This is my card for HCE07 and mine is a Christmas Memory. When I was small, our whole house was heated with a potbellied stove in the kitchen. You couldn't get too close or you would scorch something.
On Christmas Eve we hung our stockings on the bottom of the chimney behind the stove and above the wood stack. We didn't have pretty homemade or manufactured stockings like my stamp. We hung the stockings that we wore every day and they may have been 'already worn' when we hung them.
If you were thinking, you picked the longest stocking you owned in hopes that you would get more. I don't think that ever worked. One year my brother actually got a piece of coal, as a joke of course, but I do think it caused some pain for a minute or so.
We always had visions of sugar plum fairies as to what we would receive, but it was always practical stuff that we needed and not too much of it either.
The stocking hanging was part of Christmas and mixed right in with it and the anticipation back then was just as great as it is today. tfl
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Your card, and the comments you made, reminded me of my own Christmas's past. They were hard times, and the best of times. To go back in our memories and recall the many blessings are so precious. Thanks for taking me back home..... Vicky
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Sun, Dec 28, 2008 @ 3:33 AM
I like the way you used hessian for the background, gives a lovely texture to the card.
We had stockings too, though they were old ones of my mum's, kept from year to year. But we never got anything too big to fit in them. I can't get over what kids get in their *stockings* these days!! Too much isn't always good.