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Yeah! There are other counted cross-stitch fans out there too. I know what you mean ruffian about having to stop when you’re son was born. I had my son two years ago and have only finished one project in that time: a butterfly pillow that was a Christmas present for my mother-in-law. I have to stitch when he’s asleep.
I tend to collect counted cross-stitch kits like people collect PYO sculpts to paint. I think I have at least 5 full kits and then several more patterns that I need to get the materials for. I need to get busy and start working on them a little bit at a time and not buy anymore until I finish the ones I have. It helps that I haven’t seen any kits I’ve wanted to buy in a while.
I’ll jump on the “more hoofers” bandwagon. I’d love to see both the unicorn and pegasus families in other colors and they don’t have to be based on real horse colors – though Palomino, Bay and Appaloosa get my vote.
I’d like see the pegasus family to come out in black without the rainbow colored wings as I didn’t like the coloring of the feathers. I might have jumped at them if the wings looked like the old black griffin wings though. That and the higher prices on an extemely tight budget.
mimitrek wrote:Actually, its her second…sort of. Her first was the young dragon repaint that she did in pink.
Too bad the images are gone. Would be interesting to see how it looked.
Nirvanacat13 wrote:I’m still reading all the friggin posts from the last 7 days!!! You guys talk too much…
Try catching up from being without Internet access for TWO WEEKS!
asinnamon wrote:I used to be very phobic of spiders, even tiny tiny ones. Then I lived in Phoenix, AZ for almost 4 years and learned what spiders were really all about. I’m not bad now, cause I know we don’t have too many black widows here in NH 🙂
With me it’s not a full blow phobia (yet) but I do freak out. I know some of it came about because I am allergic to spider bites so I go out of my way to avoid them at all costs.
ddvm wrote:Doranna Durgin also wrote some good books especially if you like horses.
I loved “Touched by Magic” and “Dun Lady’s Jess”. I think they are out of print now. I wish she would write some more books (other than Star Trek) because I really enjoyed her.
frozendragon wrote:spiders and heights….can’t handle either of em…
Me too. Especially if the height is a suspension bridge over water – not the ones big enough for cars to drive over mind you, the ones that only people can fit on.
Yep, but it can get pricey sometimes and it also depends on if someone is selling their copy and hoping it’s in decent condition.
alibris.com is also good for finding out of print books.
See you just listed off half or what I would have recommeneded. “The Witches of Eileanan” series is by Kate Forsythe and she has started a second series set after the first 6 books. The first one of the new series is “The Tower of Ravens”.
You might like the Dragon Quartet by Marjorie B. Kellogg. The first book by itself is called “The Book of Earth”. It’s also available with the second book (“the book of water”) as “The Dragon Quartet Vol. 1”.
The sad thing is a lot of series and books I could recommend are going out of print now so I don’t know if you would be able to find them.
A good dragon author is Irene Radford and her Stargods, The Dragon Nimbus History, The Dragon Nimbus and Merlin’s Descendants series.
skigod377 wrote:Nope. Im in Germany. I get to come home next year, though, and after 6 years over here, that seems like a cake walk!
Where are you in Germany? My husband was stationed near Frankfurt (Darmstedt) back in 2001-2003 and we have friends heading there way in April.
I’m on the East Coast as well, just down near Savannah, GA.
Wish I could go to anything horse related (the Lippizan Stallions just preformed at the Savannah Civic Center but I couldn’t go) or even a con (been 10 years since I went to Dragon*Con). But considering my husband and I have to pay my parents back for the transmission we had to put in his car this week I don’t expect to be going anywhere for a long time.
SPark wrote:That sucks. (From what I hear, so did their version of it.)
But man…. if you’d asked me to pick somebody to make Earthsea into a movie, I couldn’t have picked anybody better than Miyazaki. Even if it looks like some things got changed a lot, it also looks like the best bits are still there, and done just right.
Oh god’s yes the Sci-Fi Channel version of Earthsea sucked. Even the author was disappointed.
For her point of view on it: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Index-EarthseaMiniseries.html
I’m not a big fan of the Miyazaki art stlyes but maybe they will do a better job with the movie.
