Month: December 2010

For several years while I was working full-time outside the home, I was off on Mondays so every week the girls and I would have a tea party when they got home from school. We each had a favorite tea cup and favorite tea, and I would get special fancy cookies, and we would just…

The girls had pets this year. DD#1 had a white dove and DD#2 had tree frogs, so I made these ornaments out of Friendly Plastic. It’s hard to see from the photo that they are iridescent and metallic.

This year we celebrated two “firsts.” It was DD#1’s first year of playing the violin, and it was DD#2’s first year of playing volleyball. I remember looking all over for a small violin to use as the basis of DD#1’s ornament. I was so relieved when I finally found this one only about a week…

This year I was becoming more interested in quilting, and less interested in other crafts. I made thirty or forty patchwork ornaments similar to these as gifts that year. Each one was a small log cabin quilt block and I put a fragrant orange-cinnamon tea bag inside.

In 1994 I was still doing quite a bit of cross stitching. I entered a contest that was being sponsored by one of the cross stitch magazines, and these original designs were my two entries. They didn’t win, but I still liked how they turned out so they became the girls’ Christmas ornaments for that…

This is the year the girls began collecting things. DD#2 had been interested in rocks for years (in fact, the Christmas when she was three, all she wanted for Christmas was rocks), but this year we went to a rock show in Cincinnati. She was thrilled by the vast array of colorful rocks. This agate…

I spent a lot of time this year reading every quilt book I could get from the library. I was especially impressed with crazy quilts. I loved the creativity and variety in them. In my imagination, I thought it would be fun to make one. I’ve even collected bits of lace and trim and specialty…