I did some birthday stitching for my dad based on childhood memories of our gold panning days at Coldwater Creek in the Sierra mountains of Northern California. During the summers that we lived in California, our family would camp for a week or so in the California mountains, and dad would pan for gold. He taught us kids how to pan as well, but we spent most of our time playing in the creek. Did he ever find a nugget? Of course! Many! Although, none so huge as in the stitchery. Ha ha!
I found the image on the internet and added the surrounding details.
The best part was finding gold, sparkly embroidery thread for the nugget!
So fun to put a smile on dad's face with this little surprise. ~CJ~
This is so grandpa!
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