Ruth, you are killing me! I have loved, loved, loved this canvas…did I say love? since you started working on it. See your pace for this for moi would be just purr~fect. Just a bit every few months. Come on admit it, how many of us have a single project that we are working on?

Okay you sent me over the edge with this last fashionista that you designed. OMG she is wonderful! I know those are beads that create that stole, but just what magic did you do to have them seem to float aimlessly in the air? I just might have to sign up for this after all. I say better late than never. If you are like me and are on the edge and want to see more of this high fashion lady, just check her out on Ruth’s Blog It’s Not Your Grandmother’s Needlepoint Anymore. Do you know that she has a stitched banner in her shop saying just that?

It really was a sad, wild and crazy weekend for me. Not only did my dear friend Pat leave us, but my old restaurant where I left a big chunk of my life is closing down. Not the whole company, just this one. It was the 2nd one in the chain of Stuart Anderson’s Black Angus Restaurants that opened 44 years ago. I worked for the company almost 25 years when my needlepoint career came a calling. Lots of dear friends made over the years, lots of

blood, sweat and tears left behind. This is one of the updated logos that I think is way with it. Well the landlord decided that he was not going to renew the lease, so it is closing down and will become a Sonic…a fellow needlepointer is a big fan of Sonic, so I will get to check it out. I worry about the employees that are loosing their jobs, but most of everybody is transferring. Through the power of Facebook, the word was out out that we were saying goodbye to the restaurant and there was a party going on. What a party it was! It was great seeing old faces and reminiscing on old times. The good old days.

If that wasn’t enough, I found out that a wonderful little bead and knit shop located in Old Town San Diego called the Shepherdess closed too!

I am getting the itch to go to Spring Training this year. One of my very first GM’s with Black Angus…well we go way back when, and okay I digress. I saw him at the party and he was very smug rubbing it in about his team, Those San Francisco Giants! He goes every year for Spring Training and I have been wanting to for awhile now. Should I or shouldn’t I go this year?

I bought a new cell phone…had to order it and wait a few days to get it into my hot little hands. It was more from need and not from wanting to buy a new one. I am like once I learn the one I have, why do I want to do all that work to learn how to use a new one? Well the old one was acting up too much.

A new tv too as the old one is over 16 years old and has been misbehaving…you know sort of like my AlleyCat. Well I need to get lined up for baseball season. That too had to ordered and will be here today. Do I see a pattern here?

See what I mean about a wild and crazy weekend?

And then I come across this…okay I get it now why you are so scared of vacuum cleaners. be ready as it is coming out later today.

Is Sylvester waking up thinking…is she touching me? OMG is she? and until next time…keep on stitching