What have you lost lately?

Other than my sanity?

A ladybug magnet that was a gift. I thought it was on the fridge. Mind you have several of them, I could be over looking it.

What color crystals? I have some I don't think I'm going to use....

Cheryl

Two framed pieces, a gold work kit, and gold work threads (purls of several weights). These went missing in the move. I've unpacked every box, and still can't find them. I hate to be nasty and suspicious, but a box marked 'goldwork' might just have 'walked' even though the thief would have been very surprised when he opened it.

MargW

Sanity.......

That stinks!

Cheryl

The funny color green floss that was used for some of the leaves in the piece I was hurrying to finish last night. I'm sure you won't be surprised when I say that I substituted something else because I was anxious to finish and start on the SAL. You will probably be even less surprised when I tell you that when I took off the terrycloth robe I was wearing, I found it dangling from the sleeve.

Lucille

My passport was stolen when I moved here - I could point to the man who took it but unfortunately I did not miss it until several months later when I went to book a ticket to the UK.

Strangely, in this era of terrorists who are coming to get us, the passport would have been very easily replaced, except my Canadian Citizenship paper was folded inside it. The department was moving to Sydney and it was only due to a nice man that I spoke to over the 'phone that he issued a replacement against all odds and I was able to make my flight.

If it isn't anything you need right away, it's hard to spot.

Have you checked *under* the fridge? I couldn't believe all the stuff I found under mine when I moved in December, especially considering that it'd only been a few months since I'd pulled it out and cleaned behind it. Gotta blame the cats and those pesky paws--everything's a toy!

Jinx

--my black-handled, unbendable garden trowel (one of the students lost it in the field when we were collecting plants)

--some colored organza I need for a future applique project

--my dark plum colored long-sleeved T-shirt

--the ability to turn my head I've the mother of all "cricks"

--a whole roll of paper towels out of the teaching lab

Monique in TX

Ouch! I hate losing my "good tools".

What size do you wear? I have one I don't really like

A different ouch

Cheyrl

Thinking I lost my keys but had put them in a different place in my bag but finding them only after turning out my locker at work after closing

Now that you mention it. I've lost two dragonfly kits. Both needlepoint. I was looking for one of them to take to jury duty with me and never found it. Hopefully they show up in the next reorganization.

Donna in Virginia

Thanks for the offer but I went to plan B and used a combination of beads that hadn't disappeared. The little cornucopia turned out well, if I do say so myself. Now I've got to figure out what to do with it.

One of these days, I'll post pictures of recent and not so recent finishes.

Exactly - It was several weeks of sorting through things and deciding which pieces I would put up where before I realized that some things were missing. I wanted to start a new project and decided the Rajmahal goldwork kit would be a nice challenge. As I started to search with no luck for that, I was going through photos of finished work and realized that I hadn't seen two of the pieces I had hung in the bedroom at the old house. The the penny dropped that they had all been packed together.

The two missing pieces were matching samplers from Cross Stitch and Needlework Magazine (Beehive Sampler and Rose Garden Sampler). The kit I can always replace - the samplers on the other hand took a lot of time and labour and were among the earliest advanced pieces I stitched.

MargW

All you can do is hope whomever took it either appreciated what they had or lives with someone who was thrilled to have it. Sometimes when you see good work at a sale, this might be another route by which it arrives, not simply the death of the owner/stitcher.

The crystal drops turned up late last night when I looked through yet another container for something else. They wouldn't have worked for the project I wanted them for. Wish me luck -- I'm going to try to find them again and put them where I thought they should've been in the first place.

Luck!! At least I think that's what you asked for?????

Next time remember George Carlin's remark that if you lost something, you just needed to look in the last place you put it and there it would be.

I was looking last week for the chart I recently purchased, Thea Dueck's "Heirloom Stitching Sampler."

sue

It's probably too late now, but maybe they put them up on eBay to try get at least a *little* something for their thievery. You'd probably recognize them by their framing, since it's doubtful that two people would use the same frame or finishing. Hmmmm. Another good reason to sign one's work!

Joan

I bought it and it's still sitting out for me to look at and as you put it, fondle it a bit. I didn't even buy the floss for it, and I have no idea when (or if) I'll ever get to it, but it is beautiful, isn't it?

Lucille