Ok, I´ve started planning for the Stitch2004. I accidentally happened to be in London on that weekend last year and loved every minute of it (what, there are lots of other people just like ME?!). I´m hoping to get a few classes this year - Tracy Franklin´s Goldwork class (the kit I bought from her there last year was my first foray into the field and now I´m addicted); the Royal School of Needlework´s Silk Shading; Introduction to Feltmaking with the International Feltmakers Association and Gilda Baron´s Dyeing for a Landscape class.

And for all of you out there who thought embroidery was for little old ladies wearing tea cosies, this ones for you:

http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/

Well its been a fairly dull weekend. I spent yesterday shopping for stationary-related items (my second favourite collection item next to stash) to put together some official looking invites. Spent ages last night playing around with different designs, including using material and threads, but my current favourite is a pale green card with a heart outlined in black and filled with tight spirals of red card. I know, this was popular several years ago, but hey, no-one has ever accused me of keeping up with current fashions! I´ll send it off to the SO and we´ll see if he approves.
Now that I have the computer for the week I´m spending most of my free time working on a few cross-stitch design ideas I have. At the moment I seem to be more ideas than anything else, but they´ll all come together soon. In two week´s the day job finishes and I´ll have a couple of months free to focus entirely on the more interesting work!

ok, so I appear to be as bad in blogging as I am with other journaling technique! Í have managed to add a few links in the last couple of days (which stretched my programming abilities I must admit). I´d like to put in a large and sorted links page one day, but I think that might be past me at the moment - baby steps, baby steps!
In terms of stitching, well not much has happened in the last few days. I´m still working on Michael Powell´s Venice Window when I sit in the train (nice relaxing cross stitch pieces are wonderful at moments like those). I´m reworking an idea for a goldwork cross which was a special piece for someone, but at the moment my ideas are a bit beyond my technical capabilities (sounds like my computer skills!) and I have a dragonfly stumpwork piece on the go which should be finished by the end of the weekend (assuming no great catastrophes such as social events).

My very first blog post!! Yes, I have decided to join the multitudes who feel the need to spread their day-to-day life all over the web. Dammit I want my 15 minutes too!

I also have to put in a link to the webpage of my very dear friend who´s patiently teaching Japanese business men English in Tokyo. His got a blog running too which is good when he updates it!

http://www.geocities.com/marcuslovitt/