So the suggestion (so far) to help my tummy at the herbal medicine tribe was to cleanse my navel chakras. Ok, how do I do that and I hope it doesn’t involve needles. So I found this website. It looks interesting as it relates to yoga. Anything to feel better. I was doing some deep breathing today too. Sometimes you just have to sit back and say ‘whoa nelly’-you gotta take a break! Even though I relax through stitching, sometimes that makes me a bit hyper, like the Independence Hall square. An end is in sight, but it was bugging me because I. H. is not brown-it’s made from ‘simple red bricks’. I decided to backstitch reddish color floss over the brown instead of ripping it all out. It works! Thank goodness.
I have someone coming from Window Wizards to give me an estimate on a garden style window for the kitchen today. I took down the curtains and it’s a nice big window. I hope it will be cheaper than what the Home Depot quoted us. I may have him give me an estimate on the front window too. There are 3 casements right now which I never open. We should try to snaz up the place as much as we can.
The kid from Home Depot called yesterday and said the floor I wanted was out of stock. They would have to have a special just when I wanted a new floor! I had to go on the internet with him on the phone and look at different ones. He finally found one that matched the one I like-a Pergo. I get 10% off for installation. I am waiting to hear what the price will be for that. Maybe we’ll wait and I can call another place. That’s what I should do.
Did I tell you that it was the multivitamins that made my stomach spaz (move) by itself? I stopped taking them and it stopped. My guts are still not right, I think it’s all the stuff that’s happening around here. I’ve always been a hyper person (more internal). I just need to calm down or find something to calm my tummy. I have a question in at the herbal medicine group I read. I also found that my tummy is so touchy, I can’t even chew gum that has sorbitol in it. What I need is to take a slow, relaxing boat to China.
Charlie McDermott, a West Chester, PA native is playing Kris Kristofferson’s son (Kris will be 70 this year-so grandpa would fit better) in a new movie called Disappearances. Charlie was also in The Village filmed in Chadds Ford, near where he lives. I’ll have to find more info on Charlie, but I thought I’d share info about another up and coming actor from Chester County.
Mary Lou Quinlan-the only female judge, hails from Philly!
The judges said ‘yes’ to the edible snowglobes!
The local news had a special on Andrew Wyeth in correlation to the Phila Art museum show. I learned a few things that I didn’t know about the Wyeths.
NC Wyeth was hit by a train while in his car with his nephew (or grandson) and they both were killed back in about 1945. He had stopped on the back roads of Chester County to view landscape that was misty (this is what artists do). If he hadn’t done this, he would have missed the train. Andrew took this hard and they say that is why his paintings became gloomy and deep.
Andrew at age 88, eats at local places around here like Hank’s diner (where the cast of ‘The Village’ frequented a few years back) and a place called Jimmy Johns (they are famous for hotdogs).
It’s not uncommon to see Andrew (they all call him Andy, even his granddaughter) and son Jamie walking the halls of the Brandywine River Museum. Speaking of his only granddaughter Victoria, she is a tour guide at the museum.
NC illustrated Treasure Island, etc with vibrant movement and color. Andrew’s works are very brown and earth-toned.
Andrew’s sister Ann Wyeth McCoy, recently passed away and left a massive doll collection. I read where many of them will be put in a special museum but many will be auctioned evenutally. I’d love to attend the auction ‘just to see’. One of the Wyeths (a sister) lived on the same road I do. I always wonder when I travel the long length of our road which house she lived in.
Attention stitchers! Here’s something up for sale at the above mentioned auction
Lot 300: 1798 needlework sampler by Rachel Byes, alphanumeric with verse, bottom row with 2 birds holding a basket of fruit flanked by strawberries, 10.75″ x 10″, a few small stains, otherwise excellent Estimate: 300-500.
I just got back from technorati tags as I haven’t been there for a while. I am in the top 100,000 for linking (I’m around 95,000). Thanks to all of you who do link to my blog. If you don’t and keep reading my blog, could you link or put me in your blog roll? I’d love to be in the top 10,000 someday. I’ll be glad to link to you.
I also saw that I was quoted again in a blog about Reese Witherspoon getting paid so much and winning the Oscar. That is very flattering.
Ever read your old blog entries and they are all lined up on one side? I must have used photos that were too large. And my really old, old entries have different colored lettering because I use to have a pale pink background. I would change all of them, but that would take forever. I just highlight the text to read it.
~Update-I added the technorati ‘who links here’ tag again plus a search engine in my side bar. So if you want to see my cross stitching or flowers, type something in and the exact posts I wrote about the subject will come up.
The above lovelies are in my front ‘woodland’ bed under my big evergreen. People give me jonquils, etc. for Easter and I plant them here.
These purple petites are under one of the nasty chestnut trees. Years ago I tried planting croci in a scatter form in the side yard here and they never really did anything. I think the grass was too thick for them there. Where they came from here is a question to me.For obvious reasons, I watch Kitchen Accomplished (it’s a kitchen makeover show) every Monday morning on HGtv. Today, Kat the chef, bought the homeowner a panini/grill. Now I have a device similar to the panini and I have a tabletop grill, but this looks so much nicer.
Cuisinart GR-4 Griddler – – contact grill and panini sandwich press makes perfect panini… plus! With 4 separate cooking options, it can handle everything from pancakes to sausages to grilled cheese to steaks, hamburgers, and panini.
Simply change the cooking plates and adjust the floating hinge to use the Griddler as a contact grill, a panini press, or your choice of an extra-large double open grill or griddle. Panini-style handles with floating hinge to adjust to thickness of food.
Removable, dishwasher-safe, non-stick grill and griddle plates. Brushed stainless steel housing. Weighs about 15 pounds. 3-year mfg. warranty. Cuisinart model GR4.
I went and looked on the web an found it here. I get $10 off because it’s over $100 and I get a shipping credit of almost $7. So not bad! I am thinking about a new crockpot too (mine is ancient). And of course I am saving up Macy gift cards (Brian’s dad gets them from Caesars in Atlantic City) I need a few more for my blue Cuisinart stand mixer.
Collages & Creative Goodness 