GRATEFUL

November Art is in the Cards trade is "Grateful", pretty appropriate for Thanksgiving I think. However, it is such a wide open theme...trying to focus on anything was really hard. Then one of my uncles passed away, and I started thinking about all of my aunts and unclesbefore him that have gone, and then of other family members which brought up so many great memories and it just went on and on. Boy, I sure had a lot of things from the past to be grateful for and then there was now... Finally I just began writing names, places, and things that swam into my consciousness in very tiny script because it really doesn't matter to the reader who they are, does it? I printed them on vellum and accordion folded them, gluing them onto a collage of some childhood memories and used tissue tape and a cute plastic buckle to hold on the accordion folded paper.