Lone Pine Designs: Festive Friday

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.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Festive Friday

I love this new stamp set from Stampin' Up...it's called Tidings of Joy. I love the sentiment so much that I featured it on the front of my card today with the little dove popped up on the corner. I'm sure you'll see more of this set over the coming weeks...remember, just over 12 weeks until Christmas!