My sister Bobbie’s son Larry Gardner inherited her artistic ability and puts it to good use making many original Christmas cards over these many years. I have saved a big stack of them.
I am going to give you this special treat of seeing a few of his master pieces.
How about having picture Christmas cards made this year. You can find some terrific deals at the store where you can also make your own pictures. And you get the appropriate envelope that can be very special also adding to your own personal card.
Here is a picture card of my daughter Pam and her family at Hilton Head beach on a summer vacation
It started by my son-in-law Terrell, going into the gulf water at the Venice beach by Sharkey’s restaurant with a Florida snow shovel, bringing up sand from the ocean floor and piling it on the beach beside me as I bask in the sun.
We had just closed on the Florida home I had sold to this delightful couple from Pennsylvania. After they moved she called and asked me to come to her new home.
She explained to me that they had closed out their business before moving to Florida and was showing me some things that hadn’t sold. One was a little very old Shirley Temple doll about 11 inches tall, then she brought out another one about 18 inches tall that wasn’t quite as old.
I got a real surprise as she held up the second Shirley Temple doll and said “Flo, I want you to have this one.” I was thrilled!
I worked with the doll’s red hair putting it into the Shirley Temple curls, made a new dress similar to the one I had made for my daughter Susie when she was four years old, bought new doll shoes and socks then displayed this doll beside the photo of my daughter.
