The ornaments are now truly my gift to my girls. They are all packaged up and ready to go home with them. I’m happy I have a photographic record of them all, and I’ll always have the precious memories — especially now that they’re written down! (Having someone in the family with Alzheimer’s disease makes you look at memories differently. Do your family a favor and write down your own precious memories.)
Thanks for tolerating my sentimental reminiscing!
And now, back to our regularly scheduled program…
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Dec 27
2010
The ornaments are now truly my gift to my girls. They are all packaged up and ready to go home with them. I’m happy I have a photographic record of them all, and I’ll always have the precious memories — especially now that they’re written down! (Having someone in the family with Alzheimer’s disease makes you look at memories differently. Do your family a favor and write down your own precious memories.)
Thanks for tolerating my sentimental reminiscing!
And now, back to our regularly scheduled program…
Category: family, holidays
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Dec 25
2010
For us, Christmas is all about Jesus. He is the reason we celebrate. We believe Christmas is the time for us to remember His birth and why He came. Within a year or so of making the nativity scene, I made this sign to hang above our garage door.
The sign is made from two planks of wood that I drilled holes in so we could stick Christmas lights through from the back. It really looks great at night when it is lit! When we moved, we hung it from the roof in front of the third-floor attic [ ... ]
Dec 24
2010
Many years ago we decided that we wanted to make the nativity scene the central focus of our family’s Christmas celebration. As much as I love to decorate for Christmas, we decided that instead of having a Christmas tree, we would to put our Christmas presents at the base of a large nativity scene. The only problem was we could not find a large enough nativity scene, and we could not have afforded it even if we did find one.
I’m not sure of the exact year, but I believe it was sometime aroung 1987 or 1988. We had [ ... ]
Dec 23
2010
This year was a hard year to decide what ornaments to make. There didn’t seem to be any momentous occassion to commemorate. The year was just your average day-to-day living.
DD#1 spent the year working diligently to save up money for grad school. She works for a company that manufactures electrical components, so she brought home a bunch of cast-offs to use in her ornament. During her time off, she’s also been doing some sewing. The poor child never had any sewing lessons. Don’t you feel sorry for her? Instead, she grew up watching me sew, and everything she knows, [ ... ]
Category: family, holidays
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Dec 22
2010
The pressure is on! I haven’t made 2010 ornaments yet. I have a vague idea and a pile of supplies but (other than procrastinating by writing a blog entry) I’m not sure what comes next. Time to chain myself to the desk and get to work.
Dec 22
2010
2009 was the year that I filmed the “Making Faces” DVD workshop. In one segement of the DVD, I teach an easy way to create a portrait. The method is based on manipulating a photograph using a digital editing program and then use that manipulated photo as a pattern to create a fused portrait. It seemed appropriate to make tiny portraits of the girls and our sweet son-in-law for their 2009 ornaments. Be sure to go to the fulll post to see the photo which includes DD#1, too.
Category: family, holidays
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Dec 21
2010
Yes, other obligations and responsibilites have been gobbling up my precious quilting time. On the other hand, I did get all the presents wrapped and the Christmas cards mailed — no small feat since we mailed out 120 cards! I did manage to squeeze in a bit of time playing with fabric, so I thought I’d share this tiny tidbit for now. Hope to have more quilting time tonight and tomorrow.
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Dec 21
2010
More changes — I expect the trend will continue!
DD#1 spent a year away at Calvary Chapel Bible College, beginning with a semester in Murrieta Hot Springs, California and ending with a semester in York, England. After four hard years of college, this was a fun, refreshing experience for her.
DD#2 began teaching severe special needs children at a public school only a couple miles from her home. It was a bit of a learning curve, but she absolutely fell in love with the kids. Our new SIL worked full-time at Ace Hardware and then took a job at the same [ ... ]
Dec 20
2010
It seems like the momentous changes come quicker and quicker as your kids become adults!
This year both girls graduated from college. The ornament for DD#1 reflects her time away at college. There were some bittersweet moments, but she appreciated her time there and the beauty of her surroundings. Being somewhat whimsical, there was one part of campus that always reminded her of Narnia and one place in particular that reminded her of Lantern Waste. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you’ll have to read The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Anyway, for her ornament this year [ ... ]
Dec 19
2010
DH & I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in 2006. Other than a night or two at a bed and breakfast, we had never done anything big for our anniversaries in the past, so this year we decided to go on a two week tour of Israel. Wow! What an amazing time! While we were there we, bought some small Christmas gifts for our family and friends including these three olive wood crosses. Notice there are three now? This is the year DD#2 got engaged, so now I started making an extra ornament!
