Family tree.
Posted by Christy Miller on Sunday 18 August 2013. Filed under: Chatelaine, family art project, family tree, finger prints, thumb prints
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Last year on this date, my family got together on my parents' deck for a barbeque on a hot summer afternoon; something we've always loved to do. What made August 18, 2012 special is that it was the only date we could all get together last summer: one sister was just arriving from out East, while the other was heading off camping the next day. As it turned out, it would be our last barbeque as a whole family with my Dad, who passed away in December.
I'm so glad that we took the time to mark the occasion by creating this family "fingerprint" tree that I saw in Chatelaine.
We made one for every family, so each person picked their stamp colour and made a thumb print on the individual sheets of watercolour paper. I then went back with water colour pencils and drew the trees around the fingerprints on each one.
Yes, everyone groaned a bit at the time: "What, I have to put my beer down and come over there?", but it turned out to be a lovely way to mark that particular moment in time. Some fingerprints are extra large, some extra teeny, and some needed help to make their mark, but we were all present and accounted for, surrounded by laughter, love and a good meal, no doubt.
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| Helping our littlest family member (at the time) with her fingerprint. |
