We’re almost there. Bedecked and Beadazzled is almost ready for prime time viewing. My vision of a needlepoint store is coming together! The fixtures are in. There’s boxes of thread everywhere, but you can see what goes where and it looks so cool! All of like threads are together, so there’s an overdye section and […]
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It’s coming along
It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted and the store is really coming along! I hope you will all come visit. It’s going to be unlike any other needlepoint store that I’ve seen. It will be me. It will be bright and sunny and filled with lots of color! Thread display racks are […]
A Real Brick and Mortar Store
Okay, it’s time for one of those sweeping life changing decisions. If you are reading this blog you probably already know I design needlepoint, which is sold in shops all over the country, and you probably also know I have an on-line store called Bedecked and Beadazzled. Well, the time has come to take things […]
You Meet the Nicest People
The needleart world is filled with some of the nicest people and you meet them in the coolest ways. I just went to log into blogger to post and as I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing I simply typed my name in a block and hit return. Well, who knew, I am […]
Happy Holidays!
It’s a week until Christmas and the house should be decorated, the cookies should be baked and just as importantly I should be ready for the tradeshow in San Diego. I’m not ready for any of these things. Oh well, we’ll get there. There will be lots of new designs introduced at market. I have […]
Problem Solved !!!
The orange kitty is now one of my favorite canvases!!!! After the trials and tribulations of the last few weeks trying different things to bring the canvas to life as I wanted it. It is now complete. The flower pot that was in my head subtly shaded has been giving me fits. After a few […]
Make it Work in Real Life
As I mentioned in my last post, sometimes you just have to make it work. I have a series of beautiful cat canvases that we designed several years ago and have now finally decided it was time to stitch at least one of them. I had the orange cat with tullips almost completely finished and […]
Make It Work
What a great philosophy for life and needlepoint. I am addicted to Project Runway. I can watch it over and over. Most of the reality shows don’t do it for me. I never saw the point of Survivor and we won’t even discuss American Idol. Project Runway brings together some amazingly talented designers. Each week […]
More Needlepoint Publicity
I can’t believe it! Just last week I posted the full page feature from Lucky Magazine that confirms what we already knew that Needlepoint is hip. And then this week in my inbox is a notice from daily candy. If you don’t know about daily candy it is very cool website (www.dailycandy.com) that posts daily […]
Cyber Classes
I am a class junkie. I want to learn from everyone I can. I may not have felt this way when I was in school but those classes weren’t needlepoint, now were they. Now that I have the opportunity to study the needlearts I am interested in what everyone is doing. Particularly if it is […]
Hipster Needlepoint
Could it be! A major fashion magazine has admitted that needlepoint is cool! The one thing that rivals my interest in needlepoint is shopping. So, yes, I read Shop etc. and Lucky and a local Baltimore based magazine on shopping, Paperdoll. Don’t even go there, if you know anything about Baltimore it is not hip […]
The birth of a new idea – Stitches CD
We introduced Stitches CD Volume I in June at the Indianapolis tradeshow. We are delighted to say it was a huge success. We’ve received wonderful feedback from the shops and stitchers who are using it. Several have asked us how we came up with this idea. Just 20 years ago we were lucky to have […]
Welcome To My Blog
Hi: I thought it might be interesting to start a blog that talks about the design end of needlepoint and how mucch it has changed and is changing over time. If you have come to this blog via one of my websites you already know me. If you found the blog elsewhere you very well […]
