… chasing dreams that are divorced from reality, based on promises fed through TV, films, magazines, books and music - without anyone to stitch them together. This album, the follow-up (or appendix, if you will) to last year’s “The Stage Names”, deals with many a subject attached to being in a band …
… to this weekend: Greg and I made a pile of christmas cards, and I took the opportunity to dig out all of my christmas magazines. I also had a couple of sneaky card ideas after he left that had me digging through the cross-stitch mags, and since then I’ve been spending a couple of hours stitching up santas …
kits. Why does everything have to be completed so quickly? One of the pleasures of cross stitching is the joy of stitching; this does not mean that everything has to be finished in two hours. 4. A cross stitch website (you know who you are) that offers the service of making you a wish list that you …
… buying frenzy ) * 2 (black and white) cat toys (undocumented extras from Sunday) * 4 vintage black and white daisy containers , 1 large white heart button (gift from Janet) * 1 miniature cross stitch picture (from my Grandmother) * 1 vintage copy of Rumer Godden’s The Dolls’ House (eBay) * 7 Johnson …
… to the condo and opted for Chair Dancing for my exercise the rest of the visit (all two times I remembered to do it.) The second day we started stitching. I started this piece from one of the English cross stitch magazines. You can almost see that it’s on an opalescent piece that I bought at a stitchery …
… designs on the internet, and of course, if you are a member of Patterns Patch, you can access hundreds of beautiful designs, free of charge. I think that the ‘less is more’ principle is important in cross-stitch. Buy fewer - but always top quality - items and services. And also - Beware of ‘bargains …
… subscriptions over time. I think I subscribed to a few parenting magazines when Meg was born, and some cross-stitch magazines. We subscribed to Newsweek for awhile when we lived in Barcelona. Nowadays we don’t have a single subscription, which may be a good thing because we don’t have much space either …
… magazines…today I’d like to make some chocolate chip blondie bars…I just need to run to the store first. That being said I better get into gear and get showered & dressed….no sense being lazy all Sunday morning. Freebie for today: Kissy Cross Freebies Paradise Bird Scroll down the page …
… guilty feelings too. 2. Don’t feel you have to spend a lot of money. Cross stitching is a relatively cheap hobby. It is wonderful to be told, ‘I saw this, and knew you would like it’. I recently received a present of a skein of thread. This was no cheapskate present. It was very thoughtful …
Cross stitch is not the hippest hobby these days, and if you’re an Irish cross stitcher, you can sometimes feel like you’re the only one! While there are several great UK cross stitch magazines, fewer and fewer shops in Dublin stock any of them. On my own beat, the only stockists I know …
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