Re: Walk down Memory Lane
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 11:51 pm
After I finished my card, I reread the Challenge. OOOPS, I forgot the pocket on the front...so I made another card!
Card #1 - When Joseph was born, we lived in Issaquah. There is a Reindeer Festival at the Cougar Mountain Zoo, and we took all 3 kids (Joseph was 2 1/2 months old, Alexandria was 20 months, and Samantha was 5 yr). We got a picture in Santa's sleigh. After wandering around, enjoying the lights, it began to snow! I remember being cold, my arms were tired from carrying Alexandria, and Stephen had zipped Joseph (carrier and all) into his jacket! When I think about it now, I see it as a truly magical night, and remember how the kids were excited (but shy) around Santa and Rudolph, how the girls twirled around catching snowflakes, and the twinkling of all the Christmas lights. Of course, they don't remember the event at all!
I fussy cut the reindeer and sleigh from an old Christmas card and added embellishments.
Card #2 - I don't remember when the tradition started but our family makes chocolate covered cherries and mints for the holidays. We spend hours taking pieces of mint candy dough, wrapping marchino cherries with the dough, watching my Mom dip the cherries into chocolate and her putting them into little paper wrappers. Now my sister and I do it...but Alexandria isn't allowed to wrap the cherries in the dough. Okay, I know you are asking "why not?", her hands are always HOT and the dough sticks to her and she ends up making a MESS! Since she got big enough to temper the chocolate, I put her in charge of dipping the mints and cherries. (plus she's a perfectionist and she makes them look beautiful)
This card will have peppermint recipe folded teeny tiny...just to annoy my BFF...she's been asking for the recipe for YEARS! (Maybe I'll write it in code...just so she'll call me!)
Card #1 - When Joseph was born, we lived in Issaquah. There is a Reindeer Festival at the Cougar Mountain Zoo, and we took all 3 kids (Joseph was 2 1/2 months old, Alexandria was 20 months, and Samantha was 5 yr). We got a picture in Santa's sleigh. After wandering around, enjoying the lights, it began to snow! I remember being cold, my arms were tired from carrying Alexandria, and Stephen had zipped Joseph (carrier and all) into his jacket! When I think about it now, I see it as a truly magical night, and remember how the kids were excited (but shy) around Santa and Rudolph, how the girls twirled around catching snowflakes, and the twinkling of all the Christmas lights. Of course, they don't remember the event at all!
I fussy cut the reindeer and sleigh from an old Christmas card and added embellishments.
Card #2 - I don't remember when the tradition started but our family makes chocolate covered cherries and mints for the holidays. We spend hours taking pieces of mint candy dough, wrapping marchino cherries with the dough, watching my Mom dip the cherries into chocolate and her putting them into little paper wrappers. Now my sister and I do it...but Alexandria isn't allowed to wrap the cherries in the dough. Okay, I know you are asking "why not?", her hands are always HOT and the dough sticks to her and she ends up making a MESS! Since she got big enough to temper the chocolate, I put her in charge of dipping the mints and cherries. (plus she's a perfectionist and she makes them look beautiful)
This card will have peppermint recipe folded teeny tiny...just to annoy my BFF...she's been asking for the recipe for YEARS! (Maybe I'll write it in code...just so she'll call me!)