The Giving Tree
Florence + The Machine - All This and Heaven Too I was gifted a framed shadow box my freshman year of college. When I moved out of the dorms I left it in my parents' apartment and it has been collecting dust ever since. (This is obviously a sign that I refuse to throw anything away...hopefully, you won't see me on Hoarders 30 years from now). But I decided rather than letting it sit there, I would give it to my friend that just moved into her new place. Ok, but let me make it clear I am not giving her the dusty frame with pictures from seven years ago. I dusted it and decided I would put new pictures in. Here is evidence of what it used to look like (sans dust): It is not an atrocity of nature or anything of the sort, but I figured if I am going to re-gift it I can at least add something new. I thought of drawing characters from books we use to read when we were children. And the first thing that popped into my head was Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree. I