Ooooooh, I just love this season! Our whole tree is filled with homemade ornaments and this year we are making salt dough ornaments. It is so easy and satifying to make this dough (especially if you have a stand mixer). I googled it and found this recipe here.
Phoenix Children’s Hospital is nearly finished with their new building expansion. And while we don’t want to believe that the business of sick kids is a growth industry… it is. Fortunately, we live in a city that has a place like PCH because we needed it three years ago when our son received a year of treatment there (c h e m o t h e r a p y) for a rare illness. I am grateful to the incredible staff, the excellent doctors and the kind nurses at the hospital every day for healing my son. So when my dear friend and interior designer, Colleen Pawling, asked me to create whimsical paintings on her gigantic ornaments for a tree lighting ceremony and christmas tree auction to celebrate the new building which will benefit the hospital, I didn’t even blink. The title of the tree is Hope Glows.