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Christmas................................................................................................Christmas
Always Finds Me
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Christmas Always Finds Me ... in
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Christmas tree is so very unique. It started when I
saw Ukrainian eggs in a magazine. I thought, "I want
to have homemade ornaments on my tree." The first ones
are so awful that they never make it on the tree any
more. I used watercolor paints and Modge Podge.
At the time, they looked great, but not any more. Just
like me, they have gotten better with time. At this
point, my gree has about 800 ornaments on it. Many of
the collections, like this one, don't just illustrate
Christmas carols. They document my life on eggs
shells. This is truly no other tree like it in the
world. The tree in this illustration has a tree skirt that was made by my grandmother. It looks like a quilt. Then, across the top, is some Kuba cloth from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where I once went muraling. I use the cloth as my curtains (another thing I've never seen anywhere else on the planet). |
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