(original post 8 Apr 2011)
That Publisher/Editor/Merchanting Woman has returned triumphant (and tired!) from Needlin' Fools EGA seminar - enough sales that I actually get a "paycheck"! Woo-hoo! - so it muct be time to get back to work. Have been thinking about, in addition to the usual stuff, about personalizable (is that a word?) things like wedding and birth samplers, for a beginning, and more things with color...
I haven't even LOOKED at a design for the last 3 weeks, been having a wonderful time playing genealogist. Amazing how many resources are available online these days - and amazing how many folks don't pay attention, and publish pedigrees going back to - like one I was looking over last night - to a Byzantine Emperor WHO DIED WITHOUT CHILDREN. Hey, folks, if there were no children, that person cannot be your direct ancestor. Sorry. ;-) Check Wikipedia, if nothing else. If they're famous, they're prolly gonna be there.
Had our very first thunderstorm of the year last night, and today there's a haze of green across the pastures and the hills, and buds on the cottonwood in the back dooryard. Makes the mind turn to thinking about what sort of trees and shrubs we can murder this year by planting them here. I want a million lilac and rose bushes, to make up for the fact that I can't have crepe myrtles...
That Publisher/Editor/Merchanting Woman has returned triumphant (and tired!) from Needlin' Fools EGA seminar - enough sales that I actually get a "paycheck"! Woo-hoo! - so it muct be time to get back to work. Have been thinking about, in addition to the usual stuff, about personalizable (is that a word?) things like wedding and birth samplers, for a beginning, and more things with color...
I haven't even LOOKED at a design for the last 3 weeks, been having a wonderful time playing genealogist. Amazing how many resources are available online these days - and amazing how many folks don't pay attention, and publish pedigrees going back to - like one I was looking over last night - to a Byzantine Emperor WHO DIED WITHOUT CHILDREN. Hey, folks, if there were no children, that person cannot be your direct ancestor. Sorry. ;-) Check Wikipedia, if nothing else. If they're famous, they're prolly gonna be there.
Had our very first thunderstorm of the year last night, and today there's a haze of green across the pastures and the hills, and buds on the cottonwood in the back dooryard. Makes the mind turn to thinking about what sort of trees and shrubs we can murder this year by planting them here. I want a million lilac and rose bushes, to make up for the fact that I can't have crepe myrtles...
And speaking of genealogy, check out my great-great-grandparents in all their "Sundy-go-t-meetin" best -