I've mentioned on here before that I love corned beef and Vince doesn't. Apparently, he just didn't like the way I was cooking it. Today I made The Salted Pepper's Corned Beef and it was delicious. Vince said "This is the best corned beef you've ever made. I normally don't like it and I love this! If you don't have a Ninja Foodi, don't worry - it can be done in the Instant Pot. The Salted ...
A Day of Stitching
There's a little cross stitch shop in a little town in southwest Missouri. The shop is With Needle and Thread. They don't have a tremendous amount of info on their website but it does have their hours, phone number, email and a few other things. They've been open almost a year and I had never been there but a few weeks ago, they posted on Facebook about their monthly Saturday stitching day and ...
The Importance of Labeling
This is a problem of having too many projects started, as well as not labeling. I'm trying to do better but I'm always trying to do better at something. For weeks, this project in a frame kept calling out to me. Every time I would go to get a project from the bin, or replace a project in a bin, I would glance at this project and I didn't have a clue what it was. I kept telling myself I had ...
Vintage Christmas Alphabet
You know how I want to stitch as much as I can on each piece of linen before taking it off the frame. I have all kinds of "scraps" of linen that I've cut off other projects but since I can no longer stitch in hand, those pieces are sometimes small enough that, unless I add strips of fabric around the sides, they're too small for a scroll frame and some are too small for a hoop so it makes more ...
Winter Cometh & Autumn Provides
Yesterday I finished everything on This I Know except the grass fill in and I stitched around it to measure for the frame. You can't see the outline I stitched because it's done in yellow thread. It's just a basted line and that's the line that I measure across to get the frame size and I also use that line for folding the fabric over the foam board to insert into the frame. I've measured, in ...
They DO Grow Up
Chad and his family are in Louisiana and Chad sent me this picture. When I looked at it, my first thought was . . I have to share this on the blog . . for those readers who remember Chad in high school and college. He wasn't a BAD kid but he kept me on my toes and we butted heads probably daily for many years. I have to laugh, and thank God that he grew up to be the man he is. I guess many of us ...