Category: Holidays

2009 was the year that I filmed the “Making Faces” DVD workshop. In one segment 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…

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…

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…

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…

2005 brought a surprise move! Our church was finally able to buy its own building and it came with a parsonage. Unfortunately the parsonage was in dismal condition, but everyone rallied together and we completely renovated the home from the floor up. The girls came home from college at just the right time to be…

Our empty nest began this year. DD#2 won an athletic and achedemic scholarship to Notre Dame College in Cleveland, Ohio. She’s such a hard worker! I decided to make another ornament from the college bookstore, so I got a NDC keychain and ornament and combined it with a message in gold on the back. DD#1…

This year brought more changes. DD#1 started college. She won a full achedemic scholarship to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio which is only about an hour from home. She lived on campus, so during one of our visits I went over to the bookstore and bought a Miami University Christmas ornament and key chain. I…

Two more milestones this year. DD#2 got her driver’s license this year. Unlike her sister, she couldn’t wait to learn! By now, the car they had been driving the previous year had died, so we got her a used Saturn to drive. Her ornament also includes a copy of the key to the car and…

2001 brought some milestones for us. DD#1 got her driver’s license. She wasn’t really interested in learning to drive, but since DH & I both worked full-time, we needed someone to drive DD#2 to volleyball practice. DD#1 graciously learned for her sister’s sake. Naturally, I had to make an ornament with her license, copies of…

By 2000, both girls were now in high school. DD#1 is my bookworm and she loved the challenges of school. It was only fitting to make some fully functional, tiny books, about 2″ high. On the spine I wrote her favorite subjects. Two of them were covered with fabric scraps from dresses I had made…