I noticed today that I have every Luscious Jackson album except Natural Ingredients imported into iTunes on this computer. I know I have the CD and saw it recently in the house, but it is escaping me now that I am trying to find it. I also need to sync music between my desktop and laptop because I imported a bunch of music onto the laptop over ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything interesting in awhile so here's something to tide y'all over before I think about someone's flaming underwear again. (They're still lucky an accelerant-stained laundry bag didn't self-ignite while they weren't home. Not that I know anything about setting anything ablaze, but I practice responsible trouble-making. Except ( Read more... )

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This is going to be an interesting weekend with Vogon around more (Friday-Tuesday was crunch time for him at work) going into the weekend and Laurel around after it. It will also be interesting because it is going to be cold (for Dallas) Thursday and Friday, then warm up so I can give my long underwear a break from being worn in lieu of being able ( Read more... )

I'm running low on inspiration to keep backstitching on New World Discovery. The closer I get to being finished, the slower I go.

In the meanwhile, I'm giggling at what Richard Saja has been embroidering on toile, especially the clown faces on the ladies: http://historically-

One thing I like about traditional needlepoint is that it stitches up much faster than cross-stitch or petit-point, both of which I love but sometimes I want a quicker project.

While I don't think I'll be stitching anything from Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men, that samurai is pretty badass.

Registered users of PCStitch that haven't opted out of offers from the manufacturer have gotten several e-mails over the past month with a coupon code good through 1 December on an upgrade to PCStitch Pro that's supposed to save over 60% off the retail price of PCStitch Pro ( Read more... )

On Saturday night, Laurel shook her hips and sang "I want to hula hula" (to the tune of "I Like to Move It") while dancing to an electronica version of the can-can. Now she's wandering around wearing the hula skirt over her jeans and dusting things.

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To fill my desire to label things, I've been tagging past posts in cross_stitch and menstrual_cups. Yes, they're ( Read more... )

After she finished drinking a cup of juice, Laurel proudly informed me she won. I replied that sure, she won another cup of juice and was about to ask what kind she wanted when she interrupted me with "No, I won the DRINKING CONTEST ( Read more... )

My eyes are so tired I think they might fall out. After a big push the last two weeks, I have gone from just shy of 50% to 100% completion transferring the pattern for New World Discovery (Bucilla 41150, approx. finished size 16x12" on 18-count fabric) into PC Stitch. The .pat file is 215kb, which is absolutely amazing to me -- the biggest sample ( Read more... )