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Jedco
January 24, 2014

Winter in Upstate New York

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I found these two winter sleigh scenes that reminded me of my own sledding fun and a sleigh ride mom recently remembered. When I was very young my mother, my two brothers and I lived in an upstairs one bedroom apartment. There was a small slope behind the house. Our grampa gave us a little sled and my brothers and I loved to slide down that little hill. Mom is almost 91 and very recently told me about her experience riding in a "one horse open sleigh". She and my Aunt Ruthie lived in the country, it was about 1930. In those years upstate had frigid winters. They were walking to school when their teacher came along. She stopped and gave them a ride the rest of the way. Mom says she and Ruthie were very cold, and remembers warming up under a heavy blanket in the sleigh. I printed and cut the plain black and white scenes, matted them, used my colored pencils and experimented for the first time with home made texture paste (thank you Gabrielle for your tutorial!) to use for a "snowy look". I did the trees on my cricut and used stickles to give everything a sparkly, snowy look.


layouts scrapbooking Recollections card stock and Snow glitter. Crayola colored pencils Clip art Christmas cartridge for trees.
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