Bring out your glass, crystal, white, and pastel candle holders of different heights for your mantel. Select a trio of springtime colors such as lavender, pink and eggshell or aqua, pale green, and soft yellow. Use pastel candles in some of candle holders. In others, perch decorated Easter eggs (real, plastic, wooden, or glass).

The ideas above are great for your fireplace’s mantel, but what’s a terrific way to decorate your fireplace itself? Fireplace candelabra are perfect accessories. And using candles in shape of decorated Easter eggs in your fireplace candelabra is a super-simple, but visually dramatic way to decorate for season. (Just don’t be too surprised if Easter Bunny replaces one of candle-eggs with a chocolate one!)

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Tell me what you remember about place where you grew up?

Take me on an imaginary walk around your home when you were a child.

Describe your family gatherings. Tell me about religious observances in your family.

Who was your biggest influence? Who did you admire and why?

Who made you laugh? Who made you feel important and why?

3. Listen Attentively

The aim is to get momentum going, to establish a natural rhythm in conversation. Once you've started interview rolling, except for an occasional question to keep it rolling or steer it in right direction, most efficient thing you can do is listen attentively.

4. Add Unique Questions to Wrap Up

The very best questions are ones you make up as you go along, which are specific to individual you are interviewing. These will be determined by person's responses to those basic questions you ask. Make a note as you are interviewing and return to these at earliest possible opportunity or ask them in a wrap-up interview.

Before you know it, interviewing will become second nature to you and you will have collected a treasure-trove of material for your unique family memory book! www.memorybooks.ca.