Stitching Blogger’s Question of the Week:
What do you use to hold your fabric while you stitch? A hoop, a
Q-Snap, a scroll frame, something else, or do you stitch in hand? Have
you always used just the one thing or have you tried one or more of
the others? Which do you like best? Why?
I pretty much use [...]

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Ok, I’m feeling VERY frustrated this morning! For the 5th time in the year I’ve been in this apartment, my garage door is not working AGAIN! It will only open about 8 inches and then sticks. The bad part, my car is INSIDE the garage. I am supposed to be at work [...]

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Yes, I’m still alive! Life is just really busy this week. I’m enrolled in a Project Management class at work, please have my college class as well. We have our first exam next week and our first programming project due the following week, so I’ve been trying to stay ahead of the [...]

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Ok, so I know I just posted about a half hour ago, but I was just reading an email from a very dear friend of mine in Nashville. She has been my friend for (*gasp*) 17 years and has been with me through a lot. She said something in her email that really [...]

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I have a happy dance for a small project today. I started it last Friday night and finished it last night. It took less than 10 hours of stitching time, so it was a pretty quick project. Here’s a pic followed by the particulars:

Design Name: Small Turkish Sampler
Designer: Pelin Terez [...]

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First of all, let me start by sending out a BIG “Thank You” to whomever sent me the anonymous gift certificate to Joann’s as a Random Act of Kindness. Yes, it did indeed cheer me up. Thank you SO much! You are such an angel! Another friend of mine locally jumped [...]

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Let me start today’s post by sending out a big “Thanks” to those of you who have taken the time to email me with words of encouragement and advice regarding my relationship post yesterday. A couple of you really gave me some things to think about, even though I do already know the answer [...]

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Hmmmm….very interesting.

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free.

In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored.

You’d like to your lover to think you are flexible and ready for anything!

You would be forced to break up with someone who [...]

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Ok, so I’ll forewarn that there is probably going to be nothing about stitching in this post. Well, ok, so here is somethig about stitching … I didn’t get to do any today. Now that that’s out of the way, on to what I really came here to discuss.
Even though work was insanely [...]

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Happy Sunday everyone …
Sorry for not posting again in several days. My family and then my ex-husband all really threw me a curve ball earlier this week and I ended up out of sorts and pretty much withdrew from the world. I know it’s not a good thing to me, but I [...]

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