Photo of the Week: Little Lamb, First Ornament On Our Christmas Tree

A small brown and white Christmas ornament hangs on the evergreen, a little lamb made of fuzzy white fabric with brown felt rolled tightly for legs and a round brown face with two black eyes and a green holly twig with red berry on its head. Colorful lights and other ornaments in the background.

Handcrafted and handsewn, the little lamb brown and white felt ornament is one of my favorite Christmas ornaments.

I bought the ornament over 30 years ago at a holiday craft show where local vendors in the Plymouth and Canton, Michigan area were selling their handmade creations.

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Habitat for Humanity Detroit Blitz Build 2003 Panorama Photos

Screenshot of Habitat Detroit website from September 2003 highlighting Blitz Build 2003. A colorful top banner has a photo montage and Habitat Detroit logo. Below is content describing the results of the 16-home build.

For almost a decade, from the mid-1990’s to mid-2000’s, I was a volunteer and later a paid consultant at Habitat for Humanity Detroit (also called Habitat Detroit).

As a volunteer home builder, I learned how to build house walls, lay shingles, install vinyl siding, and how to install drywall (after having to take down drywall installed incorrectly).

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