This is for Teresa's Falliday Fest Challenge - Christmas around the world - ways to travel and Julie's CAS Challenge - One Word.
I thought about my childhood as I made my card today. Other than going to the store, the only traveling we did at Christmastime was going out of town to the Christmas Tree Farm to pick out a tree. We'd travel by station wagon and come home with our Christmas tree tied to the roof. Before we left, all the kids could go into the store at the tree farm and pick out a new ornament for the tree. It is a lovely family memory and tradition that I cherish. This stampin' around wheel was perfect to express that traveling memory. Even though it did not snow where I grew up, I still added some stickles for that snowy glisten, because everything's better with glitter on it. The one word that fit this card so nicely is "memories". TFL
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Wed, Nov 22, 2017 @ 2:33 PM
This is a wonderful Christmas card, Diane, and a wonderful memory to go with it. One year I decided I wanted us to have a real tree instead of the ugly artificial one we had. I had Hallmark movie moments in my head that we would go out to woods, find the perfect tree, cut it down, and have a wonderful family memory. Ha! Mom bowed out (old enough to know better?!) so it was just dad and I trekking through the snow. We didn't go to a tree farm. I found that trees look perfect from a distance, up close, not so much. We finally cut a tree down and mom laughed at it when we got it home because it wasn't such a great tree, not a Charlie Brown tree, but it wasn't a gorgeous one. The lesson I should have learned was to go to a tree farm but what I learned was not to do it again!