Archive for the 'travel' Category
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Getaway 2011 Report
Last weekend, I went to the stitching get away put on by 3 Stitches. the get away is held away from it all in the piney woods near Huntsville, Texas. First, I’ll start with the stash: A mesh bag, a kitty-cat tray, a pair of black Dovos, a cat scissor fob, another pair of scissors [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on March 30th, 2011 tagged stitching, travel | Comment now »
Things to do when you forget to bring a needle
The husband and I went on a trip recently, and in the interest of conserving space, I only packed one stitching project. When I pulled it out to work on it, I found that I had forgotten a needle! So here’s a list of things to do on vacation when you don’t have a needle [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on December 29th, 2010 tagged travel | 1 Comment »
A busy life = less stitching time
A brief look at July and August: The Tour de France was most of July and finished with TdF cupcakes: We had a bunch of company in late July to mid August, which meant I did far less stitching that I usually like. However, I did get to see “The Phantom of the Opera” (again). [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on September 1st, 2009 tagged design work, just life, travel | Comment now »
In which not much stitching is done, but charts are made ready
I haven’t really stitched much since the weekend and I think my fingers are getting itchy! I have spent the time since the online show doing the production work to create chart files and then printing, printing, printing! Over 200 charts had to be printed – that’s the downside of print on demand. I did [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on April 30th, 2009 tagged business, design work, travel | Comment now »
A more detailed Tour of Missouri, then more cross stitch
While escaping from Hurricane Ike, DH and I found in Missouri a cosmic collision of bicycling and cross-stitch. How often does a professional bicycling race coincide with a TNNA trade show? Ok, there’s a chance it might happen every year now, but since this was only the second year of the Tour of Missouri and [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on September 24th, 2008 tagged cycling, design work, famous people, stitching, TNNA, travel | 48 Comments »
Evacuation Vacation
It has been quite busy lately around the Cross Eyed Kat lair. First, there was all the prep work to do for the St. Charles Market aka the Fall Needlework Market. Once I got everything to this state, I still had to do the printing. This was a bit tricky as I was running low [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on September 18th, 2008 tagged cycling, TNNA, travel | Comment now »
Tour de Georgia, part deux
The last day of the Tour de Georgia was a circuit race in downtown Atlanta, meaning that the bikers went on a six mile loop through downtown Atlanta for ten laps. Do the math and that makes a sixty mile race where you get to see the bikers go by ten times! Awesome! It was [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on June 26th, 2008 tagged cycling, famous people, travel | Comment now »
T-minus 7 days and counting
Seven days until I leave for the NeedleArts Market in Columbus, OH. This is supposed to be the big tradeshow of the year; it is held in a convention center and brings cross stitch, needlepoint and yarn together as well as anything else that might be used in those pursuits. I’m not sure how it [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on May 28th, 2008 tagged ATC, stitching, TNNA, travel | 1 Comment »
Spoke too soon, plus Whoa!
Ok, I spoke too soon about getting better. My “virus” has definitely morphed into something sinusy and nasty – meaning I’ve have talked funny for several days, now have a lovely cough and have been generally getting by with Tylenol cold medicine plus cough drops. Therefore, I haven’t had a chance to upload my Georgia [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on May 15th, 2008 tagged design work, Other, travel | Comment now »
Mostly well
I think I have moved from being virus-sick to allergy sick. My fever has abated, but my throat is all yucky. Anyway, my apologies to the nice lady from Colorado who spent 11 hours in a seat next to me on the flight from Munich to Denver – I hope you didn’t catch whatever I [...]