Lone Pine Designs: Just a Note

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.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Just a Note

April, from April's Alley is hosting a challenge for the blog group Tangled Up In Creativity. She has challenged us to make a SIMPLE project for the holidays that her BOY Scouts can make for their local nursing home. This can be anything that ISN'T a card that the boys can mass produce easily. The entire project is set to only take one meeting to accomplish.

I decided to make a little notepad holder that could be decorated a number of different ways easily using up scraps of patterned papers and paper punches...and of course it could also be made with Christmas papers for Christmas. There is even room on the inside for a little message too!