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the easily influenced stitcher skip to main skip to sidebar the easily influenced stitcher a cross stitch blog where a few skeins of floss a hot cup of tea are never far out of reach thursday july 4 2024 rest in peace yes it s me and i have some very sad news my friend jen has gone home to be with the lord after battling cancer she was only 55 so even more sad sad for those of us who knew and or remember her her blog was the country mouse from many years ago although she hadn t paid it any mind in quite a while but good news for jen as she is with the lord now enjoying her primitively decorated mansion still i am going to greatly miss her i know i did a blog post on our time together when she came to visit me at my house but do you think i can find it i could search but honestly i ve been deathly sick for a few days and actually spent most of today in the er perhaps when i feel better i will search it out an reference it but for now if any any of you remember jen i wanted to let you know what happened many blessings me posted by shirlee at 8 03 pm 1 comments friday december 31 2021 happy new year one and all posted by shirlee at 10 33 am 3 comments friday december 24 2021 merry christmas everyone posted by shirlee at 5 07 pm 9 comments tuesday december 18 2018 a few new ornaments four ornament finishes since returning from our trip designer little house needleworks design cardinal winter fabric suggested 30 ct cocoa linen floss suggested dmc designer lizzie kate design flora mcsample 2012 ornaments fabric suggested 28 ct milk chocolate linen floss suggested dmc posted by shirlee at 12 02 pm 7 comments visiting london and germany a condensed tale this post is going to be rather picture heavy so please bear with me our flight began in cincinnati with stops in philadelphia and zurich before arriving in london we then made our way via the train to st pancras station which was just a few steps away from our hotel st pancras station had several very long very tall escalators about half way up one of these escalators john lost his footing and fell head over heels to the bottom it was quite scary i was trying to get to him but of course it was difficult to go down the escalator while it was still going up thankfully it occurred to someone to press the stop button i honestly didn t expect john to be moving but i saw him lift his head someone helped him up amazingly he escaped with little more than a banged up knee and a wrist which was gashed but didn t bleed someone had gone to fetch an attendant who came over to see if everything was okay he asked john if he wanted to fill out an accident report but he said no i was a little upset about this as i believed he should have filled one out in case problems occurred later as it turns out his knee is still causing him problems but i think he was quite embarrassed and just wanted to get out of there we made it to our hotel the st pancras renaissance hotel which was lovely lots of amazing history there the next day we made our way via the tube to oxford and regent streets it was a very gray very rainy day so it wasn t as much fun as it could have been i spotted a john lewis store someone on instagram told me that john lewis has cross stitch items they did i found these three little kits to bring home the following day gray and rainy again we met our tour manager and caught the eurostar to cologne where it was also gray and rainy we stayed at the maritim hotel which was very close to three of cologne s five christmas markets it was a gorgeous hotel i love that big bow made of lights this is a photo of the lobby when you come through the entrance this photo was taken from the fifth floor looking at that beautiful lighted bow and here is a photo from the opposite side of the hotel looking toward the lobby that christmas tree was nearly 5 stories high and look who was visiting the hotel santa we became fast friends that evening we explored the two christmas markets nearest the hotel these were not too far from cologne s magnificient cathedral in fact one of them was right next to the cathedral this is shown in the last of the four photos below the next two days more rain we explored the town and more of the christmas markets we found the angels market which edgar said was not to be missed and he was right all the markets had so many booths offering fun things to buy and good things to eat and drink i wanted to bring home at least one gluhwein mug gluhwein is a spiced wine each market sells their own type of gluhwein and their own special gluhwein mug i couldn t have cared less about the spiced wine i wanted one of those mugs i ended up with two mugs that i liked best one from the angels market and one from the cologne cathedral market the only other item we bought at the markets was a pound of delicious nougat we could have purchased many more things but getting them back home in one piece would have been a bit chancy i did however get a special package of christmas teas from a department store called karstadt then it was back to london where we spent the night at a hotel near the airport and flew home the next day i had so much fun at heathrow they actually had a satellite john lewis store there and i bought these two delicious gingerbread cookies which are as big as my hands and i have great big herman munster hands i also scored some british cross stitch magazines at a whsmith shop and just before we left i spied this café created for people just like me we then got on our plane and flew to copenhagen then to chicago and then home where thankfully is was not raining we have been home for 2 1 2 weeks now and we are still exhausted but all things considered it was a good trip filled with good memories posted by shirlee at 11 14 am 7 comments thursday december 13 2018 advent calendar blog hop day 13 welcome to jo s whatever number it is annual advent calendar blog hop sorry jo i don t know how long you ve been doing this but it s been a while and we all love you for it after a much too long absence i am once again joining in and my day is today day 13 jo s blog is serendipitous stitching i have linked to her 2018 online advent calendar post and you will be able to connect to all the participants there christmas is my favorite time of year in fact i stitch christmas things all year round i have a tree which i enjoy decorating with my own stitched ornaments and those that were gifted to me from my blogging friends but alas this year there is no tree no decorations of any kind this was my decision for multiple reasons i will still cook good food on christmas eve turkey and ham stuffing and potato salad i might make a pan of brownies and a bowl of angels delight as well i will make our traditional orange rolls on christmas morning john and i will then spend a quiet day together eating and watching christmas movies next year we will have settled into a new home life will be simpler and i look forward to decorating then in the meantime i have no christmas stitching on display that i can share with you so i dug into my archives of past stitched ornament photos and decided to share the one below i stitched this little ornament a few years ago as a gift for someone peace on earth pine mountain designs christmas to me is celebrating the birth or our precious lord and savior i recently learned that christmas is celebrated this way by christians in germany december 6th st nicholas day is the day when st nicholas brings gifts christmas day is the day you celebrate jesus i like that custom this year jo wants us to share our favorite christmas song it has been really hard for me to pick just one as i love so many of them but i decided to share the following song with you mary did you know the words are so beautiful and meaningful and they speak to the true meaning of christmas i must admit that i cry without fail every time i hear it i hope you will enjoy it as well i wish you all a very happy and blessed christmas posted by shirlee at 7 43 am 23 comments friday november 16 2018 hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm subject line do you know what i am cheerfully humming yes jingle bells it s cold it snowed a bit yesterday all is right with the world i ve finished three more ornaments these are from the prairie schooler book 202 evergreen i would have stitched more of them if i had more of the 32 count sage jobelan does anyone know where i can find some i have been searching but have not had any luck i used the suggested dmc threads except i made a slight change on the snowman i used 900 for his nose and 976 for his broom i am now wanting to stitch more prairie schooler stuff i have a lot to choose from but i have almost two dozen ornaments already kitted up so i will be good and postpone them until sometime next year i also have plans to stitch a couple more ps samplers then of course there s all the other stuff i want to stitch i m going to live for at least another 50 years right john and i are going to be leaving the us in less than two weeks to visit the christmas markets in cologne and wuppertal we will first spend 2 days in london then take a train to cologne when our time in germany is done we will take the train back to london and then head home the following day i m kind of freaking out lol it seems there is so much to do before we leave and it s overwhelming me a bit i d like to take some stitching with me but alas i can t even see 28 count fabric not to mention charts without my magnifying light i will have to instead take something i can knit along with some kind of book to read now i have to choose a knitting project get it started and choose a book ahhhhh i hope everyone is well posted by shirlee at 1 03 pm 13 comments older posts subscribe to posts atom days until christmas about me shirlee i love god spending time with my husband of 48 years a hot cup of tea a hot bowl of homemade soup a hot fresh loaf of homemade bread do you see a pattern here 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