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Case for the small Banjo mandolin that moves between my study and the living room.

Glass Dome

iPod Box. Got the iPod for Christmas 2001. Nice Box, nice gift, haven't been able to throw the box away yet. I had to return the iPod to it's box the first time I got it. Will had been charged by the rest of the family with the procurement of my seasonal gift, and either out of brotherly love or a keen sense of humor, sent it directly to my workplace two months early. I think maybe he hadn't planned on the iPod being released on time, but it was, and it showed up at Columbia where I regularly get packages from computer manufacturers. Granted, most times I tear open boxes of technical manuals, or blank CDs, and only rarely am I afforded the heady whiff of freshly extruded Computer Plastic, but it's not unheard of to get stuff from Apple. And I did noticed the label on the box. And I could tell what it was through the (clear) shrinkwrap, even as I tore it open. The rest of my family (and pretty much anyone that I showed the iPod to) told me I had to put it back in the box and wait until Christmas. Which it did, with my entire CD collection on it, until Thanksgiving, when my Dad's pleas to have his Christmas present early were agreed to.

Box of doll-house parts. A gift from Marnie Ware. I used a couple of the smaller parts in some dioramas before I decided to make everything from scratch.