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Lone Pine Designs

"Lone Pine Designs" originated when I first moved to America in 2005 from Australia. My mother in Australia called our new home in NH "Lone Pine" as she wanted my new home, which is surrounded by pine trees, to have an Australian name. The Battle of Lone Pine is a very famous successful Australian battle which took place during the Gallipoli war in Turkey in 1915. It was called The Battle of Lone Pine for the solitary pine tree standing in the middle of the battlefield which surprisingly remained standing at the end of the battle. After the tough few months leading up to our arrival here in America and surviving the first year in a new country I felt like that pine tree still standing in the battlefield. It was in 2006 when I started to sell my work on Ebay that I decided that Lone Pine Designs would be the perfect name for this new endeavour in my life.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Hello

Hello...I hope you're all having a lovely weekend. When I made this card I wanted to use green brads but didn't have any so I punched out some small green circles and used those instead...this is a good idea if your card needs a little something extra to balance it out and you don't have any embellishments in the right colour. I sometimes even use thin strips of cardstock instead of ribbon if I don't have the right colour. Have a great day!