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Me?  An artist?

Hardly.  I'm about as left-brained as they come.

But sometimes I'm crafty.  Sometimes.  It's fleeting, but it comes.

Tha Dalebout's and Hicken's are always giving us great gifts – most of them the kind that can't be measured!  And I wanted them to get something fun and personal for Christmas.  Last Christmas, my SIL Anne got us these cute little notepads with little caricatures of us on them.  So cute!  I loved them, and thought that something like it would be SO cute embroidered.  So I put Derek to work…sketching the Hicken and Dalebout families…most importantly with accessories and personality.

Sadly, despite having the idea for months, and despite Derek doing the drawings a month before Christmas…I was pulling an late-nighter on the 22nd and 23rd of December.  But they turned out cute (at least I think so) and I had a lot of fun making them!

I completely forgot to take pictures of them.  But Dana posted one on her blog and I'm stealing it for mine.  Maybe Shelley will take a picture of hers for me! (hint, hint)

HICKEN family

EDITED TO ADD: I can always count on my girl, Shelley!  Here's a picture of their families emroidery:

**sidestory:  Years ago my Grandma Haymond gave me a big box of all of her old embroidery/cross stitch floss (thread) - hundreds of colors all wrapped around paper spools.  And it came in handy for this project – my color options were limitless!  And it made me feel close to her – we missed her this Christmas since she recently had hip-replacement surgery and couldn't come up from San Antonio.