http://tinyurl.com/2b447 I got this catalog in the mail yesterday - check out these scissors! Cheryl

I dreamt I had to completely frog my current portable project! green floss was flying everywhere, so very weird! Must mean I need to go check it very carefully Cheryl

Ok ladies and gents, I am having one of those "anal" fits and trying to catalog all my magazines - mostly to make sure I don't re-buy copies of The Needleworker. BUT - I am going to do all my collected magazines. So - here is my question - don't all magazines have a issue number and/or a volume...

I just found out that one of the little boys on DD's hockey team from last year has cancer - one of the treatable childhood leukemia, but is having rough time. I can't get his Mom's face out of my mind; I saw her yesterday at the local bagel shop I introduced them too last spring trying to keep...

I wandered into the local "consignment" shop looking for a desk for DS. They'd moved and have also broadened their horizons and have books and videos and what nots. I found Lisbeth Perrone's Folk Art in Needlepoint and Cross Stitch for a whole $2. It's is mine now! Cheryl

http://www.wildflower.org/?nd=2094 Boy do I wish I was close to someplace this show was heading! Cheryl

Yesterday (Sunday), was a long day! It really starts Saturday - DD and I went off to support her fellow girl players - a U12 ladies game, ended up running in a bunch of her friends and she stayed to do public skate. So a quick jaunt to Manchester instead meant the afternoon spent there. And that...

Well, remember I asked about what I need to teacher cross stitch to 10-12 year old girls? Well, today was my first class. Other than some room confusions, it was a BLAST (and I sure needed some fun). I have 7 girls and one teacher to teach. Two are clearly bored already - it wasn't "fun" right...

Sigh, my stitching class is over. :( Those sweet girls seem to be eager stitchers. I've heard from several of their Moms that they are stitching every night now. I charted up a chart that says "Orts" in cross stitch and backstitch. I washed up some baby food jars and gave each of them some orts...

Is BORING Do most of you finish each little check, do rows, do columns? Cheryl

I just finished the funniest book - Katie MacAlister's A Hard Day's Knight. Takes place at fictionalized Ren Faire with a tourney. I laughed so hard I wept. And I adore the International Wenches Guild. Cheryl

Just as above, a new author, a new direction Too frozen to garden, plenty of stitching time, but need a new "bed time story". Mysteries, historicals, futuristic, fantasy... The best of the most recent

http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow3/index.html

From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader for 3/5/04 Wool is scratchier than most fabrics because it stimulates two types of nerve endings at once. The pressure of the wool again your skin activates the itch nerves and the individual fibers tickle the nerve ending that are wrapped around your hair...

Ok - Laconia Motorcycle Weekend is starting to gear up (all puns intended). Always interesting, as the entire state seems to play host to these visitors. Seen today on the highway - 1 Volvo diesel station wagon, pulling a trailer with 2 Harley Davidson's Sports and one chopper. Just seems to be...

In about 30 minutes, I will walk down to the bus stop with DD for first day of first grade. It seems just a few days ago, I was bringing her home, instead of 6 days to the day. Cheryl

After spending nearly all day out of the house yesterday, I did a marathon day around the house. The living room is nearly all rearranged for the sofa and such we are ordering soon (I hope). Sorted toys, trashed broken ones, did laundry (16 trips to the basement for laundry and other things)...

I finished (even attached the charm) M-Designs Loves Me, Loves me not! I've give it a quick press tomorrow and scan it. Cheryl

http://www.puddindesigns.com/Began.htm

I just finished The Sempster's Tale - the latest Dame Frevisse book. Lots of lovely details about period embroidery. Cheryl