mother’s day gnomes
May 10th, 2009
Asked what I’d like for Mother’s Day, I responded, “Let’s make garden gnomes!”
So that’s what we did. Down we sat, clay and tools in hand, in a sunny yellow kitchen overlooking our beloved garden. Armed with imagination, a few handy hand-building techniques and a sense of humor, we all managed to create a gnome worthy of a garden.
It was a great day of art, indeed.
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