For some reason the words are not coming to me as quickly this year. I usually find those words spinning through my head in the late hours of the night as I work on the Christmas cards. Perhaps this year those words were more along the lines of “what was I thinking?” – to say…
Category: holiday story(ies)
holiday message 2009
The finished quilt, the pieces now scattered a hundred different ways. Inspired by these quilts that I saw at a local museum and were once on first class stamps that I bought up when they were issued, I sat down to make something in a similar vein. I had sorted and stacked papers countless times…
holiday message 2008 (january edition)
One of my favorite things that I do each fall is work on my annual Christmas card. I typically come up with the beginning stages of my idea as I’m hunched over a cutting mat working on E’s birthday invitations in mid-July. I make the paper stock purchases in late August when my favorite art…