In our family traditions are fluid…hanging on for awhile, morphing, then letting off. For years, we girls would make a holiday ornament or decoration, but it’s been years since we’ve had a Christmas craft time. Thanksgiving, combined with our November birthday celebration, afforded us an opportunity for a sentimental make and take.

Materials:

• lockets: silver, gold {choice of bling}
• colorful sympathy cards {filled with prayers, memories and verses}
• birthstone baubles
• dried daisy petals {from Mom’s celebration–daisies were her favorite}
• healing hearts

 

 

 

 

 

It wasn’t the easiest to cut out whimsical heart backdrops from sympathy cards for the locket {Who decided against the circle?}, and more than once the delicately dried daisy petals nearly blew away in the flurry of creativity.

Mothers helped daughters…

Sisters helped sisters…

Aunts helped nieces…

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and all hearts were connected

by a common love of a very uncommon woman of faith.