OT: Getting to know your stitching friends

6:00, then again at 8:15

either

Little Miss Sunshine

Boston Legal, Mystery on PBS, ER, Law and Order CI, Top Chef, South Park

Grapenuts & English Brkfast Tea

Faith

Chinese then French

Kidney, Steak & Kidney pie, anything with that heavy sweetbreads or organ taste (though I do like good calve's liver)

Dark

Switching between NPR (was Kojo show) and bad TV. Music - had Allison Loyet on. Looking for new Klezmatics doing Woodie Guthrie disc

Audi TT or Nessie (the expedition)

Grilled cheese with tomato - good bread, not american cheese (something more interesting - fontina, monterey jack, cheddar)

Pretension, meanness, purposeful malicious lying, stinginess

HAH - lounging in flannels (pj type)

Antarctica & Fiji

Silver/white on white tile, dark wood - about to be painted in Iris type colors

ANG - for all the info. Wyndham Needleworks & Scarlet Letter for drooling

Drawn Thread, Indigo Rose & Elizabeth's Designs - in kind of a tie

Afternoon - with a cup of tea on hand. Or, at night

Brooklyn, NY

Hmmm - not cutesy - maybe meaningful sentiements. Tend to things with some horticultural or pastoral kind of sense. Nothing particular.

Ah, DH surprising me with photos of piece at show which got a Blue Ribbon (I didn't know) First piece I ever entered - Pine tree sampler from Hillside Samplings - just put it in because it was in the shop as a framing model - and sent it to the Sampler Guild show. Very surprised.

Diet Coke. Diet Pepsi in the flavors.

Anchor!

Impossible to say

Cowgirl.

Whole family at grandparents for some holiday dinner. Both sets of grandparents - we were lucky that there was not that whose side of the family thing with my parents. Beach club - same deal. And my first seriuos horseback riding lesson when I was about 7, and they had to roll the leathers around the stirrup (I was in the bigger kids class)

Parking lot attendant in undergrad, research assistant doing car crash research & stats analysis (real money), cashier in a nice catalog kind of showroom store, Radio Shack - lots of fun, UPS - worked nightside in the district office, engineering assist for PepsiCo, camp cousnelor - thru high school/college/grad school summers - ran riding program for a while, taught riding, and then was camp administrator - great fun. Cooking for some guys in undergrad school (got to eat for free) Research Engineer/Scientist - real job at a big R&D lab, then overseeing testing facilities, experimental R&D at an HQ kind of agency. Starbucks barista/supervisor. LNS - shop assist & framer. Own company doing event planning/organizing and some NP design. Hockey Ref - best job ;^) Oh, yeah - EMT (ride as a volunteer) getting cert back to full Paramedic

Leecie - the only nickname that several totally unrelated people have used

One each ear - that's it

Very light - blue rims, pale ranging from yellowish to icey interiors

Summer Garden - Saturday

Summer Garden - due to the messy back. And an elsa Parrish class of oriental horses running across the canvas. Bad instructions, lots of materials, lots of techniques.

Irises, Dahlias, Peonies

Really good vanilla or chocolate. With almonds.

Never

Spanish, French - with some fluency (minor in Spanish lit) . Hebrew, German, Russian with less study, proficiency = though I'm thinking of taking a Hebrew class now, and working on my Russian again. Can do alright in Italian - understand, but don't speak well. Reading is fair.

Jane Austen. Joan Hess. Martha Grimes. Elizabeth George. Mikhail Lermontov. Roger Zelasney. Katherine Kurtz. The list goes on.

Brambleton, VA - which is west of Dulles in the Metro DC area

none

Puckster - English Springer Spaniel

1. Activities other than stitching?

Hockey ref. Painting. Knitting, quilting.

1. Miscellaneous Goal? Getting back in shape, and back to having horses in my life again. And finishing some UFOs - of course.

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. What time did you get up this morning? 09.00 (I`m retired) 2. Diamonds or Pearls?

either but prefer rubies

1. What is the last movie you saw in the theater? The Lion in Winter!!!!!!!

1. What are your favorite TV shows? Holby City, the Bill, Most Haunted

1. What did you have for breakfast? Muesli, coffee, orange juice
2. What is your middle name? Ann

1. What is your favorite cuisine? Indian

2. What foods do you dislike? Black pudding!
3. Dark or milk? (chocolate, that it!) Dark
4. What are you listening to at the moment? Pastorale (Beethoven)
5. What kind of car do you drive? I don`t drive but we have a Ford Focus Ghia

1. Favorite sandwich? Smoked Salmon and cucumber

2. What characteristics do you despise? Pretension, meanness, purposeful malicious lying, stinginess, cruelty to animals

1. Describe what you're wearing right now: Sort of towelling tracksuit (bottle green)

2. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you Outer Hebrides

1. What color is your bathroom? One is peach - the other white with black touches

2. Favorite needlework-related website? Too many to mention
3. Favourite Needlework Designer? Me!!! (TIC) Actually that`s true! No-one else does the sort of stuff I prefer doing, although I do stitch a lot of other stuff when the fancy takes me.

1. Favorite time of day to stitch? Any time at all

2. Where were you born? Felixstowe, Suffolk, East coast of UK
3. Favorite theme to stitch? Old buildings

1. Best stitching memory? ???????? Several. Maybe when a farmer tried to buy my cross stitch of a Suffolk Horse. (Not for sale, so I quoted a ridiculous price and successfully scared him off!!!

2. Coke or Pepsi? Caffeine free Diet Coke. Pepsi? YUCK and DOUBLE YUCK!

1. Anchor or DMC? Anchor!

2. Favorite floss color #? Impossible to say

1. What did you want to be when you were little? Showjumper!!! or a Nun!!!

1. What is your best childhood memory? Being there when one of the mares foaled - and having to chase away the rest of the mares who wanted to steal it. (She`d taken us by surprise and had it early, in the field).

1. Nothing very inspiring - insurance clerk, receptionist, typist - that sort of thing. Riding instructor (part time)

2. Nicknames? None that I recall
3. Piercings? One each ear - that's it

1. Eye Color? Green

2. Which WIP was the last one you stitched on and when did you put it down? Otley Hall - about 3 months ago - thanks for reminding me.

1. Project from Hell? Native American wedding - lovely words. Design looked wonderful on paper, but looks awful stitched. I think I`ll do the words and use a "Wampum" type border from a Native American design book I have. Want it for my son`s wedding - don`t know when that`s going to be though.

1. Favorite ice cream? Coffee

1. How many times did you fail your driver's test? Never - never taken one!

1. What languages do you speak/have you studied besides English? French (rusty now) and some Latin

1. Authors? Jane Austen, Catherine Cookson, the English equivalent of Steven King, though I can`t remember his name right now!

2. Where do you live now? Just up the road from where I was born.

1. How many tattoos do you have? none

2. Name and species of pets: Maggie (otherwise known as Waggy-Muffin) Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (tri-colour)

1. Activities other than stitching? Painting, birdwatching - nature in general. Talking to you lot!

Hockey ref. Painting. Knitting, quilting.

1. Miscellaneous Goal?

To last a bit longer!!!

Pat

Hey! No fair! Where's the spew warning?

R&D,

Sue

Now just which option was making you spew????? ;-))

Pat