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I shared recently that we moved to a different state June 1. Since we moved I’ve been to Rogers, AR; Charleston, WV; Chicago, IL; Baltimore, MD (twice!), and Houston, TX, all for teaching assignments. That has left little time to get things organized and orderly. I’m through with teaching assignments for a little while, so […]

DebBee’s Designs is moving! We’re leaving Conway, AR after 23 years, and headed to western Oklahoma to help take care of mother-in-law. The good news! I’ll have a dedicated studio space, about 500 sq. ft, which is about triple the space I have now. It will be awesome to not be spread out all over,

I went back to the school the next week for my private class with Louise Dawson, a lovely young woman with a certificate from the Royal School. We set it up for the afternoon, so I got to spend the morning with the other stitchers. More coffee, more cake! I asked them if they had

I saved the best of my trip to Scotland for last, and it will probably take a couple of posts to get it all out! When I knew I was going to Scotland (with husband for his work), I immediately began searching for needlework, and the Wemyss School of Needlework came up. On the map

Those of you who know me know that I’m not really a fan of samplers. I don’t stitch them, don’t design them and don’t have any at my house. But I made time to visit the exhibit of Scottish samplers at the National Museum, and it was very illuminating. The Scottish samplers are on loan

We took one weekend to go to Stirling Castle. Again, lots of walking! We took the train from Edinburgh to Stirling, and everything we saw online indicated that we would have to walk up to the castle. That turned out not to be entirely true, but we didn’t discover that until we had walked straight

Believe it or not, I found stitching in the Scottish National War Museum at Edinburgh Castle! First of all, there are a LOT of kilts on display! Along with the kilts are jackets, several of which are decorated with some really impressive gold work. Everyone else was looking at the exhibits; I had my face

I’m back from two weeks in Scotland and I managed to do a lot of stitching related things while I was there. I’ll take some time to highlight all of the things I did, and hope you find them as interesting as I did! I wrote earlier about my stitching emergency and needing to find

My husband works for an international company, and the project he’s assigned to is headquartered in Edinburgh Scotland. He’s been to Scotland 3 times, and I couldn’t go any of those times. They called him back again and the timing worked out for me to go! Yea! So the first thing I thought about packing

The first of the year I set a simple goal – stitch every day. Today is January 24, and so far I’ve stitched every day except one! Great progress toward my goal! It’s a little different for me since I don’t have projects kitted up ready to start, so when I finish something I have