Category: Holidays
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Our Colorado adventure – homeward bound
Ah, homeward bound! We loved meeting all these wonderful quilters over the last three and a half weeks, but I was ready to be home. I was actually missing our lightly steamed veggie and fresh fruit diet. Who knew? So, after another night’s rest, and we headed north a short distance to go to Jukebox…
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Published: Sneak preview Quilting Arts Gifts 2011
I saw that the 2011 issue of Quilting Arts Gifts is now available. Click on the “Table of Contents” tab and you’ll see my mini portrait ornaments! You can see them in the photo above on the left hand side. I shared these ornaments on this blog last December when I was sharing all of…
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Thank you for my daddy
I’m so thankful for my daddy. I love his easy-going nature and his sense of humor. He is incredibly generous and is a man of integrity. Before he developed Alzheimer’s, he had an amazing ability to add up long strings of numbers in his head and had a terrific memory. Even now he is typically…
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Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day! And in this sense, I define “mother” broadly to covers all women. I’m so thankful to have two beautiful daughters of my own, but I’ve seen enough women who had no children of their own, and I’ve seen them “mother” and nurture those around them. I believe they deserve recognition, too. Take…
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He has risen!
Today is a very special day to me. Hope it might be for you, too. “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 4:10
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Goodbye, sweet ornaments
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…
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Happy Birthday, Jesus!
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…
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Homemade nativity
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…
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2010 Christmas ornaments
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…
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The pressure’s on
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.