Archive for September, 2007
Amazing Speed
I wanted to title this submission “Hopes and Dreams” but the dreams are coming true so fast that it could only be “Amazing Speed”!
My husband has hired a Directress/Head Teacher who’s belief it is that she has just been handed the fulfillment of her dreams: to open and run a school. And she has [...]
Style Freedom
Yesterday, this article was published in the The Jersulesum Post at international.jpost.com.
It tells of a tailor’s shop in northwest Pakistan, being blown up by armed operatives who bombed because the shop was making “Western clothes”. Supposedly the shop owner had been warned to stop making those un-Islamic styles. No one was [...]
Rocking Girl Blogger
Hi Folks:
I’ve been awarded the Rocking Girl Blogger award by Jacquie of Jacquie’s Journal for living through cancer (which really means surviving the chemo and radiation!) and keeping The Stitchery blog in in high spirits. If Jacquie is a new blogger to you, drop by and say “Hi!, Mary Beth sent me”. She’s [...]
School Remodeled
It’s almost finshed. We’ve replaced all the flooring, all the windows, the countertop and appliances in the kitchen and all the hardware, painted everything and the curtains are finished!!!
Oh there’s always more to do and then there’s the ordinary upkeep like mowing the lawn and putting in fall flowers. Here’s the 60 year [...]
It Will Never Go Away…
The curtains are all done! Pictures coming soon
First I have to clean up:
What is that? Another 200 yards?
My hands are blue, the washer and dryer are blue (permanently I think), the sewing machines are blue, the ironing board cover is blue. Even the brand new white curtain rodes are blue.
Back, Blue [...]
Rods and Tie Backs ~ Update on It’s Curtains!
The story of 18 curtains on a shoe string budget using poorly made fabric unsuitable for anything else continues with yet more money saving moves to create curtain rods:
We purchased 1.25″ diameter closet pole rod stock made of unfinished poplar at $1 per foot to use as the curtain rods. This saved us at [...]
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