Lone Pine Designs: Stocking Stuffer

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, October 30, 2010

Stocking Stuffer

Dawn, over at Everything Under the Sun has challenge the Tangled Up in Creativity blog group to make stocking stuffers this week. I was thinking about what my kids like to see in their stockings and now that they are 12 and 14 I think one of their favourite things would be gift cards! So I made a gift card holder for this challenge in the shape of a stocking...complete with little bells!