Last night when Vince started to go to bed, he said "We don't have to go anywhere or do anything tomorrow, right?" Right! He went to bed and went to sleep and then I was just about to go to bed and I got a message on Facebook from an internet friend who I have met before. She and her daughter, who I've also met before, are going to be passing through our area today and wanted to know if we wanted ...
Magnifying Lamps
As you may remember, I keep ordering magnifying lamps. Back in the Fall, when I first started cross stitching, my friend, Donna, told me that she had ordered so many lamps trying to get the one that worked perfectly for her. I thought . . how hard can it be? Oh, now I know. Every single lamp, whether it's a small table type lamp, a head lamp or a free standing, swinging arm type lamp, that I've ...
Another Shop Recommendation
The other day I needed a silk conversion. There's a chart I want to stitch but don't want to use the silk thread the designer recommended. I contacted one shop that I thought did conversions but they said they don't do "custom" conversions. I remembered watching a video with Nicola Parkman where she interviwed Cathe Ray of Needle in a Haystack. Cathe Ray could probably talk for days about ...
Cecilia’s Samplers
If you aren't a cross stitcher, this post will probably not interest you at all but then I suppose most of my recent posts haven't either. :( Before we left to go to Branson, I went through five or six charts I want to stitch soon, checked my floss inventory and made a list of the flosses I need to get. There was a whole page of Gentle Arts, about 1/3 page of Classic Colorworks and about 2/3 ...
Day Trip to Branson
It seems very weird to be living close enough to Branson that we can run over for a day trip. Some of you may know Marlene Bush. She has a blog, Stitching by the Lake, but she hasn't updated that in a while and she also has a floss tube, and she regularly posts new videos. She and I have been internet friends for years, she thinks over 20 years, but we had never met. They were going to be ...
Almost A Year Later
Yesterday I went back in my email to find the email I sent Vince where I said "I think I've found our next home!" It was on July 6, 2020. The funny thing is that I searched my email for "Webb City house" and two other emails popped up where either I sent email to him or he sent email to me. One was on the county lane right behind us . . about three houses down from our house. I can see it when ...