Lone Pine Designs: Have a sweet day!

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.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Have a sweet day!

I've been really enjoying the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Triggers lately as they have encouraged me to use colour combinations that I otherwise would not have thought to put together. This week's trigger is this fun, bright summery photo.

The colours were an easy starting point but I wasn't sure where to go from there until I remembered that I had a popsicle stamp in the Mix Up Of Cuteness set from Unity that I've never used...perfect for this challenge. I paper pieced them in the colours from the photo and here it is...