How are you creative?

I was reading blogs I bookmark this week-end and Jackie at Dog Daisy Chain http://dogdaisychains.blogspot.com/  posted an intriguing statement. “As I work on struggling to regain my creativity and meet deadlines, I envy those who are able to sit and hand sew.”
Do those that are paid for designing needlepoint struggle more with creativity than those of [...]

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My Birthday Present

 
       
 
 

 
My birthday isn’t for another week but my present came early. I have wanted a WWI embroidered postcard ever since I saw them a couple years ago at the Liberty Memorial WWI Museum (http://www.theworldwar.org). My wonderful husband (deserves more than usual designation of DH) told me to go for it…if I could find one for [...]

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Sh-h-h, I am back

Sh-h-h-h, I am trying to stage a blog come back. You know what I learned about complaining…it can get worse. I thought May was the pits but June was no bed of roses either and now July started off with a bang.
Remember our house guests? My second son, Hugh and his wife Anne, who were [...]

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May $?!*

I cannot begin to tell you all how happy I am that this month is finally almost over! It has been a very busy month and has had its extreme highs and also its extreme lows.
We had three of the next generation graduate this month: Blair graduated 8th grade, Valedictorian; Michael Kelly graduated High School [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day and I want to wish all Mother’s a Happy Day. May you spend it, doing just what you like to do best. I envy all of you who will have time to stitch, I might get to put a stitch or two in tomorrow evening if I am lucky.
We are celebrating [...]

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It’s May!

Before everyone thinks I have dropped out of blogging I thought I should explain.
It is May!
Unlike Camelot, where everyone frolics in the meadow singing:
“Tra la! It’s May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev’ryone goes
Blissfully astray.
Tra la! It’s here!
That shocking time of year…”
 Blissful is not a word I would use to describe this month; [...]

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Clan spools

I promise this is the last of the Scott and Gordon Clan needlepoint for this year, but I wanted to show the clan tartan spools.
My DH loves to look at wood carving, he doesn’t do it but he appreciates the art…me too. This week-end there was a show close to us so we spent some time [...]

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My NAN Entry

Two posts in one day…
very unusual for me but when I have the time to catch myself up I need to take advantage…so…

This was my entry into the NAN (http://www.needleart.org/) Exemplary as a Non-Original Professional with instruction. It is as yet an untaught piece by Eileen Aird, who owns Ridgewood Needlepoint, Ridgewood NJ. (http://www.ridgewoodneedlepoint.com/index.php?p=main)  I have [...]

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Plastic tube

Just had to add this quick post, I know two in one day…what is world happened to sudu? 
Remember the plastic tube I told you about in my March 2 blog?(http://sudukc.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/i-lay-i-layed-i-will-laythreads/ )  Well Pat Winter has found another use for this tubing… Her blog for March 5  (http://gatherings100.blogspot.com/ ) shows how she uses this tube. Pretty cool.
Can you [...]

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It Snowed!

First of all, my apologies to all who are still knee deep in snow and don’t care to see another flake for sometime…
But at my house, this is the first pretty snow we have had this year. I think we had a few dustings but nothing this pretty. And it is on the week-end so schools [...]

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