to the isles.
Stones - The carved stone is Viking runes, one is for peace, the other for intelligence. The green stone with red veins is a peace of bloodstone (my birthstone) that the girls on the England trip got me 4 years ago
Beads - These were part of my favourite necklace that broke when I was a kid, these beads are all I have left. My mum made the necklace for me in Nepal and brought it home with her
Earrings - The gold pair are my first pair of earrings, the first ones I ever got my ears pierved with (first of many) The chain cuff is a present from my dad, a souvenier of one of my first cons, and the butterfly was a present from an old friend of mine, whom I haven't seen since I was 12
Elephant Seeds - This is cool, each of these little seeds holds 12 carved ivory elephants. They're all hand carved in Africa, and are TINY
Meru at 6:34 PM