Writing Challenge

Time for a minor line-up change! Mondays will be anything goes, Tuesday remains writing challenges with prompts from all over, Wednesday will now be picture day, Thursday will be 5x50 or 10x100 days (you’ll get it when you see it) and Friday weekly round-up and anything goes.

So today is writing challenge Tuesday, prompt taken from creativewritingprompts.com. #51 List ten things you can do with tissue paper.  Pick one from the list and write about it.

1) Wrap a gift
2) Make a butterfly
3) Make a flower
4) Stuff in shoes to keep their shape during storage
5) Waldorf Window stars
6) Wrap breakables for storage
7) Colorful Paper Mache
8) Decorate unique glass candle holders
9) Shred it and make pom-poms
10) Great to start a bonfire with

That time of year has come around again, the time when the cool and summery gets exchanged for the warm and wooly. It’s time for the pretty sandals and painted toes to disappear in exchange for colorful socks and warm lined boots. 

It seems such a short time ago that my favorite boots were put away. Cleaned and polished and left boxed in exchange for the lightweight shoes and strappy sandals of summer.

As I pull them from their box I get a whiff of leather and polish, they still look brand new, the toe still perfectly rounded thanks to the tissue paper stuffed down into the toe.  

Without the tissue paper the leather would have smushed up and have stiffened into an unnatural looking shape, something rather uncomfortable to wear.  Without it these boots would be a rather disappointing favorite for the first few weeks of wear. 

Instead thanks to this simple little use for a simple little thing these boots feel just as new and are as much a favorite every fall/winter season as the first one in which they were bought without having to spend several hundred dollars over again. Well worth a visit to the dollar store for a package of tissue paper.

Huh that really wasn’t the use I thought I was going to write about.