Posted in Stitching, blogging, friends, hand embroidery on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This week I’ve met Megan from Australia who has a blog about calligraphy, illumination, and historical embroidery. Do go visit her. She features a wealth of resources, having done a lot of research and stitching of her own. Especially don’t miss her book cover posts.
Posted in Stitching, friends, gifts, hand embroidery, tagged beads, cracker, gift, Maureen, Stitching, Toni, Veronique on April 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The reason why I couldn’t post pictures yesterday was that I had used up my free space on Word Press; I had to pay for more space. Now I can proceed.
You may remember that Toni painted some silk handkerchiefs for me. I wanted to make something for her in return. When Allie sent me this [...]
Posted in Dorothy, friends on January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In response to email and comments she has received, Dorothy sent me this message:
This is such a nice thing for people to do. Makes me believe in all the good people in America that I always knew were out there. Thank you all. dorothy.
I am sending angels to the VA home in Scranton and [...]
Posted in Dorothy, friends on January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
please tell all of the wonderful people “thank you for the wonderful responses”. an extra “yes” for the one praying for me. . i am downhill sliding right now and having problems turning it around. my sincere love to all. dorothy
Posted in blogging, friends on January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Thank you, Allie, for including me in your list of bloggers whom you enjoy. Immediately I began making my own list:
Allie, Vero, ElizabethM, Sharonb, Kay, Marty, Annie, MaureenB, Maureen, Ruth, Karen, Neki, RachelM, Mary, Conni, Pat, Nancilynn, Barbara….
But then I thought about how long it would take me to choose ten (because I could list [...]
Posted in CFS, Dorothy, friends on January 7, 2008 | 7 Comments »
For Christmas she bought, packed, and shipped nine boxes of goodies to an Army unit serving in Iraq.
Some time ago I wrote about my friend Dorothy’s bead angels. She sends them to “forgotten people in America” as she says: children in hospitals, the elderly, the handicapped, and people in military service. Because she was a [...]
Posted in Gloria, friends, poem, reading on December 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You may remember my account of our New Year’s celebrations with neighbors Esther and Gloria. I want to share with you one of my favorites of Gloria’s poems. It was published in this book:
All my photographs of Gloria disappeared with the computer crash, but here’s the one on the back cover of her book.
And here [...]
Posted in Charlestown, Stitching, food, friends on December 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to Kathy, I now have 12 ounces of shelled pecans.
You may remember that Kathy contacted me after finding my blog to tell me that we were neighbors. She has been making textile art all her life, and she brought some of her work to show me. When she read about my misadventure with [...]
Posted in friends on December 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On CNN Saturday morning at 10:45, Toni’s six-year-old granddaughter will be interviewed about her daily news show. (Remember Toni?) You can see Malia’s latest show here.
There’s been a lot of buzz about this program. You may want to tune in for the interview.
Posted in Charlestown, Esther, friends on December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Inadvertently, I deleted the pictures I took when I went to give Esther her card. Here they are again–Esther with her seasonal decorations and the doorway decorations of some other residents whose apartments I passed on my way back home. Lovely Esther celebrated her 98th birthday December 8.
