This project was a wedding present.

The wedding was a second cousin that I had done a lot of embroidery gifts for her reception helpers. I got all worn out and never finished the gift for her. I wasn't invited to the wedding anyway but had told her mother I'd do it for her. So it got put up on the shelf one day when I was getting ready for company and then forgotten. I dug it out yesterday and finished it. There are around 10,000 stitches on one of the large towels alone.




I forgot to say that the wedding was October 4, 2008. LOL I do keep my promises but some take longer than others.

What do you think a set like that would cost? I paid $16 for the towels and that was a buy at Bed Bath and Beyond. A person can easily pay $9-$10 for a bath towel. In fact I asked to see if they had any forest green handtowels and the only one they had was $7.98. I said, "Thanks anyway." I have some on order that are $3.50.

There's two reasons I like cheaper towels, well three. #1, the price, #2, they dry quicker, and #3, they embroider easier. The thick ones are a problem to get in the hoop and keep them there. Nothing like ruining a towel when the hoop parts half way through a design. But I think I have solved that problem. Have you seen those clamps that are designed like clothes pins and are metal with red vinyl coated handles and grip tips? Welll this summer I found some tiny ones at a flea market so bought a bunch. I can clip the towels to the under part of the hoop and just stitch away and the clamps hold tight.

No way. The ink sinks into the fabric. Use them when you are doing painting or dirty work. I always save a set of shoes, jeans and sweatshirt to wear when I'm working on the duplexes or in the yard.

I just finished another set of towels just like the ones with the V only they have an O on them.

By the way, that couple is still married because I talked to her on Facebook yesterday.

Bummer, what a waste of perfectly good shirts. Maybe I could just paint a big red circle w/ a slash through it  [/quote]
Hmmm, not a bad idea! Why not do that! It would make a definite statement!

 On them!

Go for it and then take a picture. I'll give you an email address if you don't know where to send the picture. LOL

I don't go to Koiphen at all and haven't for a long time so I know nothing. Hopefully people stood up for themselves.

A while back I took a deep breath and put the same thin in my signature at AP as what I have here and haven't heard anything negative about it.

Did you know that Sean blamed me for her leaving?

Sean blames everyone for everything, when he is the downfall of that forum.

bullfrog wrote:Sean blames everyone for everything, when he is the downfall of that forum.

Hmmmm, Bullfrog, that sounds like someone else we know! Must be a common thing with troublemakers. They all blame someone else! Can't possibly be them!

You are right about the AP getting started. There was such a mess with what was AWGS and Jerry asked me on an email if I knew anything about starting a forum. I didn't but knew Newt a bit as he had emailed me a few times when he saw I was from Grand Rapids. He had lived on the northwest side of GR and emailed a few comments along the way. So then I sent his name to Jerry to pick Newt's brains. In the meantime, Zac had been causing fits at AWGS. He was a kid who seemed to stir the water with whatever he said. He told he was a Christian so Mikey and I both tried to mentor him a bit. In talking with him on emails, I learned he was into computer big time and had set up webpages and forums before. So I told Jerry maybe Zac could set up a forum if that is where he was going with the idea. So Jerry contacted him and contracted with him to set up AP. Sean was a member of the other forum. But right away, Zac got lippy with people and I told Jerry he should do whatever he felt, so he changed the password and told Zac to take a hike. Then he asked Sean to be the techy and he has ever since. But I'm sure they agreed that what was needed was close supervision of the forum. I think you have it nailed to some extent about those two. Jerry hates to have to discipline people but will if he has to. Whereas I think Sean is a bit into power. What do that call that----passive/aggressive. But still, if he didn't think the story should have been being posted, he should have said so from the beginning. As for them being Nazis, UM, welll not exactly but suspect Jerry didn't feel it was worth going to bat against Sean and losing his techy. After all Sean doesn't get paid and spends lots of time keeping the forum going. Jerry can't do it as he doesn't have the knowledge. So if it was a matter of keeping you two OR Sean, you were bound to lose.

Even though Sean said some pretty nasty stuff to me that wasn't true at all, right in public on the forum, I didn't return my answer in the same way. I PMed it to him. Whether he got the message or read it, I'll never know because he never replied. Blindtoo and another told him off and I received several PMs and emails wondering where Sean was coming from, doing what he did. And that was enough for me. As long as everyone else saw me in a different light, it was OK. I could overlook Sean. The nasty post was removed in a couple of hours.

But JW and BF, I don't really know what was behind the banning. I still think it was a knee jerk reaction and once it was done, he wasn't about to lose face and back down.

AS for J, what I heard was that Jerry had said something negative on a post and Joyce thought he was talking about her. When she said something to him about it, of course he told her that wasn't so, but she didn't believe him. That was before your banning and Sean's nastiness to me. Yes, I have talked about J on PMs when people asked me about her. I never said anything that wasn't true and the things I said were always coupled with the good I saw in her. She was a great artist, she was a good mom, she was extremely knowledgeable about plants, she was a very giving person and sympathetic. There was just one or two things that ruined the picture. She couldn't stand anybody crossing her or couldn't stand if somebody said something that she THOUGHT they were putting her down. Also couldn't stand anybody mentioning God or their faith. She by the way was not the only pagan on that forum.

I will not disagree about Sean's reading our private messages, never. But he had banned you two before that scenario. So in a way, I'm glad it happened. Wonder how many of the members realize that their PMs aren't that.

As for hating them and J, I don't at all. Sure they all have hurt my feelings here and there. J did way back on AWGS but my feelings have been hurt before and they'll be hurt again. Life goes on and sometimes there's a sour taste in my mouth for a while but it doesn't last with any power. I have better things to think and worry about and I'm moving on past that situation. I may have to face things that are alot worse than dealing with people on the internet I have never met and never will. I refuse to give them lasting power to keep picking the scab off my hurt feelings. They were never really friends, just paper acquaintances. If I never log in here again, you'll wonder about me for a while but in a week, you'll forget about me. I have seen it happen over and over through the years with people. Real people too that I went to school or church or was neighbor to. Even family members----for instance the husband I was married to for 20 years who divorced me and his family. So you'd expect not to hear from him/them again. But our two sons never hear from him and haven't for about 5 years. Sadly I'll warn you to not put too much trust or importance in what you see in people. The unfortunate part is that we are human and without the grace of God, I don't know what I'd be either.

I have no problem with posting the truth here and what said is the truth, our PM's were snooped as were others on that forum. As JW said also, that can't be done here.

But I'm more concerned with their soul than their personality. WE had a chance to give a Christ like example to three people that we didn't agree with and to 100s of people on the forum. Besides there was the necessity of proving we are just plain decent people no matter what those three say or do. The scary part is that God expects a lot from us Christians and we should of each other but others who don't believe in Christ don't have that motivation and we can't possibly expect them to act any different than any other non Christian. I'm sure you have heard before that you'd better be ready to give a reason for the faith that is within you. In other words, don't be shocked if you suffer because of Jesus in your life.

Awww. JW I wasn't trying to be----um, critical. Anyway, once I heard a preacher who was speaking on our Christian life. He had a chalkboard behind him and liked to slap things on it to emphasize his thoughts. First he drew a straight line moving up from left to right on an angle. Then next to it he drew this big sawtoothed line that went gradually up parallel with the first line. Looked kinda like a graph. Then he put a big X at the lower left side of each line. As he put an X on the straight line he said, "Most of you mistakenly think that a Christian's walk with God should be like this, and maybe it should." Then he put a big X by the jagged line and said, "But in reality, our lives tend to be like this. We progress a bit and then fall back a bit. Then God speaks to us and reveals something in our lives that needs changing and we finally listen. Then we do better for a while. Next thing we realize we haven't been listening for a while and zip, we have dropped back a tad." Of course the problem comes in if when we are down, we don't recognize it and stay there. "By the way, this jagged line will take up most of our life and if you get to the top before you die, praise the Lord. Most of us won't."

Funny thing, I was a teenager who had been dragged to a GARB (General Association of Regular Baptists) conference at our local college. It was like "old home" week for pastors, students, and local Baptists. But oddly, I remember that message like it was yesterday.