It's amazing how women react and what emotions and thoughts can be stirred up by something so simple as a little blue box with a white ribbon!

I have two of these little boxes in my collection right now. The first was brought back from Tampa, Florida last January when Mark was there for a detachment. It was a surprise! And a just-because gift of sterling silver rain/teardrop earrings. I think he was bored and went shopping with another one of the guys. Fine with me! haha.

The second box was my Christmas gift this year and was actually wrapped with a red ribbon. Mark wrapped it in red tissue paper (to disguise the white Tiffany & Co tissue paper it was packaged with) and put it in a gift bag. I would have been happy with just the little blue box! But inside that box was a beautiful sterling silver "j" necklace. What a sweetie! A necklace now, to match my earrings. We had to take the necklace to the Tiffany & Co in Portland to order a new one because the chain was too short! So when I received my new necklace in the mail, it came to me with a new white ribbon. No worries though, I had kept the original red one! haha.

Now, two empty little blue boxes. You certainly can't throw them away. That's against all laws of womanhood, I believe, and probably the 11th Commandment too...thou shall not throw away Tiffany & Co little blue boxes, little blue bags, or ribbons. So I took those two little blue boxes and white ribbons after they were empty, and WRAPPED THE WHITE RIBBON BACK AROUND THE BOX IN A CUTE LITTLE BOW JUST LIKE THE ORIGINAL! But doesn't it look pretty in that picture? Yes, I did that. haha. What a goofball I am.