The beauty within us and around us

I try to post something on this blog about every day that shows a bit of the beautiful and meaningful things that folks create. These things don't need to be artsy or crafty or look like something you will see in a magazine. In fact, I'm always asking people to look around for the things that we make that won't make it into those kinds of spaces. I think that we have family and friends who are capable of doing more and better than that and that their work represents us in ways that factory-produced or high-end work won't.

Today I feel blessed because we have something from Terry E. Poff from somewhere in Appalachia whose work gets directly to my point here. Terry wrote:

I wanted to share my Christmas project. My 90 year old dad passed away several months ago. When I was going through his things I just couldn’t throw out his bibbed overalls. I got this idea to make every family member an ornament using the denim and attaching costume jewelry that belongs to my mom and grandma. I used old skeleton keys from my grandfather and any other little mementos that I could sew on. I took some of my mom’s pearls and put them on the little trees. It’s been a fun project and helped with the grieving process. Have a good holiday season y’all!!!!