Christmas !

This is a custom Christmas stocking I just finished for a customer....I started to paint stockings for her family years ago and to date I think this is the sixth , with five more to follow. She needlepoints like she breathes and enjoys picking the fibers and generally just having a good time.

The stocking are always so different, the last having Lego space ships around the three....

This one is for her daughter and she is very girlie, hence the American dolls...not easy because she likes all her stockings on 13st and they are not huge...after all she likes to get them finished....I feel like I know the family somewhat and get great pleasure out of being a part of their history.......knowing that these stockings will be passed down in the family....tradition is cozy this time of year...

It has been cold and rainy here in Tucson....yuck and double yuck....well at least it is not snow....

we have a friend getting ready to move into a new house, and may have house guests for awhile

her 8 rescue parakeets....our dogs love them, and the birds are perfectly safe in their big cage....

her cats however will not be staying here...the dogs like them , but the cats are also rescue animals are very old and not amused by the dogs...lol...the house still has workmen doing things. They are behind and the temporary place she was living has new tenants about to descend so hence the birds visit here...lol...she and the cats will move in and the workmen will just work around them........

I could use some of that raging hot weather we had when we first moved here....rain always makes me feel creepy and cold....and it is very noisy since all the roofs are metal here.......please some sunshine before I get even more cranky !

One more item....I have been very flattered by the response to the article about the Gingerbread White House in the current Needlepoint Now.....the shops are all sold out and we have had many emails from people expressing how much they enjoyed the article....
the whole experience has been very pleasant.......This has been a very positive note to end such a dreadful year...a great new distributor CBK and Needlepoint Now...I think this next year will be great...