I swear I am not bored! I get on these photo editing kicks at times. Sean wanted to be The Mummy, but I happened upon this shot and thought it was a good one for Halloween. I don’t know if he will use it, but I liked it. One problem-even with the fangs, he’s just too cute to look evil!
This has been ‘posterized’.
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I’m working on another ‘scaredy cat’ one. These all have felt fronts, except the owl which is fabric. I saw the owl in the design and went from there. Hope you like them!
The Brandywine River at the Brandywine River Museum is about 10 minutes from here. It was also in this general area where ‘The Village’ was filmed a couple of years ago. So this is basically the landscape of the area where we live. Pretty isn’t it? Thanks to Corbis.com for this great aerial shot.
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I get a lot of great ideas from other bloggers. Abby introduced me to tribe.net, My wishlist, de.licio.us and flickr. Know Katie pointed me in the direction of Technorati tags. I have seen tags on Flickr. I thought I’d add them to my posts when I remember to do so. It’s fun to click on say ‘cross stitch’ and see what other bloggers who have tags are saying about cross stitch.
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Not a really exciting weekend. Brian is hurting with his left knee. He cleaned up filling about 8 trash cans with Chestnut burrs (which he dumped down the hill). Then he cut the grass. Today he was limbing around but did go to the grocery store with me because he needed to walk around. And he likes his goodies too. Right now he is on a Perrier water and bagged popcorn kick. He did have a brace on his knee for a while and took some Advil.
I got to try out a purchase from eBay today. I bought this thing that is the ceramic equivilent to a beer can to cook chicken on. I made the mistake of cooking it from about 1-2:45 (Brian’s dad came over for a little visit, so I wanted to get the chicken in the oven). I then turned the oven down to 165 where it sat for a few hours wrapped in foil. Plus I had no beer and had to use Worchestershire sauce, water, etc. So I think the beer would have been good. The chicken was a little dry, but I would definitely try it again, maybe with a honey glaze as suggested. For dessert, I bought some caramel and chocolate chip dipped apples-heaven.
I spent the entire evening ripping out a boo-boo on a cross stitch piece I had put aside for a few months. I can’t stand when the edges of the design and border don’t match up and this would have happened if I hadn’t of ripped it out. I have wanted to stitch ‘A Walk in the Woods’ for ages.
The guys are rejoicing over the Eagles football team winning over Kansas City. It was definitely a comeback kind of game. I am glad the two of them like to watch football together. I feel a little left out sometimes.
chicken recipes,
Philadelphia Eagles
I found this lovely photo of Elsa Lanchester as
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
I took this edgy shot of myself-lol and…
Super imposed it over Ms. L’s. face.
It still needed a little something to look like a blended photo so…
I tried some special effects and this is what I got!
I thought this looked like a mirror, so I added some light spots.
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Yesterday I was cutting up fabric to make little Halloween pillows that you hang from door knobs, from the center of wreaths, etc. I have one pinned together and it is looking cute. I am hoping to make and sell a few on eBay. I bought a pillow from a craft store and decided I could use it as an example. I went on the web and looked for Halloween cat designs (more vintage) than the one used on the store bought pillow. The front has a felt center where you add the design. I cut the design out of felt and glued it on. I added embroidery floss whiskers, etc. Later I pinned and basted the pilllow while watching tv. I need to do more assembly line stitching to work faster. I’ll post a photo when I complete a few of these.
I also want to make a ‘pumpkin head’ doll that I saw in a magazine. I need to look for baby ornamental corn for it’s feet, but I got a nice variety of pumpkins from JoAnns. I like using the creative side of my brain!
BTW, off topic, but it got to around 41 last night. Not to worry as next week it will be in the low 80s (that’s hot for this time of year).
Ah, look at this:
My brother Don made this box for me. It has black and white buttons around the edges. Inside is a photo of Sean when he was about 9 months old. My little baldie in his Phillies uniform. I was really touched by this. Thanks Don!
Her infamous ‘coming home’ poncho! I was just visiting her website and there it was up for sale at $49.99 with the red being sold out. Don’t worry, she is donating all the money from the sales of the ponchos to charities like Katrina. I thought that was pretty cool.
Will I make this poncho? I don’t know. I do like to crochet, but I have a few other ponchos and am not sure if I will add another to my collection. The others aren’t homemade. I made a wool poncho once in high school and I hardly wore the thing!
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Thanks to Mindy for reminding me to answer this:
Have you ever just quit a project while in the midst of it? (We’re not referring to UFOs here, rather projects that you know that you’ll never work on again.) Why? What did you do with it – throw it out, give it away, put it away?
There are a few that became so infuriating to stitch on, I packed them up. One is a Dimension kit of ocean waves that turn into galloping horses. I could finish it sometime, so it is really an UFO. The problem was that the color chart/symbols were on the other side of the chart. I’d go to change colors and lose my place! I need to get the one page copied. Why Dimensions would do this with a large chart is beyond me. Paper is cheap. I haven’t worked on it for a few years and whether or not I do is questionable.
The other things are a beagle dog I was making for a friend of my brother’s and I think the dog died, so I didn’t finish it. I may finish it and give it to my mom the dog lover. The other was a design I was doing for a friend who isn’t a friend anymore. Looking at it makes me unhappy even though it’s not a bad design. Guess they sound more like UFOs, but it’s been several years since I have put one stitch in any of them.
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I just purchased the Just Cross Stitch Christmas ornament issue for 2005. It’s nice and I am happy to have all the past issues of this yearly issue. I just need to stitch more of them! I like these because of the different designers who contributed their designs, a few I have met.
My brother just sent a big box of cross stitch stuff from his thrift shops excursions down in Florida. There were several bags of DMC floss which I could always use. I had to laugh because there were about 10 skeins of this green color and several of a gold. One kit had the little ornaments all stitched up, they only needed washing. I will probably donate them for a Love Quilt. There was a nice North America animal design still in the metal hoop. I took it off, and you guessed it, there was a hoop mark! I washed and soaked it twice and it’s faded alot. I think that the stitching will cover a majority of the mark that is left. I thought that I didn’t have the floss for it, but here it was in a little bag and the colors were all nicely wrapped on cardboard spools. I don’t even do that with my own DMC. I may complete the design, I may not. I got someone else’s UFO!!! I appreciate Don thinking of me and sending me goodies once in a while.
Collages & Creative Goodness 