I’ve got some counted cross stitch packs that have been sitting in my craft box for Lord knows how long and I think it’s such a shame that they just sit there with nobody to work on them.

I probably bought these years ago and they are still in their packages, etc. The one that I am featuring today is called Pegasus & Colt. The kit has everything you need including the thread, needle, and instructions.

This cross stitch kit has never been opened and I would love to mail it out to the first person that contacts me saying that they would like to have it. Postage isn’t an issue because the pack doesn’t weigh all that much so I will just mail it to you!

There really isn’t any point in me hanging on to it. It’s pretty clear that I’m not going to have any time to work on it… so I would LOVE for you to have it!

The marker that you see on the front of the picture is on the plastic part of the package. I didn’t want you to think that the item was damaged in any way so I thought I would just mention that to you.

You may remember a post I did awhile back, where I talked about my “beading frenzy”. And you may not, but I’ll talk about the subject anyway. I’ve continued beading and I’ve been putting my stuff up on a Flickr page. There are pieces I haven’t photographed and put up, but a major portion of it is online. I don’t have a piece of styrofoam large enough anymore to hang all my stuff upon. I bought 6 necklace racks with 8 arms each and those have at least one necklace per arm and many have two or three (I’ve sorted the necklaces on them by colors, so the ones with the colors I have the most of are nearly full).

If you’re curious about the names of the pieces, they’re all cities. If you’re not curious, I hope you skipped this entire paragraph. In some cases the name of the city has some relation to the stone used - even if it’s really a stretch. In other cases, it’s just a city that popped into my head as I looked at the finished work.

I have a specific way of finishing all my new stuff so I can use most pieces as badge lanyards or eyeglass chains or necklaces, depending on what I need for the day. If you don’t know what a badge lanyard is, you’ll have to go to the Flickr site and see what I mean.

If you do happen to visit the site and have any comments or maybe suggestions about designs I could do, let me know - you can leave comments here or there. This is a heck of a lot of fun *and* it’s the kind of mindless busy-work (at least after I figure out the design I want to make) that helps distract me from any anxious thoughts. When the noise in my head gets too loud, I just start stringing beads.

I’m seriously considering putting together a storefront site. I’ve written the county for my DBA, I have the paperwork for a business license and I’m trying to figure out how to get a tax ID so I can buy my supplies wholesale. Buying beads at the quantity I’ve been is pretty pricy at retail. I’ve found several web sites  and some I just stumbled across via Google. I get better prices online, but I don’t know if I could get even better ones if I could buy wholesale. Will have to wait and see. Or, if you know, tell me!