A few Thanksgivings ago my daughter gave me a very special book....an art book that she crafted from an old children's book She included all the recipes of our traditional Thanksgiving dinners that we enjoyed together while they were all living at home or home from college.  As she had recently married and had a child of her own, I think she wanted to capture something of her childhood and made this as a gift of appreciation. I've just uploaded a few pages to share with you.
I have wanted so much to put something together to give back...maybe in a different form but something, that would always remind her of the fun we had and the love we shared.  After a few bumbling beginnings I have joined a web site to help me develop such a book (or it may lead me to that), it's a journal website but through doing this I hope I can be inspired to keep on trying.  She and I are artistically inclined, each in our own way.....I tend to keep to sewing, although I have always enjoyed drawing (I just don't do it often enough) and I like to write.....generally letters to friends and family.  Even though I write using the computer....I always enjoy receiving emails in return that contain
the substance of our lives, rather than just a joke or two.....some of which aren't really funny at all.
I have joined a group of women artists on Milliandle.com  for a workshop on developing a creative journal or several, to fill with ideas, collections of favorite things, and more...to find out more about myself and what really matters to me the most.  Through this adventure maybe I will find my way.
 A favorite salad dressing below and another page detailing her experience of making her first Thanksgiving while working at a camp on the top of a mountain in Creed, Colorado!

I will never forget the urgent phone call from the truck she was driving down the mountain to go to the grocery store to buy all the ingredients she would need and she needed me to tell her how to cook the turkey, make the dressing......etc.
She has never minded a challenge....