Show & Tell Friday - Pieces of Home

The theme for today's Show & Tell Friday is "Something you got on a trip", so I decided to share with you a few items I have been collecting from my trips back home to Arizona since moving to the east coast. Here is a picture of my little collection of Navajo items.

This first item is called a horse hair vase. I really don't know that much about it except that we picked it up in Arizona while we were in the process of moving, it was the first time I had taken my husband Chad around to all the local shops in my town, and this is the item we were both immediately attracted to. I think the design is representing lightning, but I don't remember for sure. This next item is called Kiiyanu - "Wedding Basket". My mom bought it on the Navajo Reservation from a 10 year girl who had made it.

This is a small woven placemat. We bought it when we got the vase so we would have something to set it on. Someday I would like to get a full size Navajo Rug similar to this.

The last item is my sandpainting (Sorry about the crooked picture). On the back is written "Healing God - This is a Navajo ceremonial sandpainting design. It's all made of natural color sand."

I hope to add to this collection on future trips home to Arizona, the greatest state in the nation if you ask me! Thanks for checking out my collection, and for more Show & Tell Friday fun, visit Kelly!