http://www.sussiesandsuch.com Fri, 29 May 2009 07:58:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am excited! I sold one of the lace butterflies that I create on my embroidery machine to a lady. She emailed me today and gave me this link to her blog where she is using my butterfly!!! http://modernmourner.blogspot.com/ http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/embroideredlace-butterfly.jpg http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/42 Boy life has been busy since my husband and I have both retired. That sounds weird! I thought only old people could retire. Everyone at church says we are tooooooooo young to be retired but let me tell you we are enjoying it. We have been able to help our ... http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/41 http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/40 My Auntie Em has just had foot surgery and while I was visiting her she said that her book cover that her daughter had given her had worn out. So I borrowed it and used it to learn how it was made. I have found some cute material and ribbon ... http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/35 Some keychains I've been working on! http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/32 I have been very busy in the past month or so. I took my stoles to United Methodist Annual Conference in Baton Rouge, La. I had a table and a hanging display of them. I had 15 of them. Baptism, Communion, Wedding, Lent, Easter, Advent, Christmas, Red Patchwork for Pentecost, ... http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/16 Our assistant pastor wanted a new white wedding stole and also wanted a white communion and baptism stole. We decided to combine them and make the stole reversable. I hope you like my designs. The communion I designed myself and am very proud of it. If you know any church ... http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/14 I am busy right now making stoles for pastors and lay leaders to see and hopefully buy at United Methodist Annual Conference that is being held in Baton Rouge in June. I started making stoles several years ago when our pastor at the time was moving to another church. ... http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/12 Well we have spent the last few hours looking for Kelly and David's cat, Earl Gray. The front door had blown open and we felt that he had gotten out. Before we started looking we searched the house up and down and no Earl. We live next door to the ... http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/6 Have you been wondering what the fire pictures are all about? Well several evenings ago about 12:30 am. I was in my sewing room and heard a bang, I went to check on my husband in our room, He was fast asleep. Then I came back to my room and heard ... http://www.sussiesandsuch.com/archives/5