I am a techno geek. I love gadgets. Particularly computer gadgets. I’m old enough to remember life without computers, but I still can’t imagine how we got along without email. I think that TIVO is one of the most amazing life changing developments. I know there are a million bigger more important things. I’m just […]
Archives for April 2010
Be Still My Beating Heart
The Melissa Shirley heart pillow is back from the finisher. I love it! The finishing is simple. Well, sort of simple. We inset the needlepoint into the perfect shade of red orange silk and pleated the inset. A covered cord is then wrapped with 7mm ribbon in the same orange that we used for the […]
More signatures for our wall!
Yesterday was Day 4 of the Big Event. We were winding down, finishing things up. Each of the teachers signed our wall. That’s always fun. As you can see, Meredith Willet hasn’t lost her spunk. Tony Minieri was goofing around; he was going to sign really tiny in the corner. Suzanne […]
The Ah Ha Moment
Today was day Three of the Big Event. I’m toast. We’re having a great time. It was definitely a day of Ah Ha Moments. See, Suzanne had one too. Muskoot Farm took a major turn today. I ripped almost everything out. I had put in a bit of this and a bit of that but […]
Really Big Bummer :-)
How can you not love a teacher who refers to ripping out stitches as a “Really Big Bummer?” It’s impossible. Today at the Big Event our table had the irreverent Meredith Willet. She’s the best! She’s a girlie girl, she’s fun and yes, she will be coming back to Bedecked and Beadazzled to teach! She’s […]
Big Event Day One
Today was Day 1 of the Big Event! We were graced with the pleasure of the company of Tony Minieri, Meredith, Willet, Beth Robertson and Suzanne Howren. They are a great group. We had 2 technique demos. One was on the correct sequence to execute the parts of a stitch. I have to work on […]
We’re ready to roll!
The rooms are ready for the students…… Everyone’s canvas is mounted and ready to stitch – bags of threads and stitch books are waiting to be opened. All we need now are teachers and students. Each student at the Big Event will find monogrammed thread bags and matching frame weights at their seats as mementos […]
T Minus 60 hrs
That sounds like such a long time. 60 hours. But when you are putting together a class for lots of ladies with 4 of the top names in NEEDLEPOINT it isn’t so long at all. Welcome to April 17th -20th will find Tony Minieri, Meredith Willet, Beth Robertson and Suzanne Howren all teaching at the […]
Sunlight through the trees
The land of the 90 foot cat is coming along nicely. I’ve been told he isn’t really a 90 ft cat and those aren’t trees next to him. He’s really a regular size cat wandering through the weeds. Either way he’s quite dashing. Today’s first mission was the background. You may have noticed, I’m not […]
