loobylu.com's A Month of Softies // December 2004 // Theme: "Holiday Hang-Ups"
This ornament was inspired in part by expatriate friends in Australia who left the prairies a few years ago for permanent residence in the southern hemisphere. In their Christmas letter, they described the strangeness of the holiday season without snow, but also the fun of creating new traditions in a warm climate -- like a Christmas Day surf and barbecque. The time may come soon when I too will celebrate Christmas in a more temperate climate, and when I do it will be very strange for a person like me, born and bred in a part of the world where -20 C temperatures in winter are hardly unusual. But this ornament is a reminder that strange and different is not undesirable, and that there are a lot of different ways to celebrate the holiday season.
Materials: Felt, embroidery floss, miscellaneous beads.
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