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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Beautiful! Your piece sets off all the trees so nicely.
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