Ornament #10 – Felt Dog Paw
A three-legged dog walks up to the bartender in a saloon. The bartender says, “Howdy, how can I help you?” The dog replies, “I’m looking for the man who shot my paw”.
It’s my favorite joke. Gets me every time and I couldn’t help thinking about it while I was making these ornaments.
I used felt, ribbon and my sewing machine to stitch them together. I cut the 2 bases and the pads with coordinating felt, stitched the pads to one of the bases first, then sandwiched the ribbon between the two bases. I was going to stuff them, but they looked pretty good flat. I can imagine a whole bunch of these in bright colors all over a Christmas tree.
Once again, this is the type of ornament that would make an excellent gift tag as well.
Item #32 – Read through the Bible – 1 Chapter per day.
I’ve read the Bible consistently most of my life, but I’ve never read it cover to cover. On my last trip to visit my Grandpa, we
were sorting through his house, getting it ready to be sold, and I came across an old Bible. I opened the front cover and discovered that it was presented to him when he was 6 years old (in 1925) for perfect attendance. He used it most of his adult life; the pages were tattered and the spine needs repair. As I looked through the pages, I noticed that he made a habit of writing 
one word at the top of different chapters. That one word summarized that text for him. The part that made me cry was at the end when I found the words: “Key Word to the Bible: COME”. He wanted me to have his Bible and ever since seeing his ‘one word’ habit, I thought about reading through the whole book and trying to find one word for each chapter. Now reading the whole Bible, chapter by chapter, takes over 3 years, but I’m going to start January 1. I’m also going to dedicate a journal to the one word and a relevant verse.
Question of the Day: What is the best Christmas gift you’ve ever given?
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There will be Mini Give-aways on the 15th, 22nd and 29th days of November.
- The winner of each mini give-away will get to choose an ornament from the previous week. For instance, the winner on the 15th will pick from Ornaments 8-14, the winner on the 22nd will pick from Ornaments 15-21, etc..
- The Mini Give-away winners are still eligible for the Grand Give-away on December 1st.
On December 1, 2014, I will have a random drawing for one (1) lucky winner. I will contact the winner for their mailing details and will mail to anywhere in the world.
Links to {30 Days of Christmas Ornaments}
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Ornament #9
That’s our favorite joke also.
While Walking My Dogs 
I’d say the most meaningful gift I ever gave was when I gave my mom all the scrapbooks I had put together of her life.
What an incredible gift!
I don’t believe I’m a very good gift giver, but the best gift I ever received was a carnival glass place setting that belonged to my grandmother. When I opened it there was a card inside the package that said from:grandma fern.
To:tammy
she had past away about ten years before and I was disappointed I had nothing of hers! Thank you to my mom and dad for such a great gift and memory!
What a wonderful surprise! And I disagree, I think you’re an incredibly thoughtful person and subsequently a good gift giver. 😉
The year we moved down to Fair Oaks when we sold our home in Aloha Oregon I bought the first computer for my husband. I had Radio Shack in Oregon ship it to a store in Southern CA where we were going to spend Christmasand picked it up there. He was really surprised. The first computer of many he has had over the years.
I’ll bet he was surprised. In those days, computers were a huge deal. I remember the first one I bought for college cost $5,000-a major purchase.
That was a real surprise. TRS80 with 16,000 byte memory, no disk drives then, and a cassette player for storage. My tablet I am using now has about 10 billion bytes of memory!
Wow. I remember those 16K days. Now I have trouble remembering that a gigabyte is bigger than a megabyte. Seems like mega is bigger than giga in my mind.
Definitely the best gift was when I was 13, I wrote a mini-book for my grandfather because he always wanted to read something I wrote.
That’s an extremely thoughtful gift. Was it a story you made up or a scrapbook kind of mini-book?
More like a scrapbook! Sort of like telling stories about people in our family. But after this he became the only person I would show my writing too, which is probably why it’s the best gift I gave.
That’s awesome. What a wonderful treasure for him.
I made each of my three daughters a scrapbook with their school pictures from kindergarten through college along with pictures of various sports, scouts, friends and dances. It was fun to make and revisit memories. For moms with young children in school put the date on the back of school pictures so you don’t have to guess which is their third or fourth grade picture. Especially when they take fall and spring pictures!
I remember those. They were beautiful keepsakes for the girls. And great advice about dating the photos. I know as I’ve gone through photos of my grandpa’s, having the date and possibly the name of the person would have come in handy.
I love giving gifts. It gives me so much joy:) When I was young I made padded picture frames for friends and family. I loved that I made it but I love more that my grandma taught me how to make them:)
That’s so cool Kari. And gave me a major flashback because I made those too along with padded photo albums!!
Thanks for sharing the story of your bible. What a special gift. I like the idea of reading a chapter a day. I think it would be fun to do it here in your blog. And people can post their words. Even if you don’t you have inspired me.
Thanks so much Deb. That’s a great idea – I plan to do weekly wrap-ups of my Quest46 progress and will definitely list my words.
The power supply in my computer went out, had it replaced today, so missed this day… I cannot think of one particular gift, but get the most pleasure out of giving home-made things or non-things like experiences or my time.
Did think of one… Clay, in high school, said the only thing he would like for Christmas was to go to a 49er’s game. It was the most difficult gift to acquire – finally through someone at work who knew someone who had season tickets and not using them for a game during Christmas vacation… Jim and Clay saw the last game Joe Montana played for the 49ers. It is still a cherished memory for Clay.
A small desk I made in wood shop that I gave my mom for Christmas.