A Wash in the Moonlight

Blue Angel

And of course Marilyn (incidently our young waitress last night was named Norma Jean).

Stitching Blogger Question:

Do you do your stash shopping at your LNS, ONS, or both? Which do you like better? Why?

I would say both, though my LNS has moved and downsized. I don’t think that is a good thing. I like seeing the designs ‘in real life’ , which may change my mind if I previously wanted to stitch them. Or it may make me want to stitch them even more! I have so much stash, all I ever need to buy is the occasional floss or fabric.

I told you about the salesman from Home Depot trying to tell me that the ‘cheaper’ cabinets I liked weren’t all wood and I found out they were. Doesn’t he read the brochures that sit around the tables where he works? That’s sneaky and mean.
I get on my email account and there’s a note from someone on eBay that says someone we both ‘tried’ to buy from wanted to sue her because of the negative feedback she left the seller! I then went in my eBay account and sure enough, the nutcase sent me the same ‘sue’ letter! I was more peeved than worried. I showed an online eBay group the letter and they said that she is trying to strong arm so I withdrawn the negative. I promptly forwarded the letter to eBay and said I was being harassed. Can you believe that? The feedback she left me was far worse. I think her account is suspended, but she can still get in her summary to harass people.
I’ve been with eBay over 6 yrs and have almost 3k positive feedbacks. Who do you think they will side with? I hope they sue her!

Not much to do. You can only clean so much.
Here’s some completely useless but interesting trivia to other Diannes (probably not that many under 30) out there.
So I was reading Southern Lady magazine as it had an article on ‘Gone with the Wind’ one of my favorite movies. It was made 20 years before I was born as was ‘The Wizard of Oz’, another one of my other favorites. There was an article about Cammie King, who played Bonnie Blue Butler, the daughter of Rhett and Scarlett. Here Cammie said that her older sister ‘Dianne’ was suppose to play Bonnie, but she got too big for the part.
Another ‘Dianne’ is in one of my Oz books-like ‘Making of the Wizard of Oz’ or something like that. Judy Garland had signed a photo or something ‘to Dianne’. Cool, huh?

Thanks to my pal Karin for sending this…
Snowdays
Maybe you’ll find mine…here’s the # for it 1,932,84!

I finally started to cross stitch again after at least four days. The first thing I did was to gather the floss I needed for the Mirabilia/LL stitch-along. I had the chart and fabric. So dummy here cuts the fabric too short thinking 26 count was close to 22 count. Wrong! I can’t use the words on the chart ‘Giggles in the Snow’. The fabric has silver threads running through it so I can’t just run out and buy it somewhere. I don’t think I really need the words ‘Snow angel’ anyway. I am doing the little boy. If I do the girl, I can add the words and maybe frame them all together. I hate when that happens but I will not be wasteful.
I also worked on my Love Quilts committment for March the little bear on the box who is holding a present. My choo choo train needs to be mailed this or next week just to get it on it’s way.

Wow, I’ve seen some really long and detailed cross stitch ‘to do’ lists for 2006. More power to you. I will not be making a list. I have it all ‘upstairs’ as to what I want to stitch on or what I committed to stitch. I want cross stitching to be fun and the few deadlines I have are enough to keep me going.
Some people need lists. This is good, they are organized. I use to be that way, well I still am to a small degree. I had all my 33 1/3 record albums (am I dating myself?) in ABC order. Some of my tons of leaflets are that way too. I use to think, should I categorize by designer or theme? I ended up doing a little of each. I collect Prairie Schoolers and Cross-eyed Crickets. Have lots of Leisure Arts. They are mostly bunched together.
Good luck all my nimble fingered pals! Please post because I love seeing your finishes.

We’ve really been overdoing it. I guess it’s fun to have someone to shop with and either Bri or Sean go out with me. Yesterday we dropped the Tracfone off to Brian’s dad at his house. It was not a nice visit. I won’t get into it too much, but Mr Grouch basically kicked us out. Brian just had to mention about his dad going to see his lovely only living sibling, a sister who happens to be in a nursing home near us. I said that if one of my brothers didn’t visit me, I wouldn’t like it. Well he told me to mind my own business, etc. He remarked that I said too much and asked us to leave. I was upset because I was trying to be encouraging and he took it the wrong way. It’s going to be a long time before I go over there again. I have my mom to think about anyway. I remember some good advice from an old friend- I have my mom to take care of, and Brian has his dad to worry about.
I got to buy a few goodies in the mall over there and then I used a gift card from Barnes and Noble. I bought a calendar that gives you a stamped piece (embroidery) for each month. I like handwork anyway, so these will be a snap to stitch up. We went in Walmart and they had a lot of stuff left over but all I bought was the Jergens lotion mentioned in my previous post plus some chocolate covered cherries.
Today we went to a farmer’s market. There is a store in there that has great items for me to sell on eBay. They were an excellent price. We sat on a stool at one of the little restaurants where I had a Philly cheesesteak (I had a salad for lunch) and Brian had a grilled tuna sandwich.
We headed to the mall so Brian could look at watches in Boscovs (he had seen some in another Boscovs yesterday) and they didn’t have any. I bought some jewelry there. I went to Strawbridges and got two chenille sweaters for $20 (as seen on tv) and a 3 foot feather tree (I really wanted one for my cross stitched ornaments, so now I have two things I can use) and these feather wreaths that were $60 marked down to $15 (one for me and one for mom). I really need to stay out of the stores, but I just love a good bargain. Just like my mom and she’s a packrat too!
We got invited to a wedding, my neighbor’s grandson. We don’t think we will attend as it’s way over in Brick, NJ near the shore and the only people we know are the neighbors, their son, daughter-in-law and kids. The last time we went to a function they had,(their daughter graduated with Sean), the parents hardly said two words to us. I think it would be a lot of trouble for us to go and sit and twiddle our thumbs. We will send a nice gift. The son has been serving in Iraq for almost a year. Not sure if he is coming home to get married and is being shipped out again. If his mom was close to me, I’d know all that.