Tradition... The 2010 Christmas Ortament

Hello Creative Friends, Each year I add a special ortament to our tree and it gets dated with the year. After Christmas this year I realized in all the excitement of the holidays I forgot about the 2010 ortament! Well sometimes I have one I pick up somewhere along our travels through out the year but not this year. These ortaments are special and most often have a memory attached to them like a day spent at the Fair in ME etc. What was I going to do.... I needed a 2010 ortament....
Ah Hah! I thought to myself. The day after Christmas we were hit by the Blizzard of 2010. Snow! Snow! and More Snow! The next day after the blizzard the other half and I stood in our kitchen looking out the window at all the snow that had fallen (over a foot) when our resident Cardinal perched himself on a branch of the tree just outside the window. What a site! His beautiful vibrant red color stood out with the fresh blanket of pure white snow that filled the background behind him. It was one of those moments in a New England Winter when you forget about the cold, the shoveling and all the not so great things inter hands you sometimes. A moment you treasure.
So for the 2010 ortament I sat down and attempted to crochet the Cardinal that brought us a moment of sunshine on a cold winter's day and made us forget just for a moment about our Winter Worries.

Happy 2011.... T