Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that I have moved my blog to http://karil.ca. Please go have a look and let me know what you think. I am looking forward to continuing blogging at this new site that has more features.
Photo courtesy of fPat Murray on Flickr for this photo ("red dog rescue").
The wind is really blowing today and everything is soaked outside. My friend called me to say that she was just freezing. My solution is below:
What do you do to keep warm on those cold days? Do you drink warm beverages like tea or hot chocolate? Or do you wrap up in a blanket. I hope this works for her. I think I am going to make one for me to keep warm while watching the latest episode of Bones. How about you?
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It's Friday and I wanted to share a Facebook page I discovered the other day. Express Your Walls is all about customizing your space with words. You all know that I believe in personalizing or customizing your space. My medium is machine embroidery. This company does it with words made of custom vinyl lettering. What a great idea to give your personal or your professional space that special personal touch.
Do you have expressions that inspire you? One of my favorites is 'Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much'. Words to live by, I think.
Or do you have a quote that would be perfect in your child's room. What about matching it with an embroidered fleece blanket? Perhaps the sentiment of Born to be Wild is not quite what you want, but I bet you have lots of ideas.
Anyway, go visit them. I don't know about you but I am thinking about what saying I could use to bring continual inspiration to my machine embroidery studio. Do you have any ideas? Would love to see your comments.
Love 'em or hate 'em, there is one thing that comes every year, birthdays. Here's one way to celebrate the day - a personalized fleece jacket. In this case, the jacket was a 1st birthday gift for a little boy named Griffin. When searching for a gryphon design to honor his name, I found this information regarding gryphons:
" Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. As the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle was the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature." (courtesy of Zundt Designs email newsletter*)
I hope you had a wonderful 1st birthday, Griffin, and like the gryphon described above, a wonderful and majestic life!
* I was so excited about Griffin's jacket that I could not resist the Zundt Designs version, which I purchased to put on a jacket for me. Have a look: http://bit.ly/Zundtgrphyondesigns.>
