THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS......

I am one of those rare birds...a born and bred Washingtonian...born July 1950 at George Washington Hospital....a breech birth , so that tells you just how long I have been around...no Cesarean birth for my mother...she took the long hard path.....
my love of the White House has been long standing ..my mother would walk by it with me in a stroller if she was shopping downtown.....and always drive by it when we were in town as kids....it was always there, never changed no matter what the politics, a touchstone for us kids growing up.....so as a needlepoint designer educated and working in DC, it was just plain fun to be asked to design a kissing ball for the Grand Foyer during the Clinton and George W Bush administrations....
A theme was decided on by the White House for a particular Christmas and then I would design something befitting the occasion ....the design was hung in the Grand Foyer and was called the kissing ball....the top of the blog shows the painted pieces making up a blue and white silhouette strip that was then worked and finished into a ball to be hung...this was Christmas 2000, the Clinton's last Christmas and a retrospect of all their Christmases as displayed in the design.
It was great of the White house to send me this photo...cozy, like being a part of the nations capital family...lol...trust me, you can never change a Washingtonian ...our love of this small but important town will always hold a special place no matter where I live... the description, when asked ..."Where do you come from?" my answer .... "I am a Washingtonian" ... this overrides any place I have ever lived...lol
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