double trouble

on one side...

Dracula bead kit by Mill Hill

stitched by Melissa and finished by dianne

and on the other side...

 Self Isolating Bat by Night Spirit Studio

(a free chart found on the internet during the pandemic)

stitched on leftover mystery linen with leftover mystery DMC floss

and finished on a wooden oval blank from 24 Hour Crafts 

using the borrowed idea from SOMEONE - i don't remember who the blogger was - to use vampire fangs ... thank you, whoever you are - it's brilliant!!!

this actually WAS a fun stitch!!!

scariest trick or treater ever...

the Garbage Oompa Loompa ... he's even more scary when he wears a mask ... when he come knocking, do NOT answer the door ... he's not there for a piece of candy - he wants your self respect and your dignity and your freedom

the links will take you to YouTube videos

 

abracadabra - zombie

 Halloween Sampler by Cottage Garden Sampling

stitched on 28ct Scuppernog Gingham linen by Weeks Dye Works with called for floss

wooden tray by Sudberry House

didn't have any fun stitching this one, either ... just sayin'

melting pots

 

Batty Boris

 Batty Boris was a limited edition kit from Just Nan

stitching this was NOT fun...

it's not easy being green

Franky the Thinker

stitched on 28ct Okefenokee linen with called for DMC floss

prolly won't ever be fully finished - but he sure was fun to stitch!!!

 Monster Mash 

 Mill Hill bead kit stitched by Melissa

and finished by dianne on wooden blank from 24 Hour Crafts

January 6, 2021

he's calling this a day of love 

but we KNOW that's a lie...

there's a newly released movie about the insurrection, in case you've been misled by the former president, that will remind you of what we all witnessed that day...

the people who were convicted and are serving their sentences for attacking the Capitol are not patriots ... they are not hostages ... they are not political prisoners ... they are insurrectionists who must pay their debt to society for violating the People's House and for attacking the officers who were doing their jobs...

just sayin'

the links will take you to YouTube videos

you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

fabrics from stash in the Majick Shoppe

paper piecing pattern from Full Bobbin Designs at Etsy.com

special order iron on letters from Simply Styled By Stacie at Etsy.com

You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.

Kamala Harris

listen...

do you want to know a secret?

do you promise not to tell?

so ... Thing One announced at his hate rally on Sunday that he and (speaker) Moses Mike Johnson R/Louisiana have "a little secret" that won't be revealed till after the election ... sounds ominous, huh?

 it's probably diabolical, too 

 when you aren't winning, you resort to intimidation and to punching poll workers and to setting fire to ballot boxes and to passing state laws to suppress voting and to flooding the courts with lawsuits...

 and you make secret pacts with other nimrods...

what they may not realize is that  we have our own little secret and no one has to know - it's between us and our ballots

the link will take you to a YouTube video

symbols

 

girl dads

 i love you, daddy

the link will take you to a YouTube video

spaghetti western

 

Spaghetti Western Sampler

by Ardith Design

stitched on 28ct Aztec Red Gingham linen

with called for floss

the only changes made were the words...

the original design says

YEE-HAW for Good Food + Social Justice

changed to a (modified to pg-rated) quote from one of Melissa's favorite Christmas movies and one of my dad's favorite suggestions at suppertime

i've decided that samplers just aren't my thing - i love how they look,

but stitching them is not my idea of relaxing with my needle and thread

i do lurve me some pasta!!!

and i wouldn't say no to a big bowl of spaghetti and meatballs with lottsa stinky cheese right about now...

on top of spaghetti

all covered with cheese

i lost my poor meatball

when somebody sneezed...

Thing One and Thing Two

these two guys lie 

they lied about Springfield 

NO ONE was eating the dogs or the cats

 and the goose was hunted by an old white guy who thought it was okay because the geese were pests, not pets

and they lied about Aurora

the apartment complex was mismanaged by the out-of-state slumlords who refused to correct infested and unlivable conditions

the actual gang members, except for the one who's still on the run, were arrested weeks ago

the city hasn't been overrun

Colorado hasn't been invaded - i know this for a fact because i live here and i'm a wimp and i would be dialing 911 for help if it was

they lied about it

they lied about FEMA  after Hurricanes Helene and Milton

the rescue teams were on the ground before the storms even made landfall

but FEMA had to pull back recovery teams because of threats of armed militias hunting them down 

because these guys lie

they lie about late term abortions and infanticide

they lie about boys going to school and coming back home as girls - no school is performing transgender surgery and it's ridiculous to believe it's true - haven't any of you filled out the multitude of forms for the school nurse to give your kid a bandaid or an ice pack?!? 

they lie about voter fraud 

and they lie about elections not being free and fair 

and they lie about lying 

they lie about crowd size, for crying out loud

they lie about Project 2025/Agenda 47

they lie about our military

they lie about our justice system 

they lie about the insurrection on January 6 - we all witnessed it in Real Time - we all KNOW what we saw

they lie about themselves

they lie about the media

they lie about us ... and they lie about YOU

 all of it is EASILY DEBUNKED

stop believing everydamnthing you hear

because these guys lie

don't take my word for it...

Google it ... look it up ... watch independent news ... use your common sense

use logic ... use your brain for something besides an ear spacer

you're not a fool

but these two think you're gullible

and they lie

Mother Earth Father Sky

we can fix this ...  we owe it to our children

this link will take you to a YouTube video

no ... he's wrong

he's at it again ... now he's saying our country is a garbage can...

 even though he was born and raised with the Statue of Liberty keeping watch over his home ... maybe he never read her sonnet?

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, 

with conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, 

and her name 

Mother of Exiles.

From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome; 

her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

 "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" 

cries she with silent lips.

 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Emma Lazarus

this is personal ... i am a grandchild of immigrants

 our borders are broken - let's work together to fix the problems 

stop the fear-mongering and the hate spewing and the name calling ... we wouldn't allow kindergartners to behave so atrociously - sheesh

America IS great - we're NOT a failing nation - and we have MORE IN COMMON than what separates us

just sayin'

but is she dying?

Amber Nicole Thurman

we will speak her name and the names of our other sisters who have died because our rights to determine our own healthcare choices have been stripped away... 

in 2024,  my daughters and granddaughters and great granddaughter have fewer rights than my generation had... 

we let it happen and we need to fix it... 

we don't have to deny our own values and our own choices - you do you and i'll do me - but the government has no place in determining our reproductive rights...

this link will take you to a YouTube video

january 20, 2025

this doesn't have to happen ... it's up to you

this link will take you to a YouTube video

little pitchers

 they're listening to every word

this link will take you to a YouTube video 

bored?

bored with all the political stuff?

fed up with people who go on and on and on about this being the most critical election in our lives, country over party and the end of democracy?

sick of having politics shoved down your throat?

well ... grow the eff up ...this is about your Real Life - your health, your education, your money, your community, your basic human rights ... you're not a kid anymore - stop whining and vote for your future.

 

colorado congressional district four

you have a choice to make...

you already know what you're gonna get from the candidate with an R after her name... 

you deserve better...

another scary thing

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.

Sun Tzu

may you never know

 the fear of having your human rights challenged every time there is an election...

and may you never know the pain of watching people you love vote against your right to fully, equally and authentically exist...

scary things

 spiders

fascism

snakes

school shootings

four way stops

hopelessness

left turns with oncoming traffic

presidential immunity

road rage

religious nationalism

rabies

climate change denial

germs

ignorance

rats

book bans

disinformation

is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.

just sayin'...

we be the cavalry

There is no cavalry coming. No miracle solution. No saviors. In the end, we, the American people - not any of our institutions - have to save our democracy by voting in defense of that democracy this fall. We are the cavalry. The responsibility is ours.

Eric Holder, former Attorney General

something to think about...

 did you know that when you say ignorant things about women in power, they don't hear you?

but your daughters do ... your mother does ... your grandmothers and granddaughters do ... your wife/girlfriend/lover does ... your sisters do ... your aunties and nieces do

 all the women in your life hear you

childless cat lady...

 

 stitched by Melissa (the childless cat lady who doesn't have a stake in our country's future and is more likely to be a mentally unstable sociopath - too bad she's allergic to cats) ... finished by dianne (the postmenopausal female whose purpose in life should be raising grandchildren - also allergic to cats and who did, in fact, stop earning $34/hour plus benefits to care for her grandbabies, and is now relying on the Social Security that she paid into for forty years, yet it is considered an "entitlement" that should be cut)

hoping for rain...

               and not just because we are currently living through a drought

it will take a downpour to wash away the orange stain that invaded our state today 

 a pile of feces and his sycophants  - the worst of America  - spewing bile and hate

a lying lot of loathsome liars

it's past your jail time, felon 

go away and don't come back

we don't need no stinkin'  fascists 

be gone