I'm going to place the order for the materials for this piece next, which I'm going to do for myself.

That is stunning, Kathy. On today's crawl through the craft stores, Hubby bought me a pair of magnifiers I can clip onto my glasses. The bifocals just weren't doing it for being able to do needlework and lace, but I feel so old for having to go with even more vision enhancement.

Hubby bought me a pair of magnifiers I can clip onto my glasses.

I did not know they had any such beast. I think I need me a pair. I would love to get back into crochet and cross-stitch, but my trifocals don't cut it.

Kathy, those are awesome pieces of stitching. I hope you take pictures of them when they are done.

I didn't realize Youtube could be as big a time-suck as TVTropes, but earlier this evening I went looking for a Darlene Love song off the Phil Spector Christmas album, and found links to Little Peggy March and Petula Clark and I blinked and it was an hour later.

bifocals just weren't doing it

My bifocals are so out of whack (I am way overdue for my eye doctor appointment) that I just look over the top of my glasses for all of my stitching. By now, I'm so used to it that I don't know what I'd do if I could actually see my stitching clearly!

After I do that deco piece, I'm going to do this one, again for myself.

ETA: I was going through my bag of patterns, and maybe after I do those two, I'll finally get around to this Mucha Sarah Bernhardt poster before I do the Frank Lloyd Wright piece and the MacIntosh one, which are both very architectural but will make nice wall hangings.

I don't remember the whole story from the book. I think there was some reason the teacher really should have been fired, but they couldn't prove it, or something like that. It's been a long while since I read that book.

No, they just didn't like him because he was very strict. His name was Mr. Standish. I have no idea why I remember that. Tom 'fessed up in the end, though.

We went out in the storm to have oysters and tomato pie and then peanut butter pie for dessert at our friends' house. We did have to take a detour to get home due to a tree in the road but other than that it was fine. Just rainy. Pretty dang windy on the street now. Hope the electricity holds. So far the DirectTV is fine.

Really, right now I'm more worried about my car. The check engine light came on when we tried to drive it tonight and it was not feeling right at all. I don't want to have to think about getting a new car now! And I am hoping it makes it to 200,000 miles. Only 30,000 more to go. Come on, Car!

oh, and I love living right under TV Hill. The local news is forever showing things happening right by our house during weather events!

Tell him you know, Jon B. They've talked about Theremins.

It's true! They are both very down to earth people. I hope the interview comes through for you. You should ask then if he still has this car.

hey, shrift, I didn't just accidentally offend someone in your DW, did I? The no words was to your squash, right?

Sorry, got distracted by Doctor Who. And yeah, I'm pretty sure the no words was due to my staggeringly rude and dirty vegetable pictures. It was pretty... rampant.

Positively love the sheer zanyness of this place. It's...oddly comforting.