In case that our dear friend Dennis from UK (?) is still around in this forum and reads this hopefully he might feel better soon. Wishing the very best for him and his family for health, Christmas and 2014. His humorous and thoughtful comments ar
I am so excited - two of my kids Monique and Jérôme arrived in Cape Town this evening (flying Frankfurt - Jeddah - Johannesburg - Cape Town but affordable fares) and have been picked up at airport by Magrietjie (the beautiful blonde South Afric
Hello dear Sue and Gil (Scottie was in Cologne, so I couldn't meet her) and all Cuties who are interested according to your recommendation we visited the lovely embroidery and quilting and wool shop in the Nottingham area (picture 2 - left: my girl fr
Thank you so much - just found I now am having 29.001 flowers. An autumn pleasure :-) Love and Hugs to all Cuties Maria
I wonder who of the experienced Cuties has experience with embroidery dedupers? I have no idea what is good - only a big fear to lose files completely once I have started to "dedupe". Who can give me advice where and what to buy and what would be a reas
Happy Halloween to all Cuties and a very special one (but not too spooky - more treaty) to Bettina (ansalu) who sent such an extraordinary e-card to me Vielen gruseligen Dank, liebe Bettina!!!
Does any Cutie know how Dennis is? We haven't heard of him for a long time now. I really hope he is ok.
Finally I finished a knitted sweater for Marie, the one of my twin daughters who spends one year volunteering in a college (St. Kevin's in Oamaru) in New Zealand. She wanted it so much - maybe something personal by Mama? So I added a label designed b
This morning we had to say goodbye again to our guests from our sister city Dicomano in Tuscany. We love them a lot and real friendships have grown regularly visiting them and they us. In September they use to attend our annual Wine festival Winzerfest
Thank you, dear Cuties, for right now giving me the 26000th flower. It is so nice to see the garden grow... Maria
Part of a big project.... A young lady from our family reunion in the states will become 30 years - and all the relatives were asked to give a piece for a quilt as a surprise. Also they will present a picture quilt to Kristin - look what I have
Story to tell about my big family (Grossfamilie): Last Friday my twin girls graduated; it was such a nice day. Marie sew her silk dress completely alone always in between learning for the final exams and she did quite well. For Monique (3 minutes y
Does anyone know about Ellen Maurer Stroh? She used to have regularly the most beautiful cross-stitch freebies to collect all over the year - but nothing so far in 2013. However, for the newer ones - you can log in at her homepage and collect a couple of
THANK YOU TO ALL THE DEAR CUTIE FRIENDS HERE! Jérôme (my son) called and had finished the last test in the flight simulator also successfully after a hard row of tests yesterday and had a final interview with the main training pilot this morning.
Would the gentle flower girls and boys of the cute family give a hand and join me in crossing fingers for my youngest son for Monday and Tuesday. He'll have a second row of tests at our main airlines pilot recruitment. His dream is to become a pilot and
