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Found: When you go looking for America you are constantly tugging at threads that lead to the different foreign roots we have come to share as a nation of immigrants. At the Living Traditions Festival in Salt Lake City you are confronted by the celebration of those differences. Well entrenched Americans may not remember what cultures they have are originally derived from. But those who know there roots but have grown up unfamiliar with them may get a glimpse of the way they were once upon a time. As you walk through the festival, there is music, dancing, singing, drums and instruments, costumes, and booth after booth of different foods. It isn't as if America is devoid of its own distinctive culture, either. You can hear the blues, jazz, blue-grass, Cajun, Zydeco, and more. The arts and crafts booths, often provide crafts men and women who work at their crafts while you watch. Living Traditions is well named. My favorite cultures to see and hear are the Native Americans. There is nothing like an Inter-Tribal Pow Wow. We have Basque, Cambodians, Vietnamese, India Indians, Swiss, Scottish, Mexicans, Salvadorans, Peruvians, Chinese, Japanese, African, Irish, Jewish, Belarus, Russian, Armenian, Turkish, Tibetan, Sudan, Cajun and many other hypenated Americans here. We are rich and enriched by these differences, and when we come together to celebrate we walk on the common ground that makes us all part of the family of man. It is my hope that we will not take the troubles created by immigration out on the immigrants and to look behind the movement to see what it is that motivates us all. Hunger, want, dispossession, safety, family, education, opportunity, disease, depression, famine, drought, No immigrant leaves without heartbreak. None arrives without more heartbreak, but hope springs eternal and in one generation great things happen. We call it the American Dream, this chance of new beginnings. Have a dream or desire. Work hard. Persevere without quitting. Achieve some measure of success (not necessarily money, either). I enjoy talking with the people. They all have a story to tell. Many can't tell their stories.

This was completed Dec.2008 for a young lady named Emma who is 6 years old. Her Aunt Amy gave me several ideas of things that she liked(dresses and flowers were two of the four theme choices).I like to weave quilling strips, so many of the dresses are woven on the top. I tried to make each one different but keep the same shape of dress.I drew the dress pattern,slid it between the quilling board and a sheet of wax paper then followed the pattern to keep the dresses the same size. The shade of green on one of the dresses is called "Willow",it's one of my favorites.It has little pieces of fibers or plants in it(see the detail pic of the green dress and view it Larger to see what I mean).