Grandma Mary's Shadow Box

I love shadow boxes.  They are a great way to display the things you love, family treasures, pictures, etc.  I found this one a few months back and found it irresistible.  It took me a few days to gather together the momentos I wanted to put inside the box.  

A few years ago I went to visit my Grandma Mary in San Benito at her farmhouse.  Grandma's husband had passed away a few months before and I stayed over night.  She was sharing stories with me and showing me things from her past and I began to have an epiphany.  I realized that the thing I collected and loved were all the things she loved as well.  I didn't know my Grandmother very well so it was startling.  I got to know here over the next couple of years until her death in 2008.  We have a lot of the same talents.  Genetics is so fascinating.

So I filled my shadow box with things my Grandmother gave me as a dedication her memory.