So, a couple of years ago, I babysat these two sisters every so often, their mum was my sisters French teacher and when she would come round to our house for a lesson, it was my "duty" to entertain these kiddos. They are both beautiful girls, as Irish as they come - without the accents - fiery red hair that is curly and imperfect but oh so wonderful, and just the cutest smiles. Now, I know you aren't supposed to have favourites, buuuut, the younger girl Katie was the best.

Katie used to play with me and my pets and ask me questions as if I knew the answers, some of them I did know the answer to, others, legitimately no clue. I have a vague recollection of her asking me why to every answer I gave to a question. If any of you have seen outnumbered, she was like a more cute, more shy Karen.

So one day, the mum and the two girls came for a session, now, I hadn't seen the girls in a week, because the previous week I had been ill. Katie used to be the one to always knock on the door, her mum was trying to make her more "assertive" or something like that. I opened the door in my pajamas, because not only do I have class and am lazy, I have the best pajama collection of all time.

I opened the door to find that it was in fact not Katie, but her mum and her sister, this was kind of disheartening to me, considering I had already missed last weeks Rea and Katie time, but I welcomed them in anyway, and just as I was about to shut the front door, her mum said: "wait!" At this point i was confuzzled as heckkity, but the mum proceeded to pull out of her hangbag/purse a little wooden box.

The box had been painted pink and was vaguely, and I mean vaguely sprinkled with purple glitter. I was told to open it, so I did, very cautiously, almost as if it was Pandora's Box. At first glance, the book looked empty, but I looked again, and saw three things.

1. A one pence piece

2. A clover leaf

3. A feather.

I think I must have looked a teeny tiny bit puzzled because the mum said: "Go with it for now, it will all make sense", so I thought what the heck and took out the items to have a further look at, and shut the box.

When the box shut, it made a tiny click and upon hearing this a tiny feisty red head popped through my front door to hug me. It was, of course, Katie.

After about an hour of talking with Katie, she told me all about what each thing in the box meant to her, and to me.

The feather, was the feather she had found when I first took her to meet my chickens, this was the first time she had ever held a fresh egg and she later told me it was the first time she knew she wanted to be my friend.

The coin, was the coin that she found one time walking home from my house, and she kept it because it looked like her hair and she knew how much I liked her hair.

And the clover, the clover was to give me good luck. She said that although she had not yet found a four leaf one, she was still looking, and her mum always said that less is more, right? So technically, a three leaf clover is better anyway.

That gift was probably the best gift I have ever gotten, I have it somewhere in my room, and I look at it from time to time to remind me that unlikely friendships are always the best kinds.

I love this soooo much, it made me smile throughout while I was reading it. It is a beautiful way of reminding someone the emotional and sentimental value in gifts, and I am bookmarking this for bad days just so you know ;)

On my own handmade stuffs, I made photo frames for some of my favourite teachers xD (They looked fabulously awful. Lots of glue. LOTS.) And my favourite one decided she MUST post it on FB and tag me like 5 years after I gave it. YAY for me :P *watches coolio rep sink into bermuda*

Tagging some peepsicles: @YayyySphere and my coorganiserdoodle @Alicattt

Thanks a lot for sharing your lovely story

Okay, so I'm probably going back at least 30 years. It's a story about my grandad, my grandad and his dog brandy. Brandy was a big old of German Shepherd, he had the longest bushy tail you've ever seen in your life, he was the most loyal companion my grandad had had in a long long time, very much his protector, and as soft as they come. Talk about one man and his dog, they really really did love each other, you could see their friendship glistening in their eyes, now I know this may seem a little far fetched because I'm talking about a dog but it's actually very true.

So, sadly is my grandad passed very suddenly, and brandy came to live with us. For quite a few weeks after, brandy was a very sad dog, he wasn't as playful as he usually was, he was off his food, didn't want to play his tail hung low and his face just looked so sad too, it was very obvious, he was missing my grandad too! As humans we tend to comfort each other and forget about the pets, this is exactly what has happened to brandy. Fast forward another couple weeks when we were clearing out my grandad shed, we came across his Big old checked lumberjack shirt, the one he used to walk Brandy in. We took the shirt home with us and when brandy Saw he went absolutely bonkers! he came back to life, he was barking jump up and his tail was wagging frantically, he was so excited!

My sister and I cut up the shirt and we made a neckerchief for brandy which he wore around his neck forever, the remainder of the shirt was made into cushion cover to go in brandies bed.

Now, we knew this wouldn't bring our grandad back, but to see how much excitement and comfort that big old lumberjack shirt brought to a big old grieving dog, it brought him back to life, this was our little piece of heaven passed from our grandad. Brandy settled in the family lived his remaining days as a happy day!

Special memory ❤️ I'm now crying happy tears🙂

Last Christmas I gifted my two best friends some hand-made candles. It was the first time I ever attempted to make candles, so I had a little bit of help with them. The candles themselves came out pretty well (although I wanted the dye to be a bit stronger but what can you do, right?). I then wanted to decorate the outside all nice and pretty like, perhaps putting ribbon or lace around them...stuff that you end up seeing on Pinterest you know? Lol

Weeeelll that didn't work out very well. I don't know how they make ribbon stick onto glass, but apparently the glue i was using just wasn't enough! I was a bit put off about it. But then! I decided to personalize the candles a little. So I wrote out different phrases or words that related to each friend, nicknames, inside-jokes, funny sayings we came up with, etc. And I ended up decorating the candle glass containers with these words written out in colored pencil and marker on cut out paper. I'm not exactly the most artistic person, but I did my best with them.

When I gave them each the candle, I was a bit self-conscious because I thought that they would think the candle was "cheaply made" due to the paper cut out "decorations", but they both ended up loving them and reminiscing! <3