I think of life like a big piece of fabric and the people we encounter are like the treads that run throught that fabric.....some fibers are long and strong, those are the friends you have over a lifetime, sometimes the fibers are short and weak and break, those are the people that you might have thought of as friends but sadly they were not or perphaps they really were true friends but were only in your life for a short time. Sometimes the fabric unravels and no matter how hard you try to stop it, you can't....those were the important people in your life who have either passed on or just walked away.....either way they leave a hole in the fabric of your life. Sometimes the fabric is patched and layered with another pattern of fibers and those are the people that you lose track of and then find again. Connecting with these people this week and weekend was like sewing patches onto my fabric of life. I consider myself lucky, I have a colorful fabric of life with an interesting pattern and lots of patches with a few holes here and there, but it's my fabric and one I wear proudly.
So it's very fitting that my Christmas cards this year have been created with fabric with patches sewn on them. I was inspired by the artist from a neigboring town who created this card. Isn't it cute?
Here are the cards I started today. They are smaller than the one above, 4 inches by 5 inches. They're quite time consuming but I think they're work it. My friend Donna, makes the most amazing Christmas cards every year and she makes me feel like a slacker so this year I decided to make some cards. At the rate I'm going I'll probably get them done by Easter!
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