Well, not The Beatles, but my beetles.  My Melissa Shirley Beetle Purse is back from the finishers.  I love it.  I started this canvas in an embellishment class with Brenda Hart a year or so ago and finally finished it. My favorite part of the stitching is the background.  It’s a woven open stitch done […]

Gotta love it when great stitching minds come together!  This is another collaboration between myself and a few friends. At market a few weeks ago I launched a new line that I am affectionately calling the hippie line.  You know I love color and what is more colorful than the art  of the 60’s?  We […]

Basketweave Twill is one of my favorite stitches. Here’s the diagram so you can see what it looks like. Why is this such a fascinating stitch to me? Why don’t I just do Basketweave?  The beauty of this stitch lies in the light coverage.  Whatever is painted behind the stitches will show through.  The stitch […]

Oh My!  Aren’t these just the cutest ever Halloween pails.  They are modeled after vintage halloween pails.  Each one is approximately 5″ and so quick to stitch. EyeCandy Needleart designed the canvases and Cynthia Thomas worked her magic choosing stitches and threads to bring them to life. Just a couple of nights of stitching and […]

Well, here we are again.  Oh so much to share.  I’m running around buying just as fast as I can.  New threads, new canvases,  geez, there’s so much. Today is a short day so I better get finished. First up, Maggie.  For some zany reason, I keep buying game boards.  First it was the zecca […]

Good Morning… Here we are on Day 2 of the Columbus show and we have been busy busy busy.  I’ve been bopping around placing orders here and there for all kinds of fabulous things. Technology failed me yesterday and I have less pictures than I woul like, but this is a start. Melissa Shirley’s booth […]

Well, here we are in Columbus at one of our two largest tradeshows of the year.  Columbus is in June and California market is in January. Our booth is crammed, yes, crammed with canvases.  Honey, they shrunk the booth!  Wow, there’s  alot of canvases. That’s a good thing, I know but again, WOW!  Might need […]

I’m an animal person. That whole unconditional love thing.  They are generally so loving and trusting and bring joy to my world. Tigger was one of those special babies. One of my rescues.  He’d meet me at the door before I left for work and be waiting when I came home.  Okay, that lasted for […]

Now, that’s the Queen in all of us.  The Queen of Unfinished Projects. Is there anything a needlepointer likes more than starting a new project. Oh, the exhilaration of finding a new canvas, pulling threads, selecting beads and crystals and then…..the first stitch. Probably the only thing more exciting than that, is the happy dance […]

Don’t ask me what that title meant. Sounded cute in my head.  Guess that means we are still giddy and happy from class yesterday. Brenda Hart taught the stunning Lani Aloe canvas and everyone had a great time as these photos prove.   This is Kathy and her daughter Katie.  We haven’t seen Kathy in […]

I’m so excited!  I have a thousand things to do, but I’m excited.  Brenda Hart will be in the shop this weekend for her Spring Fling teaching engagement. Brenda is not only a dear friend, but she is a teacher extraordinaire and author of 5 stitch books.  Based in Tucson, Brenda mostly travels the West […]

I had to share.  One of my dearest friends stitched a cummerbund for her son’s prom.  Renee whipped it out in just a few weeks, it was then off to the finisher and back in time for the prom all at Wil’s request. Doesn’t he look handsome? Hayley, the redhead, is of course gorgeous and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

You probably could have guessed, but I really am a magpie. Magpie’s are known for being attracted to anything shiny and sparkly.  Yep, that’s me.  They grab it and take it home to their nest.  Yep, that’s me too. This is one of James Audubon’s paintings.  I found this fun poem about seeing magpies: One […]