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Preserve Old Photos and Memoirs With Scrapbook Supplies

Memories of our good old days can never be brought up again on the same way as it is before. As others will say that no two happenings are alike and that everything is unique. I mean your birthday last year will never be same as this year for some reasons. However, we can reminisce and present it with the creative album named scrapbooks. It will be pitiful if some old photographs will be kept in boxes at the attic. I think they need to be treasured because those things represent one of the best memories a person has in his entire life. Don’t let the rats and other insects eat it.

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Crepe Paper Streamers: Make Crepe Paper Flowers

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You have probably seen those crepe paper flowers around somewhere and wondered to yourself about how to make them. Well, first of all you obviously need crepe paper streamers. You can use any old piece of crepe paper streamers, such as those ones left over from the birthday party six months ago, or left in a box from mom and dad’s anniversary last year.

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Creative Scrapbooking: Fun Birthday Page Ideas That Won’t Make You Fall Asleep While Scrapbooking

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Scrapbooking birthdays for everyone in your family can be enough to send you into a sticker-induced coma. But never fear! Here are five ideas to help you bring life back to your birthday scrapbook pages.

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Jewelry Boxes – Craft Idea For Kids

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It’s time for all of the fathers out there to be let in on a little secret that will help to melt their special someone’s heart on their birthday, anniversary or even Mother’s Day. By combining a few things that your wife likes, namely jewelry and home made projects she receives from kids, you are sure to score many bonus points when the gift is presented.

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Needlepoint Meme

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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A meme is usually a group of questions that get passed around the Web or Facebook and get answered by various people. My DD often posts book meme on her blog and my DS does movies meme from time to time. I thought we needed a needlepoint meme.

Never having seen one, I devised my own. The questions are in bold with my answers after. You can pass them along to others, answer them (or even just one of them) in the comments, or post it to your blog.

Have fun, you may even win a prize!

1) What is the most unusual place where you have needlepointed? I actually stitched once while walking down the street, a feat of coordination I wouldn’t dare do now. Although I do stitch in the car while waiting for the drawbridge to go down.

2) Stretcher or scroll bars? I use stretcher bars. I don’t much like the way you have to fiddle with scroll bars to keep the canvas tight.

3) Favorite needlepoint technique? Bargello, no duh.

4) Favorite thread? Watercolours. I used to (and still do sometimes) buy it the way some people buy lipstick. I often think of colors in terms of Watercolours and I stockpile favorite colors.

5) Favorite stitch? T Stitch, I use it on almost every canvas I do and actually have to force myself not to use it.

6) Favorite designer? I don’t know. I have more of vintage In Good Company mini socks than anything else, but I buy the design not the designer. Probably though I love Maggie Co. geometrics best. I’ve finished two and have two big ones in progress. I love the way I can use up threads with them and that they have so many colors.

7) Who has more of your needlepoint than anyone else? It used to be my Mom and I have more of her paintings than anyone else, but now it’s probably my DD (of the memes). I have made her a needlepoint ornament every year since she was born, use things for her as models for articles and make her things. But everyone in my immediate family gets needlepoint.

How many projects are you working on currently? Actively I have four projects I’m stitching on today and another three I’m working on more sporadically. And about another ten in various stages of completion sitting around close at hand.

9) Where’s your favorite place to stitch? Currently it’s on the couch. That way the cats can be behind me and on either side. The recliner isn’t as good for that.

10) Have you achieved SABLE (stash accumulation beyond life expectancy) yet? Enough for a couple of lifetimes I think, especially if you count the projects in books.

11) Do you belong to a needlework guild? Yes, two ANG chapters (Wine Country and CyberPointers) and one EGA chapter (Cyberstitchers).

12)Do you do something else while you stitch? I usually watch TV, sometimes listen to music and sometimes ride in the car. At one time I could read while I did needlepoint, I don’t know how I did that.

13) Do you stitch alone or with other stitchers? Mostly alone, but I like to stitch in company and wish I did it more.

14) What is your favorite needlepoint project? I love a Mika Partridge project of pomegranates I did years ago and which is in my living room. It’s huge, all Tent Stitch and cost a small fortune all told. But I love it.

15) Do you have a dream needlepoint project? Right now I’m dreaming about doing one of Susan Chaleff’s log cabin pieces, either Heart of the Cabin or her earlier one. I’m getting the earlier one for my birthday next month.

Have fun, I’m looking forward to seeing your answers

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What Can I Do with a Plaid?

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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adrian's birthday plaid finished as a boxtop

Why not use a birthday plaid as the background for a monogram?

One of the biggest challenges in needlepoint is the question of what do do with the finished stitching. While the stitching is the joy, sometimes it’s discouraging to look at the huge pile of needlepoint left stitched but waiting to be turned into something and loved. Maybe we should call it “The Island of Unloved Needlepoint.”

Birthday plaids and tartans are so much fun, it’s a shame not to make one just because you don’t know what to do with it. Some of my recent commissions give an idea of some of the wonderful things you can do with a stitched plaid.

The boxtop above uses a birthday plaid as the background for a simple monogram. The colors chosen match the room where it will live. Birthday plaids can be done in any colors and are great for this purpose.

You could use this idea for a great baby present. Do it in the nursery’s colors or in a traditional baby palette of pastels.

What about a belt?

This is the chart for a belt to be stitched in tartan. Tartan belts can often be seen and many (but not all) tartans work in this narrow space.

Stitch it in perle cotton and finish it as a belt for a unique gift.

The rage for tartan in the 1800’s made lots of tartan-embellished items to appear. Look at some of them for more ideas for stitched plaids. Then visit Needlepoint Plaids to order your tartan or birthday plaid. My experience in creating stitched plaids will create a wonderful result.

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Announcing Needlepoint Plaids Site

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Instructions for the birthday plaid are now available

I’m am, to use a cliche, mad for plaid. In particular, I’m mad for needlepoint plaids of all kinds. I have gathered up my information and handy order forms as well as some new plaid products, and put them all together on my new site, Needlepoint Plaids.

There you can find articles about different types of plaids, basic instructions on stitching a plaid, and a shop for buying my needlepoint plaid products. You can also find a free plaid pattern.

Joining the custom tartan and personal plaid orders are a list of inexpensive already charted tartans and, for the first time publicly available, my Birthday Plaid Mini-sock project pack, pictured above.

For guild chapters and other groups, there is also information about doing a personal plaid cyberclass in needlepoint, cross stitch, or both.

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Last Chance! Sign-up to Learn Shading

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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shaded needlepoint kimono cyberclass by janet perry

three types of needlepoint shading are showcased in this kimono

Has shading needlepoint stumped you in the past?
Do you wish you knew a way to shade with non-strandable threads?
Are you looking for an easy way to create dramatic

Your search is over. In this four-lesson cyberclass you’ll not only learn how to shade with any thread, but you will also learn how to develop a good color sequence for shading, when to shade and how to substitute one color for another.

The class is so much more than just the lessons, by stitching this kimono you will become skilled in this technique that can create both dramatic and naturalistic effects on your canvases.

Shading can be done by any stitcher from beginner to experienced. The class, comvined with the lively Yahoo discussion group enhances your experience. The class is only $27.50 and includes both the canvas and lessons.

Class starts May 15, 2010, so don’t delay.

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Cyberclass on Needlepoint Shading Starting May 15

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three types of needlepoint shading are showcased in this kimono

Shading can add so much to a needlepoint canvas, but all too often it is considered an advanced technique. But thanks to the methods I’ve developed and this cyberclass, you’ll master three different kinds of shading.

Whether you want to shade in the traditional manner, with needleblending, shade with metallics, or shade using single-strand threads, this class will show you how to shade. Not only will you learn the technique, you will also learn what affects shading, when to use it and how to pick the best shades and colors for this technique.

My classes go beyond the page to include bonuses, alternate color and thread ideas and lively discussion of needlepoint topics. I’ve picked this project and made the class affordable so that you can learn the technique and succeed while making a lovely project. All participants are part of a Yahoo group where additional instruction, materials, and discussion happen.

The class, including the canvas from Patt & Lee Designs, is only $27.50. It uses floss, metallics, and a background thread of your choice for a delightful result, at a great price.

You can join the class now, through PayPal.

Remember class size is limited, so register today!

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Textured Stitch Cyberclass

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blue stripe needlepoint textured stitch kimono from Patt and Lee Designs

learn lots of textured stitches for needlepoint in this cyberclass

Learning new stitches and making something lovely is a double win for needlepointers. When the canvas is as delightful as this little kimono from Patt & Lee Designs, that’s even better.

Patt and I are collaborating on a series of three classes for the three kimonos in this series. Each class will focus on a particular technique and will be suitable for both beginning and experienced stitchers. The textured stitch kimono is the first in the series and will begin, via email, April 1, 2010.

The class uses Patt’s canvas, Kreinik metallics and floss. Other thread options will be provided on request. Fourteen different stitches will be taught. Valuable extras in the class include information on stitch selection, stitch variations, and stitch dictionaries.

The cost for this special three-lesson class is $27.50, including the canvas and mailing in the US. It included membership in the Yahoo group set up for the class as well as a written evaluation of your stitching (details on that will be sent upon enrollment).

The size of the class is limited. You can sign up by clicking the PayPal button below. If you would like to take the class, but don’t use PayPal, please contact me. Once payment is received you will get an email with the materials list and will be sent the canvas.

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If you are outside the US, please note that in the payment, so we can make arrangements about the additional postage.

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