Something Royal

Surfing around the net these days I have discovered my newest and perhaps lamest obsession so far: Crowns and Tiaras…. I really do not care much about the British Royal family but find myself oddly obsessing  over which tiara is on whose head and for what occasion… Some of the papers report that the crowns are “loaned” and others say “given”…I do hope  at least the Royals are straight on it. And the crowns  have names. The Halo Tiara, The Meander Tiara, The Russian...


True Confession

ein kleine gluck UB chart I am really not a good cross stitcher. This is probably due to my lack of mental rigor and discipline in following a chart. And the reluctance to correct a mistake early in the game. I have noticed that some people are genetically wired to cross stitch. Take my friend Donna. She stitches models for me and I can almost not tell the back from the front (in a good way). And she is FAST. She must not stop to eat or sleep when she gets one of my packages in ...