I know, I am still not finished with my sampler, and have not even started the pin cushions, but I have a few other projects in the wings that are pushing their way to the fore. One is a purse, an evening bag, that I have designed. It will have coiling goldwork vines of plaited braid, and polychrome silk embroidery ( Read more... )

Arilyn's 5th grade class has been studying colonial life in America. They had a little project, a frieze, where the kids were given assignments to complete at home, and bring the completed artwork back in to include in the frieze. Arilyn, having lived in Cornwall, naturally piped up that she wanted to make a pub, because if the colonists were ( Read more... )

Tonight, I was on my way to a class about how to make mead, and I looked over and saw the moon rising over Ostrich Bay, turned around, and headed back for home. I had really wanted to go to this mead making class, and had laid in a five pound bag of boysenberries in the freezer, as well as a big jar of honey, but I had to change my plans as soon ( Read more... )

I have to get started on this move. Tomorrow. Brian is of course gone, and won't return until two days before we actually start to move. The packers are supposed to be getting here on February 15th, and it will take them two days to pack. Then it will take a day to load the truck, and probably a day to offload. I am hoping that we are sleeping ( Read more... )

After talking with the housing office on Tuesday, and being informed that we would probably not be moving until March or possibly April, I was very shocked to receive a phone call yesterday afternoon informing me that they have a house ready for us to move into in less than a month. I am still kind of reeling, because this is going to mean a lot ( Read more... )

After having had several people ask me to resurrect the Elizabethan and Jacobean Embroidery Group online, I did so, but really was not sure what kind of response we would get. Before I moved the group to another server, we had a total of 34 members. There was a general dislike of the new system, and the group fell into rapid decay. Sadness, but ( Read more... )

OK, so I did not get to have all of the kidlets at home, but I came pretty close.

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For whatever reason, I am having an odd feeling this year about the holidays. I miss my kids, with a fierce fire in my breast that just makes my heart hurt, but at the same time, I know that they are doing exactly what I want them to be doing, where I want them to be doing it and they all have wonderful people to be with that I adore. So, none of ( Read more... )

After nearly a month of being ill, I believe that I am finally past the whole mess. I go back to the doc tomorrow so that he can give me the clean bill of health, so to say, and I am sure that a gentle nudge towards having the surgery to fix my sinuses will be forthcoming. Ha. Dude knows me, and knows how I feel, so, it probably won't be ( Read more... )

I am sitting here in bed, laptop appropriately employed, being attacked by Cicero as he makes biscuits on my down comforter. He gets bored, walks to another spot, whilst making biscuits all along the path, works the comforter a bit, then walks on. He reminds me so much of his aunt, my beloved Juliet, and a bittersweet feeling passes by and stops ( Read more... )