It was stitched on 14 count blackboard aida and the cross stitch piece itself measures 3.5 x 4.5. I mounted it on sticky board, added ric rac, and then mounted it on a cardboard piece covered in denim. (I never ever throw out old jeans as one way or another you may use the fabric for something. :-) The finished piece is 5.5 x 6.5. I used the denim to match the overalls. I'm not going to stores, but hopefully I will get a call soon saying that a piece I brought for framing at Michaels is done, and when I go there to pick it up, I'd like to find some teeny tiny carrots or something like that to put around the edges. This piece will go on my two-tiered stand on my kitchen table.
Recommendation: I watch a great deal of Youtube as you may find the most unexpected, magical things there. Last night for some reason there was a suggestion to view a twenty-one year old Julie Andrews in a 1957 live broadcast of Cinderella. Why it was suggested, I have no idea, but it was a complete delight. CBS had commissioned Rodgers and Hammerstein to create the lyrics and music for this piece, and what glorious music it was. It was filmed on a very, very, small Broadway theater stage and broadcast live on Sunday evening, March 31, 1957. According to an article that I later read, it garnered over 100 million viewers.
Now, if you follow my blog, you know that I am always recommending something or other, but please, please, do check this out as it a wonderful look at the early glory days of television. It is, of course, in black and white and was filmed in kine scope, but the quality of the viewing is excellent. Trust me; it is a treasure!!!
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On the night before his Inauguration, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris held a memorial ceremony to remember the 398,000 men, women, and children in the US who had died from the coronavirus. Now just one month later the death toll in the US has reached 500,000. On Tuesday evening January 22, the President addressed the nation, and his speech was followed by a candlelit commemoration and moment of silence.
Here are a couple quotes from President Joe Biden's address:
"We have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. We have to resist viewing each life as a statistic or a blur or, on the news. We must do so to honor the dead. But, equally important, to care for the living."
“Let this not be a story of how far we fell, but how far we climbed back up. We can do this,” Biden said.
“This nation will smile again. This nation will know sunny days again. This nation will know joy again and as we do we’ll remember each person we’ve lost, the lives they’ve lived, the loved ones they’ve left behind. We will get through this, I promise you.”
Several news reports offered the following about this grim milestone. More people in the US have died from Covid than in both World Wars and in Vietnam combined.
God bless us all. Stay safe. Stay strong and hopeful and get vaccinated as soon as you are able.
Your carrot patch is darling!
ReplyDeleteI love your needlework. Stay safe, we are no where near the end of this virus but at least we are heading in the right direction.
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