beautiful thought, kat. Obviously something most girls connect with -- considering their mother's jewellery. My sister would play with the costume stuff for hours from the special blue box, with the mirror in the lid. Not having had an active father, I didn't have his tools or fishing gear or whatever to wander through. But I was certainly awestruck by his closet full of all those adult clothes and shoes and ties. A friend of mine, after his father died, said that the worst moment was when he had to go through his father's chest of drawers -- not because of anything in it, it was just the fact that he would never have dared touch his father's chest of drawers as a kid. I understood perfectly.

yours, Peter T.