Catching up from 2009: Little Chickies

We have paintings all around our home that my grandmother created over many years. We have oil paintings of mountains in Montana, a water color of the mill near my grandparent's house in Michigan, various depictions of flowers she loves, and black and whites using a format she created, and has gained recognition for...a secret she's passed on only to her grandchildren. She's created comical art, simple art, and interpretive art. Way back before Martha Stewart taught people fun and easy ways to make a cookie cutter craft, she was creating her own ways to do various things from making her own paper, to making hilarious looking life-sized dolls out of stockings (I'm remembering one in particular who used to sit by the front window and scare the daylights out of me when I was little). Anyway, the point is that each piece we have is a piece of her, and we treasure it. We love having it in every room of our house. In fact, I have a painting I adore with no place to put it...just one more reason we need a bigger house!

This year at Christmas, she took a painting she did many, many years ago, when she was just learning to be comfortable with the brush, and she cut it up. She had a few little chickies, as she calls them, and she cut them apart so that each of her three little granddaughters could have one of her own. They're each a little different, but all came from the same piece, and it was just such a special gift for the girls.

Keelyn's is left. Hailey's is right.