Started out in Portland, Oregon as DH was in Dental school there. We got married the summer between second and third year of dental school. He was on one of two Army scholarships for dental school. He graduated from ROTC winning just about every award they gave away. What a show off!
Then Brooks Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX Sinop, Turkey Worms, West Germany Back to BAMC in San Antonio WRAMC (Walter Reed Army Medical Center) Washington, DC (this is where DH got his post doctoral MS in Periodontics) #1 son born here. Fort Sill, Oklahoma lived in Lawton Schofield Barracks, Wahiawa, Hawaii Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colorado And finally retired to Salt Lake City, Utah
Not too bad for an Army family. All of our tours after DC were four years in length.
Sorry, I do not have a web site. Can we put photos on the posts here? I had to ask since I have not been with this group very long. I have a couple digital photos of some things I have designed. I need to get photos of just about everything I have stitched that I still have in my possession. Just another of the things on the never ending list. lol :)
Yep, spent some time on the Hill. We were there in 1974 & 1975. I worked at the Education Center and my husband was the dentist on Post. We lived in town down on the street to the east of the Yenni Hotel. Looked right out onto the bay. We were there when the Turks closed everything down. It was an interesting time.
Sounds like you were active duty when you were there. That is where I found out that the Navy folks drink more coffee than the Army. lol :)
We really enjoyed being there.
Alice ( Sinop, not quite the end of the earth but, you can see it from there.)
I heard it was. I was stationed with a couple who were there when it was closed down and I've met a couple more who were there when it shut down for good a while back.
Yep. :) AD Navy. I worked in the building with no windows. :P~
Coffee. The lifeblood of the Navy. Hehe.
I loved it myself. Did some shopping. Did some drinking. Well, okay, did LOTS of drinking. Did the tourist stuff.
I'd list where I'd lived & been stationed over the years, but I think I'd run out of room. By the time I was 21 I'd lived in 13 different states & 2 countries. I'm now on state #14. I've been East Coast, West Coast, Hawaii, Gulf Coast, & Germany. The only states I've never been in is Alaska - but my father's been there & to the North Pole (unfortunately, no Santa photos though, although he has a great one of a Polar Bear chasing the ship!). The hazards of growing up in the military.
Wow -- a lot of military families (as someone has already mentioned). A belated Veteran's Day thank you! (My father is retired Navy; I'm a civilian for DOD. Experienced some of the govt moves as well, usually sponsored by the Army. I like the part about getting paid to travel!)
Home base is in the Washington, DC area and am currently working right outside of Baltimore, living in southcentral Pennsylvania near Gettysburg. Lived in the UK for three years -- noticed some of our British friends on this board! (I *loved* England.)
Oh, yes, needlework..... I haven't been doing a lot of stitching; rather, I'm trying to adopt some of the patterns/methods in rughooking. So I pop on the board every now and then to see what's going on. I really want to try one of Elian McCready or Kaffe Fassett designs on a rug -- love the UK designers. Also love Claire Murray....but also like the traditional American designs as well (folk art).
I was raised a Navy Brat, joined the Navy, married a Navy corpsman, and raised 3 Navy brats, one who has now joined the navy as well. Went to 3 different first grades and moved 11 times in ten years (1974-1984).
I'm Bobbie Viorritto, in Manchester NH. and I have lived up and down the East coast and California. The only overseas I did was Argentia Newfoundland. I'm married 31 years to DH Tony, and have 3 children, Chris USN and in Japan with his wife, Ayako, and my grandson, Kaito. DS Erick is in Va with his wife Irene and finishing his last year of med school. DD Sarah shares my birthday and is living at home and paying of her student loans.
I have been a Navy Hospital Corpsman, bus driver, bridal consultant, and presently work as a bridal alterationist AKA a wedding gown wrestler. I have been stitching most of my life and love hardanger, cross stitch, temari, and samplers. much of my finished work is posted at
http:/photos.yahoo.com/bobbieviorrittoDD Sarah, Ayako, and several nieces all stitch as well. I have SABLE 3 times over and many WIP. I usually do most of my stitching Nov - March as I work part time. The bridal season in this area is Mar thru end of October and I work overtime +++++. I also love to read, bake (my shortbread has had raves and I collect ceramic shortbread molds), have a large group of friends and recently have been in touch with some of my old boot camp friends. I have Fibromyalgia and that often limits what I want to do, but I have learn to be gentle with myself and not worry so much about what I am not able to do.
That's a heartbreaker. We've always moved into houses where no previous occupant had cared about plants. I'd come in and start experimenting with plants right away. But I knew I'd be leaving in 1 or 2 years so I never spent a lot of money.
Unfortunately, when you run a landscape company, you know the clients are going to check out your own place as a sample of what you can do, so we invested a lot of time and money in the yards for "advertising" purposes.
My name is Anne. I'm a native NewYawker but followed my ex-husband, the engineer, as he moved from job to job and place to place. I've been in Knoxville, TN for many, many years and stay here because my 2 adult kids and 1
1/2 grandkids live near by. The 1/2 is a four year old boy who came along for the ride when his mom married my son. I'd consider him a whole grandkid if I saw him more
I began stitching crewel and rug hooking kits eons ago. I was a single mom who delighted in being involved as much as possible in my children's activities. I was a soccer mom before the s&m were capitalized ;-) I returned to stitching after being laid off in 2002 when our president shut down the alternative fuels research program for which I provided information support. I quickly tired of the kits that were available locally and on Ebay. I've tried cross stitching and blackwork but found that I am 'dyslexic' when it comes to remembering the count I've seen on the chart when the needle and thread touch the fabric.
I really like dimensional and textured embroidery or needlepoint. Paraphrasing President Kennedy, "ich bin ein embellisher" IOW, I have the best time tarting up fabric that was designed for something other than embroidery or converting xs or needlepoint patterns via computer to pictures that I can transfer to fabric and then doing my thing.
I'm Linda from Columbia, MO - I've lived in quite a few places myself and have learned that you need to keep a list because if you ever need a security clearance, they want a list of EVERY place you've ever resided, no matter how short a time LOL! My dh and I met at a political phone bank in 1984 and will have been married 20 years come Valentine's Day.
I've been stitching on and off since I was a kid. I love surface work and have recently been doing more needlepoint and counted canvas work (Laura Perin's Sapphire Star), and also do XS and crewel. I like to do applique quilting occasionally, usually by finding some picture I like and adapting it.
I have two rescued dogs - Belle, border collie mix and Monte, an English setter. Two great kids - 11 yo dd who swims competitively and is a very good butterflyer and 12 yo DS baseball player with a heck of an arm. I run a Junior Girl Scout troop and am membership chair for the swim club.
I haven't met anyone on this list, but hope to soon - there's a couple from Kansas City and maybe one day we can all get together for a stash crawl!
We've followed Dude's jobs from state to state as well. Nobody can guess that I grew up on Long Island now. Which I don't mind, it's not the most pleasant of accents! lol
I'm Lucy from Virginia. My Dad was in the Navy (and yes, coffee is the only liquid worth drinking, the stronger the better, or as my DBIL says "robusto!) My family moved every 18 months from 1940 - 1960. When my DH and I bought our first house I told him that it would take dynamite to get me out; we lived there for 25 years. When he retired, we moved to the Shenandoah Valley and I hope never to move again.
I have a son who chose his bride wisely (she is a dear) and a grandson who right now is nuts about trains.
My only critter is Molly who is under my feet at this moment guarding. I'm taking her this afternoon to get new jewelry (annual rabies tag).
Crewel and surface work are my favorites although I do a lot of canvas work too. I belong to several EGA (3) and ANG (3)chapters and reached SABLE a long time ago.
Ellice and I know each other through the Oatlands Chapter, EGA
I'm Donna, living in New Albany IN, across the river from Louisville. Been stitching for about 35 years (46 yrs old now), Grandme Rena started me on stamped cross stitch and taught me how to crochet too. I've been a modelstitcher for 10 years now, brings a little money in , in addition to my military retirement pay. I was in the Navy for
15 years , been retired for 10 years and just recently my DH put in his papers to retire in Jan 07 from the Air Force.
Stationed myself in several places:
Orlando FL bootcamp Pensacola FL for "A" school Azores Portugal London England Key West FL - 2 different commands got out for couple years and then went back in Orlanda again to get back up to speed on Navy stuff Naples Italy - where DH and I met at the base club (DH went to lots of places too) back to Pensacola for more school Keflavik Iceland - where oldest DD was born (1992) Washington DC - where youngest DD was born (1996) and where I retired then took to following DH to Indianapolis while he did year tour in S. Korea Shaw AFB Sumter SC and finally here - New Albany/Louisville
I'll try my hand at almost any craft except painting (unless it's a wall - got several that I want to paint next year now that we've lived in this house for a couple years and know that we're not likely to move. Also knit hats for The SHips Support project (for troops and sailors overseas - which has sent nearly a quarter million handcrafted items since it started in Oct 2001 and baby hats, layettes, booties and other items to local hospitals and hats and scarves to kids at my youngest DD's school.
We've got 2 dogs (Biscuit - beagle/jack russel mix and Christine aka booger - jack russell and border collie mix.
read this newsgroup every day , when I take a break from the modelstitching (which I should be getting back to , got 2 projects going with deadlines.
My name's Jan and I live in Wiltshire UK not far from Bath , Oxford and London . I was born in Liverpool UK and lived there till the age of 17 . Since then as a WRAF , I lived in Germany , Cyprus, Yorkshire UK , Buckinghamshire UK , London UK , Colchester UK , Oxfordshire UK , Hampshire UK and many more that I can't remember at various times . I've visited Florida , Washington DC , San Fransisco , Malta , Belgium , Holland, France and I stayed 6 months in Austria. I've always done some form of needlework / knitting as far as I remember - my mother believed idle hands made mischief . Right now I'm not getting much stitching done as I recently moved back into fulltime work and I'm also doing an OU computer course so my time is relatively busy. Jan
Brambleton, VA - or as our friends who still live "in town" call it, West Virginia . Northern VA 'burb of metro DC Grew up in Long Island & South Florida, some time in NC, school in Pittsburgh. Worked here and New Mexico, plus some years in the UK & France.
Started doing embroidery when I was about 8 or 9. Still have the lovely embroidered Army jacket, and workshirt that I did in Jr high school. Didn't start stitchin' again until about 12 years ago. XDH's mom did a ton of cross-stitch, and, well, I though we could bond. So, I picked up a Noah's Ark Dimensions kit for the newest just born god-child (my longest running UFO as it got packed away between houses and was only recently re-discovered. I'm hoping to give it to her for her bat-mitzvah next November). Got hooked. Went to LNS in Albuquerque (where I also lived - I tend to a mixed up, dichotomous personality) - bought some charts, some Jobelean, and some linen. Did a pueblo on the jobelean - liked that. Then...the infamous "Bouquet of Pansies" by Cindy Rice. Lots of color changing. Did I mention this was my 2nd project - which I started at same time as the Pueblo piece? And on 32 ct. What a moron I am. Came to DC - went to LNS to browse and query - was I doing the project right, having figured out to start at center and work out. LNS owner amazed - back in the day when I had anally neat backs on my work - without appreciating it. More hooked. Then, to continue on moron-hood - bought a book of Emie Bishop stuff
- while shopping with insane ex-MIL. So, well, that's another UFO.
Since then, well, took some classes at LNS here, joined ANG, learned a bunch of NP techniques, more stitching, and pretty much at this time do about everything except Schwalm and Mountmellick. Working on crewel, did some Japanese embroidery - though not enough. And would like to get better at Goldwork. Enormously jealous of those who've done classes at RSN, but - there's time.
ANG, Wearable Art group, and just procrastinating joining local EGA chapter.
See above. Do not do very much just cross-stitch - though I did go through my Lizzie-Kate phase. Like to do things with variety of stitches. Right now, however, in some redux, I have a couple of about to start projects that are all XS, but which I've complicated the threads for. The best several months I've been working a lot with my Bernina, as in doing garment sewing, taking classes on designing and pattern-drafting. Tia Mary is one of my idols (I stalk her on RCTQ). So, I switch between working on some garment project to a stitching project. And I quilt - that's for relaxation, and I love playing with fabrics, colors, etc. Also because after my DM passed, my crazy DA bugged the bejueezus out of me until I took it up - 6 years ago - something for us to share - so to speak. Irish Chain lap quilt in hand-dyed amethyst & morning glorie floral is on the machine right now = putting the seminole (triangles) border together and hoping to get the quilt sandwhich pinned tonight or tomorrow. Started knitting about 2 years ago, and am addicted to that, as well. So, do knitting when don't feel like having good light as for stitchin' - or the eyes are tired. Also, taken to knitting at CAPS hockey games.
Basically - don't like to sit still and do nothing.
Also, paint canvases for NP. Currently putting business doing such, and event planning back to work.
Emt/Paramedic - currently pulling my cert back to full Paramedic (stupidly let it lapse down). Ride as volunteer - in midst of hooking up with new fire/rescue company (having moved to different county, etc). Thinking about getting another degree to become Nurse Practitioner. Who knows.
DH - met playing hockey - yup, true story. We're both engineers by training, though now I'm not working at my research scientist job. Also - USAHockey refs - hence the hockey queries. Puckster - the English Springer Spaniel, stitching and quilt inspector.
Godchildren - virtually same ages as nieces and nephews (22 (girls), 20 (boys), 17/16(girls), & goddaughter 12, nephew 6) Both families find it amusing - DH & I are in the midst .
Crazy SILs on DH's side. Difficult SIL married to my DB. None local (mine in S Fla, his in Chicago & NC).
Isn't that that truth - gorgeous place. I spent some time at the Naval Postgrad school, and the then DH & I almost took positions teaching there for 2 years - but then realized that we'd have to live in a slum, so, well, that was out.
No meds. Only opiates really seem to make much difference and I'm not interested in addictive drugs that make it hard to be functional. The sleeping med was a bit strange since it didn't kick in for about six hours and then would wipe me out for at least twelve hours. Not very practical with a pre-schooler around.
So sorry. Definitely understand - with being allergic to NSAIDs, well, I live on Tylenol. Arnica gel, and ice packs. My orthopedist figures when he's worrying about liver damage then I'm due for the next surgery. Don't like taking addictive drugs. Don't take much but the absolute minimum myself - too many allergies so I fear losing the ability to take what still remains.
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