Hey. I've got a bargello projection going with that Carrie's Creation color! It was an experiment and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it when I finish it.
Otherwise, I'm currently alternating between projects. First up, a needlepoint Cajun Santa mini-stocking that's getting close to being done. I stitched nearly an entire alligator at the Louisiana Swamp Romp at Wolf Trap on Sunday.
And The Victoria Sampler's "O Canada" which is about 75% finished. I am impressed with the Canadian fans who can sing their national anthem so well at the Stanley Cup finals.
And lastly, From Molehill to Mountain which is another BAP on canvas. This was designed by Pamela Gardner as a color teaching piece. I was pretty darn tired of gray, gloomy days when I chose my colors for this one. Nothing boring at all bright greens vs. bright pinks and golds vs. blue-violets on black canvas.
Donna in Virginia who's going to have a rough day as our compressor seems to have died and is hoping for a miracle worker to come to her house and resurrect it
Nope. Mom's birthday was in April. At least they're finally getting her baptized!
Her 1st birthday party was really cute. Dani did a *lot* of work on it. It was all farm-related stuff with John Deere decorations and there were 2 small cakes, one round with a picture of a tractor on it and the other barn-shaped and then she also made cupcakes with "faces" of cows, sheep and pigs! I took a bunch of pics but haven't yet downloaded them. Will let you know when I do.
That I do Cheryl. A TK piece is what got me into cross stitching in the first place. I'd gone into a craft shop to buy wool to knit another Fair Isle sweater, and came home with TK's "Chandlers Cottage" and all the supplies needed to make it. I didn't even know what cross stitching was, but I was going to learn whatever was necessary to make that picture. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Sounds like great fun! We'll look forward to the photos.
How cute. According to my folks, I spent my pre-school years tooling around in my cowgirl outfit. With great affection evidently for Hopalong Cassiday and Gene Autry. And my gear with me at all times. Personally, what I recall is Rowdie Yates on Raw Hide, and of course the Lone Ranger. So, there was 1 pony ride birthday party - but we got taken there. My mother was very un-supportive of the horse thing. At age 6 my party was having all the girls "dress up" like their mothers going out. It was hilarious - even better - one of our friends thought it meant the adult to be all dressed up
- as if going to some formal tea - rather than her daughter. My mom was quite embarrassed that the invitation was confusing (the parents were good friends, former neighbors, even moved to FL after us - and he lived with us for 6 months while job hunting). Then we went and got my friend dressed up, too. Ended up with the party looking like those calendar photos of little girls all in pearls and too big mommy's heels, etc.
But, we still have the films from our baby birthday parties, and amazingly, I still know some of the kids there!
Yeah I think I'd sway more to the peony cuz I think mums have their little spikes closer together - more compact, don't they? It's turning out really pretty - I just love working with bold colours.
Somewhere there is a picture of me from a school friend's birthday party (I think she turned 7) dressed up in one of my mom's dresses with a purse and gloves, maybe a hat too. Must be something folks think of for girls of that age. Gotta go dig that out.
Yup - must've been the times. And, likely some economy. And, here all those years later we still remember that party. I recall my DM being pretty confused with the parties that my DSIL insisted on for my nieces & nephew - after they were about 4. Although I think the least favorite was Chuck E Cheese....I got to miss that one. We had a lot of bowling parties...What can I say, once a tomboy, always a tomboy. The only dress up girlie party I ever had was that one for age 6!
One of my most favorite Christmas presents was when I was 5. I got a Gunsmoke gun and holster set! There are pictures of me in my Christmas dress with the holster on. I had it until I let my boys play with it and they lost them in some tall grass. :(
LOL - we probably had the same set! Surely must be a great bunch of photos. I always had 6-shooter gun & holster sets, then moving on to cap guns. Then we also got slot cars - I remember those a lot. Saving up for better contollers, and cars, and tinkering with them.
Sorry yours got lost. My DM gave my full set of classics - all leather bound, antiques - to her cousin - to be given back to me. Hah. Along with my full set of Cherry Ames, The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew - and my baby jewelry (small bracelets, some other stuff). Then to add insult to injury - she gave them my record collection in kitshcy latch box - all my 45s. The cousin was about 15 years older than me, so 10-12 years younger than my mom
- and we were really close. So when she had her babies my DM thought of course she'd lend them these things - and of course I'd get them back. Uh huh.
I do wonder what happened to some of those old things. But, my parents storage locker in their condo was broken into, and a lot of things just went then. Oh, well.
Yup, all those, too! In fact, I still have my metallic blue stingray corvette! I don't know if my brother still has the track and his cars, but I saved mine. I should ask him sometime. I bet he'd be surprised I still have my car!
I never heard about Cherry Ames but I had some BT and many ND. I also still have some of my baby jewelry. Come to think of it, I bet they'd go well with the baptismal gown I'm making!
I'm assuming you've asked your mom's cousin about them? Maybe you could get at least some of them back??? It's sad when things like that disappear. DH's baseball cards disappeared from his folks' house. He thinks his "wonderful" brother took and sold them. :(
On 6/14/11 12:09 PM, in article snipped-for-privacy@35g2000prp.googlegroups.com, "Joan E." wrote:
LOL - I was the one always playing with upgrading the controllers. Along with the boy next door - who was my age, and cute, but 2 years behind me in school - I was really friends with his older sister. Our mom's used to carpool us to a commercial slot car place that had a few huge tracks, many lanes. You'd go plug in your controller at a station along the track - kind of like pit row - and then add in to the races. I think this was one way they got the kids out of the way for a few hours on a Saturday in bad weather.
Cherry Ames starts out when she's a student nurse, and then goes on thru her adventures in WWII. It's pretty good!
I bet they would. I have a pair of tiny, tiny gold hoops with some design to their shape. And my baby diamond ring (it was a gift, IIRC, from my grandparents best friends to me at my naming) - which I wore as a little kid for special occasions, which now is on my charm bracelet.
Well, I gave up quite a while ago asking the cousin -it's just one of those really annoying things - but it's just stuff. Hey, my DSIL (the best of the bunch) went into my parents personal belongings, and took out whatever she wanted to make a display case - for my DB. Of course she did this sometime immediately after my DF passed away - without telling me - or my DB. Then when it was done, and I was there doing some estate stuff - my DB said "look at the beautiful case of mommy & dad's memorabilia that S made!" The response, which I, and our family friends all had was wondering when my DB became an only child - and how my DSIL got the idea she had the privilege to take whatever she wanted. It's been interesting. Including my parents' baby bracelets, birth announcements, their silver baby cups, rattles, and a bunch of other personal items. My DB seemed perplexed that I found this not good. Such is life. Bear in mind this is my "good" SIL. The ones that are DHs sisters are beyond some description - those are the two that decided to go thru his mother's dresser - which had in it things from his dad that were left to my DH, along with some miscellaneous stuff (they already had their inheritances, we were letting them look at some other "stuff" in general) and left us a huge stack of jewelry, small gift boxes - which we thought they hadn't put away - instead finding every single one was empty - and left in a stack sort of "hah, hah - we took everything." They're incredible asses.
The only serious memorabilia we've lost - which we suspect my DSIL sold off
- or really is just lost - was a Baseball from the 1955 World Series, signed by every member of the winning Brooklyn Dodgers (the year before they moved west) - and inscribed on the date of my birthday (though earlier). All of them - including Duke Snyder and many greats. Friends of my grandparents (he was the one involved with sports & show business). For my whole life we remember it being in my DF's personal drawer -where he kept his jewelry, and special things. Then it was on display when they moved to the condo. Somehow, when we were going thru things, my brother had it when my DF was sick - and my DF had said it was for me 'cause my DB got the baseball cards. Amazingly - the baseball disappeared - and now no one knows. Of course, it is possible my crazy aunt has it. My DB says he doesn't. OTOH - he also lost my parents wedding album, along with a couple of other large leather photo albums. Ack.
Well - who knows. DH just called he's finally on the way home, and we're actually going to a seafood place from a local restaurant group that we really like. Got a "today only" groupon that was too good to resist - so ....No cooking tonight - and I have to go get dressed out of the grungy yardwork shorts & t.....
Guess this was plenty OT! - Back to some stitching soon! E
I had a shrapnel collection, beautifully laid out in my room and my brother and I spent hours spying on the house next door. It had been requisitioned by the US Army for their officers and my brother had this idea (generated by all the signs etc that said "Walls have ears" "Loose lips sink ships" etc) that it was probably a cover and really they were spies.
So we used to work our way right up to the windows, concealed in the laurels and watch their every move. Never having had it, imagine our surprise when for dinner one night they had tomato soup. That definitely said something was wrong!
It was a different era, good kids were kids who were out and about. We were only in trouble if late for meals, otherwise, stay out from underfoot. I am quite sure that keeping kids in and simply escorting them to 'activities' these days is going to raise the very worst adults.
Oh well, I won't be around when they are adults and rule the world !
That sounds very fun! Didn't know that you wouldn't have had tomato soup - I think here it was a staple of the tinned food culture. Did you think the color implied it was something horrible?
Very true about being out and about. When we moved to FL, there was a lot of undeveloped land, swamps/woods surrounding our neighborhood. The gang would go out exploring - with walking sticks and knives of some sort for hacking thru the "jungle" - for hours. It was an amazing set of ecosystems
- really - 'cause you'd hike thru a section of woods, and then there was suddenly marsh/swampland - and be careful for sucking muddy quicksand kind of areas -many a sneaker was ruined or lost. We found a gypsy encampment in the woods about 2 miles thru our wonderland - which was fine - at first. We'd seen some old stuff dumped there, but then when we stumbled on the encampment that was more interesting - until the afternoon when someone actually shot at us. Seriously - you never saw kids suddenly scurrying as fast as they could - and then the question of do we or don't we tell the adults (it was kids from about 4 families, all our parents quite friendly). I do believe we told, likely because the younger kids - about age 8 were pretty freaked out. But at least we had several months of exploring with just telling the folks we were out - exploring. We definitely were only in trouble if we were really late for dinner, didn't come when called - or hurt someone.
Not as if there aren't plenty of troubled ruling situations now. Perhaps something will turn around - we're definitely seeing kids outside playing in our hood. There is a young bunch of budding cricketeers here. They play at the house across the street - and while I don't know why instead of in their backyard, they bat from the high part of the driveway - towards my house. So, constantly have the yard full of kids running over to fetch balls. They're pretty young - 5-9, and play with a cricket bat and tennis balls. There is actually a huge set of cricket matches every weekend at one of the athletic fields in our development. Must be at least a hundred people hanging about - I think a few teams come and play over the whole weekend. Fun watching the kids in the hood - it reminds me more of my childhood, as the kids come from a couple of blocks all around to play down our cul-de-sac
- or with the driveway cricket pitch. Maybe there's hope.
Wow - I'm impressed ;^) Ours isn't set-up- but as we're cleaning/clearing - we recently found DH's box of parts. Just what we need to go with all the other things in toy & sports world!
Just finished Art Studio's Deco Wreath, ostensibly for DD1's room, but who knows if it will ever make it there. :) I did all the outlining in Kreinik over the DMC, some gold, some in the 2 sagey green colors. Now working on Yvette Ungricht's "We Seek After These Things." And really wanting to start a design I made myself - a line sampler. Speaking of which, anyone here ever published a design? How do you get it copyrighted? I'm tempted to try self publishing this and pitching it to local stores. Would I have to get a business license and pay attention to funky tax rules and all that jazz?
Glad you like them. Toni's things are really lovely, and she's a very good teacher, and generally nice, fun person.
WRT taking her classes - I'd send her a note and ask her where/when any of these pieces will be taught. She might show up on Shining Needle Society at some time. You can find them on Yahoo - it's essentially a group that handles the administration of on-line (cyber) classes taught independently of the guild meetings. Many fabulous teachers offer classes thru SNS. Try this to see their home-page:
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think Toni has been teaching at ANG/NAN seminars, and likely EGA - so shemay be starting to teach some of these pieces at local chapters or regionalmini-seminars. A lot of guild chapters will have workshops with nationalteachers once or twice a year. Oh, to your question - depending on your comfort level and experience - the instructions are good. But, some people really needed to have the instructor look over the shoulder, and do some further explanation. IME, with the class I took - if you're willing to do some doodle cloth work, you might be able to do her pieces with these instructions. Again, depending on your experience with laying threads, couching techniques. If you haven't done some laying of silks, then you'd want to practice with some floss, and get some hints about using the tool well to get that nice, satiny finish. But I don't think tons of tooth grinding would be involved - but definitely the tongue between the teeth ;^)
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