Lone Pine Designs: Happy Thanksgiving

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, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving

I want to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving. If you would like to leave a comment...for which I am always thankful...you might like to mention something or someone you are thankful for today. I am thankful for my family, my husband and kids and my Mum who lives in Australia.

My fondest Thanksgiving memory is our first Thanksgiving in the US 5 years ago. A few days before I had flown to LA to pick up my Mum and we flew back to NH arriving at about 2am Thanksgiving morning. We were woken at 7am by my two children who were 7 and 9 at the time who were so excited not only to see Grandma but to see it snowing...it was the first snow they had ever seen and the day was a spectacular winter wonderland.

Supplies:-
Stamps - Stampendous Calendar Chicks and Stampabilities sentiment
PTI white cardstock
Brilliance ink
Cloud 9 DSP
SU coloured cardstock
SU markers SU ink
Fiskar paper edgers
Paper flower
Flower punch
Brads
Button
Color Box Chalk
Layout is Splitcoast sketch SC307