Personalized Gift

 One of our new neighbors is quite crafty. She bought a house previously owned by Grace Village that abuts the retirement property. It suits her needs well as she needs room for china painting, throwing pottery, working with stained glass, painting on canvas. 

We had some previous ties with this woman thru Grace College and thru my cousins. Her parents had worked as missionaries across the border into Mexico at the same time my aunt and uncle did the same type of ministry. 

One of her ongoing projects is to create stained glass stepping stones. She has invited many of the Robin Hood residents to come use her facilities to design and create one for themselves. A few have taken her up on her offer.

For others, she has designed and made "personalized" stones as gifts. One neighbor's stone has an accordion(which he plays). Ours has books because we were librarians.

She delivered our stepping stone Sunday evening. She was pulling a little green wagon with two stones. When my husband accepted the gift, he found out why she hadn't carried it over to our house. It weighs 20 pounds! Supposedly it can sit out all year, even in the winter snow. The well water that irrigates our yard has discolored the stones and driveways. Since we didn't want the stone to turn rust-colored, we placed it in the one area (near our rose bush) which does not receive the well water. 

Hope it holds up well through the coming seasons.