I was thrilled that Anne from www.floralshowers.com (head on over and check out her site) invited me to be a guest blogger for her this month.  I wanted to do something special and it got me thinking about Christmas.

There is something magical about Christmas that is best described in one word, “nostalgic”. When I think about Christmas, my memories  often turn to  my childhood.  One memory that comes to mind is of my grandmother, who was never without her pearls and matching purse.  She was born in 1903 and lived through the depression to become quite the “Queen of Thrift”.  She was a woman with style but little means and found beauty even in the smallest things.  One of my favorite things to do with my grandmother at Christmas was to look through her “card books”.  She would save and collect Christmas cards by gluing them onto the pages of old magazines.  When the pages were completely covered with cards you would never knew that it was an old magazine binding them together.  It was this memory that inspired the Christmas ornament below.  My poor grandmother probably would have had a heart attack that I cut up a perfectly good book, but I’m a new kind of thrify and the book would have ended up at good will.  So, by repurposing it and turning it into something beautiful . . . I hope my Grandma would be proud.