A recent trip to Australia to visit my daughter, coupled with Calgary’s “so so” weather and the remnants of a post travel cold bug,  have me feeling extremely sentimental. As I sit in my study working on this article, I feel comforted by the many photos and memorabilia of my children that I have framed

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How many of us make the mistake of never fully enjoying our treasured objects and photographs, simply because they get forgotten in a drawer or closet? Displaying them gives you the opportunity to re-live the memory and experience the wonderful emotions they create, again and again. I came across a box of clothing buried deep

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A child’s artwork. What an amazing keepsake! My good friend, Ami, received this wonderful artwork from her son, Clive, a few years  ago. What makes this creative masterpiece extra special is that Clive has autism. Up until this point he had never brought home artwork from school. Ami’s fridge door had been blank. Clive’s amazing accomplishment

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January.  It is a perfect time to organize and to get your ducks, or in my case baby food jar lids, in a row. Yes, you read that correctly:   Baby Food Jar Lids. Hidden away in a box of my husbands memorabilia since what . . . 1957?  It was time to finally do something

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The perfect gift just might be sitting right under your nose … or in my case, just right above! Are you or another family member the keeper of the family heirlooms? What good are these items doing hidden in a box waiting to be misplaced or damaged? There are treasures to be found in those

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I would like to share a Remembrance Day story from a client. Karen D. recalled an old case that her uncle had used to carry basketball clothes to school and later her brothers used to carry their dinky toys. Over time it was not consider worth keeping and sold in a garage sale. In the

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