I’m thinking about what I need to take with me to the Robotics Tournament in Texas next week.  My job at these things appears to be to hang about and offer moral support and occasionally money to sustain my participant.  The last time, I didn’t have my great new glasses yet, so I spent my spare […]

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I’ve started the first 2017 Christmas Ornaments for the kids. I’m trying to give myself a break, and be realistic about what I can actually accomplish, and only order one at a time. That means, in 2016, I only got two (one of which remains unfinished).  Jacob and Celeste were the lucky ones this year. […]

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Not sure what’s going on these days.  I’ve been stitching a lot of Santas.  I think in some ways I’m going to my own little happy place. Everytime I read the news or listen to it on TV I find myself closing my eyes, shaking my head and sometimes grinding my teeth. So I’ve been […]

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Finished this Saturday night-I live a wild and crazy life. This is a Designs by Heidi custom piece.  She doesn’t have a web page or even as near as I can tell a Facebook page but she does have photos posted to Flickr.  (Will someone let me know if that link doesn’t work?  I have […]

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Last night (or was it the night before, my days seem to run together this summer) I finished the ornament stocking for my niece. My general ramblings on this piece while I can remember it. One of five or six ornament stockings painted by Anne Stradel from ABS Designs.  I do them for the children […]

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I’ve been away for awhile.  I know.  Graduate school really kicked my rear. I have been doing a little stitching while I look for a job. I finished this just last Friday:   This is a painted canvas by JB Designs.  I looked for a web page, but couldn’t find one though I think the […]

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